Cinema & TV
A Mother Apart: On the red carpet with Staceyann Chin and Laurie Townshend at BFI Flare 2025
A Mother Apart is a stunning Canadian documentary telling the story of Staceyann Chin, a poet, performing artist…
By Jan Traczbfi flare
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Cinema & TV
Departures: On the red carpet with Jake Haymes, Jacob Partali, Tyler Conti and Ali Afzal at BFI Flare 2025
Departures is an emotional ride, a comedy drama based on Lloyd Eyre Martin’s real heartbreak. The young director…
By Jan Tracz
BFI Flare
A Mother Apart
Poet and activist Staceyann Chin was abandoned by her mother, Hazel, at a young age when she left…
By Andrew Murray
Cinema & TV
Backspot: On the red carpet with DW Waterson and Devery Jacobs at BFI Flare
Backspot, starring Devery Jacobs and Evan Rachel Wood, and directed by an emerging film director and DJ, DW…
By Jan Tracz
Cinema & TV
Lady Like: On the red carpet with Lady Camden, Luke Willis and Cookie Walukas at BFI Flare
Lady Like is a documentary that follows the story of Rex Wheeler, a London-born drag queen who rises…
By Ezelle Alblas
Cinema & TV
Unicorns: On the red carpet with James Krishna Floyd, Jason Patel and Ben Hardy
Writer and director James Krishna Floyd explores identity within his drama film Unicorns. Co-directed with Sally El Hosaini,…
By Olivia Gardener
Movie
Close to You
Co-written by director Dominic Savage alongside star and producer Elliot Page, Close to You sees Sam (Page) return…
By Andrew Murray
Cinema & TV
Silver Haze: On the red carpet with Esmé Creed-Miles and Vicky Knight at BFI Flare
Silver Haze, directed by a Dutch film director, Sacha Polak, tells the story of 23-year-old Frankie (Vicky Knight),…
By Jan Tracz
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
Written and directed by Dominic Savage, Close to You is an intimate drama about a trans man called…
By Ezelle Alblas
Movie
Firebird
Peeter Rebane's Firebird premiered last year at the BFI Flare Film Festival, which celebrates the best of LGBTQI+…
By Emma Kiely