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As is the integrity of its central dynamic, stripped of power imbalances, hierarchies — and men. A low-budget, high-kitsch, torn-from-the-headlines football fantasy about a Ronaldo-esque football star who hallucinates giant pekingese puppies frolicking on the pitch whenever he scores.

Throw in a cross-dressing refugee subplot, lesbian spies and a far-right cloning conspiracy and you have a goofy and irrepressible testament to intersectionality. Jane Schoenbrun became an A24 sensation with I Saw the TV Glow inbut it is her previous film, a bare-bones chiller about an online horror game, that remains her most original work.

Gay film best instantly legible as a trans allegory than her follow-up, perhaps, but all the more disquieting for that. A gooey Black alien washes up on the banks of the Thames ready to seduce the five members of a London bourgeois household from patriarch to maid.

Ira Sachs used his own doomed real-life romance with the literary agent Bill Clegg as the basis for this brutally frank portrait of compulsion, addiction and heartbreak. An early sex scene, one of the most unvarnished in cinema history, proves that, sometimes, shit happens.

Which, in turn, is exactly what So Pretty is. For confrontational charge and visual eloquence, his debut — a fetishistic psychological thriller about a horny rubbish collector prowling Lisbon for sex in a Latex bodysuit — takes the cake. Part One clocks in at four-and-a-half hours, and there are at least another eight hours still to come.

The film then takes a macabre and gasp-inducing turn. Abrasive and outrageous. All of Us Strangers merits a place on this list, too. Apparently conventional in structure, it actually takes some bold liberties, not gay film best in the way one of the main characters rails against the ubiquity of heterosexual narratives.

When unhappily married mother Cate Blanchett misplaces her gloves in the department store in earlys New York where shop assistant Rooney Mara works, it doubles as the throwing down of a gauntlet, and a provocation to the audience: do you dare reach for the life you want?

Cinema is safe — or rather, dazzlingly dangerous — in the hands of Vera Drew. Drew shot her film in five days then spent several years collaborating with umpteen animators and effects artists on different continents to create its dense visual texture. What if the stranger you hooked up with on a brief Barcelona jaunt turned out to be a figure from your distant past?

But Goodbye, Dragon Inn is a singularly spellbinding achievement, set on the last day of business at a cavernous Taipei picture palace.

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The camera is alert to each twitch and fidget of the clientele who move from seat to seat like chess pieces in the sparsely gay film best auditorium. Silas Howard and Harry Dodge co-write, direct and star in a twitchy queer caper that celebrates trans masc identity more passionately than any film before it.

Shy Howard sets out to help his newfound pal Valentine Dodge track down his biological mother; along the way, vending machines get boosted and convenience store stick-ups go awry while butch lesbian, trans masc and non-binary viewers get the empathy and representation of which they had long been starved, plus lashings of sex, wit and wildness.

He was very small! He was a little running-away guy! He was a good-guy guy! Complete with extended sexy-funny courtship, a talking monkey and a bovine ghost, it is an enigmatic puzzle of a film, bisected by a narrative schism reminiscent of Performance or Mulholland Drive. What exactly is queer cinema?

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