Gitta Gsell’s Beyto is more admirable for what it attempts to explore about life as a gay Turkish immigrant in Switzerland than how successful it is at …
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Gender and Sexuality
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Explant Review: An exposé on the breast implant industry
Jeremy Simmons’s documentary film, Explant, produced by World of Wonder, exposes the horrors of the breast implant industry alongside RuPaul's Drag Race judge …
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Ida Panahandeh’s Titi is a character study about life under patriarchy
Ida Panahandeh's Titi is a character study about an Iranian Roma woman caught between two unworthy men in a society controlled by men. Titi is currently …
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The Third Wife Review: A beautiful and bleak portrayal of patriarchy
Ash Mayfair's The Third Wife tells the story of a teenage girl whose family marries her off in nineteenth-century Vietnam. The film is now available on VOD.Ash …
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Review: Maxine Peake shines in Fanny Lye Deliver’d (The Delivered)
Maxine Peake leads Thomas Clay's refreshing genre film, Fanny Lye Deliver'd (The Delivered in the US), about a woman's emancipation. We named Fanny Lye …
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Highlights from BFI Flare 2021, from No Ordinary Man to Boy Meets Boy
Orla Smith runs down the best films of BFI Flare 2021 and the themes that they kept coming back to. Read more BFI Flare coverage.Europe's largest LGBTQ+ film …
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