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BFI Flare 🌼
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BFI Flare 🌼
@BFIFlare
Showcasing the best new queer cinema and celebrating the diversity of LGBTQIA+ culture from around the globe. Taking place 18-29 March 2026 at BFI Southbank.
Joined January 2014
- It’s #CarmillaMovie day at #BFIFlare! We couldn’t be more excited that @natvanlis herself will be joining us for its festival premiere - why don’t you have your tickets yet?! It’s sure to be a vamptastic evening bit.ly/2G0Plmo 🧛♀️ @carmillaseries
- Lesbian vampire lovers. Sink your teeth into the "fun and sexy" (@TheMarySue) screen adaptation of cult favourite @carmillaseries at #BFIFlare bit.ly/2DshFIe 🦇🧛🏻♀️
- London Pride in 1976. An incredible window into LGBT history. From Piccadilly Circus to a rally in Hyde Park, this footage was discovered in the landmark short film 'David Is Homosexual' #BritainOnFilm #LGBTHistoryMonth
00:00 - Introducing #BFIFlareAtHome! An opportunity to see on BFI Player a number of great LGBTIQ+ shorts and features from 20-29 March that were due to screen at BFI Flare bit.ly/2wo4CdB
- Replying to @BFIFlare"What I would really love to see is queer characters who are normalised and are part of the mainstream" - @natvanlis on how the industry still has boundaries to push #CarmillaMovie #BFIFlare 🏳️🌈
- Matt Smith stars as legendary photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in a full-frontal homage to the devilish bad boy, whose sex life fuelled his career bit.ly/2VuyOe7 #BFIFlare
00:00 - “If anyone doesn't like you that's their bad taste” We're sad to hear that Tab Hunter, Hollywood heartthrob and star of John Waters' Polyester, has passed away. We were privileged to have him attend #BFIFlare in 2015 for Tab Hunter Confidential.
- We're excited to welcome @natvanlis from @carmillaseries to the stage all the way from Canada 🇨🇦 for a post-screening Q&A of #CarmillaMovie 🦇 #BFIFlare
- Replying to @BFIFlare"It was a real awakening for the industry that queer audiences are so loyal and so wonderful...These stories need to be told" - @natvanlis praises the #Creampuffs who helped bring @carmillaseries to the big screen! #BFIFlare
- Announced: @ChanyaButton’s Vita & Virginia, starring Elizabeth Debicki and Gemma Arterton, will open this year’s #BFIFlare! bit.ly/2GdB8m9
- Replying to @BFIFlare"I always wanted to play both a lesbian and a vampire...the character was so compelling to me" - @natvanlis on what drew her to the role of Carmilla Karnstein, the strong-willed vampire in cult show @carmillaseries to which the film is a sequel #BFIFlare
