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Shadows @ Flare
London's LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Held annually by the British Film Institute at BFI Southbank in London
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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
REPORTS FROM THE FESTIVAL:
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Rich's best of the fest 2023:
- THE BLUE CAFTAN
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS
- BIG BOYS
- CHRISSY JUDY
- WHO I AM NOT
- DRIFTER
- 1946: THE MISTRANSLATION THAT SHIFTED CULTURE
- GOLDEN DELICIOUS
- LIE WITH ME
- EGGHEAD & TWINKIE
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)
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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)
See also:
FIVE FILMS FOR FREEDOM 2023
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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!
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Rich's best of the 2022 fest...
- PRIVATE DESERT
- A DISTANT PLACE
- MONEYBOYS
- THE PERFECT DAVID
- WILDHOOD
- BRUNO REIDAL: CONFESSION OF A MURDERER
- GIRL PICTURE
- SUBLIME
- MANSCAPING
- THE DIVIDE
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)
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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)
See also:
• FLARE 2022 SHORTS
• FIVE FILMS FOR FREEDOM 2022
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35th BFI Flare London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival
Held virtually 17-28 MARCH 2021
NOTE: With a reduced programme of films and events, BFI Flare was held online for the second year due to the pandemic.
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Rich's best of the 2021 fest...
F E A T U R E S
- POPPY FIELD
- SWEETHEART
- JUMP, DARLING
- I AM SAMUEL
- RURANGI
- SUBLET
- BOY MEETS BOY
- THE DOSE
- VALENTINA
- FIREBIRD
S H O R T S
- LAND OF THE FREE
- BEING SASCHA
- ESCAPING THE FRAGILE PLANET
- VICTORIA
- COSMOPOLITAN
- POOL BOY
- THE NIGHT TRAIN
- BABY LIES TRUTHFULLY
- SON OF SODOM
- EDEN
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BOY MEETS BOY (Lopez, Ger)
COLORS OF TOBI (Bakony, Hun)
COWBOYS (Kerrigan, US)
CURED (Singer/Sammon, US)
THE DOSE (Kraut, Arg)
DRAMARAMA (Wysocki, US)
ENFANT TERRIBLE (Roehler, Ger)
FIREBIRD (Rebane, Est)
THE GREENHOUSE (Wilson-White, Aus)
I AM SAMUEL (Murimi, Ken)
KISS ME BEFORE IT BLOWS UP (Peleg, Isr)
JUMP, DARLING (Connell, Can)
NO ORDINARY MAN (Chin-Yee/Joynt, Can)
THE OBITUARY OF TUNDE JOHNSON (LeRoi, US)
POPPY FIELD (Jebeleanu, Rom)
P.S. BURN THIS LETTER PLEASE (Seligman/Tiexiera/Olsen, US)
REBEL DYKES (Shanahan/Williams, UK)
RURANGI (Currie, NZ)
SUBLET (Fox, Isr)
SWEETHEART (Morrison, UK)
TOVE (Bergroth, Fin)
VALENTINA (dos Santos, Br)
See also: • FLARE 2021 SHORTS
• FIVE FILMS FOR FREEDOM 2021
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34th BFI Flare London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival
Held virtually 18-29 MARCH 2020
Rich's best of the 2020 fest...
- AND THEN WE DANCED
- THE LAWYER
- THE PRINCE
- FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO
- MATTHIAS & MAXIME
- SEQUIN IN A BLUE ROOM
- CICADA
- YOU DON'T NOMI
- SPIRAL
- SUMMERLAND
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NOTE: BFI Flare was cancelled due to Covid, aside from an abbreviated virtual festival. This is a complete list of the scheduled films.
AND THEN WE DANCED (Akin, Geo)
ASK ANY BUDDY (Purchell, US)
BOOKSMART (Wilde, US)
CICADA (Fifer/Mulcare, US)
CLEMENTINE (Gallagher, US)
DISCLOSURE (Feder, US)
A DOG BARKING AT THE MOON (Zi, Chn)
DON'T LOOK DOWN (Ducastel/Martineau, Fr)
DRAG KIDS (Wennberg, Can)
ELLIE AND ABBIE (AND ELLIE'S DEAD AUNT) (Zanetti, Aus)
FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO (Karslake, US)
JACK & YAYA (Bagley/Hewey, US)
JUSTINE (Patterson, UK)
KEYBOARD FANTASIES (Dixon, UK)
THE LAWYER (Zabarauskas, Lit)
LINGUA FRANCA (Sandoval, US)
MAKE UP (Oakley, UK)
MATTHIAS & MAXIME (Dolan, Can)
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MIDNIGHT KISS (Smith, US)
MOFFIE (Hermanus, SA)
MONSOON (Khaou, UK)
NO HARD FEELINGS (Shariat, Ger)
PAIN AND GLORY (Almodovar, Sp)
PIER KIDS (Bratton, US)
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (Sciamma, Fr)
THE PRINCE (Munoz, Chl)
RESCUE THE FIRE (Viefhues, Ger)
SEQUIN IN A BLUE ROOM (Van Grinsven, Aus)
SPIRAL (Harder, Can)
STEELERS (Ashton-Atkinson, UK)
SUMMERLAND (Swale, UK)
TWO OF US (Meneghetti, Fr)
YOU DON'T NOMI (McHale, US)
YOUNG HUNTER (Berger, Arg)
See also:
• FLARE 2020 SHORTS
• FIVE FILMS FOR FREEDOM 2020
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