June marks Pride Month and we want to celebrate it with you. To do so, Centre Flassaders in Palma de Mallorca is glad to present More Films for Freedom, a series of six shorts commissioned by the British Council in partnership with BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival and BFI NETWORK.
Every year during the festival we screen Five Films for Freedom, our online LGBTIQ+ film programme which has already reached more than 14 million views in 202 countries and principalities since its creation in 2015. Building on their success, the British Council and the BFI commissioned in 2019 a series of short films that explore this theme.
The series, called More Films for Freedom, includes six shorts made by UK teams in collaboration with Palestinian, South African, Syrian, Nigerian and Libyan filmmakers. Together, they showcase distinctive filmmaking voices and explore topics as diverse as gender, sexuality and conflict, inter-generational gay culture, migration and family ties.
We invite you to join us at Centre Flassaders in Palma de Mallorca for their screening in solidarity with the LGBTQI+ community to celebrate their diversity and support love as a human right.
Programme:
Egungun - UK with Nigerian collaboration (2021)
Director | Olive Nwosu | Producer | Alex Polulin | 15 mins
In this captivating and stylish drama by Olive Nwosu, a woman returns to her hometown of Lagos in search of healing. What she discovers instead is a path that takes her into her past and toward a new understanding of the people and experiences that shaped her. (Nominated for Best Short BIFA 2021).
Prayers for Sweet Waters - UK with South African collaboration (2021)
Director | Elijah Ndoumbe | Producer | Naeem Dxvis | 16 mins
A submergence into the vivid realities of three Transgender sex workers living in Cape Town, South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Baba - UK with Libyan collaboration (2021)
Directors | Sam Arbor, Adam Ali | Producer | Hannah Stevenson | 16 mins
Living in the tunnels beneath Tripoli a queer Libyan teenager, Britannia, dreams of escape to a better life, but an unexpected discovery forces him to question whether to stay or flee from his homeland and his friends. (Winner Iris Prize 2021).
Let My Body Speak - UK with Syrian collaboration (2020)
Director | Madonna Adib | Producer | Noe Mendelle | 10 mins
Our bodies store memories. The body does not forget. A childhood in Damascus, OCD, the revolution, falling in love with a woman. My body remembers.
The Men Who Speak Gayle - UK with South African collaboration (2020)
Director | Andrew Brukman | Writer | Nathan Kennedy
Producers | Thembisa Cochrane and Georgie Paget | 10 mins
Young drag performer Nathan is one of the last people to speak Gayle – a secret language the gay community were forced to invent during Apartheid. He finds out about Louis, an original Gayle speaker living in a conservative desert town in South Africa and wants to put on a performance with him, but don’t know how the town will react
Nowhere - UK with Palestinian collaboration (2020)
Director | Christopher Manning | Producer | Garry Paton | Co-Producers | Laura Samara and Baher Agbariya | 20 mins
A young Palestinian woman crosses the Israeli border illegally to find her long-lost brother, discovering the truth behind his exiled existence.