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Ira Sachs built a career of intimate, independent dramas often centered on queer relationships and family life, beginning with short films before his 1996 feature debut The Delta. Forty Shades of Blue, Keep the Lights On, Love Is Strange, Little Men, and Passages followed, each drawing critical acclaim for observing ordinary domestic life with unusual patience and honesty rather than melodrama.