Dreams in Nightmares Review: BFI Flare Festival 2025

Three friends make the best of a reluctant roadtrip in Dreams in Nightmares Dreams in Nightmares is the second feature from American writer/director Shatara Michelle…

You Promised Me The Sea Review: BFI Flare Festival 2024

You Promised Me The Sea (L’air de la mer rend libre) explores an arranged marriage between a closeted gay man and his unknowing wife in…

Love Lies Bleeding Review: BFI Flare Festival 2024

Be gay do crime: Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian are lovers on a revenge mission in Love Lies Bleeding Lou (Kristen Stewart) manages a run-down…

Our Son Review: BFI Flare Festival 2024

Luke Evans and Billy Porter shine in divorce drama Our Son Nicky (Luke Evans) and Gabriel (Billy Porter) are a married couple and parents to…

Close To You Review: BFI Flare Festival 2024

Elliot Page returns home for an awkward family reunion in Close To You Sam (Elliot Page) wakes up in Toronto preparing to take a journey…

Unspoken Review: BFI Flare Festival 2024

An Orthodox Jewish teenager feels a connection to his grandfather’s secret life in Unspoken Noam is a closeted gay teenager living within the Orthodox Jewish…

Riley Review: BFI Flare Festival 2024

A high school football star grapples with his sexuality in coming-of-age drama Riley Dakota Riley (Jake Holley) is the star player of a small-town high…

Firebird Review: BFI Flare 2021

A forbidden romance flourishes on a Soviet air base in lush Cold War drama Firebird 1977 on an Estonian Soviet air force base and conscripted…

Valentina Review: BFI Flare 2021

A trans teen fights for her right to education in powerful Brazilian drama Valentina Valentina and her mother Marcia move to a new city hoping…

Jump Darling Review: BFI Flare 2021

A rookie drag queen spends time with his ailing grandmother in Jump Darling, one of the great Cloris Leachman’s final films Reeling from a painful…