Introduction: Curating Postmillennial Queer Film
Cüneyt Çakırlar
1. Pillion (2025)
Hongwei Bao
2. Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
Patricia White
3. I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Robyn Ollett
4. Crossing (2024)
Cüneyt Çakırlar and misha irek (yakovlev)
5. Queens of Drama (2024)
Ry Montgomery
6. Emilia Pérez (2024)
Vinodh Venkatesh
7. Bottoms (2023)
Hannah Hamad
8. Passages (2023)
Chris Holmlund
9. Red, White & Royal Blue (2023)
Rachel O’Connell and Luke Robinson
10. All of Us Strangers (2023)
Cüneyt Çakırlar and Gary Needham
11. Love Life Light (2023)
Jamie J. Zhao
12. I Am What I Am (2022)
Yutaka Kubo
13. Joyland (2022)
Shamira A. Meghani
14. Balaban (2022)
Adelaide McGinity-Peebles
15. Anhell69 (2022)
Javier Pérez-Osorio
16. Runs in the Family (2022)
Wesley Paul Macheso
17. Uýra: The Rising Forest (2022)
Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
18. Great Freedom (2021)
Lawrence Alexander
19. Sloppy Kisses (2021)
Ved Prakash
20. Godasses (2021-2022)
Cüneyt Çakırlar and Tuna Erdem
21. The Macaluso Sisters (2020)
Alice Parrinello
22. My Tender Matador (2020)
Javier Pérez-Osorio
23. Tove (2020)
Ingrid Ryberg
24. Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt) (2020)
Dante DeBono
25. Rūrangi (2020)
Missy Molloy
26. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Francesca Minnie Hardy
27. Extractions (2019)
Aaron Jagger
28. Memories of My Body (2018)
Alicia Izharuddin
29. House of Hummingbird (2018)
Chung-kang Kim
30. We the Animals (2018)
Ece Bulut
31. 120 BPM (2017)
Gary Needham
32. God’s Own Country (2017)
James S. Williams
33. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover
34. Zoology (2016)
Olga Andreevskikh
35. The Ornithologist (2016)
João Manuel de Oliveira
36. Don’t Look at Me That Way (2015)
Jacob Engelberg
37. Something Must Break (2014)
Wibke Straube
38. Pride (2014)
William McEvoy
39. Appropriate Behavior (2014)
Maria San Filippo
40. Drunktown’s Finest (2014)
Louise Siddons
41. Dyke Hard (2014)
Kata Kyrölä
42. Margarita with a Straw (2014)
Amy Villarejo
43. Salvation Army (2014)
Daniel Nabil Maroun
44. 52 Tuesdays (2013)
Stuart Romeo-Richards
45. Tom at the Farm (2013)
Mercédès Baillargeon
46. Stranger by the Lake (2013)
William McEvoy and Dimitris Papanikolaou
47. Pariah (2011)
Shoniqua Roach
48. Strella: A Woman’s Way (2009)
Dimitris Papanikolaou
49. Drifting Flowers (2008)
Shi-Yan Chao
50. Shortbus (2006)
Cynthia Barounis
51. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006)
Nicholas de Villiers
52. Time to Leave (2005)
Emma Wilson
53. Antarmahal (2005)
Kaustav Bakshi and Rohit K.Dasgupta
54. Mysterious Skin (2004)
Joshua Bastian Cole-Kurz
55. Tropical Malady (2004)
misha irek (yakovlev)
56. D.E.B.S. (2004)
Katrin Horn
57. Wild Side (2004)
Charlie Fabre
58. The Gathering (2003)
Ben Murtagh
59. Fine Dead Girls (2002)
Anamarija Horvat
60. The Old Testament (2001)
Frederico Duarte Vidal
61. Diary of a Male Whore (2001)
Drew Paul
62. The Ignorant Fairies (2001)
Dom Holdaway and Dalila Missero
63. Karmen Geï (2001)
Anjali Prabhu
Biography
Cüneyt Çakırlar is Associate Professor of Film and Visual Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Çakırlar has taught on queer arts and film criticism at UCL (UK), Boğaziçi University (Türkiye) and Istanbul Bilgi University (Türkiye). He co-edited a volume about cultures of sexual dissidence in contemporary Türkiye, namely Cinsellik Muamması: Türkiye’de Queer Kültür ve Muhalefet (2012), co-translated Judith Butler’s Bodies That Matter (1993) into Turkish (2014), and co-authored Taner Ceylan: The Lost Paintings Series (2013) and Mustang: Translating Willful Youth (2023). He is the editor of Transnational Horror: Folklore, Genre, and Cultural Politics (2025).
"Doing more than updating existing histories or theories, Çakırlar crafts a view of the field that is as forward-thinking as it is strategic, positioning both films and scholars for the era to come. As capacious as it is discerning, this collection manages to construct an updated queer cinema while simultaneously interrogating the status of the category itself. Kudos to Çakırlar for a volume of manifold intelligence and truly international scope."
- B. Ruby Rich, Professor Emerita of Film & Digital Media and Social Documentation at UC Santa Cruz, USA; author of New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut (2013)
"In its anti-canonical assemblage of films and their analyses, Çakırlar’s collection restores the radical promise and provocation of queer work. I’m not just referring to the spectrum of texts or critical voices but to their “curation”, a term that Çakırlar reclaims for Film Studies’ decoloniality, pedagogy and, perhaps, futurity. There’s no lip-service here, but instead a return to “queer” as a way out, and a way through, in desperate times."
- Michele Aaron, Professor in Film & Television Studies, University of Warwick, UK; author of Death and the Moving Image (2015) and editor of New Queer Cinema: A Critical Introduction (2004)
"In an era when “queer” seems to be everywhere even as it comes under intense political attack, Çakırlar’s volume puts pressure on the various impasses it presents, leveraging them as curatorial opportunities. What emerges is not only the shape of an arguably global, postmillennial LGBTQIA+ cinema—but also a map of queer theory’s contemporary affordances and blockages. A thorough record of how we are (and aren’t) making sense of queer cinema now, this volume is essential reading."
- Cáel M. Keegan, Associate Professor of Film and Moving Image Studies, Concordia University, Canada; author of Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender (2018)
