We're excited to announce the programme for this year, with films come from Brazil, France, UK, USA/Mexico and Vietnam. 

Watch the trailer and read about the programme below, and look out for the launch on 18 March across our channels.

I Hate Helen

Directed by Katie Lambert (UK)

Priya hates Helen. She hates her in the canteen. Hates her in science. Especially hates her at swimming. Mostly, Priya hates the way Helen makes her feel. A short film about the tidal wave of gay lust some girls feel in school and letting those feelings just wash over you.

Rag Dolls

Directed by Amy Adler (USA/Mexico)

Married couple Rosalinda (born with spina bifida) and Diana (who has cerebral palsy) navigate life in Puebla, Mexico, where disability intersects with discrimination and poverty. Abandoned by family, underserved by government support systems, and facing persistent homophobia, the women have built a life centred on mutual care and protection. Observing a single ordinary day, the film follows their routines, a romantic date, and moments of reflection on their enduring love.

Room 206

Directed by Laurie Bisceglia (France) 

After undergoing gender-affirming surgery, Clair no longer cares what the world thinks. Reclaiming his body becomes a path toward self-recognition for the first time in his life. This documentary accompanies him not only through physical change, but towards emotional renewal and a new beginning.

Sweat (Mô Hôi)

Directed by Edward Nguyen (Vietnam)

On the eve of leaving rural Vietnam, farm worker Hung prepares to illegally cross the border in search of refuge abroad. Defined by routine and labour, his final day with Hoang, a fellow worker, reshapes his understanding of desire, intimacy and selfhood.

Theo

Directed by Monica Palazzo & Jo Galvv (Brazil)

Brazil, 1986. During the World Cup, seven-year-old Theo quietly navigates school life while defying rigid gender expectations. Between silence and rebellion, they begin inventing their own way of existing.

40. TEDDY AWARD – The Queer Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival
THE WINNERS
The five members of the international jury view films of queer interest within all sections of
the Berlinale. Films are nominated and one wins for each of the categories: best feature
film, best documentary/essay film and the best short film. The jury furthermore presents the
TEDDY Jury Award.

The TEDDY for the Best Feature Film goes to:

Ivan & Hadoum - Ian de la Rosa
Jury statement:
For showing us a love story whose boundaries can only be defined by those brave enough to
tear them down. For showing us a love story that rises above social and moral barriers,
capturing the essence of human feeling in a moving, provocative, and unforgettable story.

The TEDDY for the Best Documentary Film goes to:

Barbara Forever - Brydie O’Connor
Jury statement:
This compelling documentary traces the evolution of a visionary filmmaker for whom living a
lesbian life and finding adequate representation thereof were inseparable from her
experimental practice. Weaving interviews with segments of her work, filmmaker Brydie
O’Connor vividly evokes the life and legacy of Barbara Hammer. In doing so, the film carries
forward her enduring commitment to opening her art to a new generation of filmmakers.

The TEDDY for the Best Short Film goes to:

Taxi Moto - Gaël Kamilindi
Jury statement:
Forbidden to tell the love story between two men in his own country, a filmmaker embarks
on a transformative journey to reclaim his narrative. As reality and fiction blurrs this short
film celebrates the boundless imagination of cinema.

The TEDDY Jury Award goes to:



Der Heimatlose / Trial of Hein - Kai Stänicke
Jury statement:
Moving Between certainty and doubts, between who we are and who others believe us to
be, a thought-provoking work, which explores the fragile nature of identity and the elusive
terrain of memory. Precise in its vision and confident in its storytelling the film lingers as a
compelling meditation on the enduring mysteries of who we are.

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New York City is the only place you might have been able to see all of my top ten this year. Thank the higher and lower powers (and maybe even the film gods) for the New York Film Festival, revival houses that often do better business with crackpot art films than supposed commercial blockbusters, and all the film nuts still out there who commute to the city to worship at the altar of alternative cinema. Just think, Jim Jarmusch, Richard Linklater, Gus Van Sant, Kathryn Bigelow, Spike Lee, and Paul Thomas Anderson all got their signature-style films financed and distributed — amazingly wonderful! Here are my fucked-up favorites; they need all the help they can get.

1. Eddington (Ari Aster)

My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today’s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for. Yet it’s so terrifyingly funny, so confusingly chaste and kinky that you’ll feel coo-coo crazy and oh-so-cultural after watching. If you don’t like this film, I hate you.

2. Final Destination: Bloodlines (Adam B. Stein, Zach Lipovsky)

The best sequel to the coolest cinematic franchise ever. Ferocious, fractured, and filled with so many scary, twisted surprises—this picture goes beyond trash into a new realm of exploitation art.

3. Oslo Trilogy (Dag Johan Haugerud)

Three terrific Norwegian films directed by the newest heir to Ingmar Bergman’s throne concerning how complicated yet hopeful and similar all homo and hetero loves and lusts really are. The smartest dialogue about romance in a long, long time.

4. Sirāt (Oliver Laxe)

Move over, Mad Max. Hurry up, The Wages of Fear. This jaw-droppingly exciting new cinematic road trip to a rave party in the deserts of war-torn Morocco makes those classics look like slowpokes. Tragedy after tragedy of unspeakable intensity make this script the best feel-bad acid adventure ever filmed. It’ll blow your mind … [spoiler alert] literally.

5. Sauna (Mathias Broe)

Like a modern-day Andy Warhol’s Trash, this sexy and well-acted first feature is about an affair between a hunky, hip gay male who works in a Copenhagen bathhouse cleaning out glory holes and a trans man who now identifies as gay. Cockeyed cunnilingus — a whole new frontier to consider?

6. Room Temperature (Dennis Cooper, Zac Farley)

A purposely tedious and tender poetic head-scratcher of a film focusing on a family setting up their neighborhood home for a Halloween horror house. Just when you begin hating this film, you’ll suddenly realize—huh? I love it. It’s weird, creepy, and maybe … just maybe, great.

7. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)

An impossibly perverse thriller where murder, closet incest, and the inappropriate attraction to one guilty man collide, leaving the audience stunned by sexual plot twists and a lulu of an ending. Yikes! This one’s off the rails!

8. When Fall Is Coming (François Ozon)

A touching (and when have you ever heard me use that word?), nonjudgmental drama about a retired whore and her kind but rage-filled, down-low gay grown son, who gets out of prison and teaches her that maybe murder is the right thing to do.

9. My Mom Jayne (Mariska Hargitay)

A top rate documentary that reveals secret after secret about Jayne Mansfield and her family that will push you to the edge of your seat and possibly make you cry.

10. The Empire (Bruno Dumont)

I’m not a fan of science fiction, but when a brutalist spaceship lands in northern France in this film, I fell to my knees to worship the mutant deities onboard. I didn’t realize this script was supposed to be funny until I read the press notes after viewing. It is. Sort of. Not funny ha-ha. Not funny peculiar. But funny ha-ha peculiar, just like the director.

19–30 March 2025

Dive into the world of LGBTQIA+ cinema from the comfort of your home - wherever that is! In partnership with BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, we celebrate global LGBTQIA+ stories every year, in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual people across the world.

Announcing the 2025 programme

This year, we are sharing work by filmmakers from Indonesia, New Zealand, the UK and USA/China. Ahead of the launch on 19 March, have a read about the films in this year's programme below.

Dragfox

By Lisa Ott (UK)

Struggling with their gender identity, eleven-year-old Sam feels alone and confused, not quite sure how to express the way they feel. That is until a mischievous neighbourhood fox (marvelously voiced by Ian McKellen) jumps through their window late one night, taking Sam on an all-singing, all-dancing journey of self-discovery and acceptance. 

If I Make it to the Morning

By Andre Shen (USA/China)

Accompanied by her overbearing mother, Chinese teenager Ziyi spends the final night of her cross-State college tour at her cool aunt’s apartment in New York. But as Ziyi starts to think this could be the perfect place to live and study, an unexpected revelation suddenly brings tension to the group.

NGGAK!!!

By Oktania Hamdani and Winner Wijaya (Indonesia)

As they play an online game together, loved-up girlfriends Sekar and Bebi laugh, chat and send each other memes. But their simple bliss is shattered when Sekar’s mother phones to tell her she is to be set up with a potential partner. Can Sekar make her mother understand that she has already found the one?

We'll Go Down in History

By Cameron Richards and Charlie Tidmas (UK)

The story of TRUK United, a grassroots, proudly trans football club formed in January 2021. Filmed over two years, this heartfelt documentary captures the highs and lows of the pioneering UK team on and off the pitch as they strive to create a safe haven for their community in the face of rising transphobia.

Wait, Wait, Now!

By Ramon Te Wake (New Zealand)

When best friends Alex and Sam are left at home for the night, they do what all teenage boys do: raid mum’s wardrobe, play dress ups, and create a fantasy world where they feel safe and accepted. Well, maybe that's just what some boys do.  But little do they know, the parents are on to them. Is there a safe bubble about to burst?

This is the official longlist for the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards.

Ahead of the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards ceremony the following films will advance to the nominating stage of voting. This is the initial longlisting round where a total of 235 films were submitted for consideration.

The films are listed alphabetically by title, with the exception of the director category, listed alphabetically by film title, followed by the Director’s name, and the performance categories, listed alphabetically by the first name of the performer, followed by the film title.

Round Two voting, to determine the nominations, opens today at 6pm GMT to BAFTA’s voting members and will close on Friday 10 January 2025 at 6pm GMT.

You can discover the nominations for the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards when they’re announced Wednesday 15 January on the BAFTA YouTube channel with all the winners to be revealed at the ceremony taking place on Sunday 16 February. Stay tuned and follow the action with #EEBAFTAs.  

 

BEST FILM

10 films will advance in the Best Film category. 115 films eligible for this category were submitted for consideration. All film-voting members of BAFTA vote to determine the longlist, nominations and overall winner.

• Anora
• The Apprentice
• The Brutalist
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Kneecap
• The Substance
• Wicked

 

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

15 films will advance in the Outstanding British Film category. All film voting members of BAFTA vote to determine the longlist (of which the top five are nominated).  A jury selects the remaining five nominations. In the final round all film-voting members vote to determine the winning film. 63 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• Back to Black
• Bird
• Blitz
• Civil War
• Conclave
• Gladiator II
• Hard Truths
• Kneecap
• Lee
• Love Lies Bleeding
• The Outrun
• Paddington in Peru
• Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• We Live in Time
• Wicked Little Letters

 

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

10 films will advance in the Outstanding Debut category.  A jury determines the longlist, nominations and overall winner in this category. 42 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• Bring Them Down
• Grand Theft Hamlet
• Hoard
• Kneecap
• Monkey Man
• On Falling
• Santosh
• Sister Midnight
• The Taste of Mango
• The Teacher

 

CHILDREN’S & FAMILY FILM

Eight films will advance in the Children’s & Family Film category.  A jury determines the longlist, nominations and overall winner in this category. 19 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• Flow
• Kensuke’s Kingdom
• Piece By Piece
• Spellbound
• That Christmas
• Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• The Wild Robot
• Young Woman and the Sea

 

FILM NOT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

10 films will advance in the Film Not in the English Language category. All BAFTA film-voting members were invited to join an opt-in chapter to determine the longlist. This chapter will vote to nominate five films. In the final round all film-voting members vote to determine the winning film. 40 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• All We Imagine as Light
• Black Dog (Gou zhen)
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Emilia Pérez
• Flow
• The Girl with the Needle
• I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)
• Kneecap
• La Chimera
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig

 

DOCUMENTARY

10 films will advance in the Documentary category. All BAFTA film-voting members were invited to join an opt-in chapter to determine the longlist (of which the top two are nominated).  A jury selects the remaining three nominations, In the final round all film-voting members vote to determine the winning film. 71 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• The Bibi Files
• Black Box Diaries
• Daughters
• Elton John: Never Too Late
• I Am: Celine Dion
• Made In England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
• No Other Land
• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
• Will & Harper

 

ANIMATED FILM

Eight films will advance in the Animated Film category. All BAFTA film-voting members were invited to join an opt-in chapter to determine the longlist and will vote to nominate four films. In the final round all film-voting members vote to determine the winning film. 16 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• Despicable Me 4
• Flow
• Inside Out 2
• Memoir of a Snail
• Moana 2
• That Christmas
• Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• The Wild Robot

 

DIRECTOR

10 films will advance in the Director category. Members of the Directing chapter vote for their top 10 to determine the longlist, of which the top women and men directors, and directors who identify as non-binary/gender diverse and any mixed-gender directing teams (within the voting results range of the top 10 women/men directors) will be longlisted to a max of 11, with gender parity upheld between women and men directors. The Directing chapter will vote for the six nominations. In the final round all film-voting members vote to determine the winning film. 189 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia
• Anora, Sean Baker
• The Brutalist, Brady Corbet
• Conclave, Edward Berger
• Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve
• Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard
• La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher
• Lee, Ellen Kuras
• The Outrun, Nora Fingscheidt
• The Substance, Coralie Fargeat

 

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

10 films will advance in the Original Screenplay category. Members of the Writers chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film-voting members will vote for the winning film. 74 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• All We Imagine as Light
• Anora
• The Apprentice
• The Brutalist
• Challengers
• Civil War
• Heretic
• Kneecap
• A Real Pain
• The Substance

 

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

10 films will advance in the Adapted Screenplay category. Members of the Writers chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film-voting members will vote for the winning film. 60 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Lee
• Nickel Boys
• Nightbitch
• The Outrun
• Sing Sing
• Wicked

 

LEADING ACTRESS

10 performances will advance in the Leading Actress category. Members of the Acting chapter vote to determine the longlist, of which the top seven are automatically longlisted. A longlisting jury selects a further three performances from those ranked 8-13 in the chapter vote, to create a longlist of 10. Members of the Acting chapter vote to determine the six nominations. In the final round all film-voting members vote to determine the winning performance. 82 performances were submitted for consideration.

• Amy Adams, Nightbitch
• Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
• Demi Moore, The Substance
• Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
• Kate Winslet, Lee
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
• Marisa Abela, Back To Black
• Mikey Madison, Anora
• Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
• Saoirse Ronan, The Outrun

 

LEADING ACTOR

10 performances will advance in the Leading Actor category. Members of the Acting chapter vote to determine the longlist, of which the top seven are automatically longlisted. A longlisting jury selects a further three performances from those ranked 8-13 in the chapter vote, to create a longlist of 10. Members of the Acting chapter vote to determine the six nominations. In the final round all film-voting members vote to determine the winning performance. 82 performances were submitted for consideration.

• Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
• Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
• Daniel Craig, Queer
• Dev Patel, Monkey Man
• Hugh Grant, Heretic
• Jude Law, Firebrand
• Kingsley Ben Adir, Bob Marley: One Love
• Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
• Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
• Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

 

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

10 performances will advance in the Supporting Actress category. Members of the Acting chapter vote to determine the longlist, of which the top seven are automatically longlisted. A longlisting jury selects a further three performances from those ranked 8-13 in the chapter vote, to create a longlist of 10. Members of the Acting chapter vote to determine the six nominations. In the final round all film-voting members vote to determine the winning performance. 180 performances were submitted for consideration.

• Adriana Paz, Emilia Pérez
• Ariana Grande, Wicked
• Emily Watson, Small Things Like These
• Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
• Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
• Jamie Lee Curtis, The Last Showgirl
• Margaret Qualley, The Substance
• Michele Austin, Hard Truths
• Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez
• Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

 

SUPPORTING ACTOR

10 performances will advance in the Supporting Actor category. Members of the Acting chapter vote to determine the longlist, of which the top seven are automatically longlisted. A longlisting jury selects a further three performances from those ranked 8-13 in the chapter vote, to create a longlist of 10. Members of the Acting chapter vote to determine the six nominations. In the final round all film-voting members vote to determine the winning performance. 271 performances were submitted for consideration.

• Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
• Denzel Washington, Gladiator II
• Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
• Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
• Harris Dickinson, Babygirl
• Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
• Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
• Mark Eydelshteyn, Anora
• Stanley Tucci, Conclave
• Yura Borisov, Anora

 

CASTING

10 films will advance in the Casting category. Members of the Casting chapter vote to determine the longlist. A jury selects the five nominations and in the final round all film-voting members select the winning film. 119 films were submitted for consideration. A supporting Statement can be submitted and published on BAFTA View.

• Anora
• The Apprentice
• Back To Black
• Blitz
• The Brutalist
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Kneecap
• Wicked

 

CINEMATOGRAPHY

10 films will advance in the Cinematography category. Members of the Cinematography chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film-voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 155 films were submitted for consideration.

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• Civil War
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Gladiator II
• Nosferatu
• The Substance

 

COSTUME DESIGN

10 films will advance in the Costume Design category. Members of the Costume and Makeup & Hair chapters vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film-voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 114 films were submitted for consideration.

• Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
• Blitz
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Gladiator II
• Nosferatu
• Wicked

 

EDITING

10 films will advance in the Editing category. Members of the Editing chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film-voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 170 films were submitted for consideration.

• Anora
• Challengers
• Civil War
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Gladiator II
• Kneecap
• The Substance

 

MAKE UP & HAIR

10 films will advance in the Make Up & Hair category. Members of the Costume Design and the Make Up & Hair chapters vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film-voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 106 films were submitted for consideration. A supporting Statement can be submitted and published on BAFTA View.

• The Apprentice
• Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
• Blitz
• A Complete Unknown
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Joker: Folie À Deux
• Nosferatu
• The Substance
• Wicked

 

ORIGINAL SCORE

10 films will advance in the Original Score category. Members of the Music chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film-voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 118 films were submitted for consideration. Music cue sheets are provided by the entrants and published on BAFTA View.

• Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
• Blitz
• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Gladiator II
• Nosferatu
• The Outrun
• The Substance
• The Wild Robot

 

PRODUCTION DESIGN

10 films will advance in the Production Design category. Members of the Production Design chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film-voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 131 films were submitted for consideration.

• Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
• Blitz
• The Brutalist
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Gladiator II
• Nosferatu
• The Substance
• Wicked

 

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

10 films will advance in the Special Visual Effect category. Members of the SVFX chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film-voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 82 films were submitted for consideration. A supporting Statement and a show-reel of the SVFX work (up to five minutes in duration) can be submitted and are published on BAFTA View.

• Alien: Romulus
• Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
• Better Man
• Civil War
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Dune: Part Two
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Gladiator II
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Wicked

 

SOUND

10 films will advance in the Sound category Members of the Sound chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film-voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 149 films were submitted for consideration.

• Blitz
• The Brutalist
• Civil War
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Gladiator II
• The Substance
• Wicked

 

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

Six films will advance in the British Short Animation category.  A jury votes to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film-voting members are invited to join an opt-in chapter to vote for the overall winning short animation.

• Adiós
• Mee and Burd
• Mog’s Christmas
• Plunge
• Three Hares
• Wander to Wonder 

 

BRITISH SHORT FILM

Ten films will advance in the British Short Film category.  A jury votes to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film-voting members are invited to join an opt-in chapter to vote for the overall winning short film.

• The Ban
• Clodagh
• The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
• Homework
• Marion
• Milk
• Rock, Paper, Scissors
• Sister Wives
• Stomach Bug
• Woodlice

 

The next round of voting, to determine the nominations, takes place between Friday 3 and Friday 10 January 2025.

All longlisted films are available for voting members to watch on BAFTA View.

The EE Rising Star Award nominations will be announced on Tuesday 7 January 2025.

The EE BAFTA Film Awards nominations will be announced on Wednesday 15 January 2025 via BAFTA’s YouTube channel.

The final round of voting, to determine the winners, takes place between Wednesday 22 January and Tuesday 11 February 2025.

The EE BAFTA Film Awards ceremony takes place on Sunday 16 February 2025.

The movie business as I knew it is now over. Except in New York City, where feel-bad, risk-taking, ratings-defying art flicks still play and I pay to see them in theaters. Thank you, distributors, from the bottom of my damaged little cinematic heart, for getting these films out there to the perverted public, who still demand to be startled and soothed by troublemaking directors from all over the world. Here they are — my ten best. See them and suffer … joyously.

1.

Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass)

This hilarious, bloody film noir is the best movie of the year, one that Russ Meyer might have made if he had been a lesbian intellectual addicted to steroids. Even the pig-men are cute. Sort of.

2.

Queer (Luca Guadagnino)

Daniel Craig may be queerbait for taking on the gay beatnik role of William Burroughs’s alter ego, but I’m all for it. He’s absolutely brilliant and even has a “snowball” scene, a happy reminder of a sex act I had long forgotten. Oh, if today’s homos were this radical, I’d be a much happier queer myself.

3.

The Brutalist (Brady Corbet)

A cold-as-concrete VistaVision (!) epic about the cruelty of architecture and the agony of being ahead of your time, with Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce butting to the front of the line of Oscars hopefuls. Yes, the running time is 3.5 hours, but the only thing too long is the intermission.

4.

Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)

A horribly sad and sometimes hilariously funny portrait of the most unpleasant sourpuss woman in the history of cinema. She’s a rotten mother and a terrible wife, and everyone around her is racked with pain except the audience, which slowly begins to root for her. A wretched experience I’ll cherish forever.

5.

Messy (Alexi Wasser)

A snappy, witty little indie by a new female auteur (who also stars in the film) that brings to mind the best of Woody Allen’s comedies with very different subject matter: hipster women and their sex addictions. It’s sparkling, it’s rude, it’s knowing, and it’s hot. I’m glad young people are still angry and confused about mating.

6.

Joker: Folie à Deux (Todd Phillips)

Finally, a love story I can relate to. So insane, so well thought out, so well directed, so much smoking! It’s Jailhouse Rock meets Busby Berkeley with a 9/11 That’s Entertainment! ending that will make you shake your head in cinematic astonishment. Stupid critics. Gaga so good. Joker so right. Die, dumbbells, die!

7.

Femme (Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping)

A twisted S&M love affair between a black drag queen (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) and a white rough-trade gay-basher (George MacKay) that gives new meaning to sexual role-playing. Butch? Femme? It’s all drag when it comes down to being a “top” or “bottom.” Each man kills the thing he loves, indeed.

8.

Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard)

The Rocky Cartel Horror Picture Show: This wildly original musical-drama about the Mexican drug syndicate and its trans crime boss hiding in plain sight proves you can sing about anything in a film if it’s well-enough directed. Right now, I’m belting out, “It’s No. 8 on my list,” and who knows, maybe I’ll make a movie about it?

9.

Babygirl (Halina Reijn)

Okay, heteros are cutting edge this year, too. Nicole Kidman continues taking big chances in her career, and she deserves our salute. Here, she howls, she moans. She’s a verbal power-bottom cougar at the top of her business-executive career who meets a dominant, lowly intern top who makes her lap up milk from a bowl like … like … well, like a pussy.

10.

Viet and Nam (Truong Minh Quy)

Who could knock off Pedro Almodóvar, Sean Baker, and Guy Maddin’s terrific new films from my list this year? I’ll tell you who, and they’d probably understand why I’m giving this new (to me) filmmaker the spot. It’s an eerie, surprisingly haunting drama about two young gay coal miners, one of whom licks anal blood off his partner’s stomach and the other eats wax from his lover’s ears before they flee together to foreign shores as immigrants in a doomed floating container. It’s a beaut.

The Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 will take place in the Malmö Arena on Saturday 11 May with Semi-Finals on Tuesday 7 and Thursday 9 May.

 

 

 

Albania

BESA

TITAN

Armenia

LADANIVA

Jako

Australia

Electric Fields

One Milkali (One Blood)

Austria

Kaleen

We Will Rave

Azerbaijan

FAHREE feat. Ilkin Dovlatov

Özünlə Apar

Belgium

Mustii

Before the Party's Over

Croatia

Baby Lasagna

Rim Tim Tagi Dim

Cyprus

Silia Kapsis

Liar

Czechia

Aiko

Pedestal

Denmark

SABA

SAND

Estonia

5MIINUST x Puuluup

(nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi

Finland

Windows95man

No Rules!

France

Slimane

Mon amour

Georgia

Nutsa Buzaladze

Firefighter

Germany

ISAAK

Always On The Run

Greece

Marina Satti

ZARI

Iceland

Hera Björk

Scared of Heights

Ireland

Bambie Thug

Doomsday Blue

Israel

Eden Golan

Hurricane

Italy

Angelina Mango

La noia

Latvia

Dons

Hollow

Lithuania

Silvester Belt

Luktelk

Luxembourg

TALI

Fighter

Malta

Sarah Bonnici

Loop

Moldova

Natalia Barbu

In The Middle

Netherlands

Joost Klein

Europapa

Norway

Gåte

Ulveham

Poland

LUNA

The Tower

Portugal

iolanda

Grito

San Marino

MEGARA

11:11

Serbia

TEYA DORA

RAMONDA

Slovenia

Raiven

Veronika

Spain

Nebulossa

ZORRA

Sweden

Marcus & Martinus

Unforgettable

Switzerland

Nemo

The Code

Ukraine

alyona alyona & Jerry Heil

Teresa & Maria

United Kingdom

Olly Alexander

Dizzy

 

#InterviewWithTheVampire season 2 premieres May 12

Ten days of Berlinale. Ten days full of spectacular and creative queer films and ten days of anxious waiting for the decision of this year’s jury. Once again, prizes will be awarded in the categories best feature film, best documentary/essay film, best short film and the TEDDY Jury Award, as well as the Special TEDDY AWARD for lifetime artistic achievement to outstanding personalities.

But the wait is now over. The jury of the 38th TEDDY AWARD has made its choice and selected the winners.

The TEDDY AWARDs go to…

Best Feature Film

All Shall Be Well

Director: Ray Yeung

When her partner Pat unexpectedly dies, Angie is left to worry about the flat in which the couple lived together for over 30 years. Supported by her chosen family, Angie begins a later-life journey into emancipation.

Best documentary/ essay film

Teaches of Peaches

Directors: Judy Landkammer und Philipp Fussenegger

Seamlessly weaving together exclusive archival gems with dynamic tour footage, this documentary captures the transformative journey of Canadian Merrill Nisker into the internationally acclaimed cultural powerhouse that is Peaches.

Best Short Film

Grandmamauntsistercat

Director: Zuza Banasińska

Created from archival materials from communist Poland, the film tells the story of a multispecies matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems.

TEDDY Jury Award

Crossing

Director: Levan Akin

Lia, a retired teacher, has promised to find her long-lost niece, Tekla. Her search takes her to Istanbul where she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to feel closer than ever.

Special TEDDY AWARD

Lothar Lambert

Friday 5 January 2024, 12.00 GMT: The following films will advance to the nominating stage of voting. This is the initial longlisting round.

The films are listed alphabetically by title, with the exception of the performance categories, listed alphabetically by the surname of the performer, followed by the film title.

Round Two voting, to determine the nominations, opens today at 18.00 GMT to BAFTA's voting members and will close on Friday 12 January 2024.

The nominations for the 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards will be announced on Thursday 18 January and the ceremony will take place on Sunday 18 February.

BEST FILM

10 films will advance in the Best Film category. 234 eligible films were submitted for consideration. All film voting members of BAFTA vote to determine the longlist, nominations and overall winner.

• All of Us Strangers
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Barbie
• The Holdovers
• Killers of The Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Past Lives
• Poor Things
• The Zone of Interest

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

15 films will advance in the Outstanding British Film category. All BAFTA film voting members were invited to join an opt-in chapter to determine the longlist (of which the top five are nominated).  A jury selects the remaining five nominations. In the final round all film voting members vote to determine the winning film. 76 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• All of Us Strangers
• Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
• The Deepest Breath
• The Great Escaper
• How to Have Sex
• Napoleon
• The Old Oak
• One Life
• Poor Things
• Rye Lane
• Saltburn
• Scrapper
• Tetris
• Wonka
• The Zone of Interest

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

10 films will advance in the Outstanding Debut category.  A jury determines the longlist, nominations and overall winner in this category. 52 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• Blue Bag Life
• Bobi Wine: The People's President
• Earth Mama
• The End We Start From
• How To Have Sex
• If the Streets Were on Fire
• Is There Anybody Out There?
• Polite Society
• Rye Lane
• Scrapper

FILM NOT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

10 films will advance in the Film Not in the English Language category. All BAFTA film voting members were invited to join an opt-in chapter to determine the longlist. This chapter will vote to nominate five films and will vote for the overall winning film. 59 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• 20 Days In Mariupol
• Anatomy of a Fall
• The Boy And The Heron
• The Eight Mountains
• Fallen Leaves
• Past Lives
• Society of the Snow
• The Taste of Things
• The Teachers' Lounge
• The Zone of Interest

DOCUMENTARY

10 films will advance in the Documentary category. All BAFTA film voting members were invited to join an opt-in chapter to determine the longlist (of which the top two are nominated).  A jury selects the remaining three nominations, In the final round the Documentary opt-in chapter votes to determine the winning film. 60 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• 20 Days In Mariupol
• American Symphony
• Beyond Utopia
• The Deepest Breath
• High & Low - John Galliano
• Little Richard: I Am Everything
• Mad About The Boy: The Noël Coward Story
• The Pigeon Tunnel
• Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
• Wham!

ANIMATED FILM

Eight films will advance in the Animated Film category. All BAFTA film voting members were invited to join an opt-in chapter to determine the longlist. This chapter will vote to nominate four films and will vote for the winning film. 17 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• The Boy And The Heron
• Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
• Elemental
• Nimona
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
• Wish

DIRECTOR

16 films will advance in the Director category. Members of the Directing chapter vote for their top 16 to determine the longlist, of which the top female, male, and directors who identify as non-binary (within the voting results range of the top 10 female/male directors) will be longlisted to a max of 11, with female/male gender parity upheld, and of which the top two are nominated regardless of gender. A longlisting jury selects the final places from the next 8 placed female, male & non-binary directors (placed within this voting results range). A nominating jury selects four Directors from the longlist to make-up a nominee list of six Directors. In the final round all film voting members vote to determine the winning film. 206 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• Anatomy of a Fall
• All of Us Strangers
• American Fiction
• Barbie
• The Holdovers
• How to Have Sex
• Killers of The Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Past Lives
• Poor Things
• Priscilla
• Rye Lane
• Saltburn
• Scrapper
• The Zone of Interest

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

10 films will advance in the Original Screenplay category. Members of the Writers chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film voting members will vote for the winning film. 100 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• Air
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Barbie
• The Holdovers
• How to Have Sex
• Maestro
• May December
• Past Lives
• Rye Lane
• Saltburn

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

10 films will advance in the Adapted Screenplay category. Members of the Writers chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film voting members will vote for the winning film. 61 eligible films were submitted for consideration.

• All of Us Strangers
• American Fiction
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
• Dumb Money
• The Killer
• Killers of The Flower Moon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Wonka
• The Zone of Interest

LEADING ACTRESS

10 performances will advance in the Leading Actress category. Members of the Acting chapter vote to determine the longlist (of which the top three are nominated). A longlisting jury selects a further three performances to create a longlist of 10. A nominating jury then selects three performances from the longlist to make-up a nominee list of six performances. In the final round all film voting members vote to determine the winning performance. 94 performances were submitted for consideration.

• Annette Bening, NYAD
• Carey Mulligan, Maestro
• Emma Stone, Poor Things
• Fantasia Barrino, The Color Purple
• Greta Lee, Past Lives
• Lily Gladstone, Killers of The Flower Moon
• Margot Robbie, Barbie
• Mia McKenna-Bruce, How to Have Sex
• Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
• Vivian Oparah, Rye Lane

LEADING ACTOR

10 performances will advance in the Leading Actor category. Members of the Acting chapter vote to determine the longlist (of which the top three are nominated). A longlisting jury selects a further three performances to create a longlist of 10. A nominating jury then selects three performances from the longlist to make-up a nominee list of six performances. In the final round all film voting members vote to determine the winning performance. 108 performances were submitted for consideration.

• Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers
• Barry Keoghan, Saltburn
• Bradley Cooper, Maestro
• Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
• Colman Domingo, Rustin
• George MacKay, Femme
• Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
• Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of The Flower Moon
• Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
• Teo Yoo, Past Lives

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

10 performances will advance in the Supporting Actress category. Members of the Acting chapter vote to determine the longlist (of which the top three are nominated). A longlisting jury selects a further three performances to create a longlist of 10. A nominating jury then selects three performances from the longlist to make-up a nominee list of six performances. In the final round all film voting members vote to determine the winning performance. 224 performances were submitted for consideration.

• America Ferrera, Barbie
• Cara Jade Myers, Killers of The Flower Moon
• Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers
• Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
• Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
• Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
• Jodie Foster, NYAD
• Julianne Moore, May December
• Rosamund Pike, Saltburn
• Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest

SUPPORTING ACTOR

10 performances will advance in the Supporting Actor category. Members of the Acting chapter vote to determine the longlist (of which the top three are nominated). A longlisting jury selects a further three performances to create a longlist of 10. A nominating jury then selects three performances from the longlist to make-up a nominee list of six performances. In the final round all film voting members vote to determine the winning performance. 338 performances were submitted for consideration.

• Anthony Hopkins, One Life
• Ben Whishaw, Passages
• Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers
• Jacob Elordi, Saltburn
• Jamie Bell, All of Us Strangers
• Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
• Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers
• Robert De Niro, Killers of The Flower Moon
• Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
• Ryan Gosling, Barbie

CASTING

10 films will advance in the Casting category. Members of the Casting chapter vote to determine the longlist. A jury selects the five nominations and in the final round all film voting members select the winning film. 128 films were submitted for consideration.

• All of Us Strangers
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Barbie
• The Holdovers
• How to Have Sex
• Killers of The Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Saltburn
• Scrapper

CINEMATOGRAPHY

10 films will advance in the Cinematography category. Members of the Cinematography chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 186 films were submitted for consideration.

• Barbie
• The Creator
• Ferrari
• Killers of The Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Saltburn
• The Zone of Interest

COSTUME DESIGN

10 films will advance in the Costume Design category. Members of the Costume and Makeup & Hair chapters vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 129 films were submitted for consideration.

• Asteroid City
• Barbie
• Ferrari
• Killers of The Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Saltburn
• Wonka

EDITING

10 films will advance in the Editing category. Members of the Editing chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 197 films were submitted for consideration.

• All of Us Strangers
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Barbie
• Killers of The Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Saltburn
• The Zone of Interest

MAKE UP & HAIR

10 films will advance in the Make Up & Hair category. Members of the Costume Design and the Make Up & Hair chapters vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 124 films were submitted for consideration.

• Barbie
• Ferrari
• Golda
• Killers of The Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Priscilla
• Wonka

ORIGINAL SCORE

10 films will advance in the Original Score category. Members of the Music chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 131 films were submitted for consideration. Music cue sheets are provided by the entrants and published on BAFTA View.

• American Fiction
• Barbie
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
• Killers of The Flower Moon
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Saltburn
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Wonka

PRODUCTION DESIGN

10 films will advance in the Production Design category. Members of the Production Design chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 151 films were submitted for consideration.

• Asteroid City
• Barbie
• Ferrari
• Killers of The Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Wonka
• The Zone of Interest

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

10 films will advance in the Special Visual Effect category. Members of the SVFX chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 73 films were submitted for consideration. A supporting Statement and a show-reel of the SVFX work (up to five minutes in duration) can be submitted and are published on BAFTA View.

• Barbie
• The Creator
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
• Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Wonka

SOUND

10 films will advance in the Sound category Members of the Sound chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 172 films were submitted for consideration.

• Barbie
• Ferrari
• Killers of The Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Wonka
• The Zone of Interest

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

Six films will advance in the British Short Animation category.  A jury votes to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film voting members are invited to join an opt-in chapter to vote for the overall winning short animation.

• Crab Day
• Sweet Like Lemons
• The Smeds and The Smoos
• Visible Mending
• Wild Summon
• World to Roam

BRITISH SHORT FILM

Ten films will advance in the British Short Film category.  A jury votes to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film voting members are invited to join an opt-in chapter to vote for the overall winning short film.

• Essex Girls
• Festival of Slaps
• Finding Alaa
• Gorka
• Jellyfish and Lobster
• Jill, Uncredited
• Mighty Penguins
• The One Note Man
• Such A Lovely Day
• Yellow

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Haven't seen them all...but, as usual, a bizarre selection!

1. Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster)

A superlong, super-crazy, super-funny movie about one man’s mental breakdown with a cast better than Around the World in 80 Days’: Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Parker Posey, Nathan Lane, and Amy Ryan. It’s a laugh riot from hell you’ll never forget, even if you want to.

2. A Prince (Pierre Creton)

You’ve never heard of this one, but I’d never heard of Super Mario Bros. when it came out either, so there. A most unlikely gay movie about a gerontophilic hot male farmer and his two old-man lovers who drop dead for no apparent reason other than being “embarrassed by youth and beauty.” It’s dirty in a soil-like way. Dicks turn into mythic creatures; men howl like dogs. Slow, spooky, and poetically fucked up. In other words, perfect.

3. Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)

Another erotic movie featuring gardening, this time an S&M one with stud-muffin-Nazi overtones and Sigourney Weaver in the best performance of the year as a sugar mama with a heart for vengeance. Dig it. Dig it deep, sir.

4. Full Time (Éric Gravel)

An exhausting thriller, as exciting as The French Connection, about a normal single-mother hotel worker and whether she’ll get to work on time in Paris during a transit strike. Trust me—it’s brilliant.

5. Last Summer (Catherine Breillat)

A devastatingly pernicious tale of a French lawyer for abused minors who falls in lust with her own fawnish but nasty underage stepson, played by Samuel Kircher, who gives the lead kid in Death in Venice a run for his money. Not since Paul Morrissey and Joe Dallesandro has there been a director-star connection this hot and unconsummated. She gets it. He gets it raw.

6. Sparta (Ulrich Seidl)

Are Romanian children better off with a closeted male pedophile who never acts overtly but shows them love or their real nasty hetero adult fathers who force them to act “mean” and “tough”? No wonder controversy rages about the making of the film. All I know is two things: The movie’s fantastic, and I’m glad I’m not a chicken queen.

7. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)

Another deadpan Finnish kitchen-sink melodrama from one of the world’s greatest auteurs. An alcoholic factory worker and a lonely supermarket clerk meet by chance and struggle to fall in love. It’s drab, it’s short, it’s beautiful, and it lacks nothing. Just call it Unmagnificent Obsession. Shut up and love it.

8. Strange Way of Life (Pedro Almodóvar)

A refreshingly unironic new look at gay-cowboy memory, lust, family, and guilt that proves blood is thicker than semen.

9. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)

Deserves the Oscar for being a big-budget, star-studded, intelligent action movie about talking.

10. Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World (Radu Jude)

A maddeningly radical, tedious, shockingly repetitious, brilliant two-hour-and-43-minute Godard–meets–Harmony Korine Romanian masterpiece in which we spend way too much time locked in the car of a confident, trashy, gum-chewing workaholic PA for a movie company as she does her chores. When I finished watching the movie, I was pretty sure I didn’t like it, but when I woke up the next morning, I realized I loved it. Suffer for cinema! Sometimes it’s worth it!

Season 16 premieres FRIDAY JAN 5

In the 1970's & 80's many people fought for equal rights for women, as well as decriminalising homosexuality. For the next two decades these people fought hard to not only decriminalise being Gay or Lesbian , but fought to criminalise discrimination on the grounds of gender, race ,sexuality and to give equal rights to marry for all, no matter what their sexuality.

Now in the 2020's, the first wave of these brave and passionate activists are reaching their 70's and 80's and instead of being cared for with compassion, they are finding themselves having to de-gay or go back into the closet because of the rampant homophobia in the care system.

Raga D'silva talks to Ted Brown, a veteran of the UKs 'Gay Liberation Front' about his experience with his long term partner being abused in a care home. Also, Eileen Chubb who Founded Compassion in Care an organisation that helps whistleblowers in the elder care sector and Stephanie Fuller, CEO of the LGBT Switchboard London who also shares insights on how elder Trans People are treated.

The 95th Academy Awards ceremony will be on Sunday, March 12th at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood - broadcast live by ABC. This year's ceremony will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

The nominations:

PICTURE:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking

DIRECTOR:
Martin McDonagh - The Banshees of Inisherin
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert - Everything Everywhere All at Once
Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans
Todd Field - Tar
Ruben Östlund - Triangle of Sadness

ACTOR:
Austin Butler - Elvis
Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser - The Whale
Paul Mescal - Aftersun
Bill Nighy - Living

ACTRESS:
Cate Blanchett - Tar
Ana de Armas - Blonde
Andrea Riseborough - To Leslie
Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once

SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Brendan Gleason - The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry - Causeway
Judd Hirsch - The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Angela Bassett - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau - The Whale
Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis - Everything Everywhere All at Once
Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere All at Once

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
The Banshees of Inisherin - Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans - Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner
Tar - Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness - Ruben Östlund

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
All Quiet on the Western Front - Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - Rian Johnson
Living - Kazuo Ishiguro
Top Gun: Maverick - Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie
Women Talking - Sarah Polley

ANIMATED FEATURE:
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss in Boots
The Sea Beast
Turning Red

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE:
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
Close (Belgium)
EO (Poland)
The Quiet Girl (Ireland)

CINEMATOGRAPHY:
All Quiet on the Western Front - James Friend
Bardo - Darius Khondji
Elvis - Mandy Walker
Empire of Light - Roger Deakins
Tar - Florian Hoffmeister

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Navalny

DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
The Elephant Whisperers - Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga
Haulout - Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev
How Do You Measure a Year? - Jay Rosenblatt
The Martha Mitchell Effect - Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison
Stranger at the Gate - Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones

ANIMATED SHORT:
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud
The Flying Sailor - Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Ice Merchants - João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano
My Year of Dicks - Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It - Lachlan Pendragon

LIVE-ACTION SHORT:
An Irish Goodbye - Tom Berkeley and Ross White
Ivalu - Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan
Le Pupille - Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón
Night Ride - Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen
The Red Suitcase - Cyrus Neshvad

VISUAL EFFECTS:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick

PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Dune - PD: Patrice Vermette; Set: Zsuzsanna Sipos
All Quiet on the Western Front - PD: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set: Ernestine Hipper
Avatar: The Way of Water - PD: Dylan Cole & Ben Procter; Set: Vanessa Cole
Babylon - PD: Florencia Martin; Set: Anthony Carlino
Elvis - PD: Catherine Martin & Karen Murphy; Set: Bev Dunn
The Fabelmans - PD: Rick Carter; Set: Karen O'Hara

COSTUME DESIGN:
Babylon - Mary Zophres
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Ruth Carter
Elvis - Catherine Martin
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Shirley Kurata
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris - Jenny Beavan

MAKE-UP & HAIR:
All Quiet on the Western Front - Heike Merker & Linda Eisenhamerová
The Batman - Naomi Donne, Mike Marino, Mike Fontaine
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Camille Friend & Joel Harlow
Elvis - Mark Coulier, Jason Baird, Aldo Signoretti
The Whale - Adrien Morot, Judy Chin, Anne Marie Bradley

FILM EDITING:
The Banshees of Inisherin - Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Elvis - Matt Villa & Jonathan Redmond
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Paul Rogers
Tar - Monika Willi
Top Gun: Maverick - Eddie Hamilton

SOUND:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick

ORIGINAL SCORE:
All Quiet on the Western Front - Volker Bertelmann
Babylon - Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees of Inisherin - Carter Burwell
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Son Lux
The Fabelmans - John Williams

ORIGINAL SONG:
"Applause" from Tell It Like a Woman
"Hold My Hand" from Top Gun: Maverick
"Lift Me Up" from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
"Naatu Naatu" from RRR
"This Is A Life" from Everything Everywhere All at Once

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BAFTA announces the nominations for the 2023 EE BAFTA Film Awards, celebrating the very best in film over the past year. A total of 45 feature films received nominations today.

Highlights include:

• 14 nominations for All Quiet on the Western Front
• Ten nominations for The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Nine nominations for Elvis
• Five nominations for Tár
• Four nominations for Aftersun; The Batman; Good Luck to You, Leo Grande; Top Gun: Maverick and The Whale
• Three nominations for Babylon; Empire of Light; Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio; Living and Triangle of Sadness
• Two nominations for Avatar: The Way of Water; Decision to Leave; The Quiet Girl; Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical; She Said and The Woman King
• One nomination for each of the following: All That Breathes; All The Beauty and the Bloodshed; Amsterdam; Argentina, 1985; Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; Blonde; Blue Jean; Brian and Charles; Corsage; Electric Malady; The Fabelmans; Fire of Love; The Good Nurse; Marcel the Shell with Shoes On; Moonage Daydream; Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris; Navalny; Puss in Boots: The Last Wish; Rebellion; See How They Run; The Swimmers; Till; Turning Red and The Wonder

 

BEST FILM

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Malte Grunert

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh

ELVIS Gail Berman, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Patrick McCormick, Schuyler Weiss

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang

TÁR Todd Field, Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan

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OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

AFTERSUN Charlotte Wells, Producer(s) TBC

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin

BRIAN AND CHARLES Jim Archer, Rupert Majendie, David Earl, Chris Hayward

EMPIRE OF LIGHT Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris

GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE Sophie Hyde, Debbie Gray, Adrian Politowski, Katy Brand

LIVING Oliver Hermanus, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, Kazuo Ishiguro

ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL Matthew Warchus, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jon Finn, Luke Kelly, Dennis Kelly

SEE HOW THEY RUN Tom George, Gina Carter, Damian Jones, Mark Chappell

THE SWIMMERS Sally El Hosaini, Producer(s) TBC, Jack Thorne

THE WONDER Sebastián Lelio, Ed Guiney, Juliette Howell, Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross, Alice Birch, Emma Donoghue

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OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

AFTERSUN Charlotte Wells (Writer/Director)

BLUE JEAN Georgia Oakley (Writer/Director), Hélène Sifre (Producer)

ELECTRIC MALADY Marie Lidén (Director)

GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE Katy Brand (Writer)

REBELLION Elena Sánchez Bellot (Director) Maia Kenworthy (Director) 

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FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger, Malte Grunert

ARGENTINA, 1985 Santiago Mitre, Producer(s) TBC

CORSAGE Marie Kreutzer

DECISION TO LEAVE Park Chan-wook, Ko Dae-seok

THE QUIET GIRL Colm Bairéad, Cleona Ní Chrualaoí

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DOCUMENTARY

ALL THAT BREATHES Shaunak Sen, Teddy Leifer, Aman Mann

ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov, John Lyons

FIRE OF LOVE Sara Dosa, Shane Boris, Ina Fichman

MOONAGE DAYDREAM Brett Morgen

NAVALNY Daniel Roher, Diane Becker, Shane Boris, Melanie Miller, Odessa Rae

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ANIMATED FILM

GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, Alex Bulkley

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON Dean Fleisher Camp, Andrew Goldman, Elisabeth Holm, Caroline Kaplan, Paul Mezey

PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH Joel Crawford, Mark Swift

TURNING RED Domee Shi, Lindsey Collins

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DIRECTOR

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Martin McDonagh

DECISION TO LEAVE Park Chan-wook

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

TÁR Todd Field

THE WOMAN KING Gina Prince-Bythewood

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ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Martin McDonagh

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

THE FABELMANS Tony Kushner, Steven Spielberg

TÁR Todd Field

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Ruben Östlund

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ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell

LIVING Kazuo Ishiguro

THE QUIET GIRL Colm Bairéad

SHE SAID Rebecca Lenkiewicz

THE WHALE Samuel D. Hunter

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LEADING ACTRESS

CATE BLANCHETT Tár

VIOLA DAVIS The Woman King

DANIELLE DEADWYLER Till

ANA DE ARMAS Blonde

EMMA THOMPSON Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

MICHELLE YEOH Everything Everywhere All At Once

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LEADING ACTOR

AUSTIN BUTLER Elvis

COLIN FARRELL The Banshees of Inisherin

BRENDAN FRASER The Whale

DARYL McCORMACK Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

PAUL MESCAL Aftersun

BILL NIGHY Living

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SUPPORTING ACTRESS

ANGELA BASSETT Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

HONG CHAU The Whale

KERRY CONDON The Banshees of Inisherin

DOLLY DE LEON Triangle of Sadness

JAMIE LEE CURTIS Everything Everywhere All At Once

CAREY MULLIGAN She Said

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SUPPORTING ACTOR

BRENDAN GLEESON The Banshees of Inisherin

BARRY KEOGHAN The Banshees of Inisherin

KE HUY QUAN Everything Everywhere All At Once

EDDIE REDMAYNE The Good Nurse

ALBRECHT SCHUCH All Quiet on the Western Front

MICHEAL WARD Empire of Light

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ORIGINAL SCORE

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Volker Bertelmann

BABYLON Justin Hurwitz

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Carter Burwell

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Son Lux

GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Alexandre Desplat

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CASTING

AFTERSUN Lucy Pardee

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Simone Bär

ELVIS Nikki Barrett, Denise Chamian

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Sarah Halley Finn

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Pauline Hansson

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CINEMATOGRAPHY

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT James Friend

THE BATMAN Greig Fraser

ELVIS Mandy Walker

EMPIRE OF LIGHT Roger Deakins

TOP GUN: MAVERICK Claudio Miranda

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EDITING

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Sven Budelmann

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Mikkel E. G. Nielsen

ELVIS Jonathan Redmond, Matt Villa

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Paul Rogers

TOP GUN: MAVERICK Eddie Hamilton

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PRODUCTION DESIGN

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Christian M. Goldbeck, Ernestine Hipper

BABYLON Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino

THE BATMAN James Chinlund, Lee Sandales

ELVIS Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Bev Dunn

GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Curt Enderle, Guy Davis

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COSTUME DESIGN

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Lisy Christl

AMSTERDAM J.R. Hawbaker, Albert Wolsky

BABYLON Mary Zophres

ELVIS Catherine Martin

MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS Jenny Beavan

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MAKE UP & HAIR

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Heike Merker

THE BATMAN Naomi Donne, Mike Marino, Zoe Tahir

ELVIS Jason Baird, Mark Coulier, Louise Coulston, Shane Thomas

ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL Naomi Donne, Barrie Gower, Sharon Martin

THE WHALE Anne Marie Bradley, Judy Chin, Adrien Morot

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SOUND

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Lars Ginzel, Frank Kruse, Viktor Prášil, Markus Stemler

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Julian Howarth, Gary Summers, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle

ELVIS Michael Keller, David Lee, Andy Nelson, Wayne Pashley

TÁR Deb Adair, Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley, Steve Single, Roland Winke 

TOP GUN: MAVERICK Chris Burdon, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Mark Taylor, Mark Weingarten

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SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Markus Frank, Kamil Jafar, Viktor Müller, Frank Petzold

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon

THE BATMAN Russell Earl, Dan Lemmon, Anders Langlands, Dominic Tuohy

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Benjamin Brewer, Ethan Feldbau, Jonathan Kombrinck, Zak Stoltz

TOP GUN: MAVERICK Seth Hill, Scott R. Fisher, Bryan Litson, Ryan Tudhope

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BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy, Cara Speller, Hannah Minghella

MIDDLE WATCH John Stevenson, Aiesha Penwarden, Giles Healy

YOUR MOUNTAIN IS WAITING Hannah Jacobs, Zoe Muslim, Harriet Gillian

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BRITISH SHORT FILM

THE BALLAD OF OLIVE MORRIS Alex Kayode-Kay

BAZIGAGA Jo Ingabire Moys, Stephanie Charmail

BUS GIRL Jessica Henwick, Louise Palmkvist Hansen

A DRIFTING UP Jacob Lee

AN IRISH GOODBYE Tom Berkeley, Ross White

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EE RISING STAR AWARD

AIMEE LOU WOOD

DARYL McCORMACK

EMMA MACKEY

NAOMI ACKIE

SHEILA ATIM

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1. PETER VON KANT (François Ozon)

By far the best movie of the year. Fassbinder’s classic lesbian melodrama is appropriated and remade as a gay Frenchman’s love letter to the original version. Hilariously stilted, often overwrought, but always highly entertaining, this cock-eyed tribute will make you swoon when Hanna Schygulla finally makes an appearance and Isabelle Adjani soon follows. My God, it’s just plain Douglas Sirk perfect.

2. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)

Another tribute film, this time Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar meets Old Yeller. Can a donkey remember? Just ask Isabelle Huppert, who pops up in this movie for no apparent reason except that she’s the best actress in the world.

3. EVERYTHING WENT FINE (François Ozon—AGAIN!)

Assisted suicide for the elderly has never been so madcap. So I Love Lucy. So feel-so-bad-you’ll-feel-good. With a cast to die for—literally. Hanna Schygulla (AGAIN!), Jacques Nolot (my hero), and Charlotte Rampling as the nastiest ex-wife in the world.

4. SICK OF MYSELF (Kristoffer Borgli)

A pair of narcissistic Norwegian lovers can’t stop competing for the public’s attention. He’s a sculptor who uses furniture he steals as material, and she takes recalled poison medication on purpose to make her skin break out in rashes and boils so she can become a model with disabilities. No, it’s not Female Trouble, but it’s just as nuts. Pretty? Pretty? Pretty fucked up!

5. BRUNO REIDAL, CONFESSIONS OF A MURDERER (Vincent Le Port)

The boy can’t help it. Killing people. Jerking off. More jerking off. And the sight of meat made him do it! Yep, it’s true crime, Gallic style. One critic wrote, “If ever there was a movie tailor-made to appear on the annual list of the year’s best films that John Waters compiles for Artforum, it’s this one.” Boy, was he right.

6. DETAINEE 001 (Greg Barker)

John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban. This doc examines the hysteria of this case and asks the question I’ve been wondering about for years—was he an overhyped traitor or just a well-traveled kid caught in the wrong place at the wrong time? Oh, yeah, he’s really cute, in a grunge kind of way.

7. DINNER IN AMERICA (Adam Rehmeier)

A wonderfully nasty, politically incorrect punk-rock romantic comedy with great performances that somehow got canceled when it was screened at Sundance in 2020. Finally it was released this year, and nobody in the US seemed to notice except director Sean Baker, who sent me a screener, for which I’m eternally grateful.

8. WILL-O’-THE-WISP (João Pedro Rodrigues)

A racially risky, raunchy Portuguese musical about class and pyromania that will light you on fire. Facials! Fake dicks! A real arty head-scratcher of a film that makes Titane seem tame.

9. SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING (Quentin Dupieux)

Can a movie be both stupid and effete yet unironic? Only the French can pull that off, and this moronic auteur of ignoramuses does it again. Brilliant performances and dumbbell dialogue equal a superhero movie for idiots that surpasses all the tedium of Hollywood blockbusters.

10. BONES AND ALL (Luca Guadagnino)

Is there such a thing as a butch twink? Yes, there is, and Timothée Chalamet goes all Larry Clark on us here, a soft-trade hetero cannibal who kills an evil closeted gay trick so he and his flesh-eating girlfriend can feed. Is that gay-bashing or cannibally correct love? Just asking. 

Words by...
David Anderson Cutler 

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It's that time of the year...

Sadly, I can't be there this year...but, we have been given access to quite a few films and screeners have been requested.

As per usual, there is a mighty selection of films with LGBT themes, stories and characters...watch and enjoy.

Just click on the film poster...

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A Spy Among Friends

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The Whale

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100 Ways to Cross the Border

Pretty Red Dress

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Shorts films...

I Have No Legs, and I Must Run

Mono No Aware

Staging Death

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They wanted a rom-com. They got a love story.

Jim Parsons, Ben Aldridge, and Sally Field star in #SpoilerAlert, from the director of The Big Sick.

Only In theaters December 2.

Based on Michael Ausiello’s best-selling memoir “Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies,” the film is a heartwarming, funny and life-affirming story of how Michael and Kit’s relationship is transformed and deepened when one of them falls ill.

Here are all the films we'll be watching @edfilmfest...

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Just couldn't fit these into our schedule...

Stunning...

 

Let You Go from Jodeb on Vimeo.

Diplo & TSHA - Let You Go (feat. Kareen Lomax)

Written and Directed by: Jodeb
Produced by PRETTYBIRD & COLOSSALE
Creative Director: Lola Son (Mad Decent)

...by David Anderson Cutler

We've combed through the programme...here are the LGBT shows on offer! And...what a delicious menu it is!

Impossible to see them all...but, we'll give it a damn good try!

Just click on the title for the review...and, if there's anyone out there who wants to write a review...write it, send it in and we'll publish it with your name!

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Jinkx Monsoon: She’s Still Got It!

RuPaul’s Drag Race legend (fifth season and seventh season of All Stars, airing May 2022), actress, comedienne, and singer. Jinkx has toured all over the world, gaining a huge fanbase and superstar status. She’s bringing a show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year: She’s Still Got It! With Major Scales (her long-time musical collaborator) – a musical comedy cabaret show, packed full of Jinkx’s trademark improv and sensational musical ability. 

Venue: Assembly George Square – Spiegeltent Palais du Variété / Box Office: assemblyfestival.com

Ania Magliano: Absolutely No Worries If Not

Ania Magliano is bringing her debut show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, combining storytelling, snappy observations, silliness and some surreal tangents she delves into her background as a half Polish, half Italian bisexual 24-year-old, who has spent her whole life in England. Touching on themes of family and her sexuality, she navigates the complicated interpersonal relationships with your parents, and wonders whether she’ll ever be good enough at communicating to confront her hairdresser about her terrible haircut, or get through her early 20s without ending every sentence with ‘absolutely no worries if not’.

Venue: Bunker Three, Pleasance Courtyard / Tickets: pleasance.co.uk

Camille O’Sullivan: Dreaming

The Queen of the Fringe – an established alternative/indie musician. Camille has been wowing audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for over 18 years, earning her worldwide acclaim for her magnetising stage presence and entrancing vocals. She is returning to the stage this August with her new show Dreaming, alongside long-time collaborator Fergal Murray. Dreaming is an honest, intimate response to the isolation of the pandemic, and the joy of being connected to the rest of the world again.

Box office: underbellyedinburgh.co.uk

James Barr: Straight Jokes

The multi-award-winning comedian returns to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with his sophomore show Straight Jokes. People constantly tells James that he is “too gay” – Straight Jokes is his fabulous reply to this pool of haters. An out-of-control hour of jokes from the utterly hilarious, nearly national treasure. James exposes his previous employers and navigates the absolutely exhausting admin of pretending to be woke for “fame”. This is an exploration of James’ experience in the comedy industry, as well as a revolt against the elitist media industry, that constantly silence and shame people for their differences.

Venue: Daisy, Underbelly Bristo Square / Box office: underbellyedinburgh.co.uk

Sophie Duker: Hag

Comedian and star of Taskmaster. Co-writer of Riot Girls on Channel 4. Previous credits include Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Sophie is bringing her new show Hag to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year, a self-assured hour of comedy centred around Sophie’s personal metamorphosis into a more confident, spectacularly cantankerous person.

Tickets: pleasance.co.uk

Joseph Parsons: Equaliser

Football fanatic and comedian. An advocate for LGBTQI+ issues in the sporting world. His new show Equaliser will be debuting at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August. Equaliser is about Joseph’s own experience growing up as gay and football mad in the West Country – a celebration of the beautiful game, as well as an examination of it’s issues.

Tickets: edinburgh.justthetonic.com 

Larry Dean: Fudnut

Hot on the heels of his national tour Larry Dean returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his show ‘Fudnut’ at the Monkey Barrel. Fudnut is an hour of authentic storytelling at its funniest, touching on some recent events in Larry’s life, from accidentally importing illegal substances into a middle eastern country, to the prominent events that followed a little closer to home, and what his therapist has to say about it all.

Venue: Monkey Barrel Comedy – 3 / Box Office: monkeybarrelcomedy.com

Sam Lake: Cake

A comedian, writer, presenter, and podcast host. He’s written for Mock the Week (BBC2), Breaking the News (BBC Radio Scotland), and Newsjack (BBC Radio 4 extra). Originally set to debut in 2020, Sam is unveiling his comedy hour in 2022, titled Cake. Sam’s wedding was also supposed to happen in 2020, but sadly it was also postponed due to the pandemic – Cake is about learning to get comfortable when things in life don’t go as originally planned.

Tickets: pleasance.co.uk

Sarah Keyworth: Lost Boy

Award-winning comedian, podcast host and rising star in the UK and Australian comedy circuits. Her show Lil’ Keys: Big Jokes will be premiering at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August, touching on themes of loss and how to rediscover your silliness. 

Venue: Pleasance Courtyard – Cabaret / Tickets: pleasance.co.uk

Séayoncé: Res-Erection

Cabaret drag star and a hysterical spiritual medium helmed by comedian Dan Wye. Check out their bewitching new show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year, titled Res-Erection. Step into the unknown and experience a show unlike any other – complete with theatrics, musical numbers, audience interaction and innuendo.

Box Office: assemblyfestival.com

Shelf: Hair

The fresh-faced musical comedy duo of Rachel WD and Ruby Clyde. One musical, one tone-deaf. They’re bringing their debut hour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August – an exploration of gender expression and identity, called Hair.

Tickets: pleasance.co.uk

The Tiger Lillies: One Penny Opera

The award-winning godfathers of alternative cabaret. Magical, steampunk-y, and Grammy-nominated. They’re returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with their show One Penny Opera to celebrate their 30th anniversary.

Tickets: underbelly.co.uk

I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical

Composer and lyricist Alexander S. Bermange (he/him) is back with his award-winning musical revue I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical.  From voice-straining high notes to limb-spraining high kicks, via on-stage smooches and off-stage feuds, reveals everything that you could want to know about being a musical theatre performer… if only there were any who would dare to admit it. Booking

(le) pain 

Jean-Daniel (JD) Broussé’s (he/him) first solo show offers a similar tantalising temptation.  A play on the French word for bread and the English word for suffering, in (le) pain JD is forced to choose between continuing the family legacy or pursuing his dreams as a performer. Booking

No Place Like Home

Fusing spoken word, original music, dance and video art, No Place Like Home by Alex Roberts (he/him) & Co. (winner of Les Enfants Terribles Award 2022) is a tragic odyssey into gay club culture and the places we can call home.  This highly relevant production takes a nuanced look at the politics within gay communities exploring how victims of violence can also be perpetrators of violence.  Despite heavy themes, No Place Like Home offers an empowering call to look inward for the affirmation we all so desperately crave. Booking

Please, Feel Free to Share 

Please, Feel Free to Share is a dynamic, darkly comic, one-woman show by Rachel Causer (she/ her)  about our personal addictions and our growing desire to share all. Causer’s play looks at the blurring between lies and likes.  Please, Feel Free to Share explores what happens when the obsession with self-editing bleeds into real life. Booking

Something in the Water 

Stunning video projections, puppetry and physical comedy combine in this absurd exploration of identity, gender and growing up ‘normal’.  Inspired by performer/creator S.E. Grummett’s (they/ them) experience coming out as transgender, Something in the Water (main picture) parodies the masculine and feminine and shows how absurd our rigid gender binaries can be. Booking

Sticky Door

Sticky Door is a personal, honest and funny look at sex, stigma and cystitis, produced by Beccy D’Souza (she/ her/ they/ them). Katie Arnstein’s (she/ her) trademark ukulele-spun storytelling show examines sex, shame, struggles and isolation.The show asks why are women facing a series of sticky doors in work, sex and life and how do we overcome the challenges we are continually met with. Booking

A Gay and a NonGay

James Barr and Dan Hudson present the UK’s funniest LGBTQ+ podcast live, with iconic special guests. A Gay and A NonGay started when Dan's girlfriend friend Talia moved abroad leaving he and her gay friend James to fend for themselves. Expect audience interaction, a safe space for Dan to ask questions to the LGBTQ+ community in Things That Dan Cannot Say and a laugh-out-loud look at the differences between Gay and NonGay people. An absurdly simple but hilarious night out; one is gay, the other one isn't. Booking

The Gay Train

'They said it’s your fault. All of this happening to people like us. But it isn’t. It was happening already.' A dark comedy. When non-binary student Lin is attacked in a pub bathroom, they’re propelled to fame for all the wrong reasons. Chased between TV studios and Parliament, hounded by journalists and activists, everybody wants to know: will the gay agenda prevail? Or is it all just woke, virtue-signalling nonsense? Yellow Mug Theatre returns to the stage with a vicious love letter to the middle-class horror that is weekday morning TV. Booking

Let’s Try Gay

Two friends, Jack and Phil, meet in a hotel to shoot a gay adult movie between two straight guys: an “art project” to send to an independent movie festival, but they now feel uncomfortable. Their attempts to even just kiss or hug are clumsy and awkward. As time goes on, they prolong their problems. Jack is struggling with his life as an artist while Phil reveals his doubts about his sexual identity. Freely inspired by the independent movie Humpday, this unlikely comedy turns from a goofy, relaxed, funny situation into a deeper analysis of human nature. Booking

Simon David: White Gay

Comedian Simon David belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive (and annoying!) demographic there is: the white gay. From racism to body image, porn addiction to gay Tories, Simon has a catchy song for just about everything wrong with the community he loves to hate! Booking

I just like you | a gay myth

An intimate two-hander about the messy complexities of the contemporary gay dating experience. When these two find themselves drawn to one another, they find that they are looking for different things. One, recently out of a LTR, just wants sex; the other, after a years-long string of hook ups, just wants a LTR again. So they decide to do that progressive thing that gay people do – you know, have a meaningful friendship while also having loads of sex, but without catching feelings. There’s no way that could go wrong, right? Booking

Oy Gay! The Queer Jewish Comedy Show

'Oy Gay! is hilarious, clever and filthy! These talented comedians charm and entertain whilst exploring faith, community and life, with some classic material that still makes me laugh. Booking

Andrew White (But Not in a Gay Way)

Sex. Spreadsheets. Revolution. Andrew White promises it all in an uplifting, hilarious show about discovering, loving, and expressing yourself. Join the flamboyantly repressed young stand-up as he tells stories of accidental orgies, BLM protests, charity shops and how they all kickstarted his ambition to become a gay icon (but not in a gay way). Booking

Chris Hall and Mark Bittlestone: Two Sour Gay

Yuck! A stand-up comedy show about being gay! And about being vegan (Chris), getting piles (Mark), collecting crystals (Chris), getting piles (Mark), being in love (Chris) and getting piles (Mark). Join social media "sensations" (they have 300k followers, fewer than most cats) Chris Hall and Mark Bittlestone for an hour of jokes, then follow them @chrxstopher.hall and @poofsrus or find them selling their underwear for money on Grindr. Booking

Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man

A Romantic Comedy. With Benefits. Direct from sell-out seasons Off-Broadway NYC and Las Vegas! Voted Best Comedy for Couples, @SexTipsPlay has been sharing its interactive, upbeat brand of comedy with audiences all across America for a decade, taking audiences on a hilarious ride where no topic is taboo and tips come straight from the source: a gay man. Booking

Russell Arathoon: The Curious Incidents of the Gay in the Night-Time

Russell's mum believes the whole pandemic is one huge elaborate excuse to get Bradley Walsh more airtime on British TV and Russell is just grateful for a chance to catch up on the Jurassic Park franchise on ITV2. Booking

The MP, Aunty Mandy and Me

A bittersweet tale of political campaigns, sexual consent and steam trains. Dom wants to be an #InstaGay and #Influencer but it’s hard in a small northern village five miles from the nearest gay. One day, a chance meeting with his MP turns his life upside down. Booking

Gayboys

Two gay men are here to perform for your pleasure. They sigh, pout and flirt, caressing each other and objects from corporations that claim to adore them. Is this simply an intimate session for these boys and their fans, or is something more being consumed? Exhilarated and bewildered by what they are doing, the boys go through the motions, posing and selling themselves, trying to give you exactly what you want. But who's it all really for? Both the celebration and exploitation of queerness take centre stage in this cheeky exploration of contemporary gay male identity. Booking

Sam Morrison: Sugar Daddy

US comedian Sam Morrison (The Drew Barrymore Show) grapples with the death of his partner. He makes grief hilarious through tales of love, diabetes and seagull attacks. Sugar Daddy is the highly anticipated follow up to his debut hour that met critical acclaim and was listed as part of the Best Jokes of the Fringe in The Independent. Booking

Why I Hate My Penis

Because Grindr hookups never quite go to plan. Because your sister has the perfect boyfriend. Because nobody fucks harder than God. Why I Hate My Penis is a new monologue about the experience of growing up Black and gay from exciting young writer Sam Spencer. Jumping between past and present in a story of family tension, Grindr hook-ups, and closeted romance, Why I Hate My Penis spotlights the experience of growing up Black and gay in a refreshing take on the monologue form from exciting young writer Sam Spencer. Booking

Sam See: Government-Approved Sex

During the pandemic, the conservative Singapore government messed up and got a gay comic to run a series of sex and love panels in the National Library. Sam See (Comedy Central, MTV) returns to the Fringe to share what he's learnt in the politest show about sex that you can find. BDSM, men vs women and even stats and facts. Don't worry, it's all government approved. Booking

Soho Boy

Young, trendy Spencer leaves home and hits Soho like a whirlwind in a journey of love, laughter, heartbreak and happiness. Working in a clothes store, partying at the weekend and busking on the streets. But all that glitter fades when Spencer finds love and stumbles into the darker side of the neon lights and tight white t-shirts. This modern tale of the gay scene which can be harsh and lonely surrounded by glamour, sex and songs. Booking

Ada Campe: Too Little, Too Soon

Variety artiste Ada Campe decided to do some research into her family history during lockdown – and was delighted and intrigued by what she found! Join her for a show about wonderful women, surprising secrets and amphibian water ballets. Booking 

Avenue Q

The cast are back and raring to bring this puppet extravaganza to life again. With songs including Fine Fine Line, If You Were Gay and My girlfriend Who lives in Canada! This is a foot-tapping, laugh-out-loud show performed with perfect timing and richness of performance. Booking

Becoming Chavela

Iconic Mexican singer Chavela Vargas – a trailblazer who constantly broke the mold – was edgy in the 1990s and is totally relevant today because her story pushes so many hot topic buttons: gender issues, gay rights, immigration and Mexican culture. Songs of lust and longing and stories of her friendships with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Liz Taylor and Pedro Almodóvar will intrigue and entertain you. Definitely a woman of substance. Becoming Chavela is a docu-cabaret performance of Chavela’s life and music, set within the art world and social milieu of mid-century Mexico City. Booking

The Chosen Haram

An award-winning queer circus show from an Edinburgh-born artist. The Chosen Haram tells the story of two gay men and the barriers they must overcome. Expect a heady mix of love, drugs and Islam in this unique and complex take on circus. Performed on two Chinese poles this show is emotionally candid with moments of humour and joy. There is no traditional dialogue here – It does not need it. Booking

Cottage

One man walks into a public bathroom. Another follows. The play deals with one of the most shameful yet thrilling parts of queer history, setting the dilemma of public sex against the intricacies of private connection. It rejects the modern trends of sanitised queer stories by returning to examine authentic relationships and characters in an unflinching gaze at aspects of gay culture the twenty-first century may prefer to ignore. Booking

Dan Tiernan: Cherub

Dan Tiernan is a gay, Mancunian, dinner lady with dyspraxia but he's also the sweetest little angel that ever lived. After a sell-out run in 2021 Dan has had a big year winning multiple comedy awards whilst constantly resisting the urge to spontaneously join the Royal Marines. Expect 45 minutes of daft, high energy, gag heavy stand-up comedy. Booking

Existential Queer

An hour of raucous queer comedy hosted by award-winning comedians Kate Martin and Daniel Foxx. Join two of the UK’s most exciting new acts as they cover topics from growing up gay to bravely embracing oat milk. And with special guests hand-picked from the best LGBTQ acts at the Fringe, this is a show not to be missed. Whether it’s being mistaken for a man (Kate) or an elderly woman (Daniel), they’re here, they’re queer and they’re doing their best to overcome a deep sense of existential fear. Booking

Fabulett 1933

A queer one-person musical featuring music, ideas and lives classified as 'degenerate' by the Nazis as well as original songs. Written and performed by Michael Trauffer and set at the transition from one of the most liberal societies of its time to one of the biggest tragedies in human history, Fabulett 1933 deals with the fragility of society's achievements and the struggle of visibility. Booking

The LOL Word

Love queer comedy? Bored of cis male comedians? Don't worry, the queer women, trans and non-binary stand-up sensation is back with another epically gay show featuring incredible LGBTQ+ line-ups, absolutely no cis male comics and plenty of punching the patriarchy! The LOL Word is Chloe Petts, Jodie Mitchell, Shelf with special guests every show. Booking

menkind LIVE

There'll be chat about masculinity: what it is, what it does. Straight-vs-gay badinage. Queerness. Profundity. Occasional filth. Sometimes, all of this at once. There'll also be at least one bit where Mark has to explain some dated reference like Sesame Street to his friend. Booking

Nancy Clench: If Your Symptoms Aren’t Life-Threatening, Please Hold!

She’s back, the 6'5" towering Scottish drag legend Nancy Clench, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe. Expect tales from the pandemic, including her recent sabbatical working as a receptionist at her local doctor’s surgery. She's putting the agony in agony aunt, with her own medical woes involving gout, and as usual, this diva is ready to bestow some wisdom on to you to solve your problems. Booking

Ode to Joy (How Gordon got to go to the nasty pig party)

Gordon is homonormative and fears he might be pathologically boring until he meets Cumpig and Manpussy at a sex party in Leith. When they tell him about Europe's biggest gay sex party in Berlin, Gordon obviously wants to go, but can he really transform into a sex pig? A new LGBTQ play about love, friendship and Schokoladenkuchen. Booking

This Is Not Swan Lake…

There is a long way from the love story between Prince Siegfried and the swan princess Odette in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, to the real-life marriage between Tchaikovsky and his beleaguered wife, Antonina. She was his devoted student at the Moscow Conservatory of Music and madly in love with him but Tchaikovsky was unable to confess that he was gay. In This Is Not Swan Lake..., we meet four dancers in a beautiful, touching and comic show. Dark, strange, unforgettable and with samples of the great score played live. We stand with Ukraine. Booking

Tom DeTrinis: I HATE NEW YORK

I HATE NEW YORK is a gay-tastic solo debut from self-professed rage-a-holic, Tom DeTrinis, that offers up a non-stop, hilarious litany of grievances. DeTrinis unmasks his singular views on everything from NYC to his huge family to cheese and finally, to himself. DeTrinis is angry and he wants you to know who, what, where, when and why! Booking

For Queen and Country

Major Denis Rake MC was an actor recruited by Churchill's Special Operations Executive to spy on the Nazis in occupied Paris during WW2. Denis was told to be discreet, so he became a drag queen entertaining Nazi officers in a Parisian nightclub! Writer/director Paul Stone discovered Denis' story while making the BBC TV programme Secret Agent Selection and shines a light on the contribution of the LGBT+ community to WW2. Booking

Abby Wambaugh and Bronwyn Sweeney

Funny Women finalist and runner-up share the hour in this split bill. Abby tells you all the truthful truth that Abby kind of understands about parenting, gender, fruit and furniture. ‘Tackles what could be a thorny, complex subject of identity with grace, underplayed charm and some great jokes’ (Chortle.co.uk). Bronwyn endeavours to be unforgettable and unskippable unlike the advertising she creates in her day job (everyone’s favourite thing to hate). 'Expect a set packed with natural charisma and full of gags… the finished package’ (Chortle.co.uk). Booking

Aidan Sadler: Tropicana

Join queer cabaret icon Aidan Sadler as they take you on the award-winning journey to Tropicana! Nothing is safe from ridicule so be led on an exploration of body image, heteronormativity and sometimes wearing a dress round the house on a muggy day. Here, you'll experience belting 80's synth-pop nostalgia punctuated with world class stand-up comedy. Featuring electrifying 80's hits from Spandau Ballet to ABC, Tropicana returns to Fringe from its sell-out, extended run in 2021 to explore, bend and abuse the gender binary. Booking

ALOK

ALOK (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed writer, performer and public speaker. This is their new comedy and poetry show. A mixed-media artist, ALOK’s work explores themes of trauma, belonging and the human condition. Booking

And Then The Rodeo Burned Down

The rodeo is the best place in the world. Why would someone burn it down? Anyone would be lucky to work there, especially Dale, who’s totally perfectly content with being a rodeo clown. He wouldn’t do a thing like that. Unfortunately, rodeos don’t burn down on their own. More unfortunately, everything is expensive: becoming a cowboy, finding the culprit, and even keeping the lights on. This alleged tale of arson fractures into the story of two clowns desperately trying to afford to put on a show. After all, we don’t have money to burn. Booking

Andrea Spisto: El Dizzy Beast

Are you just a teenage dirtbag, baby? Wanna watch weird vids and drink morning coffee with me, maybe? This is a show about a queer, autistic, Latinx, caterpillar on the edge. The edge of ultimate supertransmorphosis? Or the edge of the bed? Booking

Angela Bra: Life Lessons

Singer/songwriter, rising star on social media and part-time primary school music teacher, Miss Angela Bra invites you to share in her words of wisdom as an international online super sensation in the making. An hour of pop tunes, parodies and puns, it’s a shower of silliness in a world all too consumed with what other people think. Booking

Annie and Angela’s Disco Divorce Party

Forty, single and ready to mingle; join lifelong friends, Annie Sup and Angela Bra, for a drag-infused comedy of musical mirth celebrating friendship and new beginnings on a bar crawl full of O-M-Gosh moments you’re unlikely to forget. With original tracks influenced by everything from hip hop to early nineties rave you’ll visit a cocktail bar, meet the local DJ and witness this try-hard party pair’s vision for the future. A new production from the creators of Andy Quirk and Anna J’s First World Problems. Booking

birthday girl

This is a play about birthdays. It's also about growing up, the future and the inevitability of ageing – a prospect that you are finding increasingly unnerving. At its heart, birthday girl confronts fears of the future and how scary it can feel to grow older. Mixing together various anecdotes of birthdays past, it highlights how important these milestones are. For 45 minutes, we see inside the head of the otherwise unnamed birthday girl. We only know her age and that it is her birthday – other than that, this girl could be anyone, possibly even you. Booking

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A gifted young Black woman struggles to maintain her voice and identity after she’s offered a lucrative recording contract, setting off a fierce battle between her family, the label, and her closest friend to determine who will guide her as she makes the journey to become a star. Starring Niecy Nash, Giancarlo Esposito, Gracie Marie Bradley and Sharon Stone, BEAUTY is written by Lena Waithe and directed by Andrew Dosunmu.

Watch BEAUTY only on Netflix June 29

My Policeman, coming to select theaters on October 21 and Prime Video on November 4.

A beautifully crafted story of forbidden love and changing social conventions, My Policeman follows three young people – policeman Tom (Harry Styles), teacher Marion (Emma Corrin), and museum curator Patrick (David Dawson)– as they embark on an emotional journey in 1950s Britain. Flashing forward to the 1990s, Tom (Linus Roache), Marion (Gina McKee), and Patrick (Rupert Everett) are still reeling with longing and regret, but now they have one last chance to repair the damage of the past. Based on the book by Bethan Roberts, director Michael Grandage carves a visually transporting, heart-stopping portrait of three people caught up in the shifting tides of history, liberty, and forgiveness.

The filmed version of the Off-Broadway stage production of Trevor: The Musical is streaming June 24 on #DisneyPlus.

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P.S...Gus is my perfect man!

Here are all the winners, the jury were either divided or a bit confused...too many ties!

Palme d'Or (Golden Palm):
Triangle of Sadness directed by Ruben Östlund

Grand Prix (Runner Up):
Close directed by Lukas Dhont
(tied with) Stars as Noon directed by Claire Denis

Jury Prize:
The Eight Mountains (Le Otto Montagne) dir. by Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch
(tied with) EO directed by Jerzy Skolimowski

Best Director:
Park Chan-wook for Decision to Leave (Heojil Kyolshim)

Best Screenplay:
Tarik Saleh for Boy From Heaven (Walad Min Al Janna)

75th Anniversary Prize:
Tori and Lokita directed by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne

Camera d'Or (First-Time Filmmaker):
War Pony directed by Riley Keough & Gina Gammell

Best Leading Actress:
Zar Amir-Ebrahimi in Ali Abbasi's Holy Spider

Best Lead Actor:
Song Kang-ho in Hirokazu Koreeda's Broker

Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard Prize:
The Worst Ones (Les Pires) directed by Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret

Jury Prize:
Joyland directed by Saim Sadiq

Best Director:
Alexandru Belc for Metronom

Best Screenplay:
Maha Haj for Mediterranean Fever

Best Performance:
Vicky Krieps in Marie Kreutzer's Corsage
(tied with) Adam Bessa in Lotfy Nathan's Harka

«Coup de Cœur » Prize:
Rodeo directed by Lola Quivoron

A cinematic odyssey exploring David Bowie’s creative and musical journey.

From visionary filmmaker Brett Morgen and sanctioned by the Bowie estate.

Five years in the making and featuring never-before-seen footage, experience it in theaters and IMAX this Fall.

Queer as Folk is streaming June 9th on Peacock: https://pck.tv/3s4Xo7R

Queer as Folk  is a vibrant reimagining of the groundbreaking British series created by Russell T. Davies, exploring a diverse group of friends in New Orleans whose lives are transformed in the aftermath of a tragedy.

Only In Theaters September 30

This fall, Universal Pictures proudly presents the first romantic comedy from a major studio about two gay men maybe, possibly, probably, stumbling towards love. Maybe. They're both very busy.

From the ferocious comic mind of Billy Eichner (Billy on the Street, 2019's The Lion King, Difficult People, Impeachment: American Crime Story) and the hitmaking brilliance of filmmakers Nicholas Stoller (the Neighbors films, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Judd Apatow (The King of Staten Island, Trainwreck, The Big Sick), comes Bros, a smart, swoony and heartfelt comedy about how hard it is to find another tolerable human being to go through life with.

Some very interesting film:

LONGS METRAGES / FEATURES

SELECTION OFFICIELLE / COMPETITION

LES AMANDIERS de Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

CLOSE de Lukas Dhont

ZHENA CHAILOVSKOGO de Kirill Serebrennikov

PACIFICTION de Albert Serra

 

SELECTION OFFICIELLE / UN CERTAIN REGARD

BURNING DAYS de Emin Alper

JOYLAND de Saim Sadiq

LE BLEU DU CAFTAN de Maryam Touzani

RODEO de Lola Quivoron

 

SELECTION OFFICIELLE / SEANCE SPECIALE

RIPOSTE FEMINISTE de Marie Perrenès et Simon Depardon

 

SELECTION OFFICIELLE / SEANCE DE MINUIT

MOONAGE DAYDREAM de Brett Morgen

 

SELECTION OFFICIELLE / CANNES PREMIERE

DODO de Panos H. Koutras

IRMA VEP de Olivier Assayas

CHRONIQUE D’UNE LIAISON PASSAGERE de Emmanuel Mouret

 

QUINZAINE DES REALISATEURS

FEU FOLLET de Joao Pedro Rodrigues

UN VARON de Fabian Hernandez

LES 5 DIABLES de Léa Mysius

LA DÉRIVE DES CONTINENTS (AU SUD) de Lionel Baier

 

COURTS METRAGES / SHORT MOVIES

Sélection officielle

LE FEU AU LAC de Pierre Menahem

GAKJIL de Sujin Moon

 

La Cinef (ex-Cinéfondation)

FENG ZHENG (The Silent Whistle) de LI Yingtong

THE PASS de Pepi Ginsberg

MUMLIFE de Ruby Challenger

 

Quinzaine des Réalisateurs

ARIBADA de Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau et Natalia Escobar

Des Jeunes Filles Enterrent Leur Vie de Maïté Sonnet

 

Semaine de la Critique

LAS CRIATURAS QUE SE DERRITEN BAJO EL SOL (Les Créatures qui fondent au soleil) de Diego Céspedes

Will You Look at Me (Dang Wo Wang Xiang Ni De Shi Hou / Regarde-Moi) de Shuli Huang

On Xerxes’ Throne (Sur le trône de Xerxès) de Evi Kalogiropoulou

SWAN DANS LE CENTRE de Iris Chassaigne

HIDEOUS de Yann Gonzalez

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Join RuPaul's Drag Race UK Series 2 winner, Lawrence Chaney, as they head across the pond to tart around America. Premiering May 10th on WOW Presents Plus.

IRIS PRIZE DOCUMENTARY FILM FUND

Organisers of Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival have today (Wednesday 4 May 2022) announced details of the five shortlisted projects through to the final stage to be the first film commissioned by the new Iris Prize Documentary Film Finance Fund.

The Film Fund is sponsored by FROOT and Aberystwyth University who have committed to invest £20,000 in the final film. The purpose of the fund is to support queer British documentary filmmakers – with a particular emphasis on those from underrepresented groups.

THE FIVE SHORTLISTED FILMS ARE:

The Urban Wolf
Cherish Oteka

Creative documentary that follows a Black and queer person as they challenge society’s and their family’s conditional tolerance of them.

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A Chinese love story (working title)
Shanshan Chen

Qiuyan, a Chinese LGBT+ activist in London, fights David’s battle against the goliath of bureaucracy to bring her girlfriend Bling from China while trying to reconcile with her estranged family.

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The Cashmere Kids
Tin Vlainić and Brian Mullin

Long before Queer Eye, the ‘Cashmere Kids’ were a carefree cleaning company run by gay men in the 1970s, redoing London’s finest interiors whilst improvising new lives of sexual liberation.

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Sibling
Jay Bedwani

A character led observational documentary following three LGBTQIA+ skate enthusiasts as they navigate male dominated skateparks in the UK.

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Some Girls Hate Dresses!
Somina ‘Mena’ Fombo

A nostalgic look into the black British tomboys from yesteryear told through the lens of queer black women who wore the label with pride throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s.

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Streaming on Hulu June 3...

Set in the iconic Pines, Andrew Ahn's FIRE ISLAND is an unapologetic, modern day rom-com showcasing a diverse, multicultural examination of queerness and romance. Inspired by the timeless pursuits from Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice, the story centers around two best friends (Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang) who set out to have a legendary summer adventure with the help of cheap rosé and their cadre of eclectic friends.

Cast: Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang, Conrad Ricamora, and Margaret Cho

Here's a joyful wee tune...

‘Purple Zone’ is taken from Soft Cell’s new album, *Happiness not included, out on 6th May

Here are the first round winners:

Outstanding Film – Wide Release

Eternals (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) (WINNER)
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Amazon Studios)
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (Netflix)
Tick, Tick … Boom! (Netflix)
West Side Story (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

Outstanding Film – Limited Release

Parallel Mothers (Sony Pictures Classics) (WINNER)
Breaking Fast (Vertical Entertainment)
Gossamer Folds (Indican Pictures)
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson (Wolfe Video)
Plan B (Hulu)
Port Authority (Momentum Pictures)
Shiva Baby (Utopia)
Swan Song (Magnolia Pictures)
Tu Me Manques (Dark Star Pictures)
Twilight’s Kiss (Strand Releasing)

Outstanding Documentary

Changing the Game (Hulu) (WINNER)
“Cured” Independent Lens (PBS)
Flee (NEON)
The Lady and the Dale (HBO)
The Legend of the Underground (HBO)
No Ordinary Man (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Nuclear Family (HBO)
Pier Kids POV (PBS)
Pray Away (Netflix)
Pride (FX)

Outstanding Comedy Series

Saved by the Bell (Peacock) (WINNER)
Dickinson (Apple TV+)
Gentefied (Netflix)
Love, Victor (Hulu)
The Other Two (HBO Max)
Sex Education (Netflix)
Shrill (Hulu)
Special (Netflix)
Twenties (BET)
Work in Progress (Showtime)

Outstanding New TV Series

Hacks (HBO Max) (WINNER)
4400 (The CW)
Chucky (Syfy/USA Network)
Harlem (Prime Video)
The Long Call (BritBox)
The Sex Lives of College Girls (HBO Max)
Sort Of (HBO Max)
With Love (Prime Video)
Y: The Last Man (FX)
Yellowjackets (Showtime)

Outstanding TV Movie

Single All the Way (Netflix) (WINNER)
The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls (Hallmark Channel)
The Fear Street Trilogy (Netflix)
Nash Bridges (USA Network)
Under the Christmas Tree (Lifetime)

Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series

It’s A Sin (HBO Max) (WINNER)
Dopesick (Hulu)
Halston (Netflix)
Little Birds (Starz)
Love Life (HBO Max)
Master of None Presents: Moments in Love (Netflix)
Rurangi (Hulu)
Station Eleven (HBO Max)
Vigil (Peacock)
The White Lotus (HBO)

Outstanding Reality Program

RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1) (WINNER – TIE)
We’re Here (HBO) (WINNER – TIE)
12 Dates of Christmas (HBO Max)
Dancing With the Stars (ABC)
Family Karma (Bravo)
I Am Jazz (TLC)
Legendary (HBO Max)
MTV’s Following: Bretman Rock (MTV)
Queer Eye (Netflix)
The Voice (NBC)

Outstanding Breakthrough Music Artist

Lily Rose, Stronger Than I Am (Big Loud Records/Back Blocks Music/Republic Records) (WINNER)
Arlo Parks, Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive Records)
Asiahn, The Interlude (SinceThe80s/Motown Records)
girl in red, if i could make it go quiet (AWAL)
Jake Wesley Rogers, Pluto (Facet/Warner Records)
Japanese Breakfast, Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
Joy Oladokun, in defense of my own happiness (Amigo Records/Verve Forecast/Republic Records)
Lauren Jauregui, Prelude (Attunement Records/AWAL)
Lucy Dacus, Home Video (Matador Records)
VINCINT, There Will Be Tears (Vincint Cannady)

Outstanding Video Game

Life Is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine Games/Square Enix) (WINNER)
Boyfriend Dungeon (Kitfox Games)
Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft)
The Gardener and the Wild Vines (Finite Reflection Studios)
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine/Xbox Game Studios)
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan (ManaVoid Entertainment/Skybound Games)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft)
Unpacking (Witch Beam /Humble Games)
UNSIGHTED (Studio Pixel Punk /Humble Games)

Outstanding Comic Book

Crush & Lobo, written by Mariko Tamaki (DC Comics) (WINNER)
Aquaman: The Becoming, written by Brandon Thomas (DC Comics)
Barbalien: Red Planet, written by Tate Brombal, Jeff Lemire (Dark Horse Comics)
The Dreaming: Waking Hours, written by G. Willow Wilson (DC Comics)
Guardians of the Galaxy, written by Al Ewing (Marvel Comics)
Harley Quinn: The Animated Series – The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour, written by Tee Franklin (DC Comics)
Killer Queens, written by David M. Booher (Dark Horse Comics)
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, written by Alyssa Wong (Marvel Comics)
Superman: Son of Kal-El, written by Tom Taylor (DC Comics)
Wynd, written by James Tynion IV (BOOM! Studios) 

Outstanding Original Graphic Novel/Anthology

Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms, written by Crystal Frasier (Oni Press) (WINNER)
DC Pride [anthology] (DC Comics)
Eighty Days, written by A.C. Esguerra (Archaia/BOOM! Studios)
The Girl From the Sea, written by Molly Ostertag (Graphix/Scholastic)
Girl Haven, written by Lilah Sturges (Oni Press)
I Am Not Starfire, written by Mariko Tamaki (DC Comics)
Marvel’s Voices: Pride [anthology] (Marvel Comics)
Renegade Rule, written by Ben Kahn, Rachel Silverstein (Dark Horse Comics)
The Secret to Superhuman Strength, written by Alison Bechdel (Mariner Books/HMH)
Shadow Life, written by Hiromi Goto (First Second/Macmillan)

Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage

The Advocate (WINNER)
Entertainment Weekly
People
POZ
Variety

Special Recognition

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson [filmed reading + performance]
“Alok Vaid-Menon” 4D with Demi Lovato (Candence13/OBB Sound/SB Projects)
CODED: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker (Paramount+)
Jeopardy! Champion Amy Schneider
The Laverne Cox Show (Shondaland Audio/iHeartMedia)
Life Out Loud with LZ Granderson (ABC News)
Outsports’ Coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics

SPANISH-LANGUAGE CATEGORIES

Outstanding Spanish-Language Scripted Television Series

Maricón Perdido (HBO Max) (WINNER)
#Luimelia (Atresplayer Premium)
Manual Para Galanes (Pantaya)
Pequeñas Victorias (Prime Video)
Todo lo otro (HBO Max)

Outstanding Spanish-Language TV Journalism

“Orgullo LGBTQ: 52 Años de Lucha y Evolución” (Telemundo 47) (WINNER)
“Grupo Firme en Contra del Acoso” Despierta América (Univision)
“El Mes del Orgullo” (CNN en Español)
“Impacto Positivo: Bamby Salcedo” Primer Impacto (Univision)
“Preocupa Exclusión de Niñas Trans en Equipos Femeninos” Hoy Día (Telemundo)

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