The Cow 

The Chronology of Water is a raw, honest, and unforgiving portrayal of how an abusive childhood ripples throughout one’s life. It is definitely the best movie I’ve seen Imogen Poots in. And even though Kristen Stewart has a long acting career for her young age, her directorial skills in this film show a lot of promise. Her feature debut as a director, an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch's critically acclaimed 2011 autobiographical memoir, is fully immersive, mesmerizing, and impressive.

'Pariah' tells a powerful, mesmerizing, and unflinchingly honest story of identity.

Vivarium is an uncomfortable and startling look at how easily progress devolves in the face of overwhelming stress.

Ruben Östlund muses about his characters, “As soon as you get close to a person, you see them as just another human being”. It is widely recognized that aboard the luxury yacht in ‘Triangle of Sadness’, the different groups of people represent a small society as a commentary on classism and gender binaries.

Summit Station, the longest running lesbian bar in Ohio, was one of the places that made lesbian community possible.

Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.