If you cannot get to the BFI Flare Film Festival on London’s Southbank (shame on you!) then the nice people that organize the event are actually giving you a chance to watch five short movies at home free of charge.
The BFI have got together with The British Council to launch fiveFilms4freedom, an online mini film festival which celebrates love and diversity on Thursday 17th March. For a whole 24 hours audiences, wherever they are in the world, to enjoy LGBT cinema; to find out a little bit more about emerging LGBT filmmakers from around the world; and most importantly, to show support for freedom and equality everywhere.
SWIRL : Two girls, young and in love, move backwards through the city in Peterson Varga’s lyrical short from the Philippines.
XAVIER is a film by Brazilian director Ricky Mastro about a father who notices that his 11-year-old son pays a lot of attention to slightly older boys.
BREATHE is a British-Irish film by James Doherty, about an Irish traveller is increasingly concerned that his son is ‘soft’, so sets about toughening him up.
TAKE YOUR PARTNERS In this British short film by director Siri Rodnes, Miss Paterson expects Ollie to make an Easter bonnet like the other girls. But Ollie is not like the other girls.
THE ORCHID A man has something important to tell his son, but can only get through to his voicemail in this film by Spanish director Ferran Navarro-Beltrán.
fiveFilms4freedom can be viewed for 24 hours world-wide free on Thursday 17th March 2016 at https://www.britishcouncil.org/ and http://player.bfi.org.uk/
