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Edin Čusto

Edin Čusto

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Edin Čusto is a film critic and journalist based between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Los Angeles. He writes about international festival cinema, regional filmmaking, queer cinema and emerging voices, with work published in Eye For Film, Cineuropa, DMovies and others.

Author's Articles:

Coward review: Lukas Dhont stages queer desire in the trenches
Lukas Dhont's WWI romance is visually stunning and emotionally charged, even if convention softens some of its force.
The Man I Love review: Ira Sachs mistakes restraint for depth at Cannes
Sachs returns to Cannes competition with a queer AIDS drama set in 1980s New York. Polished and carefully made, but frustratingly remote and bloodless where it should ache.
The Black Ball review: Lorca's unfinished play becomes a queer epic of longing and loss
Federico García Lorca's unfinished play becomes the heart of an epic spanning Republican Spain, fascist violence and the present. One of Cannes 2026's most celebrated premieres.
Bitter Christmas review: Pedro Almodóvar sings the blues of autofiction in crimson
Bitter Christmas finds Almodóvar in labyrinthine form, folding a filmmaker's story inside her screenwriter's grief. Gorgeous, strange and more alive than almost anything he has made in years.
Jim Queen review: a gloriously filthy gay satire with claws
Jim Queen is a rude, horny, and genuinely sharp adult animated satire that weaponises camp against the toxic hierarchies of gay male culture. Nguyen and Athané's filthy French feature has claws beneath the glitter.
Flesh and Fuel review: Pierre Le Gall's debut is the queer romance of Cannes 2026
Two truckers, one cruising spot, one police raid. Le Gall's debut finds unexpected tenderness inside a life designed to prevent it
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