BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival

Join us from Wednesday 19 to Sunday 30 March for the best new LGBTQIA+ cinema from around the world. Available across the UK, with accessible screenings of all English-language titles.

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LaylaLayla

Drama2024100 minsDirector: Amrou Al-Kadhi

A British-Palestinian drag performer catches the eye of a strait-laced white man in Amrou Al-Kadhi’s stunning, semi-autobiographical debut.

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MauriceMaurice

Drama1987140 minsDirector: James Ivory

Merchant Ivory’s landmark adaptation of E M Forster’s classic LGBTQ+ novel and a precursor to the James Ivory-scripted Call Me By Your Name, starring Hugh Grant, James Wilby and Rupert Graves.

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God's Own CountryGod's Own Country

Drama2017105 minsDirector: Francis Lee

A troubled young sheep farmer falls for a hired hand in this stunning debut from Francis Lee.

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Eat the NightEat the Night

Thriller2024107 minsDirector: Caroline Poggi and Johnathan Vinel

Siblings find passion and peril online and in the real world, in this visually electric French drama.

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Power AlleyPower Alley

Drama2023100 minsDirector: Lillah Halla

Queer sisterhood and collective power lie at the heart of this arresting Brazilian debut, in which a promising volleyball player faces an unwanted pregnancy.

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BoundBound

Gangster1996109 minsDirector: Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski

A seductive neo-noir and cult classic centring on lesbian desire in dangerous circumstances.

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Here are the pioneers, the iconoclasts, the brave - from landmark LGBTQIA+ portraits to the next generation of queer classics from the BFI Flare festival.

BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival Presents