BFI Flare
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Queerguru’s preview of BFI Flare 2022 : Europe’s biggest and best queer Film Festival
The annual BFI Flare: London’s LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, is the biggest LGBTIQ+ film festival in Europe …… and we think the best too. This, the 36th Edition, will take place in person, and also offer a selection of titles available on BFI Player to UK-wide audiences, and to international audiences via Five Films…
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Queerguru @BFI Flare : THE DOSE a deliberately joyless movie
Bear with us for a moment. When we tell you that Martin Kraut’s The Dose (La Dosis) is a depressing movie we might immediately lose you. It is important to add quickly that its depressing nature is its effect rather than its defect. This film is not out to affirm life but to remind you…
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AIDS DIVA The Legend of Connie Norman
In the second half of the last Century when the LGBTQ community found its very survival was at risk, even at its darkest moments there was usually also a bright beacon of light and hope. As the AIDS pandemic devastated us indiscriminately in the 1980’s most of us felt overwhelmed and helpless, but there…
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Queerguru @BFI Flare : SWEETHEART
Throw aside any expectations that Marly Morrison’s Sweetheart will be an achingly Gen Z teen zeitgeist movie and embrace the fact that it belongs to the classic British genre of sexually awkward teen meets nightmare seaside family holiday. Go with it because that is what makes its humiliating inevitability so sweet. April Jane or AJ…
