Watched @ BFI Flare 2023

When his best friend and creative partner suddenly couples off and moves away, an ambitious New York drag queen determined for the limelight must reinvent himself or risk becoming an irrelevant solo act both onstage and off.

It often happens that at the moment of death, transgender individuals are shorn of their identity. Their families are ashamed, the funeral takes place in secret, and on the tomb appears the name the deceased had before their transition, in one stroke nullifying the entire life path they had chosen. The same thing happened to Antonia. Her girlfriends gather to honor her memory and give her back her identity denied. In telling her story, the film’s stars, all drawn from the variegated transgender world, interweave the narrative with tales of their own lives, experiences, and memories.

2022 film directed by Maryam Touzani

An intimate look into the lives of one of the most iconic folk-rock bands in America - the Indigo Girls. With never-before-seen archival and intimate vérité the film dives into the songwriting and storytelling of the music that transformed a generation.

A film that brandishes the documentry form and art to try to dismantle the stigma of being HIV positive that still persists in society. The film honours the past and the iconic Thom McGinty, the Diceman, who was one of the first to speak openly in Ireland about having AIDS but, other than that, it’s very firmly rooted in the here and now. Based on a theatre show, the stories in this film move between bodies of young men, migrant women, drag artists and activists. A form-flipping documentary, it features a cast of actors as well as ordinary people coming out on screen for the first time.

Chez lui, un gigolo raconte ses expériences et le parcours qui l’a mené à Paris. Après cinq ou six ans de galère, il devient stripteaseur dans un cabaret. Le film le montre faire ses exercices, draguer, rouler à moto ou exécuter son numéro sur scène. À travers ce récit charnel, se dévoile le Paris gay des années 1970 et la trajectoire d’un homme qui fait de son corps son seul langage.

2023 film by Hannes Hirsch

Inspired by the true story of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, 'Every Waking Moment' is a snapshot in the lives of two musicians, a composer and a tenor, who must hide their forbidden love away from the eyes of the public.

Two young soldiers across enemy lines fall in love and find escape from their oppressive environments in this musical drama.

Keisi wakes up one morning with the obsession of escaping into the thick of nature that has been stalking them lately. A photograph as fantasy; the art gallery that exhibits it as a nightmare.

Pana 是委内瑞拉本土特色俚语，意蕴温柔又深厚：作名词，是同乡兄弟、交心挚友；作形容词，代表温柔和善、亲切合拍、相处自在安心。
短片《我的同乡》既是青涩动人的青春成长物语，也是一曲关于移民漂泊与异乡流亡的悲歌。影片讲述一位少年孤身踏入陌生国度，仅凭着年少鲜活的身躯、青春底气，以及骨子里不屈的韧性，努力在异乡扎根存活。
透过少年的眼眸，我们看见数百万海外委内瑞拉人的颠沛苦楚，目睹家国腐败、被迫远走他乡带来的无尽创伤。一个人被迫割舍原本的人生，在冷漠疏离的新世界艰难蜕变，灵魂割裂、辗转流离，无处归依。

84-year-old cellist Ceri has lost his husband to cancer and his ability to play to a debilitating stroke. His dull life is spent in solitude, save for the interruptions of agency carers and the solace of his iPad. Seizing the opportunity that a night-time staff shortage brings; he uses Grindr to invite 20-year-old rent-boy Iestyn to visit.

Charlie's bath-time is interrupted by some old friends who they haven't seen in years. Though Charlie is bitter about old history, their friends help them come to terms with what they've gone through and what it means to remember.

Sara, a fifty-year-old trans woman, can no longer just be herself when she is locked up in her house, secretly. She needs the world to see her as she really is and she is about to go out on the street for the first time. Throughout her walk through the streets of the city she will face the prejudices of a society that does not let her be who she is, she will fight against her fears and insecurities and will live with a world that surpasses her and makes her have to be braver. never.