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This year's BFI Flare is bringing the best of recent LGBTI cinema from around the world to London.
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Flare Latest Reviews
In this romcom, Ellie’s dead aunt has the perfect dating advice for her. But will she listen to it?
Transgender high school athletes from across the US compete at the top of their fields, while also challenging the boundaries and perceptions of fairness and discrimination.
When a teenager's thrill-seeking leads to a memorable encounter at an anonymous sex party, he resolves to track down the mystery guy - even if he has to rely on a menacing former hook-up to help him.
In 1995, in a pub in King’s Cross, a group of friends discussed the idea of a gay rugby club. From that casual conversation, the first gay rugby team was born.
A young woman struggles with her demons.
An undocumented Filipina trans woman, who works as a caregiver in Brooklyn, develops a connection with the grandson of her employer.
Two retired women, who have been in a secret relationship for decades, find their relationship turned upside down when the truth begins to come out.
A young man is forced to face past traumas when he embarks on a new relationship.
A documentary about LGBTQ+ people of colour in the UK.
A same-sex couple move to a small town so they can enjoy a better quality of life and raise their 16-year-old daughter with the best social values. But nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighbourhood, and when Malik sees the folks next door throwing a very strange party, something has got to give.
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