24th Gay Film Festival Opens

The 24th  annual Lesbian and Gay Film Festival opened in London last week,  the British Film Institute festival runs until the end of the month  and promised to bring out the best in lesbian and gay films in central London.


The programme was kicked off with the first showing of "The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister"   a bio-drama based on the real life tales of a Yorkshire landowner and industrialist who was described as Britain's first lesbian!


In total there will be more than 75 films and documentaries  screened during the festival, which is one of the biggest of it's kind in Europe.     Some of the other flicks to be shown include "I Killed My Mother"  , written, produced, directed by and starring 20-year-old Xavier Dolan.  


The closing night highlight will be the screening on March 31st  of 'Children of God' by Kareem J Mortimer.    This is the film is of a love story between an artist and a local boy and unfolds against a backdrop of violent homophobia and social unease in the Bahamas.    This film had it's International at the recent Miami International Film Festival,  getting rave reviews.






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