PURPLE HOUR

cinema from a queer lens and canted angle

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‘We try to reflect what the community is talking about’: Bohdan Zhuk, SUNNY BUNNY director
CURATOR TALKS: We take a closer look at Ukraine's only queer film festival, which is trying to change the narrative both sociopolitically and cinematically.
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'Sexuality stays with us even when our mind fades': Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi on 'Maspalomas'
STOCKFISH / BFI FLARE 2026: The co-directors of the Basque film making waves across the festival circuit talk about collaboration, change in social policy, and coming out of one's own closet in different ways.
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'I want people to broaden their horizons about what African love can be': Pamela Adie on 'Ìfé: (The Sequel)'
BFI FLARE 2026: The Nigerian LGBTQ+ activist and filmmaker turns from producing to directing to create the long-awaited sequel to the first lesbian film in Nigeria.

REVIEWS

Still from Paloma Schneideman's 'Big Girls Don't Cry'
Covering the Tiers: 'Big Girls Don't Cry' (2026) by Paloma Schneideman
Still from Pete Muller's 'Bucks Harbor'
Beneath the Lobster’s Shell: 'Bucks Harbor' (2026) by Pete Muller
'La belle année' by Angelica Ruffier
The Fluidity of Desire: 'La belle année' (2026) by Angelica Ruffier
Cooper Hoffmann and Olivia Wilde in Gregg Araki's 'I Want Your Sex'
Be Careful What You Wish For: 'I Want Your Sex' (2026) by Gregg Araki
Still from Moshe Rosenthal's 'Tell Me Everything'
Scent Memories: 'Tell Me Everything' (2026) by Moshe Rosenthal
Nadia Melliti in Hafsia Herzi's 'The Little Sister'
Sapphic Origami: 'The Little Sister' (2025) by Hafsia Herzi
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Resorting to Tenderness – A Temporal Implant: 'Before/After' (2025) by Manoël Dupont
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Return to Sender: 'Maspalomas' (2025) by Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi

INTERVIEWS

Bohdan Zhuk Sunny Bunny
‘We try to reflect what the community is talking about’: Bohdan Zhuk, SUNNY BUNNY director
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'Sexuality stays with us even when our mind fades': Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi on 'Maspalomas'
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'I want people to broaden their horizons about what African love can be': Pamela Adie on 'Ìfé: (The Sequel)'
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'My job is to pull queer radicalism back to where it once belonged': Fil Ieropoulos on 'Uchronia'
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'I thought it would be fun to find a cliché and turn it on its head': Mickey Stepanskiy on 'Knights on a Quest for Love'
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'This is a festival for a specific community': Diana Cipriano, BFI Flare programmer
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'In Brussels, animation and the queer community have been linked since the beginning': Dominique Seutin, Anima co-director
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'It was always the queer experience at its core': Kai Stänicke on 'Trial of Hein'
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