AFI FEST 2026 — AT NIGHT
Beatrice Gibson’s AT NIGHT is a revelation of discourse between a group of women across one night in Paris. Featuring Diocouda Diaoune (who cowrote the script), psychotherapist Kátia Belo Cardoso, poet Sophie Robinson, producer Denna Cartamkhoob, artist Pauline Curnier Jardin,
AFI FEST 2026 — FLESH AND FUEL
Queer truckers are on a cinematic roll. As a place to grab a bite, catch a nap, and score a bit of rough trade, truck stops are a perennial locus of action in the gay imaginary, but not so much
AFI FEST 2026 — IVÁN AND HADOUM
As a relationship between Iván and Hadoum is formed and then flourishes, the film explores how the performance of gender is navigated within the shifting modes of personal and familial expectation.
DIMITRI CHAMBLAS — ULYSSE MARION
For the American premiere of his new work ULYSSE MARION, choreographer Dimitri Chamblas transforms REDCAT’s audience-theatrical setup into a vast open space that will, paradoxically, engender a feeling of intimacy with his performers—emotions unfettered, movement unencumbered.
ANNIE SPRINKLE AND BETH STEPHENS — PLAYING WITH FIRE
Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens are touring the country with their sui generis documentary PLAYING WITH FIRE: AN ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY, the third their a series of ecosexual films.
DAVID PABLOS — EN EL CAMINO
A remarkable twist to the standard lovers-on-the-run genre, EN EL CAMINO—screening twice at the 2026 Hola Mexico Film Festival—is an explicit revelation of both the tenderness and extreme brutality of life on the road, laying bare a world where affinities
FILIPIÑANA
Meticulous in sound design and choreography, with a rich visual formality that gives fresh meaning to the term “sunshine noir,” a deliberate and inevitable sense of torpor overwhelms FILIPIÑANA’s mise en scène.
CARLA SIMÓN — ROMERÍA
In her third feature, Carla Simón once again draws a fictionalized veil over an autobiographical armature, paying gentle tribute to lives cut short and dreams unrealized.
BY HOOK OR BY CROOK — 4K RESTORATION
Join filmmakers Harry Dodge, Silas Howard, and Steak House for special 4K restoration screenings of BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, an essential missing link in cinema’s buddy-film genre.
PETE OHS — ERUPCJA
ERUPCJA—a descendant of the narrated works of Varda, Godard, Rohmer, et al, that delights in and pays tribute to the mythologies we create around the poetry of happenstance—is a chosen-family affair joining the writing and acting talents of Charli xcx,