BFI Flare
London LGBT Film Festival
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The 39th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, one of the world’s most significant and long-standing queer film events in the LGBTQIA+ calendar, today reveals its full programme. BFI Flare will take place at BFI Southbank which, alongside packed screenings, will be buzzing with special events and DJ nights during the festival. Now in its 11th year, in partnership with the British Council, Five Films For Freedom presents five shorts selected from the festival line-up to audiences globally for the duration of the festival. Five Films For Freedom is promoted across the British Council’s global digital networks as well as on BFI Player for UK-wide audiences. BFI Flare is divided into three thematic programme strands: HEARTS, BODIES and MINDS and this year presents 34 World Premieres (across features and shorts) with 56 features, 1 series and 81 shorts from 41 countries. Tickets go on sale on 25 February for BFI Members and on general sale from 27 February via bfi.org.uk/flare.
Films A to Z
All films and works showing in the BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival.
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- 0004NGEL, in the programme Edges of Belonging
- 10s Across the Borders
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- Abstraction Belongs to Us, in the programme All These Liberations
- Amantes
- America, in the programme Edges of Belonging
- Another Man
- ATTAGIRL!, in the programme She Got Claws!
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- Baby
- Barbara Forever
- Bearcave
- Beyond the Fire: The Life of Japan’s First Pride Parade Pioneer
- Big Girls Don’t Cry
- Black Burns Fast
- Body of Our Own, in the programme This Is Home
- Bottlecap, in the programme Heavenly Havens
- Breaking through the Fear, in the programme Fragments of Us
- The Broken R
C
- Can’t Go Over It
- Castration Movie Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage
- Cherri
- Cockroach, in the programme Having the Last Laugh
- COYOTES, in the programme All These Liberations
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- Daria’s Night Flowers, in the programme All These Liberations
- Death and Life Madalena
- The Deepest Space in Us
- Diverse House, in the programme Heavenly Havens
- DOLLS, in the programme She Got Claws!
- Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, in the programme Edges of Belonging
- Don’t Come Out
- Doug + Me, in the programme Til the World Stops Turning
- Dreamers
- Drunken Noodles
- The Dysphoria, in the programme She Got Claws!
E
- Every Time I See a Yellow Car, in the programme Fragments of Us
- Everything Between Us, in the programme All These Liberations
F
- Fish & Chips, in the programme (When the Rainbow Is Enuf)
- Fishy, in the programme She Got Claws!
- Flash Sale, in the programme Having the Last Laugh
- The Fling, in the programme (When the Rainbow Is Enuf)
- Forbidden Fruit, screening with Woubi Chéri
G
- Gigi, screening with What Will I Become?
- Grand Dandy (For Ezra), in the programme Til the World Stops Turning
- Greetings from Africa, screening with The Watermelon Woman
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- Hills Don’t Dance Alone, in the programme This Is Home
- Hunky Jesus
I
- I Am Going to Miss You
- I Am My Own Woman
- I Hate Helen, in the programme Til the World Stops Turning
- ìfé: (The Sequel)
- Impure Nuns
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- Kanekalon, in the programme (When the Rainbow Is Enuf)
- Keep Coming Back
- Kiloran Bay, in the programme Fragments of Us
- Kisses and Bullets, in the programme All These Liberations
- Krizalit, in the programme All These Liberations
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- Lady Champagne
- Last Dance at the Sundance Stompede, in the programme Heavenly Havens
- The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel
- A Letter for Tomorrow, in the programme This Is Home
- The Little Sister
- Little Trouble Girls
- Lonelier Than Love, in the programme Heavenly Havens
- Love Letters
- Low Rider
- Lunar Sway
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- Madfabulous
- MAGID / ZAFAR, in the programme Fragments of Us
- Maspalomas
- Mickey & Richard
- Mồ Hôi, screening with Keep Coming Back
- Montreal, My Beautiful
- The Motorcycle, in the programme Edges of Belonging
- Mysterious Skin
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- Nest, in the programme Immodest Acts
- Never Never Never, in the programme Til the World Stops Turning
- Newbies, in the programme (When the Rainbow Is Enuf)
- Nice Jewish Girl, in the programme Immodest Acts
- No Adams Allowed, in the programme Til the World Stops Turning
- Notice Me, in the programme (When the Rainbow Is Enuf)
O
- On Queer Aging and Endings, screening with A Sweetness from Nowhere
- On the Sea
- One Day This Kid, in the programme Edges of Belonging
- Original Sin, in the programme She Got Claws!
- Out Laws
P
- Pakka, in the programme This Is Home
- Parting Glances
- Perro Perro
- Pillion
- Pink Narcissus
Q
- Queen of Coal
- Queer & Confused, in the programme Til the World Stops Turning
R
- Rag Dolls, screening with The Broken R
- Rainbow Girls, in the programme She Got Claws!
- Reconnection, in the programme Til the World Stops Turning
- Room 206, in the programme Having the Last Laugh
S
- Saints, in the programme Immodest Acts
- Salty, in the programme Having the Last Laugh
- Satisfaction
- Seek No Favour, in the programme (When the Rainbow Is Enuf)
- The Serpent’s Skin
- Skiff
- Spiders On My Lashline, in the programme Immodest Acts
- Strange River
- Sunday Lunch, in the programme Immodest Acts
- A Sweetness from Nowhere
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- Theo, screening with Skiff
- They, with an Axe, in the programme Having the Last Laugh
- This Love Isn’t Taught, in the programme Fragments of Us
- Three Times Mina, screening with I Am Going to Miss You
- TO DANCE IS TO RESIST
- Treat Me Like Your Mother
- Tumtum, in the programme Immodest Acts
U
- Ubiquitous, in the programme Fragments of Us
- Uchronia: Parallel histories of queer revolt
- Uncanny Waters, in the programme Til the World Stops Turning
W
- Warla
- Washed Up
- The Watermelon Woman
- We Are Pat
- Westler
- What Will I Become?
- Whisperings of the Moon
- Woubi Chéri
Y
- Yellow Bucket, in the programme Fragments of Us
- You and Me Makes Three, in the programme (When the Rainbow Is Enuf)
- You Can Call Me Lou, in the programme Til the World Stops Turning



















