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Shadows @ Flare London's LGBTQIA+ Film Festival Held annually by the British Film Institute at BFI Southbank in London
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: ON THE BLOG	2 0 2 3 F I L M S
	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)	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

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... 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)	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

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.	2 0 2 1 F I L M S
	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	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

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	2 0 2 0 F I L M S
	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)	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 * review coming soon
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