LGBTQ+ Films To Watch at London Film Festival 2024
From Daniel Craig to Jonathan Groff, here's your selection of the best LGBTQ+ films to catch at this year's London Film Festival. But be quick, tickets are like gold dust...
As London Film Festival returns to the capital, some of the worlds most decorated film makers and actors will descend to showcase their new offerings. Angelina Jolie’s Oscar hopeful Maria and Amy Adams’ turn as a four legged hound in Nightbitch might be making headlines, but what LGBTQ+ offering is there?
Light In The Loafers has picked some of the best queer films you can catch at this years festival, but be quick - tickets are being snapped up notoriously fast.
From Luca Guadagnino comes the much anticipated Queer, starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey based on the book of the same name by William S. Burroughs. A tale of infatuation, sex, nightlife and drama it’s set to raise pulses as well as show off Craig in a new and vulnerable making way.
To bring life relief to what can often be a trauma heavy topic, Roshan Sethi and Eric Randall’s A Nice Indian Boy is a rom-com with an Indian spin. Starring Glee and Looking ‘s Jonathan Groff and Deadpool 2 star Karan Soni it’s set to be a breath of fresh air for queer rom-com lovers.
From Director Aileen Ye, Midnight Rising celebrates the South East Asian community through the spaces they’ve created in nightlife. Featuring Jason Kwan and David Zhou among many others, it’s a deep, dirty and exploratory look at the way community facilitates connection.
Following the life of Paris Is Burning legend Venux Xtravaganza, this touching documentary follows the House of Xtravaganza and Venus’ brothers in the quest for justice 35 years after her murder.
Grief is unpicked and laid bare in this touching drama from Hong Kong director Ray Yeung. Following Angie and Pat, it unpicks the unique difficulties that arise with grief and loss amidst familial connections post death and what it looks like to grieve when hurdles lay at every turn.
Fan of Lesbian Punk? Well Queens Of Drama will nicely fill a much needed gap of camp, fun and satirical films exploring what it looks like to be a pop star who falls in love.
What does it mean when one man has a spontaneous no-strings-quickie with another man? In this Nordic drama, relationships, sexuality and gender are explored as the fall out from two men’s exploration trickles down through their own families.
Max, AKA Sebastian works as an escort - but when he’s offered an opportunity to share his world with the masses, his double identities become entangled with each other. Will he be able to see where his real self ends and Sebastian begins?
The 68th BFI London Film Festival runs from October 9th - October 20th 2024 across London
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