La Bola Negra
By Guillermo Lopez Meza October 18, 2026
La Bola Negra feels like everything cinema can and should be when it dreams big with the right ambition.
La Bola Negra feels like everything cinema can and should be when it dreams big with the right ambition.
The film’s chief strength is the way it captures ennui. Indeed, there are times this seems like a movie mostly preoccupied with waiting.
This newly restored, San Francisco–set trans and butch buddy movie is a fresh, invigorating jolt and an intimate glimpse of marginalized, yet commanding, characters from a bygone era.
Though set in the pre-app, agonizing phone-waiting days of the past, the movie’s themes and struggles remain impactful and relevant.
A groundbreaking work of queer cinema that warrants reexamination, as well as the attention of new viewers.
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Audacious, expressionistic, and evocative, Viet and Nam blends a secret romance between two young male coal miners with reverberations of the historic past.
Life can turn around with an airborne feather, a chicken dance, and an oldie or two.