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LGBTQIA+
LGBTQIA+ films at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival.
100 Nights of Hero
Julia Jackman’s second feature is a bold and beautiful fairytale based on Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel.
At the Place of Ghosts
Ghosts of the past return to haunt two brothers in Bretten Hannam’s tense supernatural thriller.
Christy
Sydney Sweeney delivers an astounding and transformative performance as queer boxing legend Christy Martin, in this true story of resilience and hope.
The Chronology of Water
Based on writer and educator Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoirs, Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut is an uncompromising depiction of love, trauma and artistic self-expression.
Dreamers
Two Nigerian migrants dare to imagine a vibrant future outside of their confinement at a British immigration removal centre.
Enzo
Laurent Cantet’s final film, co-written and directed by collaborator and friend Robin Campillo, is a moving and nuanced exploration of class and budding sexuality.
Fucktoys
For her debut feature, Annapurna Sriram delivers a gleeful slice of queer bubblegum grindhouse on gorgeous 16mm. Be ready to get down and dirty.
The History of Sound
Oliver Hermanus chronicles a decades-spanning romance centered around the power of music, starring an electric Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor.
Love Me Tender
Vicky Krieps is magnetic as a woman paying a high price to be free in this luminous and radical commentary on motherhood, desire and self-discovery.
Maspalomas
This gripping and frank examination of elder queer desire looks at the importance of reconciling all parts of who we are with those closest to us.
Peter Hujar’s Day
Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall give tremendous performances in this intimate character study – an ode to art and friendship.
Pillion
A shy young man finds his place in the world as the submissive to a handsome biker, in Harry Lighton’s charming, sexy and tender debut.
She’s the He
Siobhan McCarthy’s laugh-out-loud film is a much-needed subversion of gender-swap comedies featuring a cast of largely trans, non-binary and queer actors.
Twinless
Winner of two awards at Sundance Film Festival, James Sweeney’s film is an unpredictable and original comedy about grieving, starring a never-better Dylan O’Brien.
A Useful Ghost
The wife of a factory owner returns from the dead to haunt a vacuum cleaner in Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s wildly inventive and wonderfully original film.
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