Rick W / Wednesday, October 7, 2026 / Categories: Film Score News Tenderness & Defiance: LGBTQIA+ Cinema at HIFF46 Tenderness & Defiance: LGBTQIA+ Cinema at HIFF46 At the 46th Hawai‘i International Film Festival presented by Halekulani, this year’s LGBTQIA+ films arrive in many forms: intimate coming-of-age stories, audacious comedies, sweeping dramas, documentaries, animation, and stories of chosen family and cultural identity. What connects them is not a single definition of queer experience, but their remarkable humanity. Among the festival’s major highlights Previous Article Chinese Landscape Painting Film Series Will Run to a Fourth Installment, Says ‘First Taste of Loneliness’ Director Gu You (EXCLUSIVE) Next Article SPOTLIGHT ON KOREA: South Korean Cinema in all its forms at HIFF46 Print 2 Tags: Film Festival