The 2021 InsideOut Film Festival featured some of the best LGBTQ+ films of the year, with highlights including A Sexplanation and Beyto.
Gender and Sexuality
Explore depictions of masculinity, femininity, and sexual identity.
InsideOut review: Beyto is an unexpected coming-of-ager
Gitta Gsell’s Beyto is more admirable for what it attempts to explore about life as a gay Turkish immigrant in Switzerland than how successful it is at achieving this
Explant Review: An exposé on the breast implant industry
Jeremy Simmons’s documentary film, Explant, exposes the horrors of the breast implant industry alongside RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Michelle Visage.
Ida Panahandeh’s Titi is a character study about life under patriarchy
Ida Panahandeh’s Titi is a character study about an Iranian Roma woman caught between two unworthy men in a society controlled by men.
The Third Wife Review: A beautiful and bleak portrayal of patriarchy
Ash Mayfair’s The Third Wife tells the story of a teenage girl whose family marries her off in nineteenth-century Vietnam.
Review: Maxine Peake shines in Fanny Lye Deliver’d (The Delivered)
Maxine Peake leads Thomas Clay’s refreshing genre film, Fanny Lye Deliver’d (The Delivered in the US), about a woman’s emancipation.