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Knife+Heart
Why this pick
Its queer community, stylised genre play and lurking-killer tension echo The Owls’ blend of camp, menace and self-aware filmmaking.
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MOVIE2010 1h 6m USA
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Why this pick
A lesbian neo-noir with an enigmatic central figure, it shares The Owls’ interest in desire, secrecy and a deliberately artificial, heightened atmosphere.
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Why this pick
This tightly contained lesbian thriller turns intimacy into escalating distrust, matching The Owls’ unsettling relationship dynamics and isolated, pressure-cooker suspense.
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The Watermelon Woman
Why this pick
Dunye’s earlier hybrid of fiction and documentary offers the same playful challenge to cinematic form and the same sharp attention to queer history and community.
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Thelma
Why this pick
A restrained queer mystery in which repressed feeling gradually becomes frightening, with similarly controlled pacing and an ominous sense that hidden truths will surface.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Two middle-aged, lesbian couples accidentally kill a younger lesbian and hide the body, without reporting it to the authorities. Their guilt and long-kept, dark secret comes back to haunt them, as an unexpected stranger shows up in their lives, bringing tension and discord. Little do they know that this mysterious stranger has a plan which includes all four of them.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Deak Evgenikos
Cricket
Guinevere Turner
Iris
VS Brodie
MJ
Lisa Gornick
Lily
Cheryl Dunye
Carol
Skyler Cooper
Skye
Michael Lucid
Real Estate Agent
P David Ebersole
Gay Couple