BFI LFF 2026: Merc (2026)
A young man moves from job to job as he vies to find his true identity and discover his place in the independent drama…
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BFI LFF 2026: Black Church Bay (2026)
★★★★☆
Life in a Welsh fishing village for teacher Barry is disrupted when a student goes missing, leaving him battling to keep his private life secret in writer-director Rhys Marc Jones’ Black Church Bay.
BFI LFF 2026: Club Kid (2026)
★★★★☆
The wild life of a New York party promoter is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of the young son he never know of in writer-director Jordan Firstman’s comedy-drama Club Kid.
BFI LFF 2026: Rose (2026)
★★★★☆
Returning from war, an unknown soldier arrives in a small village claiming inheritance to a farm. Secretly the soldier is actually Rose, who has been successfully passing as a man for years, in director Markus Schleinzer’s absorbing drama Rose.
BFI LFF 2026: Coward (2026)
★★★★☆
Serving on the Belgian front in World War I, rookie Pierre meets leader of the troop entertainment Francis and the two begin a secret relationship in director Lukas Dhont’s romantic drama Coward.
Cactus Pears (2025) (Sabar Bonda)
★★★★☆
Anand, a gay man in his early 30s, is drawn back from Mumbai for the 10 days of mourning for his father in the countryside of his youth. There he reconnects with a young farmer in writer-director Rohan Kanawade’s beautiful and groundbreaking Cactus Pears (Sabar Bonda).
BFI Flare 2026: Drunken Noodles (2025)
★★★★☆
With artistic and poetic inspirations, Lucio Castro’s Drunken Noodles unfolds across four chapters following Adnam, and the people he encounters, across two summers in and around New York.
BFI Flare 2026: Lunar Sway (2026)
★★★★☆
Cliff’s small-town existence is disrupted by the arrival of Marg who claims to be his birth mother. Soon he is swept into her unorthodox adventures, while trying to learn about himself, in Nick Butler’s delightfully offbeat Lunar Sway.
BFI FLARE 2026: WASHED UP (2026)
★★★★☆
Isabel Daly’s feature directorial debut Washed Up is a quirky and moving British indie shining a unique light on life and love in Cornwall.
Pillion (2025)
★★★★☆
Pillion is a sensational feature debut by Harry Lighton with graphic images of sub-dom gay sex.
Four Mothers (2024)
★★★☆☆
Loosely based on the gentle, charming Italian 2008 film Mid-August Lunch, a national holiday when cities are deserted, Four Mothers, directed by Darren Thornton, opens out into a broader Irish take on getting old and being gay.
Sebastian (2024)
★★★★☆
A young writer dives into the world of sex work for content for his debut novel: soon the lines between research and reality become blurred in writer-director Mikko Mäkelä’s Sebastian.
BFI Flare: A Night Like This (2025)
★★★★☆
Two men, each having a tough time, meet during one London evening and spend the night talking and learning about themselves in director Liam Calvert’s A Night Like This.
BFI Flare: Departures (2025)
★★★☆☆
Benji is left broken after the end of his relationship with Jake. In flashback we’re taken through Benji’s difficult journey with Jake in the painful and funny Departures.