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Discover the line-up for the 35th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival. With 12 days of the best new queer cinema, BFI Flare 2021 takes place 17-28 March 2021. BFI Members’ priority booking is now open, with tickets on sale to public from 2 March.
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Wednesday 17 to Sunday 28 March 2021. Join us for 12 days of the best new queer cinema from around the world, free events and more. BFI Members’ priority booking is now open, with tickets on sale to public from 2 March.
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Sight & Sound: the April 2021 issue
Adam Curtis tells us how we made our world, the better to try again. Plus Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, two new spy-thriller documentaries, a history of the ‘cursed film’, looking back at Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express – and forward to the future of Studio Ghibli.
In the beginning: cinema’s murky origin story
By Peter Domankiewicz
The Watermelon Woman at 25: the Black lesbian classic that wears its brilliance lightly
By Chrystel Oloukoi
5 things to watch this weekend – 26 to 28 February
By Samuel Wigley
Let there be projector light: 80 films that take us inside cinemas
By Thomas Flew
“Bogarde is exactly ripe for this role”: on the set of Visconti’s Death in Venice
By Margaret Hinxman
The Stylist is a cut-throat hairdresser horror story
By Jason Anderson
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