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BFI Flare is back with a fantastic line up of films from around the world, celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex lives and exploring the issues that LGBTI people face.
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A strange plant gives three teenage girls the chance to experience life in male bodies.
![Theo And Hugo](/images/stills/t/theo_and_hugo_2016.jpg)
After a brief encounter in a Paris sex club, two men fall abruptly and unexpectedly in love.
![The Pass](/images/stills/p/pass_2016.jpg)
The lives of two young premier league footballers are complicated by an impromptu kiss.
![Summertime](/images/stills/s/summertime_2015.jpg)
Drama about social change in France in the early 1970s.
![Carmin Tropical](/images/stills/c/carmin_tropical_2014.jpg)
A trans woman returns to her hometown to investigate the murder of her oldest friend.
![The Girl King](/images/stills/g/girl_king_2015.jpg)
A biopic of Kristina, Queen of Sweden.
![Closet Monster](/images/stills/c/closet_monster_2015.jpg)
A sexually confused teenager drifts into a fantasy world where his anxieties take physical shape.
![Sworn Virgin](/images/stills/s/sworn_virgin_2015.jpg)
A woman who has taken an oath to live as a man rediscovers her sexuality.
![Tangerine](/images/stills/t/tangerine_2015.jpg)
A working girl tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who broke her heart.
![Carol](/images/stills/c/carol_2015.jpg)
A department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
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