BFI Flare

“It’s chaotic, it’s messy, it’s human”: Nick Butler, Noah Parker and Liza Weil on Lunar Sway at BFI Flare 2026

The BFI Flare festival has always been one of this writer’s favourites – not just for its incredible, inclusive atmosphere and the spectrum of...

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Lunar Sway

Satisfaction: On the red carpet with Alex Burunova and Fionn Whitehead at BFI Flare 2026

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LFF
The Unknown
Arthur Harari’s The Unknown opens at a costume party, where David Zimmerman...

Christina Yang 21^st October
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LFF
Strawberries
While discussions of migration tend to focus on young, single men, Laïla...

Christina Yang 18^th October
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LFF
Women on Trial
Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller’s Women on Trial dramatises the landmark...

Christina Yang 18^th October
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LFF
Bird: On the red carpet with Nykiya Adams, Jason Buda, James Nelson-Joyce and Frankie Box at London Film Festival 2024

Sarah Bradbury 23^rd October

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Venice
Oasis
School shootings have emerged as a recurring subject in films this year, forming the...

Selina Sondermann 12^th September
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Venice
Woman Unknown
May el-Toukhy made waves in 2019 with her sophomore feature Queen of Hearts,...

Selina Sondermann 12^th September
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Venice
A Good Little Soldier
In 2025, Stéphane Brizé served as a member of the official jury in...

Selina Sondermann 12^th September
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Venice
“The coma is a pretext to tell the immobility of people stuck in their routine”: Valerio Mastandrea interview on Feeling Better

Filippo L'Astorina 17^th September

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Cannes
A Man of His Time
Emmanuelle Marre’s A Man of His Time opens in September 1940 at a...

Christina Yang 30^th May
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Cannes
The Man I Love
Ira Sachs’s The Man I Love opens with a premise that seems deceptively...

Christina Yang 25^th May
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Cannes
Goodbye, Cruel World
It’s an eerily familiar spectacle. A reserved, dark-haired...

Thomas Messner 25^th May
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Cinema & Tv
“Cate Blanchett told me Tár was not only the story of a conductor. And our film was not only about a conductor”: Benjamin Lavernhe on The Marching Band at Cannes Film Festival 2024

Mark Worgan 22^nd May

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Glasgow
Broken English
“Marianne died before we could finish this,” Tilda Swinton states...

Andrew Murray 5^th March
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Glasgow
The Curse
Ever since Sadako crawled out of the TV during the climax of Ringu, curses and...

Andrew Murray 5^th March
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Glasgow
Effi O Blaenau
Adapted from Gary Owen’s one-woman play, Iphigenia in Splott, Marc...

Andrew Murray 3^rd March
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Cinema & Tv
“There are no bangs and flashes; it’s just a story about how we treat each other”: James Cosmo on My Sailor, My Love at Glasgow Film Festival 2023

Andrew Murray 9^th March

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Berlinale
Salvation
A Kurdish village in Eastern Turkey is split in two: Upper Pingan, on the...

Selina Sondermann 20^th February
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Berlinale
Josephine
In a veritable display of saving the best for last, the final film premiering in...

Selina Sondermann 20^th February
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Berlinale
Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird)
In Yo, documentary filmmaker Anna Fitch and her...

Selina Sondermann 20^th February
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Cinema & Tv
“My main concern is the story I’m telling – not the place where it takes place”: Abderrahmane Sissako on Black Tea at Berlinale 2024

Oliver Johnston 28^th February

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Film festivals
Kneecap
An indigenous language dies once every 40 days, and with it goes a sense of...

Guy Lambert 11^th June
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Cinema & Tv
Dìdi: On the red carpet with Sean Wang, Carlos Lopez and Valerie Bush at Sundance London 2024

Ezelle Alblas 10^th June
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Cinema & Tv
Sundance London 2024: On the red carpet with Emerald Fennell
As Sundance Film Festival 2024 celebrates its 40-year anniversary,...

Ezelle Alblas 10^th June
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Film festivals
Skywalkers: A Love Story
“We’re telling a love story,” so the self-designated...

Thomas Messner 7^th June

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Movie
Marrakech Film Festival 2024: Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano, the prize-winning second feature film from...

Andrew Murray 8th December 2024
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Movie
Marrakech Film Festival 2024: The Wolves Always Come at Night
A seamless blend of fiction and documentary...

Andrew Murray 8th December 2024
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Movie
Marrakech Film Festival 2024: Silent Storms
Alongside being heavily associated with evil spirits and jump scares,...

Andrew Murray 8th December 2024
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Movie
Marrakech Film Festival 2024: One of Those Days When Hemme Dies
Directed by and starring Murat Fıratoğlu in his...

Andrew Murray 8th December 2024

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BFI Flare
A Mother Apart

Poet and activist Staceyann Chin was abandoned by her mother, Hazel, at a young age...

Andrew Murray 24th March 2025
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BFI Flare
The Wedding Banquet

In Andrew Ahn’s charming reimagining of Ang Lee’s 1993 film of the same name,...

Andrew Murray 20th March 2025
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Cinema & Tv
Lady Like: On the red carpet with Lady Camden, Luke Willis and Cookie Walukas at BFI Flare

Ezelle Alblas 26th March 2024
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Cinema & Tv
Unicorns: On the red carpet with James Krishna Floyd, Jason Patel and Ben Hardy

Writer and director James Krishna Floyd explores...

Olivia Gardener 26th March 2024
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Cinema & Tv
Silver Haze: On the red carpet with Esmé Creed-Miles and Vicky Knight at BFI Flare

Jan Tracz 20th March 2024
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Cinema & Tv
“We let our connection be part of the beauty that unfolds between Sam and Catherine”: Elliot Page, Hillary Baack and Dominic Savage at BFI Flare

Ezelle Alblas 20th March 2024
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BFI Flare
Valentina

A 17-year-old trans girl struggles to live a normal life in the hard-hitting social realist...

Emma-Jane Betts 23rd March 2021
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BFI Flare
Kiss Me Before It Blows Up

Shy German botanist Maria (Luise Wolfram) moves in with her fun-loving...

Andrew Murray 23rd March 2021
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BFI Flare
Tove

The Finnish artist and illustrator Tove Jansson first began writing the Moomins books in the...

Guy Lambert 23rd March 2021
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BFI Flare
Well Rounded

A group of queer women take to the screen to discuss their lived experiences of...

Emma-Jane Betts 22nd March 2021

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