This years BFI Flare feels absolutely, positively vital. 2017 marks a significant milestone in our shared history: the 50th anniversary of the partial de-criminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales. We will be celebrating this with our World Premiere screening of a new BBC production Against The Law an inspiring account of gay rights pioneer Peter Wildeblood and with a special event in which we explore 50 years of queer history through the moving image and beyond. This landmark presents us with an opportunity to look back at how far we have come and also to look ahead to the future. And while 2017 brings with it the anniversary of exciting political change, it also presents a time in which the rights we have fought so hard to gain seem suddenly vulnerable once more. The disturbing growth of far-right political movements, which threaten to erase our progress, is of real concern and underlines a need for us (as a Festival and a community) to be visible, to be present and to be loud.

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