Firebird - BFI Flare 2021 - Q&A

The actor-writer-director discusses the making of her comedy about a bisexual Iranian-American woman struggling to negotiate her troubled love life.

Director Dante Alencastre in conversation following a screening of AIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman at BFI Flare, 2021.

Director Daniel Sánchez López in conversation following a screening at BFI Flare 2021.

Director and screenwriter Alexa Bakony discusses Colors of Tobi following its screening at BFI Flare 2021.

Filmmaker Pete Murimi discusses their film I Am Samuel, following a screening at BFI Flare in 2021.

Writer-producer Paul Hallam discusses the making of Nighthawks (1978), the first major British gay film.

Filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and curator Matthew Barrington discuss Frederick Wiseman’s High School with Sandra Hebron.

Rose is desperate to celebrate her 60th birthday in style, but her daughter Genevieve is struggling to ignore some recent tragic news about her mum.

A haunting with words is the lure between life and death for a young Cornish poet.

Adeel Akhtar portrays a man on a weekly trek to his nearest JobCentre, entering a state of purgatory through barriers put in place by the system.

Seagull is a recovering drug addict who is about to have a very strange night on The English Riviera.

Upon returning to her home town for a funeral, a young woman reconnects with the friends she left behind.