BFI Flare Film Festival Tag Archive

Film Festival, Live Action

Ben Ockrent Weaves a Fairytale for an Adult Audience in ‘Edmund the Magnificent’

Ben Ockrent tells DN how he created and structured Sir Ian McKellen's narration around the edit for his adult fairytale short 'Edmund The Magnificent'.

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Film Festival, Live Action

Ellie Rogers Explores the Importance of Unexpected Female Friendships in ‘Outlines’

An initially awkward encounter between a young girl and her Dad's hired escort evolves into an unexpected friendship in Ellie Rogers' 'Outlines'.

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Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action

Watch #FiveFilms4Freedom – A Global Digital LGBTQ+ Online Film Festival

The British Council and BFI Flare Festival continue their global, digital LGBTQ+ online film festival #FiveFilms4Freedom.

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Film Festival

BFI Flare London LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2018: Stand Up

DN looks forward to another programme of the best in LGBTQ+ cinema from around the world at the BFI Flare London Film Festival 2018.

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Live Action

Teenage Temptations, Desires & Fantasies Are All Explored in Anthony Doncque’s ‘1992’

Anthony Doncque reveals how personal footage shot 25yrs ago formed the basis of his nostalgic tale of passion between a student and his teaching assistant.

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Documentary

Matt Wolf’s ‘Bayard & Me’ Tells How Intergenerational Gay Adoption Became a Tool of Civil Rights Activism

"Acts of resistance can unfold behind closed doors in private forms of rebellion." Matt Wolf speaks to DN about Bayard Rustin and subversive LGBT activism.

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Film Festival

BFI Flare 2017: And In The End…

“It may have been my first time at BFI Flare, but it definitely won’t be my last.” DN shares our highlights from Europe’s largest LGBT film festival.

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Film Festival

BFI Flare 2017: Bigger and Better

James Maitre looks ahead to this year's celebration of some of the world's best LGBT features & shorts on offer at the burgeoning BFI Flare Film Festival.

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