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News from Home + intro by Nicole Flattery, writer and Sight and Sound columnist
This desolate musing on the elusive nature of home exquisitely juxtaposes New York’s lonely, empty streets with letters from ‘a distant voice’, Akerman’s mother.

Preview: Ernest Cole: Lost and Found + Q&A with Raoul Peck and Misan Harriman
A documentary portrait of a photographer who revealed the cruelties of South African Apartheid to the world, by the director of I Am Not Your Negro.

Je tu il elle + extended intro by Melanie Iredale, Director of Reclaim The Frame
Akerman’s debut feature, with its 10-minute lesbian sex scene, revealed its maker to be a radical and uncompromising force in cinema.

Regular programme
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BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Our springtime celebration of queer cinema at BFI Southbank – 19 to 30 March 2025.
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BFI Future Film Festival
The UK’s largest festival for emerging filmmakers – 20 February to 6 March
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