CINEMA / LGBTQ+

FLARE 2022

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It is heart-warming to see the BFI Flare film festival return for its first in person festival in two years. A beautiful celebration of the lives of queer people from around the world.

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CULTURE / USA

Austin’s SXSW festival 2022

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The festival which shows the gentler and more progressive side of Texas returns. SXSW, after a two-year hiatus, mounts its first in-person event and is bigger and better than ever before.

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CINEMA

Sundance 2022

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Sundance 2022 | Our selection: The Exiles, A Different Kind of Love, Marte Um, Descendant, The Panola Project.

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CINEMA / LONDON

BFI London Film Festival 2021

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BFI London Film Festival focuses not just on industry insiders, but also those who genuinely love cinema.

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CULTURE / KOREA

Korea’s Musical Moment

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London once again plays host to the annual K music festival. It is a festival which presents some of the most innovative musicians playing anywhere in the world today.

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ART / CULTURE

Shubbak 2021 – A Journey Through the Arab World

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The Shubbak Festival in London, a biannual arts festival which highlights the work of artists from throughout the region seeks to challenge misconception aobut the Middle East.

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CINEMA / INDIA

The Last Film Show: The successful passion of a child

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How do you recreate the joy of seeing your very first film? Film director Pan Nalin from India, manages to do just this in his masterful feature, The Last Film, premiering at this year’s Tribeca film festival. Nalin’s film is both a stunning love letter to cinema as well as an insightful portrait of a life moulded by a single childhood event, that child’s first visit to a movie theatre.

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AFRIQUE / PHOTO

Zanele Muholi et le long combat d’une nation arc-en-ciel

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Ces photos témoin de la violence homophobe et celles illustrant la résilience des homosexuelles sont accolées ; on découvre de beaux portraits de couples lesbiens dans leur espace privé, ou dans un abri qui leur offre une intimité. Ces photographies visent à défier le regard patriarcal qui domine souvent les femmes et considère l’hétérosexualité comme la norme.

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