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Close-Knit

Elena Lazic / April 11, 2017

Review: Close-Knit marks an important milestone for Japanese LGBTQ cinema

Naoko Ogigami’s Close-Knit is a charming, if disappointingly conservative, family drama about a girl who finds herself being raised by a transgender woman.

Elena Lazic / March 1, 2017

Review: A Fantastic Woman was one of the best of the Berlinale

Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman follows a grieving trangender woman who fights for her right to be respectfully treated as a person in mourning.

Closet Monster, Stephen Dunn

Alex Heeney / September 23, 2016

Director Stephen Dunn talks Closet Monster and internalized homophobia

Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney talked to Stephen Dunn about his directorial debut Closet Monster: why he wanted to tell this story, its magical realist elements, and how he got us inside Oscar’s head.

Women He's Undressed, Orry-Kelly

Laura Anne Harris / September 20, 2016

In Women He’s Undressed, Designer Orry-Kelly finally gets his moment in the sun, and boy is he fabulous!

Gillian Armstrong’s new documentary, Women He’s Undressed, resurrects the witty and cheeky Orry-Kelly to tell his life story and illuminate the art behind his historic costume designs.

Below Her Mouth

Alex Heeney / September 11, 2016

TIFF16: Below Her Mouth is cringeworthy

Below Her Mouth attempts provocation and frank depictions of lesbian sex, but it forgets the emotion in its love story.

Royal Road, Jenni Olson

Gillie Collins / September 7, 2016

Writer-Director Jenni Olson on her film essay, The Royal Road

Jenni Olson on her 16mm film essay, The Royal Road, a story of unrequited love told through the linear progression of California’s El Camino road.

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