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Alex Heeney / February 19, 2024

Berlinale Review: Luck Razanajaona’s Disco Afrika

Luck Razanajaona’s transporting and touching feature film debut, Disco Afrika, is part coming-of-age story, part political awakening, and a fantastic window …

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Alex Heeney / February 17, 2024

Berlinale Review: Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex

In queer filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud’s film Sex, two nameless middle-aged white men, both straight-married chimney sweeps, grapple with their views on gender …

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Alex Heeney / February 17, 2024

Berlinale Review: Anthony Schatteman’s Young Hearts

Anthony Schatteman’s warm and lovely debut feature film Young Hearts is a rare coming-out and coming-of-age film about characters as young as fourteen. The film …

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Alex Heeney / February 16, 2024

Berlinale Review: Ray Yeung’s All Shall Be Well

Ray Yeung's film All Shall Be Well exposes how quickly family bonds can deteriorate and LGBTQ prejudices surface without legal protections. The film All Shall …

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Alex Heeney / February 1, 2024

Film Review: Martha Coolidge’s Not a Pretty Picture

Martha Coolidge's creative nonfiction film Not a Pretty Picture (1976) is hitting cinemas in a new 4K restoration from Janus Films, screening this week in NYC …

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Alex Heeney / January 5, 2024

Film Review: Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers

Writer-director Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers is part ghost story and part romance, and it feels like a warm hug. Read our extensive writing on and …

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