BFI Flare 2024 in numbers

• 28,125 audience attendances across BFI Southbank screenings, events and short films on BFI Player
   
• 54% of all ticket bookers new to the Festival
   
• 87% occupancy at BFI Southbank screenings and events
   
• 58 features and 81 shorts from 41 countries
   
• 5 world premieres, 2 international premieres, 6 European premieres and 23 UK premieres across the feature films
   
• 285 filmmakers and their teams from 24 countries visited the Festival in person - with special guests including Elliot Page, Helena Bonham Carter, Simon Callow, Rupert Graves, Natascha McElhone, Great Scacchi, James Wilby, Bilal Hasna, Lady Camden, Amrou Al-Kadhi, Levan Akin, Devery Jacobs, James Krishna Floyd, Ben Hardy, Nimra Bucha, Jeffrey Schwarz, Linda Riley, Iris Brey, Michelle Parkerson and many others
   
• Over 3 million views worldwide for Five Films for Freedom in partnership with the British Council in its 10th anniversary year

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LGBTQIA+ movies at BFI Southbank     Silver Haze From Fri 29 Mar   A nurse finds an unconventional path to self-healing after falling in love with a patient in this powerful British drama.   Book now       Beautiful Thing 13 & 30 May   Hettie MacDonald and Jonathan Harvey’s acclaimed film version of the latter’s play, a gay romantic comedy set in and around a Thamesmead council estate.   Book now       Cabaret From Mon 6 May   Genuinely subversive in its sexual politics and seedy portrayal of Berlin, Bob Fosse’s take on a doomed love triangle remains as captivating as ever.   Book now

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