Welcome back BFI Flare, we’ve missed you. ❤️
Europe’s biggest LGBTQIA+ film festival kicks off today, with a huge program of beautiful, moving, and thought-provoking films about Queer lives. For the 39th instalment of the festival, organisers chose horticultural imagery, reflecting the “beautiful bouquet” of films they’ve chosen “from our cinematic flower bed.”
Highlights include documentary ‘Assembly’, which charts artist Rashaad Newsome’s attempt to turn New York’s Park Avenue Armory into an exhibition on voguing and Black Queer culture.
Short ‘Jasmine That Blooms In Autumn’ tells the story of two women who fall in love at an old people’s home, exchanging secret gifts and messages. You can see the film as part of the ‘Day Dreamers’ short film screening, also featuring ‘Farewell, Saranghae, Farewell’.
The festival starts tonight with the Opening Gala showing of ‘The Wedding Banquet’. Andrew Ahn updates Ang Lee’s 1993 rom-com with an IVF storyline thrown into the green card wedding mix. Expect: colour, warmth and humour.
BFI Flare runs 19-30th March at BFI Southbank. See the full program and film details at BFI.org.uk.
