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Film   -   Mar 28, 2025 Sebastian: It’s all filth underneath
Sebastian: It’s all filth underneath

A Sundance 2024 Official Selection and a Peccadillo Pictures release—I am absolutely, unadulteratedly in love with this film.

by Umnia El-Neil
BFI Flare 2025   -   Mar 28, 2025 Fatherhood
Fatherhood

A warm, intimate documentary that puts its faith in humanity

by Lucie Neale
BFI Flare 2025   -   Mar 27, 2025 Really Happy Someday
Really Happy Someday

What is a painter without a brush, a singer without a voice? 'Really Happy Someday' offers an answer.

by Celeste Kassautzki Sp.
Documentary   -   Mar 27, 2025 Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr
Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr

You're always a little bit scared, but you're never deterred.

by Umnia El-Neil
Film   -   Mar 26, 2025 Four Mothers
Four Mothers

Adapted from "Mid-August Lunch by Gianni Di Gregorio", James McArdle shines in the role of Edward, a man who struggles to find his voice or backbone, weighed down by fear and unable to assert his own agency.

by Umnia El-Neil
BFI Flare 2025   -   Mar 26, 2025 New Wave (Onda Nova)
New Wave (Onda Nova)

Take a trip to 1980's Brazil, where the kids of São Paolo get it in. and by 'it', I mean the ball into the net, of course. What else could I possibly be referring to?

by Umnia El-Neil
BFI Flare 2025   -   Mar 26, 2025 Memorabilia
Memorabilia

Part hardcore porno, part confessional, weaving Super 8 footage with deathbed diaries into a tapestry of a life well lived.

by Umnia El-Neil
BFI Flare 2025   -   Mar 26, 2025 Lucky, Apartment
Lucky, Apartment

One of my most anticipated of the festival did not disappoint - a thoroughly satisfying, moving exploration of how hidden joy can be as corrosive as hidden pain.

by Lucie Neale
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