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| Reeling LGBT Film Festival 2018 |
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| Best Narrative Feature: | Canary, South Africa, dir. Christiaan Olwagen |
| Audience Award, Narrative: | The Happy Prince, UK, dir. Rupert Everett |
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| Best Documentary Feature: | The Rest I Make Up, USA, dir. Michelle Memran |
| Audience Award, Documentary: | Conversations with Gay Elders: Kerby Lauderdale, USA, dir. David Weissman |
 Features I Saw at Reeling:
Includes some films I saw previously
Ranked in order of preference
My Best of the Fest
Shakedown (USA, dir. Leilah Weinraub) -
Seamy and rough on first pass, but the edits and sound are so forceful and sustained they become hypnotic. Weirdly noble.
Recommended
Buddies (USA, dir. Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.) -
Sort of rudimentary technique but harnesses its simplicity to powerful ends. Admirably complex messaging about HIV/AIDS.
He Loves Me (Greece, dir. Konstantinos Menelaou) -
As if Julián Hernández made a Greek Boys in the Sand. Unique eye. Risks repetitive montage and sound-image divorce.
Christabel (Brazil, dir. Alex Levy-Heller) -
Transposition of Coleridge to a Brazilian backwater has its longueurs but sustains ripe ambience and defers good shocks.
Mixed Bags
The Rest I Make Up (USA, dir. Michelle Memran) -
Moving at moments but too often Agnès Varda-fies Fornés, recasting a great, brave artist into a winsome sprite.
Call Her Ganda (USA, dir. PJ Raval) -
Brings valuable attention to a loaded case but flails badly in so many areas of story, editing, and point of view.
The Happy Prince (UK, dir. Rupert Everett) -
Everett brings conviction to all his tasks but his skill with direction and montage fall well short of his goals.
Not Recommended
Devil's Path (USA, dir. Matthew Montgomery) -
Quite solid production values but its genre trappings, its narrative, and most other elements tilt toward the risible.
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