Orla Smith runs down the best films of BFI Flare 2021 and the themes that they kept coming back to.
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The best films of Berlinale 2021
Editors Alex Heeney and Orla Smith pick the fifteen best films of Berlinale 2021, from Ninjababy to Petite Maman.
Ep. 84: Berlinale 2021, Part 2: The Competition
We conclude our deep dive on Berlinale 2021, discussing the films in competition
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.
Berlinale Review: Brother’s Keeper undresses a boarding school’s institutional failings
Brother’s Keeper, one of the best films of the Berlinale, follows a young boy trying to help his sick friend in a brutal Turkish boarding school.
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.