PRIDE PERSPECTIVES
This Pride month, we celebrate queer cinema in all its longing, rage, beauty, and defiance with our returning series Pride Perspectives. From luminous coming-of-age stories to iconic portraits of outsiders, our selection spans decades, genres, and identities. Desire smolders, identities shift, and chosen families emerge in the margins. We spotlight voices that fight to be seen on their own terms, and stories that radiate with emotion, rebellion, and tenderness. These are films that don’t just represent queerness—they radiate with it.
July 3rd to August 3rd marks Queer Pride Amsterdam, for which we have selected a wide variety of films, both old and new, that were met with great fondness by the LGBTQ+ community, yet some never having quite made it to the mainstream. Their storylines follow individuals who were pushed towards the margins of society, where they, in the absence of bigoted ideals, found a sense of belonging within themselves and each other. These movies are tributes to the brave voices that paved the way for generations to come, and a celebration of minorities who found light in the shadows society has nebulated them.
