BFI Flare 2025
Best of BFI Flare 2025
The results are in, and they are HOT! We've travelled far and wide to bring you some brilliant gems from the festival.
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Trans Shorts
Jack's odyssey into the outstanding shorts from BFI Flare continues!
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“Sporty Spice” Shorts @ BFI Flare
Jack gives us a whistle-stop tour of the heavy hitters, pun intended.
BFI Flare 2025
BFI Flare Dream Team: Most Anticip-...
...ated! (Because we think these films will EAT!)
Reviews
Topp 10 Möst
Topp 10 Möst is an endearing Icelandic road movie that finds humor in the morbid and grim. Arna (Helga Braga Jónsdóttir) is a middle aged divorcee and horror-prop maker who has recently lost the will to live. After a few false starts on her suicide, she figures that she should
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Nature Shorts 1 at SBIFF: The Green Buffalo, Meet Me at the Creek, The Last Observers
The Green Buffalo Media created about indigenous people and issues on Turtle Island (North America) are often lacking, falling into myriad dehumanizing tropes. The Green Buffalo manages to avoid these pitfalls by (surprise!) treating its indigenous subjects as real people. The film covers an initiative by members of the Lower
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O Horizon
This review comes to us from our On-The-Ground correspondent and Santa Barbara native, Jack O’Mahoney. If Dory the monkey has 100 fans I am one of them. If Dory the monkey has 1 fan I am that fan. If Dory the monkey has no fans then I am dead
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My Stolen Context: A “My Stolen Planet” Review
This review comes to us from our On-The-Ground correspondent and Santa Barbara native, Jack O’Mahoney. This is a propaganda film. Let me explain. For a political documentary centering on the fallout of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and clearly produced for a “Western” (likely US American) audience, My Stolen Planet
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Wild Gleaming Space: Charting the Beyond
This review comes to us from our On-The-Ground correspondent and Santa Barbara native, Jack O’Mahoney. Wild Gleaming Space is a documentary that is equal parts lyrical and investigative, and so beautifully shot I thought it was a narrative film until about twenty minutes in. Beginning in the Panamanian rainforest,
KNEECAP Producer Trevor Birney talks history, authenticity and truth | SOPHISTICULTURE S02E06
Umnia sits down with producer Trevor Birney to discuss his most recent film, festival favorite KNEECAP; the commitment that went into making such a daring piece of cinema; and the political, historical, and sociocultural conditions in Northern (or the North of) Ireland that necessitated its creation. Tiocfaidh ár lá!
Film Tea from BFI London Film Festival 2024 | SOPHISTICULTURE S02E05
Direct from our headquarters, our correspondent and CEO UMNIA gives you the full lowdown on the BFI Programme, and some amazing interviews and input from the coolest talent at LFF. Guest List: Susan Chardy, Lead Actress ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ Sasha Nathwani, Director and Co-writer, ‘Last Swim’ Jazmin Jones
