Overall, Queer is challenging to watch, boldly explicit, and artistically daring in its refusal to play it safe. For that courage alone, it deserves attention. #LucaGuadagnino

The film blends 1950s period aesthetics with surreal, psychedelic sequences that powerfully illustrate how repression transforms into self-destruction. Guadagnino's bold inclusion of anachronistic music creates a dislocated atmosphere.

1950s Mexico City is where American gay men sought refuge from persecution back home. When Allerton insists "I'm not queer", it reflects the life-or-death stakes of being openly gay in that era. They both feel "disembodied" rather than queer.

At its core, Queer explores profound loneliness and the struggle for identity. Guadagnino's signature "cinema of desire" is on full display, trading the sun-filled romanticism of his earlier work for raw midlife desperation.

Using raw camcorder footage, "No Other Land" makes the camera "a weapon for truth and resistance". It gives an immediate, unfiltered look at life under occupation in Masafer Yatta, with the area declared an Israeli military "firing zone" and used as a pretext for expelling residents. #FiringZone918

The directors call their film an "act of resistance". Filmed over 5 years using Adra's personal footage, it documents the systematic destruction of Masafer Yatta and the unlikely friendship between a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist.