Film

Queer Vision: Best of Flare Shorts

Director
Various
Certificate
18
Running Time
102 mins

Queer Vision presents a selection of the best short films from BFI Flare – one of the world’s biggest and best LGBT+ film festivals. Here’s the line-up in full, with official blurb:

A Normal Girl (14 mins)
Pidgeon Pagonis, a lead activist and educator from the intersex community, crusades for body autonomy and the freedom to choose one’s own path.

Dressed For Pleasure (17 mins)
A young woman with a disability throws off protective parents and sets herself free and see who she truly is. Realising her desires, full of sensuality and seduction.

Night Out (10 mins)
Being a teenager is hard. Figuring out who you want to be is harder. Sometimes a night out can change everything.

First Day (18 mins)
This incredible debut from 11-year-old trans actor Evie McDonald sees her character switching schools and standing up to the bullies.

Infinite While It Lasts (18 mins)
Sparks fly between Danny and Seiji when they meet at a party, but will the truth be too much for the aspiring lovers.

Pirate Boys (13 mins)
1990s polymorphous queerness find Del LaGrace Volcano evoking trans-masculine sexuality with feminist writer Kathy Acker.

Home Girl (12 mins)
Burdened by things left unsaid Roya pushes away the women she loves, but what if she doesn’t have to hide anymore?

By robin askew, Friday, Jun 8 2018

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