BFI Flare’s 39th Edition: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival wrapped with viewers 6%, global talent participation and 6 long film world premiere

39. Edition BFI Glare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival (19-30 March), EnglandLeader LGBTQIA+ Film activity, closed at 30 March, personally participating in the activities at the house of the festival, sees a constant growth in the audience, BFI Southbank.

Comprehensive BFI Flare 29.831 saw the audience participation BFI Southbank screenings, events and BFI Actor*. BFI Flare, 92% occupancy with the festival so much welcome. BFI Southbank from 87% in 2024, 50% of bookstores new BFI Flare.

For 12 days between 19 and 30 March, viewers obtained 56 features, 1 series and 81 shorts from 41 countries in screenings BFI Southbank.

The festival hosted 34 world premiere, 18 international premiere, 7 European premiere and 47. England Features, premiere of shorts and serial program.

More than 260 filmmakers and teams from 28 countries Andrew Ahn, Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-Chan, Joan Chen, Zackary Druceker, Elen Gi-Chan, Laurie Townshend, Stacaryann Chin, Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, Neil, David Tag, Dawid Tag, Dawid Tag, Dawid Tag Tag, Krerin Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reon, Satara Michelle Ford, Sasha Compere, Onir, Michael Clowater, Charlie Creed-Miles, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Marco Berger, Darren Thornton, Colin Thornton, James Mcardle, Sara Harrak Sara Harrak, Dame Holmes, Sara Harrak, Dame Holmes, Leah Harvey, Alexander-Net Holmes Gordon Warnecke, Kimberly Reed, Jonovia Chase and Esteban Arango.

This year’s festival, #Fivefilmsforfreedom’un 11th anniversary of the British Council. This turning point LGBTQIA+ digital initiative, BFI Globally invites the audience to watch, sharing and speaking to sparks, solidarity everywhere. LGBTQIA+ Communities in countries where freedom and equal rights are limited.

Selection of 2025 Movies from Indonesia (Nggak!!!/NO!!!), America/China (if I do in the morning), New Zealand (wait, wait, now!) And England (Dragfox and we will go to history) and early monitoring figures are still counted worldwide and show that they attract more than 2.2 million views. Five filmmaking teams were guests at a reception in the houses of the parliament. England Welcomed by Alan Strickland Deputy. Meanwhile, personally scanning and events took place around the world, including Greece, India, Nepal, Poland and New Zealand. This global movement drew more than 28.2 million views in the last eleven years, and the audience met to celebrate love as human rights.

This year’s Edition was opened with the international premiere of Andrew Ahn’s touching dramay the Wedding Banquet, which was fresh at the Sundance Film Festival. . England The award -winning filmmakers Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reon closed the gala festival of the night stage.

Other important points of this year’s film program was a special presentation for the award-winning writer-director Shatara Michelle Ford’s dreams in Nighteses. The film, which is an identity research, follows three black Queer Femmes in the mid -30s when they go on a journey in the Middle -West United States to look for friends who are lost from the grill.

BFI Flare also welcomed Bowen Yang on stage BFI For a screen conversation organized by Southbank, Actor-Comedian and collaborator Matt Rogers on March 20. Fun discussion passed Yang’s eclectic career in a packed audience.

Successful professional development program, BFI NETWORK & & BAFTA Jointly with the mentoring program BFI Flare once again returned to the festival. Six talented cohorts this year England-Delled writers, directors and producers, man who has been working for a long time on film and television, Bennett-Lea, Sarah Drummond, Yasmin Godo, Ames Pennington, Masha Thorpe and Laura Jayne Tunbridge. It was possible thanks to the National Lottery Fund, BFI Flare Marks participants watch the beginning of a year -long program designed to equip with the tools, connections and support required to navigate the facts of long -shaped development. LGBTQIA+ England and international.

An impressive list of the program has continued to build sustainable careers in the sector in the last decade, Emily McDonald, isn’t it unreasonable? (2025); Amrou Al-Kadhi, Director and Author of Layay (2024); Georgi Banks-Davies, BAFTA-I Hate Suzie (2020) and Night Manager (2025); Georgia oakley, BAFTA-Blue Jean (2022) director; And Aleem Khan, BAFTA-Director and writer of Ne Love of Love (2020). A few graduates had movies BFI Lisbon’s director and author Matthew Jacobs Morgan, including this year; And Charlie Tidmas is the principal we will go to history.

. BFI Flare 2025 Programming Team Grace Barber-Plenkie, Diana Cipriano, Zorian Clayton, Jaye Hudson, Rhianna Ibe, Darren Jones, Wema Mumma.

* For 2024 editions BFI Flare excluded the total participation figure, industrial day bookstores and participation. To standardize BFI The participation reporting of the festivals includes the participants of the 2025 total participation figure press and industrial screenings and activities.