Writer-director Maryam Touzani’s Queer Palm-nominated and Cannes Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI Prize-winning The Blue Caftan revels in the intricacy of love and tradition. What at first glance seems to be the story of a closeted man cheating on his wife, becomes a more complex tale of the multiplicity of loves in our lives and how... Continue Reading →
Stepping out of a wet New York winter afternoon, it didn't take long for this lovingly woven comfort blanket of a movie—think The Golden Girls meets a gentler version of The Hangover—to warm me and my big gay heart. Inspired by a true story, 80 For Brady, follows four women, each portrayed by a screen... Continue Reading →
Ever since the great The Sixth Sense, I’ve always looked forward to M. Night Shyamalan’s subsequent films, despite diminishing returns. Say what you will about the final products, but he knows how to set up a provocative, pulpy premise and deliver those famous twists you chat about around the water cooler the next day. Sure,... Continue Reading →
Directors Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker's outstanding feature The Stroll, received its world premiere in the US Documentary Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, going on the win that section's Special Jury Award for Clarity of Vision. It tells the collective history of the transgender women of colour who worked "the stroll"—a section of... Continue Reading →
Lithuanian filmmaker Marija Kavtaradze's sophomore narrative feature Slow, which premiered in the World Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival—winning that section's Directing Award—is a tender study of a new couple navigating their own brand of intimacy. In the film's opening frames, sexually liberated dancer Elena (Greta Grinevičiūtė) is in bed with a man... Continue Reading →
Queer Native American filmmaker Erica Tremblay returns to Sundance following 2020's Grand Jury Prize nominated short Little Chief, with her poignant directorial narrative feature debut (co-written with Miciana Alise), Fancy Dance. Executive produced by Bird Runningwater, Charlotte Koh, and Forest Whitaker, the film received its world premiere in the US Dramatic Competition at this year's... Continue Reading →
The Night Logan Woke Up (La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé), sees French Canadian auteur Xavier Dolan continue to explore the complex and compelling relationship between mothers and sons, following his auspicious 2009 debut feature I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) and his breathtaking 2014 Cannes Jury Prize-winning masterpiece Mommy. The entire... Continue Reading →
“Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?” Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols famously asked his audience, practically baiting them to recognize that they could barely play their instruments. I’m wondering if Kyle Edward Ball considered this question of us as he released his debut horror feature, Skinamarink, which has proven financially successful, especially considering... Continue Reading →
If you're going to make a film about Little Richard, it'd better be electrifying, complex, and queer. That's exactly what Oscar-nominated director Lisa Cortés delivers with Little Richard: I Am Everything, executive produced by Dee Rees, which world premiered in the US Documentary Competition section at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and has been acquired... Continue Reading →
Writer-director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz—an alum of Ryan Murphy's HALF Initiative, who mentored under Janet Mock on Pose—makes an impressive feature debut with Mutt, executive produced by Silas Howard, which just received its world premiere in the US Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The action opens in a bustling New York club, as a... Continue Reading →
