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BFI FLARE x BAFTA champion LGBTQ+ creatives in film and TV with professional development programme

Graham Robson March 12, 2024

BAFTA and BFI have announced the cohort of the 2024 BFI Flare x BAFTA professional development programme, run in partnership with BFI NETWORK. Six emerging LGBTQ+ creatives working towards their debuts in film and television have been selected for the prestigious talent initiative, now in its 10th year. BFI FLARE x BAFTA, which is funded […]

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BFI Flare announces films to open and close this year’s London LGBTQ+ Film Festival

Graham Robson January 30, 2024

Lead Pic: LAYLA by Rob Baker Ashton The 38th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, which runs March 13 – 24 at BFI Southbank and on BFI Player, has announced its Opening Night Gala is the European premiere of Amrou Al-Kadhi‘s confident debut feature LAYLA, and its Closing Night Gala is the World […]

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“Powerful and timely” LGBTQ+ film ‘The Perpetrators’ to show at BFI Flare this month

Graham Robson March 2, 2023

The Perpetrators collages moody analogue film, original animation and archival materials in a dreamy autofiction of queer darkness that ponders the correlations between 1980s Stranger Danger, the construction of homosexual identity and the institution of the family.

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BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival to return in March 2023

Graham Robson December 13, 2022

The BFI has announced the dates for the 2023 edition of the UK’s largest queer film event, BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, which screens the best in contemporary LGBTQ+ cinema from around the globe, in addition to a rich selection of events and archive titles.

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