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Midsommar

A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.

Paris is Burning

Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene.

Break the Game

After coming out as a trans woman, world-record-holding gamer Narcissa Wright loses her massive fanbase. To win them back, she attempts to set a new world record in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, while live-streaming every minute of her mythic quest.

BYE BYE LOVE (Church of Film)

Long believed lost, this queer Bonnie & Clyde-meets-the children of Revlon & Marx was discovered in a warehouse in 2018, filling in one of the great mysteries of trans cinema, and revealing a masterpiece that provides a copestone for the end of Japan's era of radical cinema.