LONDON LESBIAN & GAY FILM FESTIVALNow in its 21st year, the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival is the UK's third largest film festival. A number of this year's highlights have already screened to great acclaim at the Times BFI 50th London Film Festival. If you missed them the first time round, don't make the same mistake again!
Beyond Hatred is a deeply moving documentary that charts the aftermath of a homophobic murder. The film is remarkable for its sensitivity and anti-sensationalist approach - catch it at the Festival in advance of its national release.
Danish drama A Soap has received numerous awards, including the Jury Grand Prix at last year's Berlin Film Festival. A tender evocation of the relationship between a beautiful girl and her transsexual neighbour, this is a film that, in the words of Variety, 'casts an entrancing spell'.
If you missed its recent theatrical run, make sure you get yourself to one of our special screenings of Infamous, 'a second look at Truman Capote's journey to write In Cold Blood that against all odds is as good as Capote', to quote The Hollywood Reporter. Infamous screens as part of our Pick of the Year strand, which also offers another chance to see Lukas Moodysson's experimental and provocative Container.
Glue won top jury and audience awards at the 2006 Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Film. The film's disaffected youth/coming-of-age premise may be an arthouse staple, but according to the Miami Herald it is 'so beautifully and earnestly portrayed, and filmed with such an ethereal other-worldliness, there isn't a moment in the movie you feel you've seen done quite this way before'.
Other films listed in this years programme include Breakfast On Pluto, Nina's Heavenly Delights, Shortbus,
The festival runs from 21st March to 4th April.
For full details please visit www.llgff.org.uk.