BFI Flare’s queer film festival is back in full swing at London’s Southbank British Film Institute. One of the highlights of the festival each year is its stellar line-up of short films. This year is no exception. Here is a selection of my favourite shorts so far. Repair This is my favorite film … Continue reading
One of the best things about London’s BFI Flare Film festival is the insight we can gain into different queer lives around the world. Diverse ages, genders, neurodiversity and locations are all represented in this second special selection of short films at the festival. Write Here This is a great film. An … Continue reading
With performances and direction like this you really can make shorts that say it all with few words. This anthology of the longing search for company radiates emotion from the skin of its performers and the luminous situations they find themselves in. Lov Novios de mi Madres (All My Mother’s Lovers) In Los Novios … Continue reading
If being in isolation is becoming, lets us politely say, a bit predictable then it is time to have a few slices of the sideways looks at the world offered in this latest series of shorts. It does not contain the kind of surprises that will sit you bolt up from your coronavirus sofa slouch. … Continue reading
Award-winning Argentinean gay filmmaker Marco Berger has teamed up with Marcelo Monaco, a fellow countryman of his who’s expertise is in gay porn, to make an anthology of short films that explore unconsummated desire. Both of them wrote & directed three stories, each of them focusing on men getting very close to together in various states … Continue reading