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The art of the LGBTQ+ film poster at BFI Flare

On the eve of BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival, we round-up some of the most creative posters for films screening in this year's programme.

20 March 2019

The Heiresses – Introverted Chela discovers it’s never too late in life to begin something new in this exquisite exploration of the older lesbian experience
The Gospel of Eureka – Mx Justin Vivian Bond narrates the tale of a Passion Play and a Christian drag show happily co-existing in small-town Arkansas

 

Sunburn – History rears its ugly head for a group of old friends in this sizzling psychological drama
Call Her Ganda – Years of imperial rule come to a head in this challenging and moving documentary

 

Mapplethorpe – Matt Smith stars as legendary photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in this full-frontal homage to the devilish bad boy, whose sex life fuelled his careernd moving documentary
Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure – Ecosexual lovers Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens travel the US in an erotic quest to understand this precious natural resource
Estigma (screening as part of the shorts programme Hook Ups and Downs) – A Friday night hook-up turns into something far more disturbing for an apprehensive young man

 

Enter (screening as part of the shorts programme Labyrinths of Desire) – A flat begins to fill with people and among the bodies there seem to be two who have unfinished business
Crashing Waves (screening as part of the shorts programme The Way Things Are) – Against the backdrop of a high-rise housing estate, two young men connect

 

Flora (screening as part of the shorts programme In Place of the Real) – Flowers, reconceived
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