LGBTQ stories are at the forefront of the 41st Miami Film Festival, taking place from April 3-13.
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Music documentaries, especially those of LGBTQ interest, continue to be very popular. In 2024 alone, there were several including “Let The Canary Sing” (about Cyndi Lauper), “Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All,” “Luther: Never Too Much” (about Luther Vandross), “Elton John: Never Too Late,” and “I Am Celine Dion.”
Now that Disney has shifted its focus to “live-action” adaptations of its classic cartoons (“Snow White” being the latest) and Latvia won an Oscar in 2025 for its 2024 animated feature “Flow,” it’s no exaggeration to say that the world of animation has been transformed.
During these turbulent times, in movies including “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” and “Blink Twice,” filmmakers have been responding with flicks that feature unstable billionaire characters with cult followings such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, as well as the current POTUS. Onscreen, some of these insidious white men get their comeuppance and others simply get away with their dastardly deeds.
In “Adult Best Friends” (Visit Films), Katie (co-screenwriter Katie Corwin) and Delaney (director and co-screenwriter Delaney Buffett, daughter of Jimmy) have been besties since middle school when they bonded at age 12. Katie lives with her hot boyfriend John (Mason Gooding, son of Cuba), which is a bone of contention for Delaney who feels like she’s losing her BFF.
Have you ever watched a movie where you could see every plot point coming, but it didn’t matter because the performances by the lead actors were so compelling that you stuck with it? Such is the case with director and co-writer Kyle Hausmann-Stokes’ “My Dead Friend Zoe” (Universal).
If you are a fan of the popular queer Netflix series “Heartstopper,” then you will probably also adore “Bonus Track” (Sunrise Films). Co-written by actor Josh O’Connor (“Challengers,” “God’s Own Country,” and the forthcoming gay movie “The History of Sound”), “Bonus Track” is the feature-length debut from director Julia Jackman.
Nominated for 13 Academy Awards, and already the recipient of prizes from multiple outlets including the Golden Globes and the Cannes Film Festival, “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) is as inventive as it is scandal-plagued and controversial.
With only two full-length documentaries to his name, Sandi DuBowski may not be the most prolific filmmaker in history. However, the movies he’s created, including his latest, “Sabbath Queen” (Rocco Films) leave a lasting emotional impression.
With her 2024 movie “The Substance,” filmmaker Coralie Fargeat took body horror to new and terrifying (some may say nauseating) heights.
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