Queer Tag Archive

Live Action, Premiere

Dangerous Obsession Hides Beneath the Intimacy of a Shave in Luigi Sibona’s Psychosexual Thriller ‘In Your Hands’

Shaving scenes choreographed to flirt with murder anchor Luigi Sibona's psychosexual thriller about desire projected onto an indifferent stranger.

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Live Action

Ross O’Donnellan’s Tender Directorial Debut ‘Bedcrumbs’ Sits Inside the Quiet Erosion of a Failing Relationship

Shot on 16mm in sweaty, dreamlike hues, Ross O'Donnellan's queer chamber piece watches non-monogamy fail as a bandage stretched over a broken bone.

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Live Action

The Meet-Cute You Tell vs. The One That Actually Happened Collide in Leve Kühl’s Grindr Spot ‘Peas’

Leve Kühl unpacks the narrative power of embracing queer specificity while subverting the holiday ad format for his steamy Grindr Christmas spec advert.

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Live Action

Grace Tan Transforms Trauma Into a Story of Visceral Reclamation Through the Radical Power of Queer Pole Dance

Grace Tan navigates personal grief and the physical vocabulary of pole dance to transform Madison Godfrey’s memoir-in-verse into a triumphant short film.

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Article, Film Festival

BFI Flare Programmer Diana Cipriano on the Evolution of LGBTQIA+ Cinema and the Festival’s 40th Anniversary

Ahead of the 40th Edition of BFI Flare, programmer Diana Cipriano guides DN through the team's inspiring curation process.

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Live Action, Premiere

Charlotte Serena Cooper Dismantles Queer Screen Death Tropes with Genre Pastiche in Riotous Satire ‘Bury Your Gays’

Drawing on years of script supervision, Charlotte Serena Cooper masters the visual grammar of five distinct genres to subvert a tired cinematic cliché.

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Live Action

Caleb J. Roberts Transcends Preconceived Notions of Gay Relationships and Intimacy in His Tender Short ‘Purebred’

Using long, slow takes, Caleb J. Roberts details drawing us almost uncomfortably close into his tender and intimate relationship between on-off-again lovers.

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Awards, Live Action

Harry Lighton Navigates the Intersection of Kink and Suburban Mundanity In His Subversive Queer BIFA Feature ‘Pillion

DN alum Harry Lighton discusses crafting a visual language that finds the tenderness within the transgressive intimacy of his tender tale of queer first love.

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Animation, Awards

Baz Sells Crafts an Eden of Queer Black Love in Tender BIFA & BAFTA Nominated Stop Motion Short ‘Two

Baz Sells, Dean Atta & Ben Jackson trace the five-year journey of bringing their animated short to life, a stop-motion tale of self-acceptance and queer love.

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Live Action

Tensions Boil Over as Preconceptions Shatter Amid the Hectic Heat of a Takeaway in Luís Hindman’s ‘MAGID / ZAFAR’

Luís Hindman breaks down his maximalist approach of building three distinct spaces within a busy British Pakistani takeaway for his LFF premiering short.

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Live Action, Premiere

Desire’s Unstoppable Pulse Thrums Through Julia Ponce Díaz & Nico Blanco’s Raucous ‘Cowboy, Choker, Harness & Heart’

Julia Ponce Díaz & Nico Blanco pull back the curtain on their racy queer short, where a bathroom stall takes centre stage at a neon-drenched rave.

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Live Action

“I Wanted to Create Life on Screen”: Rohan Parashuram Kanawade Dissects His Award-Winning Debut ‘Cactus Pears’

Rohan Parashuram Kanawade reveals how he crafted his Sundance and SXSW London winning debut - a tender, life-affirming portrait of grief and queer love.

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