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Explore depictions of masculinity, femininity, and sexual identity.

A still of Nguyễn Phương Trà My walking up a set of stairs in The Third Wife. The image features text that reads, 'Review'.

Brett Pardy / April 29, 2021

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.

Alex Heeney / April 6, 2021

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.

A collage of stills from BFI Flare 2021 film, along with the logo of the festival.

Orla Smith / March 27, 2021

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.

A closeup of an older man, Michael, looking at a man who is almost out of frame in Sublet. The text on the image reads, 'Review'.

Orla Smith / March 24, 2021

Sublet Review: Two generations of gay men meet in Tel Aviv

In Sublet, a New York Times travel writer visiting Tel Aviv strikes up a friendship with a younger gay man whose apartment he’s subletting.

Two young men stand together in the summer sun, looking into the camera. The text on the image reads, 'Review'.

Orla Smith / March 18, 2021

BFI Flare Review: Boy Meets Boy is like Weekend for a younger generation

In Daniel Sánchez López’s Boy Meets Boy, two gay men at a crossroads spend a summer day in Berlin together.

Alex Heeney / March 8, 2021

Berlinale Review: A girl wakes up to misogyny inSummer Blur

Han Shuai’s feature debut, Summer Blur, follows thirteeen-year-old Guo in a hot summer in Wuhan where everyone seems to be exploiting women.

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