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39th BFI FlareLondon LGBTQIA+ Film Festival at BFI Southbank 19-30 MARCH 2025 Opening Film: THE WEDDING BANQUET Closing Film: NIGHT STAGE Special Presentation: DREAMS IN NIGHTMARES
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Rich's best of the fest 2025:
AFTER THE SNOWMELT (Shan) ASSEMBLY (Newsome/Symons) 
THE ASTRONAUT LOVERS (Berger, Arg)BLACK FRUIT (Gibba) A BODY TO LIVE IN (Madsen) CHERUB (Shears)
DEPARTURES (Eyre-Morgan/Ely, UK)
DREAMS IN NIGHTMARES (Ford, US)DRIP LIKE COFFEE (Cisco)
DRIVE BACK HOME (Clowater, Can)ENIGMA (Drucker)
FATHERHOOD (Hanssen/Benestad, Nor)
A FEW FEET AWAY (Caro, Arg)FOR THE GIRLS
FOUR MOTHERS (Thornton, Ire)HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY (Feder)
HIGH TIDE (Calvani, US)
HOT MILK (Lenkiewicz, UK)HOW TO LIVE (Muthoni, Ken)
I SAW THE TV GLOW (Schoenbrun, US)I'M YOUR VENUS IF I DIE, IT'LL BE OF JOY (Taillant) LAKEVIEW (Thorne) |
LUCKY, APARTMENT (Garam)MANOK (Lee)
MEA CULPA (Tass, Bel)
MEMORABILIA (Verow/Lum, US)A MOTHER APART (Townshend)
A NIGHT LIKE THIS (Calvert, UK)THE MULEETER (Fregoso)
NIGHT STAGE (Matzembacher/Reolon, Br)ONDA NOVA OUTERLANDS (Oxman) PEACHES GOES BANANAS (Losier)
THE PLEASURE IS MINE (Amaral, Arg)
PONYBOI (Arango, US)POWER ALLEY (Halla) QUEENS OF DRAMA (Langlois)
QUEER (Guadanigno, It)
REALLY HAPPY SOMEDAY (Stevens, Can)
RENT FREE (Andres, US)
SAD JOKES (Stumm, Ger)SALLY (Craig)
SANDBAG DAM (Cernic, Cro)
SOME NIGHTS I FEEL LIKE WALKING (Vargas, Ph)SPORTY SPICE SUMMER'S CAMERA (Sung) THE SILENCE OF MY HANDS TO OUR FRIENDS TRANS MEMORIA (Verseau) TRUTH OR DARE
VIET AND NAM (Truong, Vie)
WE ARE FAHEEM & KARUN (Onir, Ind)WHERE YOU FIND ME (Andrick/Bermudez/etc)
THE WEDDING BANQUET (Ahn, US)
WILL & HARPER (Greenbaum, US)
WINTER KEPT US WARM (Secter, Can)THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ALLEE WILLIS (Spraic)
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38th BFI FlareLondon LGBTQIA+ Film Festival at BFI Southbank 13-24 MARCH 2024 Opening Film: LAYLA Closing Film: LADY LIKE Special Presentations: CLOSE TO YOU CROSSING |
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Rich's best of the fest 2024:
20,000 SPECIES OF BEES (Urresola, Sp)
ALIGNED (Bakopoulos, Gr)
ALL OF US STRANGERS (Haigh, UK)
BACKSPOT (Waterson, Can)
BALDIGA: UNLOCKED HEART (Stein, Ger)
BOTTOMS (Seligman, US)
CALLS FROM MOSCOW (Yero, Cub)
CHASING CHASING AMY (Rodgers, US)
CLOSE TO YOU (Savage, Can)CODE OF FEAR
COMMITMENT TO LIFE (Schwarz, US)
CROSSING (Akin, Geo)DAYS OF HAPPINESS DEPARTING SENIORS
DESIRE LINES (Rosskam, US)
DON'T EVER STOP (Pollitt, UK)HEAVY SNOW
HIDDEN MASTER: THE LEGACY OF GEORGE PLATT LYNES (Shahid, US)I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE INDIAS 1ST BEST TRANS MODEL AGENCY ISLA'S WAY JOIN THE CLUB
LADY LIKE (Willis, US)
LAYLA (Al-Kadhi, UK)LESVIA |
LIFE IS NOT A COMPETITION, BUT I'M WINNING
LIL NAS X: LONG LIVE MONTERO (Estrada/Manuel, US)
LOVE LIES BLEEDING (Glass, US)
MERCHANT IVORY (Soucy, US)
ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (Preciado, Fr)
OUR SON (Oliver, US)
PINE CONE (Onir, Ind)
THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS (Mirza, Can)REAS
RILEY (Howard, US)
RUSTIN (Wolfe, US)SEX IS COMEDY
SILVER HAZE (Polak, UK)
SINCE THE LAST TIME WE MET (Correa, Arg)SLOW SOLIDS BY THE SEASHORE SPLIT STORIES OF OUR LIVES
STUDIO ONE FOREVER (Saltarelli, US)
SUMMER SOLSTICE (Schamus, US)
THE SUMMER WITH CARMEN (Mavroeidis, Gr)
TOLL (Markowicz, Br)TOPS
UNICORNS (Hosaini/Floyd, UK)
UNSPOKEN (Borison, US)WE ARE PERFECT
WE FORGOT TO BREAK UP (Knox, Can)WE WERE DANGEROUS
WHAT A FEELING (Rohrer, Aut)WHAT'S SAFE, WHAT'S GROSS, WHAT'S SELFISH AND WHAT'S STUPID WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN WOMAN OF... YOU PROMISED ME THE SEA
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37th BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival at BFI Southbank 15-26 MARCH 2023 Opening Film: THE STROLL Closing Film: DRIFTER Centrepiece Film: WHO I AM NOT | 2 0 2 3 F I L M S | ||
Rich's best of the fest 2023:
100 WAYS TO CROSS THE BORDER (Bemak, US)
1946: THE MISTRANSLATION THAT SHIFTED CULTURE (Roggio, US)AFEMINADAS (Gondim, Br)
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (Poitras, US)AMERICAN PARENT (Railsback, US)
LE BEAU MEC (Potts, Fr)BEFORE I CHANGE MY MIND (Anderson, Can)
BIG BOYS (Sherman, US)
BLUE JEAN (Oakley, UK)
BODIES BODIES BODIES (Reijin, US)
THE BLUE CAFTAN (Touzani, Mor)
BREAD AND SALT (Kocur, Pol)THE CHAMBERMAID (Solcanska, Svk)
CHRISSY JUDY (Flaherty, US)CLARA (Suarez, Col)
DRIFTER (Hirsch, Ger)THE DREAM SONGS (Cho, Kor)
EGGHEAD & TWINKIE (Holland, US)THE EMPRESS OF VANCOUVER (Rodden-Shortt, Can)
THE FABULOUS ONES (Torre, It)
FIERCE: A PORN REVOLUTION (Muroni, Swi)THE FIVE DEVILS (Mysius, Fr)
GOLDEN DELICIOUS (Karman, Can) |
HORSEPLAY (Berger, Arg)HOW TO TELL A SECRET (Rodgers/Dunne, Ire)
THE INSPECTION (Bratton, US)IT'S ONLY LIFE AFTER ALL (Bombach, US) JESS PLUS NONE (Fabian, US) JEWELLE: A JUST VISION (Lim, US)
KENYATTA: DO NOT WAIT YOUR TURN (Harris, US)
KOKOMO CITY (Smith, US)
LIE WITH ME (Peyon, Fr)LIFE UNREHEARSED (Banpark, Kor)
LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING (Cortes, US)LOTUS SPORTS CLUB (Hem/Colognese, Ned)
LOVING HIGHSMITH (Vitija, Swi)MAYBE SOMEDAY (Ehlen, US)
MEL (Sahakyan/Cohen, Arm)
MONICA (Pallaoro, US)MY NAME IS ANDREA (Parmar, US)
NARCISSISM: THE AUTO-EROTIC IMAGES (Karat, Ger)PEAFOWL (Byun, Kor)
A PLACE OF OUR OWN (Ektara, Ind)POLARIZED (Sarif, Can) PREJUDICE & PRIDE: SWEDISH FILM QUEER (Beling, Swe) RULE 34 (Murat, Br) SILENT LOVE (Kozakiewicz, Pol) SOMETHING YOU SAID LAST NIGHT (De Filippis, Can)
STRIP JACK NAKED: NIGHTHAWKS II (Peck, UK)
THE STROLL (Lovell/Drucker, US)
SWALLOWED (Smith, US)
THREE NIGHTS A WEEK (Gouelou, Fr)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS (Zuleta, US)
WHO I AM NOT (Skovran, SA)WILLEM & FRIEDA (Hay, UK)
WINTER BOY (Honore, Fr)
WOLF AND DOG (Varejao, Por)
XX+XY (Lee, Kor)
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36th BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival at BFI Southbank 16-27 MARCH 2022 Opening Film: GIRL PICTURE Closing Film: TRAMPS! | 2 0 2 2 F I L M S | ||
Rich's best of the 2022 fest...
BEING BEBE (Branham, US)
BENEDICTION (Davies, UK)BESTIES (Ravel, Fr)
BOULEVARD! A HOLLYWOOD STORY (Schwarz, US)
BOY CULTURE: THE SERIES (Brocka, US)
BRUNO REIDAL: CONFESSION OF A MURDERER (Le Port. Fr)CAMILA COMES OUT TONIGHT (Barrionuevo)
CHARLI XCX: ALONE TOGETHER (Bradley/Pablo, US)
COP SECRET (Halldorsson, Ice)
DAKAN (Camara, Gui)DAWN, HER DAD & THE TRACTOR (Thompson) DEATH AND BOWLING (Kash)
A DISTANT PLACE (Park, Kor)
THE DIVIDE (Corsini, Fr)THE END OF WONDERLAND (Turcotte-Fraser) ESTHER NEWTON MADE ME GAY (Carlomusto, US) EVERYTHING AT ONCE: KINK (Fuguet) FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK (Hart, Can) THE FIRST FALLEN (de Oliveira)
FLEE (Rasmussen, Den)FRAGRANCE OF THE FIRST FLOWER (Teng)
FRAMING AGNES (Joynt, Can)GATEWAYS GRIND (Lawrence, UK)
GIRL PICTURE (Haapasalo, Fin)
GREAT FREEDOM (Meise, Aut) |
I AM THE TIGRESS (Fussenegger/Osmanovic)
I WANT TO TALK ABOUT DURAS (Simon, Fr)
IN FROM THE SIDE (Carter, UK)INVISIBLE: GAY WOMEN IN SOUTHERN MUSIC (Parsell, US) IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY (Linares, DR)
JIMMY IN SAIGON (McDowell, US)THE LAW OF LOVE (Chalupova) LONG LIVE MY HAPPY HEAD (McCowan/Hewitt)
MADAME SATA (Ainouz, 02/Br)
MANSCAPING (Fox, US)
MONEYBOYS (Yi, Tai)NICO (Gehring) NORTH BY CURRENT (Minax)
THE NOVICE (Hadaway, US)THE OUTLAWS (Dahlsbakken)
PARALLEL MOTHERS (Almodovar, Sp)PASSION (Borg)
THE PERFECT DAVID (Aparicio, Arg)
PRIVATE DESERT (Muritiba, Br) SEDIMENTS (Silvestre) SIRENS (Baghdadi, Leb) THE SOUND OF SCARS (Brooks, US)
SUBLIME (Biasin, Arg)
THE SWIMMER (Kalderon, Isr)
THIS IS NOT ME (Gholipour, Irn)
TRAMPS! (Hegge, Can)ULTRAVIOLETTE AND THE BLOOD-SPITTERS GANG (Hunzinger, Fr) WALK WITH ME (del Rosal) WET SAND (Naveriani)
WILDHOOD (Hannam, Can)
THE WORLD TO COME (Fastvold, US)
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