The Queer film lover's
guide to Los Angeles.

It’s 1999 San Francisco and 20-something visual artist Sarah is partying accordingly. Recently promoted from answering the phones to illustrating the covers at the queer indie magazine where she works, and in a new, (potentially serious?) relationship with motorcycle-riding goddess Donimo, life is good. But when Sarah flies back east to visit her family, something feels off with her mom, Midge, and a visit to a neurologist soon upends their world as they know it.

When Heterosis - a mysterious virus that turns gay men straight sweeps through the Parisian gay scene, Jim, the six packed sovereign of the Gym Queens, goes from Pride royalty to social outcast. With only Lucien, a freshly-out twink with more heart than abs, still by his side, Jim must race to find a cure before the disease erases the community that once worshipped him.

Spanish filmmaker Ian de la Rosa’s feature debut follows Iván, a forklift driver at a small-town greenhouse on the path to becoming a manager, and Hadoum, a newly-hired Moroccan-Spanish fruit packer who immediately catches Iván’s attention. Their casual, secret encounters soon develop into genuine affection and mutual discovery. While Iván’s identity as a trans man is often used by his peers as a reason to treat him differently, Hadoum’s arrival forces Iván to confront the social and economic expectations his family places on him: to become the breadwinner in return for the sacrifices they made to pay for his transition. Having traveled across the continent as a seasonal worker, Hadoum is outspoken and determined to fight for what she wants, and she joins her coworkers in their struggle for labor rights at the greenhouse.

In this timeless and strikingly original parable, Hein returns to the windswept, fiercely insular island he left behind as a teenager, determined to reunite with his first love. But after a 14-year absence, the eccentric villagers no longer recognize him, and insist he stand trial to prove his identity.

In a small Nepalese village nestled in the heart of a forest populated by wild elephants, Pirati is the matriarch of a Kinnar community of transgender women. She dreams of escaping to a “normal” life with the man she is in love with. But when one of her daughters disappears, she must investigate and choose between love and responsibility to her community.

Andrew Scott gives a bravura performance as Ian Charleson, a gifted actor best known for his roles in CHARIOTS OF FIRE and GANDHI, who played Hamlet in a legendary 1989 National Theatre production before dying of AIDS in 1990.

Expanding on a solitary filmmaking practice from her 2023 short THIS IS HOW A CHILD BECOMES A POET, TUTTI FRUTTI sees Céline Sciamma at her most personal yet liberated, documenting a visual diary from pro-Palestine marches to Adèle Haenel’s sexual abuse trial, while also reflecting on the preservation of lesbian identity.

A casual hookup between veteran French trucker Étienne and Bartosz, a Polish driver working for cheaper wages, unexpectedly deepens into something more. Sexually frank and disarmingly tender, Pierre Le Gall’s unconventional romance follows two solitary men navigating borders, punishing schedules and an industry that keeps them perpetually in motion.

Award-winning British filmmaker Andrew Haigh (45 YEARS, AFI FEST 2015; ALL OF US STRANGERS, AFI FEST 2023) adapts Irish writer Colm Tóibín's eponymous novella for this mysterious and beguiling film about grief, desire, queer awakening, self-discovery and the elusive structures that hold a family together.