Night Stage by Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher is a fun De Palma homage from Brazil that reinvents the queer erotic thriller.
Night Stage Creates a New Landscape for the Gay Erotic Thriller

Exploring the Outer Edge of Film
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Night Stage by Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher is a fun De Palma homage from Brazil that reinvents the queer erotic thriller.
Sirens Call, Miri Ian Gossing and Lina Sieckmann’s impassioned look at modern-day merfolk, reinvents ancient myths for an increasinly fascist age.
The burdens of working as a full-time caregiver are depicted in microscopic detail in Frelle Perersen’s assured Home Sweet Home.
Pink clothes become a metaphor for difference in Margherita Ferri’s nuanced The Boy with Pink Pants, based on a devastating true story.
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking doesn’t buy into the glittery tropes of recent queer cinema — instead diving into the harsh realities of gay life.
With a documentary-like aesthetic and profound use of the mundane, Heather Young’s sophomore film There, There reasserts her singular voice.
The Party’s Over casts prejudice as farce in this sharply-written tale of a wealthy Spanish lady reacting to a Senegalese immigrant in her midst. From TIFF.
With hints of Zodiac and Seven, Fabrice du Welz’s new thriller Maldoror — charting the real-life murders of Belgian serial killer Marc Dutroux — aims for that nasty, slow burn.
Fascist bonehead study Familia refreshingly avoids clichéd redemption arcs in favour of a more nuanced take on the cyclical nature of toxic masculinity.
The dehumanisation of seeking asylum is piercingly explored in Alexandros Avranas’ horror-but-not-horror Quiet Life. Live from Venice Film Festival!