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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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BFI Flare LGBTQIA+
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BFI Flare LGBTQIA+

From landmark LGBTQIA+ portraits to the next generation of queer classics.

BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival Presents
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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.

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Queer Britain

This colourful and challenging collection explores screen representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lives over the past century.