shorts

  • New French Shorts 2020 : with flashes of honesty, humour and a little horniness

    New French Shorts 2020 : with flashes of honesty, humour and a little horniness

                          A marvelously robust and compelling group of French shorts. They are all satisfyingly different filled with flashes of honesty, humour and a little horniness   AHMED’S SONG (Le chant d’Ahmed) Director: Foued Mansour The low key charm is real as young Mike, a chancer…

  • Boys on Film 20: Heaven Can Wait : Heavy going on the way to Heaven

    Boys on Film 20: Heaven Can Wait : Heavy going on the way to Heaven

      Hidden in this collection of shorts are two or three better, more focused films. It is too long to bare all the weight of its sombre content in one sitting. Anyone trying to bake their way out of their coronavirus confinement will be familiar with the problem that a good ingredient, eaten too often,…

  • Seeing Is Believing : New Queer Visions

    Seeing Is Believing : New Queer Visions

    If being in isolation is becoming, lets us politely say, a bit predictable then it is time to have a few slices of the sideways looks at the world offered in this latest series of shorts.  It does not contain the kind of surprises that will sit you bolt up from your coronavirus sofa slouch.…

  • #FiveFilmsForFreedom : 5  fab queer shorts to view now for FREE

    #FiveFilmsForFreedom : 5 fab queer shorts to view now for FREE

      There has never been a more important time for the BFI Flare & British Council annual joint project #FiveFilmsForFreedom .  It is a global, online short film program in support of LGBTIQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer) rights. It is an opportunity  for audiences everywhere to watch the five films  online and FREE …