From international Oscar winners Call Me by Your Name and A Fantastic Woman to art house success stories Adam, Girl and BPM (Beats per Minute). 

No art form has the ability to shape contemporary mainstream opinion like cinema. 

An immersive blend of picture, sound and storytelling – best enjoyed in a darkened room without distraction – films invite viewers into alternative realities more effectively than books, music or paintings.

Can hope to: the best movies are like empathy-conjuring machines, framing societal issues and shattering preconceptions by putting viewers inside the heads.

And circumstances of characters they may never have been able to imagine – or even tolerate.

Nowhere might that be truer than when it comes to LGBTQ+ minorities. 

A highly marginalised, deeply stigmatised community, cinema offers a relatable window to otherwise unknowable lives. In the past few years LGBTQ+ stories have become increasingly commonplace on cinema screens globally – evidenced by the five international titles belowas filmmakers have responded to, and often helped inspire, a greater mainstream acceptance and understanding of queer lives and voices.

This recent global wave of LGBTQ+ storytelling builds on the energy and influential example of earlier door-opening landmarks – most notably French lesbian romance Blue Is the Warmest Colour, the controversial winner of Cannes Film Festival’s top prize Palm d’Or in 2013, as well as the unlikely attention afforded to Tangerine (2015), a movie starring two trans women of colour that was shot entirely on an iPhone.

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