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Turning review
Turning Animation, mental health, 1 min 51 sec Voices in a crowd stir violent emotions and microaggressions bring up past traumas. Then a turning shifts the emotional landscape… animation meets poetry to inspire change in a challenging world TURNING is a short...
Children Alike review
Children Alike Comedy, 5 min Johannes introduces his new girlfriend Wilma to his sister Hanna. However, Wilma and Hanna are everything but strangers. What happens when a brother and sister both like the same girl? CHILDREN ALIKE is a short film from writer and...
The Half Wall review
The Half Wall Comedy, Short, 7 min When the topic of renovation comes up, a gay couple find themselves in a heated and deeply serious discussion over something stupid as a bathroom wall. An interesting perspective on how you visualise what your partner is...
J.T. LeRoy review
Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy (aka J.T. LeRoy) Biography, Drama, 1 h 48 min A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be the celebrated author JT LeRoy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law. Exploring the blurred lines between...
Jas review
Jas Drama, 12 min Jas is the story of a young, English-Iranian girl, and her unlikely meeting with a racist war veteran. It is a story of the desire to escape, and the impossibility of escaping oneself. Finding yourself and your place in life isn't always easy...
2 in the Bush: A Love Story review
Two in the Bush: A Love Story Comedy, Drama, Polyamory, 1 h 37 min TWO IN THE BUSH is an unconventional romantic comedy about dungeons, a fish named Archimedes, and the many forms that love takes. This may just be the first bi-poly sex dungeon rom-com...
They Found Her in a Field review
They Found Her in a Field Drama, 6 min Haunted by the death of her classmate and first love, Martha returns, ten years on, to their old meeting place. But as the memories of their relationship come flooding back, she must confront the tragic mystery that put an end to...
Monica – Loose on a Cruise review
Monica Loose on a Cruise Documentary, 13 mins Monica takes the trip of a lifetime with younger friends Jai and Lyla. Random encounters and reflections on life, love and lesbians under the Caribbean sun. Monica charms the birds from the trees in her epic...
Snapshots review
Snapshots Drama, 1 h 35 m Let me teach you to be bold Sometimes the past catches up to us and sets us free Based on a true story, this film looks at the relationships between three generations of a family as they spend a weekend together at the...
Call Her Ganda review
Call Her Ganda Documentary, 1 h 33 min How One Life Galvanized a Nation A powerful, moving insight of a mother’s, friend’s and nations loss Call Her Ganda is a documentary by PJ Raval about Jennifer Laude, a Filipino transwoman who is found brutally...
Night Comes On review
Night Comes On Drama, 1 h 26 min Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future. Revenge doesn't always lead you where...
Treacle review
Treacle Comedy, 18 mins When friends Jessie and Belle go away for the weekend and drunkenly hook up, what seems like an awkward slip up to a firmly heterosexual Jessie is in fact an incredible betrayal to bisexual Belle. a bisexual girl's relationship...
Maybe Today review
Maybe Today Drama, 3 mins The lines between reality and fantasy become blurred, when a woman who has feelings for her best friend imagines what their relationship could be if she acted on them. An inspiring tale or what you can achieve if you put yourself out...
Calling for short film submissions
We're seeking filmmakers, actors and industry professionals who have the rights to short films with a lesbian and bisexual theme and would like to access their audience through the LesFlicks website and other third party video on demand portals. LesFlicks is a new...
Little Miss Westie review
Little Miss Westie Documentary Documentary, 1 h 15 m Facing the judges wearing her brother’s hand-me-downs Meet the McCarthys, a truly open and inspiring American family Little Miss Westie is a documentary from Joy E Reed and Dan Hunt following siblings...
The Date review
The Date Romantic comedy, 15 m After swiping right, Lizzy and Olivia hit it off almost immediately but there’s still one thing left to do…meet. A clever insight into the challenges of dating in the lesbian and bisexual community The Date is a short film...
First Day review
First Day Live Action Narrative Fiction, 17m 42s It’s Hannah’s first day of high school and the first day she’ll present at school as female. Inspiring the next generation to be confident and happy as whoever they may be First Day is written and directed...
Tell it to the Bees review
Tell it to the BeesDrama, Romance, Adaptation 1 h 46 m In 1950s small town Britain, a doctor develops a relationship with her young patient's mother. a bee-eautful story of how love can give you strength in the toughest of times Tell it to the Bees is a...
Vita & Virginia review
Vita & Virginia biography, drama, 1 h 50 m VITA & VIRGINIA details the intimate relationship between author Virginia Woolf and socialite, Vita SackvilleWest, which was to become the inspiration for Woolf’s Modernist novel, Orlando: A Biography. ...
Fear of Water review
Fear of Water Drama, Romance, LGBT (1h 40m) Log line: The Summer that changed everything the decision to fall in love is out of our hands This film follows Eleanor and Alexia; two very different teenage girls who meet each other in North London. They have very...
Films to watch if you enjoyed The Favourite
4 lesbian films to check out if you liked the Favourite The Favourite was a knockout winner at the Baftas and the Oscars in 2019. This mainstream, but something arty film had a strong lesbian storyline, and yet was not marketed in this way so some people missed it the...
Season of Love: Queer Holiday RomCom
Crowdfunder: Season of Love UPDATE: This project is now complete. Check out the film on the film database (watch the trailer, follow on social): https://www.lesflicks.com/film/film-database/season-of-love/ Read the review of Season...
LGBT content on mainstream platforms
2019 started off with a bang when it was announced that Wynonna Earp was once again at risk after filming that should have started in February did not take place. Already having been saved from the cut once due to the massive fandom that exists worldwide you would...
Films to watch if you enjoyed Carol
Carol is a feature film with a lesbian storyling that features stunning cinematography and a great story. If you ask any lesbian to name a lesbian film, chances are Carol is on the tip of their tongue. With a huge budget, big cast and a mainstream full cinema release...
CineQ makes Birmingham a Little Queerer with its First Ever LGBTQ Film Festival
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Our go-to guide to all the women-focussed films at BFI Flare 2019
We know what BFI Flare means to lesbian and bisexual women up and down the country. Grabbing the programme, finding all the films that have a female storyline and trying to get tickets to them all. We've gone through this year's programme and highlighted all the films...
10 lesbian films to look out for in 2019
2019 has already started with some amazing films in the cinema. We highlight more future releases in 2019 2019 has so far been the year of the biography with an amazing selection of lesbian or bisexual themed films hitting mainstream cinemas including Can You Ever...
Our top 7 films for women at BFI Flare 2019
2019 marks the 33rd LGBT Film Festival from BFI Flare. The festival will run from 21 March to 31 March 2019 at the BFI Southbank in London. We already knew that Vita and Virginia is the opening night film, and now we are able to run through the other highlights of...
BFI Flare announces the opening night film for 2019
We're delighted to hear that the opening film for the 33rd BFI Flare Festival will be the UK premier of Vita and Virginia. BFI Flare takes place at the BFI Southbank in London...
Kate Winslet & Saoirse Ronan To Star In Romance ‘Ammonite’
Exciting new film announced! Deadline exclusively announced on 14 December 2018 that Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan are to star in new feature film Ammonite which will be directed by Francis Lee (God's Own Country). Set in a UK coastal town in the 1840s, the drama...
