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Off the back of his Jackie Kennedy bio comes Neruda, Pablo Larraín’s portrait of the womanizing poet-politician unusually told from the perspective of the detective inspector attempting to track him down....

Signature Move lies at the intersection of women’s wrestling, closeted homosexuality and the communities of Mexican and Pakistani diaspora in today’s Chicago. A portrait of people on the move, whether this...

"If we only remember the good things about the people we love, what do we lose?" Just a generation away, the AIDS epidemic should still persist in living memory. In this hard-hitting documentary, Cecilia...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tRlqPQ7dAw&t=267s Made with his brother Chan-kyong, Park Chan-wook's cacophonous avant-garde short journeys into the spirit world to explore notions of embodiment and...

After having identified the first four openly gay members of the California State legislature as women, Political Animals lacks much of an argument. At one point it problematically – divisively – suggests...

Kleber Mendonça Filho returns to the north-eastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco to vent his anger at the redevelopment of one of its coastal towns. His condemnation comes in the form of an intimate personal...

When, in 2007, J.K. Rowling announced Dumbledore was gay, the internet duly responded (such as this stroke of genius: "While the anagram to ‘Tom Marvolo Riddle’ is ‘I am Lord Voldemort’, ‘Albus...

Rather than assuming the conventional didacticism that so often accompanies this type of LGBT cinema, Hyun-ju Lee politely steps back to watch her protagonists tentatively get together. With the deeply...

Clyde Petersen’s autobiographical animated feature film is this year’s Centrepiece Screening at BFI Flare. A tale of queer prepubescence, Petersen articulates the fleeting memories of a cross-country road...

Religious fundamentalism is perhaps a slightly more unconventional teenage fad than a new body piercing or tattoo but, as The Student makes clear, it works just as well at getting you out of PE. The concept...

Discursive, digressive, inconsistent, incoherent. Just a few words that come to mind when listening to the soundtracks from Xavier Dolan’s first five features. Track by track, he jumps from French-Italian...

The recent preoccupation in documentary film with revealing the processes that occur behind the scenes has led to Kirsten Johnson’s autobiographical docu-memoir Cameraperson, and Robert Greene’s...