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Five recommendations at BFI Flare 2021

Brother’s Keeper suggests Kurdish oppression begins in school

Ted K visits the Unabomber’s neck of the woods

French Exit sends Michelle Pfeiffer into the Parisian night

Fabian or Going to the Dogs dives headlong with Weimar Germany’s lost generation

Petite Maman is a magical story of childhood love and loneliness

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn pokes Romania’s hypocrisies in the eye

Azor follows a quiet Swiss banker through Argentina’s dirty war

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy spins yarns of connection and coincidence in the conditional tense

Mr. Bachmann and His Class instils migrant wisdom in a new Germany

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? is a Georgian romance with Kafkaesque quirks

A Cop Movie blows the lid off the act of policing

Introduction bridges the generational gap in Hong Sangsoo’s typical style

Ninjababy pits a reluctant mother-to-be against her sweary unborn offspring

Gritt follows a woman’s self-destructive, determined dreams of artistic glory

All Light, Everywhere is an illuminative meditation on the nature of seeing

Rotterdam round-up: the best of the 2021 IFFR

Archipelago traverses Québec’s cultural terrain as an animated anthology

The Witches of the Orient shows the cultural influence of Japanese volleyball stars

Riders of Justice shows Mads Mikkelsen wreaking paternal vengeange

Censor splices cut-throat video nasty violence with smart social commentary

One for the Road: a stylish but superficial Thai road trip

Flee: an evocative, animated documentary of escape from Afghanistan

In the Same Breath: the Covid-19 pandemic goes under the microscope

Human Factors: a tense, puzzling family drama

President: a startling story of Zimbabwean electoral fraud

I Was a Simple Man: a poetic but sluggish ghost story

Luzzu: an earnest, neorealistic Maltese fishing drama