BFI Flare
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Queerguru reviews SILVER HAZE a gritty queer piece of British realism by Sacha Polak
This sophomore feature film from the British filmmaker Sacha Polak SILVER HAZE sees her back working with actress Vicky Knight after their award-winning Dirty God in 2019. For that role, Knight was chosen from auditions of burn survivors, and now once again she is starring in the role of a survivor…….. this time…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews The Summer With Carmen : two friends on a beach plan a movie about their lives
Bright and sunny Greece, summertime and Demosthenes, a good-looking man that captures the eye from beginning to end of the film, an educational one (instructions included) on how to write a script, develop characters, and write about fiction based on facts. A comedy that embraces us, viewers into a platonic friendship. We follow…
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Queerguru’s Top Picks of Must See Movies at BFI FLARE LONDON, Europe’s largest queer Film Fest
The 38th Edition of the annual BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival is just about to kick-off at Southbank. It’s one of QUEERGURU’S favorite queer film fests …… not just because it is the biggest in Europe but also because it’s in one of QUEERGURU’s global home bases. BFI Flare is divided into three thematic programme…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Two Queer Cult Classics at BFI Flare
The British Film Institute looks after one of the largest archive collections of films in the world, with footage dating back to the first moving images in the 1890s. Within its vaults are countless classic queer films, a couple of which are included in the BFI Flare Festival each year. This year’s favourites include…
