reviews
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the best of the BFI Flare Queer Film Festival’s Short Films programme. This includes gems from America, Iran, Palestine, Canada and the UK.
\ The BFI London Flare Queer Short Films programme always delivers. It’s a chance for film-makers to take risks – politically, sexually and otherwise – and an opportunity to reflect current events in a timely manner. There’s always a lot of soft power in the programme, and this year is no exception with themes including…
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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…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah List of Best SHORTS Part 2 @BFI Flare, London’s LGBTQ Film Fest
Queerguru had two Contributing Editors camping out at Southbank all this week to review as many films at 39th BFI Flare London’s LGBTQ+ Film Fest as they could. One of them, Ris Fatah. took a particular shine to all the Short Film Programs, so much so we asked him to compile a second…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the BEST SHORT FILMS at @BFI Flare 2022
London’s BFI Flare 2022 queer film festival has an excellent program of international short films. Here are a few of my favorites from this year’s selection – covering Palestine, Egypt, South Korea, Libya, Pakistan, Lebanon, and India. The fact that queer film-making is spreading so globally is very encouraging. Borekas is…
