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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Look back, to revisit and discover - not just the icons of queer cinema but the lesser-known treasures.

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Layla

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

  • Drama
  • 2024
  • 100 mins
  • Amrou Al-Kadhi

God's Own Country

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

  • Drama
  • 2017
  • 105 mins
  • Francis Lee

Four Mothers

Hilarious, uplifting tale of an Irish son juggling four very different mothers over one chaotic weekend in Dublin.

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • 2023
  • 89 mins
  • Darren Thornton

Je tu il elle

Akerman’s debut feature, with its 10-minute lesbian sex scene, revealed its maker to be a radical and uncompromising force in cinema.

  • Drama
  • 1974
  • 86 mins
  • Chantal Akerman

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Céline Sciamma’s BAFTA-nominated film about the tentative love between a painter and her subject in 18th-century France.

  • Romance
  • 2019
  • 121 mins
  • Céline Sciamma

Benediction

Terence Davies’ devastatingly moving, lyrical portrait of the life of celebrated war poet Siegfried Sassoon.

  • Drama
  • 2021
  • 137 mins
  • Terence Davies

The Balconettes

Co-written with Céline Sciamma, Noémie Merlant’s bold film follows three friends as they dispose of the body of an abuser they’ve accidentally killed.

  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
  • 2024
  • 104 mins
  • Noémie Merlant

Sebastian

A young London-based writer begins a double life as a sex worker to research his debut novel, in this gripping psychological drama.

  • Drama
  • 2024
  • 110 mins
  • Mikko Mäkelä

Rentals

Landmark portraits of LGBTQIA+ life alongside the next generation of gay classics.

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Barrio Boy

£4.50

A Latino barber embarks on an erotically charged odyssey of self-discovery over one hot summer in Brooklyn.

  • Romance
  • Drama
  • 2022
  • 83 mins
  • Dennis Shinners

Love Lies Bleeding

£3.50

Rose Glass’s gripping and gory follow-up to Saint Maud finds a lesbian couple drawn into a web of violence in 1980s small-town New Mexico.

  • Thriller
  • Romance
  • 2023
  • 104 mins
  • Rose Glass

Ammonite

£3.50

Francis Lee follows up God’s Own Country with a film that is every bit as immersive, tactile and emotionally powerful, aided by the devastatingly good Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan.

  • Biopic
  • Romance
  • 2021
  • 118 mins
  • Francis Lee

The Pass

£3.50

Russell Tovey stars as a Premier League footballer who shares a fumbled pass (of the sexual kind) with a teammate (Arinzé Kene), changing everything - both on and off the pitch.

  • Drama
  • 2016
  • 86 mins
  • Ben A. Williams

Keyboard Fantasies

£3.50

After his 1986 album Keyboard Fantasies is rediscovered, a black trans musician recounts his life, from the lonely 1960s to the joy of witnessing the present.

  • Documentary
  • 2019
  • 60 mins
  • Posy Dixon

Of Girls and Horses

£3.50

A troubled teen finds love during a summer spent at a horse ranch, in this captivating lesbian drama from cult director Monika Treut.

  • Drama
  • 2014
  • 83 mins
  • Monika Treut

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

£3.50

An unflinching and sometimes graphic account of the life, art and legacy of the legendary photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

  • Documentary
  • 2016
  • 109 mins
  • Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato

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Interviews from past BFI Flare events, featuring filmmakers from across the world.

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