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Queer Hearts—And Bodies—On View At London's LGBT Film Festival

Highlights include the violent and explicit "Jesús," Xavier Dolan's "It's Only the End of the World," and the Alan Cumming film "After Louie"

London is gearing up for its LGBT film festival BFI Flare with the announcement of its full lineup, including the opening-night world premiere of Against the Law.

Against the Law

The BBC-produced political drama tells the true story of Peter Wildeblood, a British journalist jailed in the 1950s for "gross indecency," whose case eventually led to the decriminalization of consensual gay sex in England and Wales. The 50th anniversary of Wildeblood's case is being celebrated this year across the UK.

Another buzzed-about film is Vincent Gagliostro’s After Louie, starring Alan Cumming as a disillusioned artist and AIDS activist who gets tangled up with a younger man.

Other films hitting the fest include Lovesong, starring Jenna Malone, Xavier Dolan's It's Only the End of the World, and I Love You Both, about a twin brother and sister who fall for the same boy. In Fernando Guzzoni's Jesús, described as "a sexually explicit, often uncomfortably violent film," a Chilean teenager participates in a gay bashing with his friends that propels him into a moral crisis with profound consequences.

The festival closes with the international premiere of Signature Move, about a Pakistani lesbian woman living in Chicago with her mother.

In addition to more than 50 features and 100 shorts, BFI Flare is hosting a number of special events, including director Jamie Babbit discussing the impact of But I'm a Cheerleader and an exploration of queer cinema in India with Sridhar Rangayan, director of the Mumbai International Queer Film Festival.

But I'm a Cheerleader

BFI Flare runs March 16 to 26. Watch the trailer for the festival below

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