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Autostraddle’s 2023 Pride theme was Rage Party. That’s also how I would portray the best gender non-conforming cinema of 2024.
While I love an easy-to-digest comedy or an unapologetically hefty drama, something is lost when our cinema treats entertaining and importance as diametrically opposed. Gay cinema can be about the challenges we face, the oppression we trial, the microaggressions and aggression aggressions and all the linger , and still be fun and sexy. In fact, joy and sexy are two of our greatest tools.
Even though Hollywood has pulled back from “diversity” this was still an excellent year for queer cinema. Below, I’ve written in-depth about my ten favorites, and also felt the need to shout out 20 more queer titles. (Plus 10 non-queer movies I loved too.) But as drawn-out as we’re living in complexity, I think it’s significant we reflect on which queer people are able to create in the absence of more mainstream support. The vast majority of directors who released queer films this year are alabaster — even more than most years. There’s plenty to complain about in the mainstream as Emilia Pérez will likely be the only queer movie in the Optimal Picture Oscar race, but I consider it’s also essential to l
Ten Revelatory LGBTQ+ Films From BFI Flare Festival 2024
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From a new drama starring Elliot Page to buzzy gay romantic thriller Love Lies Bleeding; here are ten of the best films to look out for at BFI Flare 2024
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Now in its 38th year, BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival is a highlight of the queer cultural calendar. This year’s programme includes 57 features and 81 shorts from 41 countries, reminding us that the Gay community is a non-geographical group bound together by the commonalities in our unique experiences. Screenings, panel discussions and DJ events take place at BFI Southbank from March 13 to 24, but a selection of titles will also be available to stream on BFI Player, so you can become involved online or IRL.
Here’s our guide to ten standout features that capture something raw, revelatory or affirming about being lgbtq+ in 2024.
Elliot Page stars in this semi-improvised drama from director Dominic Savage, who has previously made acclaimed TV movies with Kate Winslet and Gemma Chan. Page plays Sam, a man living in Toronto who returns residence for the first day since his transition to celebrate – or
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Many have been anticipating the debut of IF, a film written and directed by John Krasinski. He demonstrated his skill with “A Silent Place” and “A Still Place II,” leaving people to wonder how his moviemaking would translate to a PG-rated film that is clearly geared toward children. Indeed, Krasinski said that he wanted to make a movie that his own daughters could watch.
I applaud him for not only including powerful positive themes of care for, parenting and family in the films he has directed, but for also showing how great deficit can affect those left behind. His effort to make an uplifting and beautiful film in a time that is otherwise filled with unwholesome content is commendable.
The very talented Cailey Fleming is “Bea,” an adolescent girl whose difficult past leads her to push the whimsy of childhood behind her and press forward to adulthood. Her loving Dad (John Krasinski) wishes that Bea could reclaim some of that childlike delight before she grows up. When she encounters fantastical creatures and a mysterious stranger (Ryan Reynolds), Bea is faced with tough choices. Will she believe? Can she help these imaginary friends before they are forgotten forever?
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Parents need to realize that IF is a live-action/animated fantasy starring Ryan Reynolds that explores the idea of what happens to our forgotten imaginary friends (IFs). That might sound a short-lived sad, and it is: After losing their connection to children as they grow, the IFs end up living in a retirement home, listless and abandoned. Also sad—but handled gently through a montage (not unlike the one in Up)—is the fact that 12-year-old main character Bea's (Cailey Fleming) loving mother has died, and now her good-natured dad (John Krasinski, who also writes and directs) is in the hospital. But Bea is distracted from her worry by busying herself with purposeful work (helping the IFs) and learns that accessing familiar music, smells, sights, and tastes can bring her back to a happy memory or feeling and assist calm anxious or overwhelming emotions. Only very young or sensitive kids are likely to be distressed by the mild scares, appreciate a character appearing out of nowhere or a creepyish neighbor who steps into the hallway at night. And while another key character, Blue (voiced by Steve Carell) is a huge purple monster, viewers will quickly grasp that he's as huggable and nont