AUTHOR Beverly Andrews
FLARE 2022
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.
Austin’s SXSW festival 2022
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.
Sundance 2022
Sundance 2022 | Our selection: The Exiles, A Different Kind of Love, Marte Um, Descendant, The Panola Project.
BFI London Film Festival 2021
BFI London Film Festival focuses not just on industry insiders, but also those who genuinely love cinema.
Korea’s Musical Moment
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.
Shubbak 2021 – A Journey Through the Arab World
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.
The Last Film Show: The successful passion of a child
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.
Zanele Muholi et le long combat d’une nation arc-en-ciel
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.