Adrian Chiarella on the real-world horrors that inspired Leviticus
The film was made because I feel like a lot of the progress we have made in the last couple of decades has really regressed lately…
Queer cinema
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Jaume Claret Muxart journeys along the Danube in the beautiful, beguiling and bewildering Strange River
A story without answers, choosing seductive visual composition and familial convergence over the trappings of a traditional coming-of-age narrative.…
Navigating Transmasculine Realms: An Artistic Journey Through Sexuality, Identity, and History in Jules Rosskam's Innovative Film Desire Lines
Desire Lines screens at Queer Screen on 23 February 2025 and will be available on demand for those who cannot attend in person. Find all the details via the Queer Screen site here. In Jules Rosskam&#…
10th Queer Screen Film Fest Celebrates the Best and Freshest Queer Filmmaking in the World
PRESS RELEASE Queer Screen Film Fest is coming in hot this winter with almost 40 of the best and freshest queer films, straight from major international festivals, landing in time for our 10th annive…
Sunflower Sells Out Highly Anticipated MIFF Screenings in Just Three Minutes, Secures WA Premiere at Cinefest Oz Film Festival
PRESS RELEASE Following rave reviews and sold out screenings at its Sydney Film Festival (SFF) world premiere; ‘Sunflower’ is set to have its highly anticipated Victorian premiere at the Melbourne In…
Blue Jean Review - Georgia Oakley’s Queer Drama is an Exceptional and Intimate Character Study
It’s 1988 and Newcastle P.E. teacher Jean Newman (Rosy McEwen) is surrounded by noise. A naturally rather tense woman who needs relaxation tapes to sleep, the noise is breaking her down. It isn’t just…
Frozen in a Feeling: Mirrors and Being Seen in Goran Stolevski's Of an Age
In the space of two years Macedonian-Australian director Goran Stolevski has emerged as a cinematic talent who can vividly craft a philosophical treatise on what it is to live wrapped in the skin of a…
Close Review – Lukas Dhont’s Empathetic Exploration of the Traps of Heteronormativity for the Young
Lukas Dhont’s second feature Close has been shortlisted as a Best International Film competitor at the 2023 Academy Awards. It was also in competition for the Palme d’Or at Cannes. It is a vast improv…
Lonesome Writer/Director Craig Boreham Talks About Making a Queer Film for Queer Audiences, the Appeal of Cowboys, and More in This Interview
Writer/Director Craig Boreham is one of the leading filmmakers working in Australian queer cinema right now. His 2016 film Teenage Kicks echoed the work of Ana Kokkinos’s Head On, with Miles Szanto’s…
The Sixth Reel Co-Director Charles Busch Celebrates Classic Hollywood, Queer Icons, and More in This Interview
This year’s Mardi Gras Film Festival is a wonderful sampling of the many ways queer film has evolved and diversified across genre. As festival director Lisa Rose said to The Curb, instead of predomina…
End of the Century Review – A Satisfying Ode to the Possibilities of Affection
Powered by JustWatch A bittersweet film, End of the Century tells of a reunion and the attempt to find the middle ground between romantic possibility and our limited reality. Sometimes, the peop…
Sequin in a Blue Room Review - A Stimulating Tale of Finding Yourself in the Digital Age
The first feature film from director Samuel Van Grinsven pulls no punches in identifying that it is a homosexual film. The title card claims the film’s orientation and doesn’t wait for the audience to…