Five Films For Freedom: all the programmes
Five Films For Freedom selects five short LGBTIQ+ short films from BFI Flare film festival each year and shares them with the world online for the period while Flare takes place in London.
However, many of our previous selections are now available again to stream online, for free.
2015 Programme
Morning is Broken, dir. Simon Anderson (UK)
Chance, dir. Jake Graf (UK)
True Wheel, dir. Nora Mandray (France)
Code Academy, dir. Nisha Ganatra (USA)
An Afternoon, dir. Soren Green (Denmark)
(Not currently available)
2016 Programme
Xavier (trailer), dir. Ricky Mastro (Brazil)
Take Your Partners, dir. Siri Rodnes (UK)
The Orchid (trailer), dir. Ferran Navarro-Beltrán (Spain)
Breathe, dir. James Doherty (UK/Ire)
Swirl, dir. Peterson Varga (Philippines)
(Not currently available)
2017 Programme
Crush, dir. Rosie Westhoff (UK)
Still Burning, dir. Nick Rowley (UK)
Heavy Weight, dir. Jonny Ruff (UK)
Jamie, dir. Christopher Manning (UK)
Where We Are Now, dir. Lucie Rachel (UK)
(Not currently available)
2018 Programme
Goldfish (trailer), dir. Yorgos Angelopoulos (Greece)
Landline, dir. Matt Houghton (UK)
Goddess, dir. Karishma Dev Dube (India)
Uninvited (trailer), dir. Seung Yeob Lee (Korea)
Handsome & Majestic, dir. Jeff Lee Petry & Nathan Drillot (USA)
(Not currently available)
2019 Programme
Carlito se va para Siempre (trailer), dir. Quentin Lazzarotto (Peru)
Ladies Day (trailer), dir. Abena Taylor-Smith (UK)
Crashing Waves, dir. Emma Gilbertson (UK)
A Normal Girl, dir. Aubree Bernier-Clarke (USA)
(Not currently available)
I (EG), dir. Halla Tryggvadottir (Iceland)
(Not currently available)
2020 Programme
After That Party (trailer), dir. Caio Scott (Brazil)
Pxssy Palace, dir. Laura Kirwan-Ashman (UK)
134 (trailer), dir. Sarah-Jane Drummey (Ireland)
When Pride Came to Town, dir. Julia Dahr, Julie Lunde Lillesæter (Norway)
(Not currently available)
Something in the Closet, dir. Nosa Eke (UK)
(Not currently available)
2021 Programme
Pure (trailer), dir. Natalie Jasmine Harris (USA)
Victoria (trailer), dir. Daniel Toledo (Spain)
Trans Happiness is Real, dir. Quinton Baker (UK)
Bodies of Desire, dir. Varsha Panikar and Saad Nawab (India)
Land of the Free (trailer), dir. Dawid Ullgren (Sweden)