BFI Flare 2021

Un'adolescente socialmente imbarazzante e attenta all'ambiente di nome AJ viene trascinata in un parco vacanze dalla sua famiglia normale, dove è affascinata da un bagnino di nome Isla, che odora di cloro e ama il sole.

Un padre turbato ma ben intenzionato che si è recentemente separato dalla moglie scappa con il figlio trans nella natura selvaggia del Montana dopo il rifiuto della sua ex moglie di lasciare che il figlio viva come se stesso.

Cristi, un giovane gendarme rumeno, cerca di trovare l'equilibrio tra due parti opposte della sua identità: quella di un uomo che lavora in un ambiente gerarchico macho e quella di una persona gay chiusa che cerca di mantenere segreto.

Al culmine della Guerra Fredda, un soldato in difficoltà forma un triangolo amoroso proibito con un audace pilota di caccia e la sua compagna nel pericoloso ambiente di una base aerea sovietica.

Chicago's Black transgender icon Gloria Allen blazed a trail for trans people like few others before her. Born in 1945, she grew up amid the celebrated Black "sissy" balls on Chicago's South Side and transitioned after high school with the love and support of the women in her family - her mother Alma, a former showgirl and Jet centerfold who taught her about makeup, and her grandmother Mildred, a seamstress who designed clothes for her. Gloria overcame traumatic violence to become a proud leader in her community. Most famously, she pioneered a charm school for young transgender people that served as inspiration for the hit play Charm. Now in her 70s, Gloria is aging with joy and grace at a time when Black transgender women in America face escalating violence and make up the majority of transgender people killed each year. Luchina Fisher's directorial debut is not only a portrait of a groundbreaking legend, but also a celebration of unconditional love, the love Gloria received from her own mother and that she now gives to her chosen children.

In 1994, a closeted teen struggles to part ways with his 4 high school drama friends at their final slumber party before they leave for college.

"Cured" takes viewers inside the campaign that led to a pivotal yet largely unknown moment in the struggle for LGBT equality: the American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. Combining eyewitness testimony with newly unearthed archival footage, the film reveals how a small group of impassioned activists achieved this unexpected victory.

Una visione senza filtri sul mutamento della società avvenuto in Gran Bretagna negli Anni '80, decennio in cui il fenomeno dirompente della subcultura punk incontra le nuove ideologie del femminismo moderno.

Uno scrittore di viaggi del New York Times arriva a Tel Aviv dopo avere subito una tragedia. L'energia della città e il suo rapporto con un uomo più giovane lo riportano in vita.

The life and the impact of iconic German New Wave director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Harry has been partying for 48 hours when he meets Johannes on the dance floor of a club in Berlin. With 15 hours until his flight home, Johannes offers to help him print his boarding pass. This mundane task leads to a day together wandering the city. The contrasts in their lives and values force each one to confront their own truths. Boys Meet Boys is a feature length mumblecore about the journey of a brief encounter: the mark left by a fleeting moment of joy.

Una storia d'amore sovversiva tra culture e famiglie in conflitto quando due generazioni di donne israeliane si innamorano, una di una donna tedesca e l'altra di un uomo palestinese.

Un ricco adolescente di origine nigeriana americana viene fermato dalla polizia, ucciso a colpi di arma da fuoco e si risveglia immediatamente, rivivendo lo stesso giorno più e più volte, intrappolato in un terrificante loop temporale.

Filmed verite style over five years, I Am Samuel is an intimate portrait of a Kenyan man torn between balancing duty to his family with his dreams for his future.

La sedicenne Claudia è cresciuta isolata dal mondo esterno. Bloccata in una proprietà remota dopo la morte di sua madre, è scioccata quando Grace, una vivace adolescente locale, appare in giardino come una boccata d'aria fresca.

No Ordinary Man is an in-depth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton. Complicated, beautiful and historically unrivaled, this groundbreaking film shows what is possible when a community collaborates to honor the legacy of an unlikely hero.

Marcos is an experienced nurse. He works in the night shift of a provincial private clinic. He is applied and professional but has a secret: in some extreme cases he applies euthanasia. Gabriel, a new nurse, shakes the sector: he is young, intelligent and beautiful. Seduces everyone. He soon deciphers Marcos' secret by progressively taking control of his life. Marcos retracts until he discovers that Gabriel also kills, but capriciously. That revelation will force him to confront Gabriel, Marcos knows that only by exposing his true identity will be able to stop him.

A rookie drag queen reeling from a break-up escapes to the country, where he finds his grandmother in steep decline but desperate to avoid the local nursing home.

In lutto per la morte di sua madre Lillian, Beth Tweedy-Bell si sveglia una notte per trovare un portale verso il passato nella foresta che circonda la sua casa di famiglia.

After skipping town a decade ago, transgender activist Caz Davis returns to the remote, politically divided dairy community of Rurangi, hoping to reconnect with his estranged father, who hasn't heard from him since before Caz transitioned.

A trans girl and her mother move to a new town in order to start fresh, but quickly face dilemmas when the local high school needs a second parental signature for enrollment.

La vita di Tove Jansson, che mostra sia le sue relazioni personali, sia la creazione dei famosi libri Moomin.