Film Review: Big Girls Don’t Cry (BFI Flare 2026) From New Zealand, Big Girls Don’t Cry is a very good coming of age drama about the space between adolescence and adulthood.

For Cinematic Sense, my review of BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY, the New Zealand coming of age film that was shown at this year's BFI Flare Festival...

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BFI Flare 2026: Love Letters (Des preuves d’amour) - The Reviews Hub Writer: Alice Douard and Laurette Polmanss Director: Alice Douard There is a touch of Nora Ephron in Alice Douard’s charming comedic drama Love Letters, particularly in its blend of warmth and wry obs...

#FILM #REVIEW Love Letters (Des preuves d’amour)
'resolves with a perhaps overly tidy sense of inevitability' ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #BFIFlare2026 thereviewshub.com/bfi-flare-20...

BFI Flare 2026: Madfabulous - The Reviews Hub Writer: Lisa Baker Director: Celyn Jones On paper, Madfabulous should be the most enjoyable film at this year’s BFI Flare Festival. Telling the true story of the lavishly overdressed 5th Marquis of An...

#FILM #REVIEW Madfabulous
'as uncomfortably adrift as the Marquis himself' ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ #BFIFlare2026 thereviewshub.com/bfi-flare-20...

BFI Flare 2026: The Deepest Space in Us - The Reviews Hub Writer and Director: Yasutomo Chikuma There aren’t many films about asexuality. Two years ago, Marija Kavtaradze’s Slow, about an asexual man, was one of the standout films at the Flare Festival. Howe...

#FILM #REVIEW The Deepest Space in Us
'the characters remain too distant and elusive to really understand them' ⭐️⭐️½ #BFIFlare2026 thereviewshub.com/bfi-flare-20...

BFI Flare 2026: Satisfaction - The Reviews Hub Writer and Director: Alex Burunova Satisfaction may be the most traumatic film screening at this year’s BFI Flare. Its striking colour palette of whites and dusty blues hides a dark secret at the hear...

#FILM #REVIEW Satisfaction
'Burunova doesn’t shy away from the trauma that sits towards the middle of her film.' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #BFIFlare2026 thereviewshub.com/bfi-flare-20...

BFI Flare 2026: Drunken Noodles - The Reviews Hub Writer and Director: Lucio Castro Drunken Noodles is another distinctive, playful turn from Argentine auteur Lucio Castro, following his breakout End of the Century. While his debut bent time into cos...

#FILM #REVIEW Drunken Noodles
'an erotic, entrancing experience stitched together by haunted memory logic.' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #BFIFlare2026 thereviewshub.com/bfi-flare-20...

BFI Flare 2026: What Will I Become - The Reviews Hub Writers: Lexie Bean, Isidore Bethel and Miles Hill Director: Lexie Bean and Logan Rozos “All we can expect from visibility is hate” states one contributor to Lexie Bean and Logan Rozos’ documentary Wh...

#FILM #REVIEW What Will I Become
'their honesty and openness presents a picture of warmth and support.' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #BFIFlare2026 thereviewshub.com/bfi-flare-20...

BFI Flare 2026: Strange River - The Reviews Hub Writers: Jaume Claret Muxart and Meritxell Colell Director: Jaume Claret Muxart 27-year-old Spanish director Jaume Claret Muxart has an old soul. His brooding coming-of-age story about a 16-year-old S...

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'grippingly hypnotic and full of possibilities' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #BFIFlare2026 thereviewshub.com/bfi-flare-20...

Lunar Sway - Film Review - Eye For Film In this offbeat comedy, a bi guy in a desert town receives a surprise visit from his con-artist birth mother, with chaos ensuing.

Lunar Sway is "the kind of film that seems to drift rather than move in straight lines, guided by intuition, memory and the pull of recurring images." www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/lunar... #BFIFlare2026 #FilmSky🎬

Jaripeo - Film Review - Eye For Film A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.

"Jaripeo is attentive to contradiction without flattening its subjects into symbols." www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/jarip... #FilmSky🎬 #Sundance #TrueFalse #Berlinale2026 #TIDF26 #BFIFlare2026

BFI Flare 2026 member tickets go on sale today at noon 🎬🌈

We've just added film festival pages to the site, so you can browse the full Flare lineup, and plan your festival all in one place.

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