By Hook or by Crook arrived in 2001 as the kind of film queer and trans cinema needed before the culture knew how to ask for it. Written, directed by, and starring Silas Howard and Harry Dodge, the film emerged from […]

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(Check out Lé Baltar’s Elephants in the Fog movie review. The film just had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The first-ever Nepali feature film to premiere in the […]

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Australian filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay’s sixth feature, The Serpent’s Skin, is a supernatural romantic thriller that takes on transphobia in the form of demons. Co-written by the 21-year-old Mackay and longtime collaborator Benjamin Pahl Robinson, it stars Alexandra McVicker, Avalon […]

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Elliot Page has been nothing but forthcoming about his transition. After a best-selling memoir detailing his experiences, Page is now ready to explore the issues trans people face on-screen in the new drama Close To You. Directed by BAFTA-winner Dominic Savage, […]

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Bobbi Salvör Menuez inhabits struggling actor and recently-transitioned Leo in writer-director Noah Schamus’ Summer Solstice, a new twist on the buddy comedy from a unique perspective. Juggling a series of odd jobs and auditions, trans man Leo is unexpectedly paid […]

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The relationship of two longtime friends is challenged in writer-director Noah Schamus’ Summer Solstice. Told from a queer and trans perspective, it centers on two reunited college best friends (Bobbi Salvör Menuez and Marianne Rendón), one trans and one straight/cisgender, […]

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One film that has certainly made waves over the past few years is writer/director/actor Vera Drew’s superhero parody, The People’s Joker. Despite a world premiere screening at TIFF 2022, Drew had to pull it due to copyright issues. However, there […]

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In HtN’s review of Jane Schoenbrun’s feature directorial debut We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, Mike S. Ryan wrote “One gets a sense right away that the filmmaker understands that a personal story structure is essential to a unique […]

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Sundance breakout Mutt, a queer coming-of-age drama, is finally getting its release stateside this summer. It got an ecstatic audience reception at its world premiere, and showed that a star is born in Lio Mehiel who won the U.S. Dramatic […]

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(Check out Jessica Baxter’s movie review of Monica, it’s in theaters Friday via IFC Films. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Despite recent progress (and plenty of setbacks), representational Trans cinema remains a barren landscape. […]

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