Orla Smith runs down the best films of BFI Flare 2021 and the themes that they kept coming back to.
BFI Flare
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.
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.
BFI Flare 2020 highlights: Disclosure and more trans stories
BFI Flare 2020 took place entirely online. Orla Smith highlights Dungarees (dir. Abel Rubinstein) and Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen (dir. Sam Feder) as the best of the online festival.