Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most-each other. Something rather nasty is unfolding in this conversion-therapy horror. If you asked the god-fearing residents of the isolated Australian town at its centre, they would say it’s the curse of homosexuality, quietly infecting the youth. If you asked the gay teens themselves, they would say it...

Raúl is a cult filmmaker in the midst of a creative crisis. When tragedy strikes one of his closest collaborators, he draws inspiration from it to write his next film. Little by little, he imagines Elsa, a filmmaker in the midst of writing a script, whose journey begins to mirror his own. The two filmmakers become two sides of the same character, in a game of mirrors where the raw honesty of autof...

After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original's star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a biographical drama film about the famous jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. 1961. Bill Evans is playing with what he considers the perfect musical trio until tragedy strikes in the premature death of his bass player, Scott LaFaro - his musical soulmate. Traumatised by grief, Evans stops ...

A provocative psychological thriller following a swaggering fetish camboy (Kieron Moore) who accepts a private house call, only to discover a personal connection: his masked client (Birney) is his former middle-school teacher and a convicted sex offender. “Queer cinema, by its very name, is meant to challenge. It challenges the establishment, it challenges perceptions and it challenges the viewer...

Have you got a black eyeliner pencil sitting in your room? Are you intimately familiar with the process of removing days worth of Schwarzkopf Got2B Glued from your hair? Do you consider yourself Not Okay? Then come along to Let ’s Go Emo ! A cross platform programme exploring how young people use digital media to express identity, creativity and community, Let ’s Go Emo ! combines early YouTube v...

As part of our ongoing Rio Forever celebrations marking the 50 th anniversary of the cinema, we’re over the moon to welcome local resident, film enthusiast and one of the world’s finest living actors, Ben Whishaw, to introduce one of his own favourite films: Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang’s tender tribute to cinema spaces, GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (2003). In a crumbling movie house in downtown T...