Sundance Film Fest 2025: LGBTQ Films
Hyde said that was intentional: “I wanted to tell a story about a family who love each other, despite their conflict and complications. What we wanted to see is how it can be between people and how it is between a lot of people. You wouldn’t believe it, if you just read the press.”
For Hyde, the decision to focus her film on joy instead of dark struggle was a conscious one inspired by her own experience with her gay father and non-binary child.
Hyde couldn’t ignore the current anti-LGBTQ rhetoric as she was finishing her film.
“I had no idea that it would become so antagonistic towards trans people. Maybe I was naive, because there were a lot of people saying that it was already very violent and antagonistic for them, but it felt like things were changing.
“But now we’re in a place where suddenly parents are at risk for loving and supporting their children.”
