Each year at the Cannes Film Festival, the Queer Palm is awarded to recognize LGBTQIA+ cinema across the festival’s official and parallel sections. The 2026 selection, consisting of a record-breaking 21 feature nominees, highlights the importance of queer stories in cinema. In Marie Madeleine by Gessica Généus, religion, sex work, and homosexuality clash in Haiti. In Queer Palm winner Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma by Jane Schoenbrun, the trashy slasher film genre of the 80s becomes a vehicle to rethink anti-trans scholarship through an examination of self-identification at the intersection of horror, sex and queerness. In Flesh and Fuel by Pierre Le Gall, the long-distance romance between two gay truckers is tested by the hardships of working-class labor. These films came together at Cannes to showcase the current concerns in global queer cinema.
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TIFF 2023 Review: “A Road to a Village”
“A Road to a Village,” directed by Nepalese filmmaker Nabin Subba in his return after six years, offers a multi-layered narrative set against the backdrop of Eastern Nepal’s stunning mountainous landscapes. The narrative centers on Maila, a humble basket weaver, his wife Maile, and their seven-year-old son Bindray. Living a simple, traditional life, the family finds itself at a crossroads when a newly constructed road brings the wider world, along with all its modern resources, to their remote village.
