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 …
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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 …
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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. Read more BFI Flare …
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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. The premise of Daniel Sánchez López’s Boy …
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Berlinale Review: A girl wakes up to misogyny inSummer Blur
Han Shuai's feature debut, Summer Blur, follows thirteen-year-old Guo in a hot summer in Wuhan where everyone seems to be exploiting women. Read the rest of …
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