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This year's BFI Flare is bringing the best of recent LGBTI cinema from around the world to London.
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![Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt)](/images/stills/e/ellie_abbie_ellies_dead_aunt_2019.jpg)
In this romcom, Ellie’s dead aunt has the perfect dating advice for her. But will she listen to it?
![Changing The Game](/images/stills/c/changing_the_game_2019.jpg)
Transgender high school athletes from across the US compete at the top of their fields, while also challenging the boundaries and perceptions of fairness and discrimination.
![Sequin In A Blue Room](/images/stills/s/sequin_in_a_blue_room_2019.jpg)
When a teenager's thrill-seeking leads to a memorable encounter at an anonymous sex party, he resolves to track down the mystery guy - even if he has to rely on a menacing former hook-up to help him.
![Steelers: The World’s First Gay Rugby Club](/images/stills/s/steelers_the_worlds_first_gay_rugby_club_2020.jpg)
In 1995, in a pub in King’s Cross, a group of friends discussed the idea of a gay rugby club. From that casual conversation, the first gay rugby team was born.
![Justine](/images/stills/j/justine_2021.jpg)
A young woman struggles with her demons.
![Lingua Franca](/images/stills/l/lingua_franca_2019.jpg)
An undocumented Filipina trans woman, who works as a caregiver in Brooklyn, develops a connection with the grandson of her employer.
![Two Of Us](/images/stills/t/two_of_us_2019.jpg)
Two retired women, who have been in a secret relationship for decades, find their relationship turned upside down when the truth begins to come out.
![Cicada](/images/stills/c/cicada_2020.jpg)
A young man is forced to face past traumas when he embarks on a new relationship.
![Pride & Protest](/images/stills/p/pride_protest_2020.jpg)
A documentary about LGBTQ+ people of colour in the UK.
![Spiral](/images/stills/s/spiral_2019.jpg)
A same-sex couple move to a small town so they can enjoy a better quality of life and raise their 16-year-old daughter with the best social values. But nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighbourhood, and when Malik sees the folks next door throwing a very strange party, something has got to give.
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