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BFI Flare Programmer Grace Barber-Plentie On Landing ‘The Wedding Banquet’ & How Industry Shifts Are Creating Space For Queer Film Culture
BFI Flare Film Festival runs from March 19 – 30 at the BFI Southbank in London.
It’s a big-ticket title, arriving in London following a debut bow at Sundance with a red-hot cast including Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, and serves as a sign of the festival’s continued relevance and mainstream appeal. Below, BFI Flare and LFF programmer Grace Barber-Plentie digs into this year’s lineup, how shifts in the industry have improved conditions for queer films and filmmakers, and how the festival positions itself with changing political winds in the U.S. and UK. The film is about an aspiring actor who, whilst on the dating apps, encounters a guy who is about to be put in a big position of political power and they start a love affair that leads to them having sex in public places.
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