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.
Subscription highlights
Layla Layla
Drama 2024 100 mins Director: 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.
Maurice Maurice
Drama 1987 140 mins Director: 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.
God's Own Country God's Own Country
Drama 2017 105 mins Director: Francis Lee
A troubled young sheep farmer falls for a hired hand in this stunning debut from Francis Lee.
Eat the Night Eat the Night
Thriller 2024 107 mins Director: Caroline Poggi and Johnathan Vinel
Siblings find passion and peril online and in the real world, in this visually electric French drama.
Power Alley Power Alley
Drama 2023 100 mins Director: 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.
Bound Bound
Gangster 1996 109 mins Director: Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski
A seductive neo-noir and cult classic centring on lesbian desire in dangerous circumstances.
Free short films
#FiveFilmsForFreedom
Sharing LGBTQIA+ stories with the world online, in partnership with the British Council.
#GENERATIONNOW
Short films exploring what it means to be a young adult in the world today.
Flare collections
BFI Flare LGBTQIA+
From landmark LGBTQIA+ portraits to the next generation of queer classics.
BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival Presents
The home of LGBTQIA+ rentals on BFI Player, showcasing favourites from the BFI Flare festival and the best in contemporary LGBTQIA+ cinema.
Queer Britain
This colourful and challenging collection explores screen representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lives over the past century.