A still from the film Big Girls Don't Cry. Outdoors, between a pair of lightly tanned thighs, we glimpse one white teenage girl squinting at another. who is lying on her back wearing a bikini.
"I'll forever find humans fascinating and try and zoom in on the little details about them" - Paloma Schneideman discusses Big Girls Don't Cry www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #SXSW2026 #BFIflare #filmsky 🎬🏳️🌈
What Will I Become? "does not explain trans pain from the outside. It sits with it, listens to it, and tries to make room for it without exploiting it." www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/what-... #BFIFlare #FilmSky🎬
Been to the #BFIflare festival and caught The Serpent's Skin, the latest very trans and very Australian horror from @alicemaiomackay.bsky.social; wonderful stuff, highly recommended.
A still from the film What Will I Become? Two young men, one white and one Black, are seen from behind, crouching on a patch of grass and looking into a field of sunflowers.
"It's so easy to go with the flow and accept the negative parts of masculinity and patriarchy. It takes real moral courage to default from that" - Logan Rozos and Lexie Bean discuss trans men's experiences and documentary What Will I Become? www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #BFIflare #filmsky 🎬🏳️⚧️
#BFIFlare ranked (2/2):
- Hunky Jesus
- The Little Sister
- Satisfaction
- ìfé: (The Sequel)
- Keep Coming Back*
*seen outside of the festival
Mostly bangers!
The programmers for BFI Flare 2026 at the closing gala
#BFIFlare ranked (1/2):
- Castration Movie III
- Pink Narcissus*
- Impure Nuns
- We Are Pat
- Montreal, My Beautiful
- What Will I Become?
- Love Letters
- The Serpent’s Skin*
- Black Burns Fast
- Jone, Sometimes
- Jaripeo
- Maspalomas
- Big Girls Don’t Cry
- Death and Life Madalena
- Perro Perro*
A still from the film Castration Movie Anthology II: The Best Of Both Worlds. A group of trans women in identical tracksuits sit in a circle in a basement,
"It's a little bit uncinematic, but I think that's what draws me towards doing it" - Louise Weard on Castration Movie www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #BFIflare
Director Sandulela Asanda
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Distinctively colourful and quirky to a fault, Black Burns Fast is concocted with such care and catharsis that it’ll end up someone you know’s favourite film. Asanda’s youthful queer romcom rejects negative tropes surrounding friendship; by the end, you’ll be missing these friends dearly.
Producer Thomas Coppell and director Paloma Schneideman
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Big Girls Don’t Cry, for all its familiarities, leaves a genuine discomfort with the extent Schneideman goes to depict queer teen repression and distance. Embraces an arresting NZ country backdrop and nostalgia for MSN cringe without dabbling in reverence (so it’s better than Dìdi, sorry).
Director Rowan Haber
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We Are Pat may be the best and most critical film about SNL in this era. Very fun and insightful about the challenge of rebooting outdated characters and grappling with one’s identity and legacy; Sweeney’s role in the experiment is especially heartening. Trans comedy will outlive them all.
Reviews of this week's new films are up, including #TheyWillKillYou #Splitsville #HolyDays #DJAhmet #AMagnificentLife #TheLastBlossom #Orwell and more www.shadowsonthewall.co.uk #filmcritic #newmovies #bfiflare
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The Little Sister - Dreams to belong, be free and be better that can never ever be enough. Familiar and underdeveloped particularly in the family side of the story, otherwise a strong and shameless cut above other film adaptations of authors’ experience. Park Ji-Min is as terrific as ever.
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Death and Life Madalena - An absurd, deadpan, queer comedy of filmmaking errors that seems to be in direct response to Rust, yet takes a more melancholic perspective on the necessity of a producer. Like the film within it, it really is best when it is Noá Bonoba’s film, and she is a beast.
Xiaodan He
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Joan Chen in Montreal, My Beautiful is the loneliest performance I’ve seen this past week. Xiaodan He magically, humorously portrays the struggle of reclaiming lost youth, giving subtle emphasis to Chen’s lack and gradual attainment of agency; even takes after Carol and Handmaiden at once.
Great to get down to #BFIFlare for an early look at Madfabulous! Glorious costumes, music & production design, and yet another fantastic performance from Callum Scott Howells at the heart of it.
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@ffilmcymruwales.bsky.social
@lffstubs.bsky.social I’m selling one ticket to Bearcave on Sunday 29th for 17:10! £6 @ BFI Southbank NFT1 seat E11 :) #bfiflare
BFI Flare 2026: We talk to founder and CEO Naomi Bennett about there creation "Lesflicks," an exclusively lesbian film platform to broaden the genre.
#lesflicks #sapphiccontent #bfiflare #filmreview #filmfesatival
www.themoviebuff.net/2026/03/talk...
Out Laws looks at the origins of anti-LGBTQ+ laws around the world, and meets some of the individuals who have dedicated their lives to challenging them www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/out-l... #BFIflare #filmsky 🎬🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Directors Lexie Bean and Logan Rozos
A postcard for the film and a red fabric care ring
A love note I received before the film: “you have good thoughts and other people want to hear them”
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What Will I Become? is so wholesome and beautifully put together it hurts; PBS must release it as soon and as widely as possible. Justice for Blake, Kyler and every unwelcomed trans child in this world, death to America. What else can be said.
GiGi, also, gets better every time I watch it
Proper Londoners know 80s were decade that should have defined us but didn't. Visited superb #BritishFilmInstitute's #BFIFlare exhibit in Mezzanine Gallery yesterday. Marks the 40th anniversary of the festival that brought Gay & Lesbian films to the fore. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4
2 years ago, Joan Chen starred in my favourite film of the year, Dìdi. In 2026, she’s done it again in #MontrealMyBeautiful, a sapphic Chinese immigrant story set in Canada. Joan Chen is perfect throughout, aching with passion and yearning in the face of quiet suffering #BFIFlare
Director Pamela Adie and co-star Ozzy Agu
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Embracing queer elders and allies, ìfé: (The Sequel) gives fans of the 35min film two hours of what they want, going bigger and messier. Soap-operatic as it is, getting to enjoy such earnest camp with a crowd is why we go to film festivals. More dramas should play a thud over every reveal.
'Something that felt adventurous to programme on a larger screen now feels like a no-brainer.'
In the latest edition of CRESCENDO, film programmer Diana Cipriano discusses queer onscreen representation during #BFIFlare 2026 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Read in full on our website by tapping the banner below 🩷
BFI Flare 2026: We interview Canadian Filmmaker Nick Butler on his film "Lunar Sway," now playing at BFI Flare.
#nickbutler #lunarsway #bfiflare @britishfilminstitute #filmreview #lgbtqfilm @bfiflare
www.themoviebuff.net/2026/03/bfi-...
Louise Weard wearing a GAY24 cap and a ‘WE’RE JUST HERE FOR THE BAD GUYS’ shirt, Avalon Fast whose character takes a devastating downward spiral into TERFdom, and Remy Boydell rocking shades and a mask
A ‘CASTRATION MOVIE / I SAW IT’ badge I collected after seeing Castration Movie Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage
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Saw the first part of the third Castration Movie. Speaking as one who spent two years in an arbitrary battle with their gender identity (and may still have a bit of this……mystery left in me), this was the most excruciating one yet and I cannot wait to sit through the remaining three hours.
Alex Burunova
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While its conviction and style come at the expense of feeling memoir-based, Satisfaction manages to overcome its trappings by conveying a tormented dynamic with painful truth and Emma Laird at her best. In its calmer moments, it could inspire one to go out and record the sounds of nature.
And here's my review of Lunar Sway, an offbeat coming-of-age story about a bored and directionless queer man meeting his birth mother. Noah Parker and Liza Weil are brilliant in this dark comedy, and I loved the distinctive location. Showing at #BFIFlare
Review:
missflicks.com/2026/03/23/l...
And here's my review of Lunar Sway, an offbeat coming-of-age story about a bored and directionless queer man meeting his birth mother. Noah Parker and Liza Weil are brilliant in this dark comedy, and I loved the distinctive location. Showing at #BFIFlare
Review:
missflicks.com/2026/03/23/l...
Had too much time to kill before my #BFIFlare film tonight so I booked another one in to fill the gap 😆
