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Join BBC 1Xtra presenter Dotty live tonight from BFI Southbank as we go behind the scenes at the Opening Night of BFI Flare: LGBTQ+ London Film Festival. Tune in from 8.30pm to see filmmakers, special guests and much more.
The world’s best new and classic LGBTQ+ films come to BFI Southbank.
Strap on your pointe shoes and join Anna, Henry and Pete as — inspired by The White Crow — they hit the floor with an episode about the Soviet ballet dancers who defected to the west.
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Mike Leigh orchestrates a superb ensemble cast in this rousing tale of working class uprising and its violent suppression.
More TV please: David Thomson sings the praises of binging. Plus Ali Abbasi’s Swedish folkloric fable Border, Ralph Fiennes’s Nureyev portrait The White Crow, Richard Billingham’s Ray & Liz, and female noir in and beyond Carol Morley’s Out of Blue.
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Mike Leigh’s rousing, period tale of uprising and suppression.
A tough but tender portrait of life on the fringes of society.
Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Paul Dano’s elegant 1950s-set melodrama.
A fascinating study of the film icon’s extraordinary career.
21–31 March 2019
The best new and classic LGBTQ+ films from around the world
Choose your pathway through the Festival and discover this year’s films.
Debate, dance, discuss…
We are committed to ensuring that the Festival is as inclusive and accessible as possible.
1,000s of films, preserved.
120 years of British life, many unseen for decades.
Hidden histories and forgotten stories of people and places from the UK’s key film and TV archives.
20 colour snapshots of vibrant Soho 60 years ago
Flesh and pleasure made its name, but in 1956 there was a lot more to a place that, in modern times, has all but vanished.
37 pictures showing what punk Britain was really like
From the late 70s, punk fashions and attitude spread agitation round the nation.
Hugh Grant and James Wilby star in the newly restored Merchant Ivory drama.
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Stranger in the House (dual format edition)
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Video: Ralph Fiennes and the makers of White Crow
Thursday 21 March 2019
Five reasons to watch cyberpunk body-horror Tetsuo: The Iron Man – 30th anniversary
Thursday 21 March 2019
Thursday 21 March 2019
Watch this year’s BFI Flare #FiveFilms4Freedom
Thursday 21 March 2019
The art of the LGBTQ+ film poster at BFI Flare
Wednesday 20 March 2019
Industry programme and guests announced for BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Tuesday 19 March 2019
Video: Erica Antonioni on Beyond the Clouds
Monday 18 March 2019
Where to begin with Blumhouse Productions
Monday 18 March 2019
BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival
21 March – 31 March 2019. The best new and classic LGBTQ+ films from around the world.
Barbara Stanwyck at BFI Southbank
Versatility, professionalism and resourcefulness made Barbara Stanwyck one of the most memorable Hollywood actors.
Former fighter pilot Carol Danvers turns into one of the galaxy’s most powerful heroes and fights to protect Earth in a galactic conflict.
Victor Polster gives a nuanced lead performance in Lukas Dhont's debut film, in which the physical rigours of ballet training, the pains of adolescence and the bruising difficulty of life as a transgender teenager combine to create an emotionally raw melodrama, writes Hannah McGill.
Thursday 14 March 2019
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Wednesday 20 March 2019
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Thursday 14 March 2019
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