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BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival (March 19-30) has unveiled its full line-up, with 56 features across three strands, exploring subjects such as Kenya’s ballroom scene and the appeal of dating apps.

The programme has films and shorts from 41 countries, with six world premiere features. These include Kenyan filmmaker Njoroge Muthoni’s documentaryHow To Live, which explores Nairobi’s vibrant ballroom scene and celebrates queer African joy.

In Yu-jin Lee’s Manok, the owner of a South Korean lesbian bar must return to her small hometown after clashing with the city’s younger queer community.

Buenos Aires-set comedy drama Few...

Joachim Trier’s Oscar-nominated smash “The Worst Person in the World,” about a young woman trying to figure out what – and who – she really wants in her life, won big at Norway’s Amanda Awards on Saturday night, scooping five statuettes, including one for best film.

Trier, who now holds the title for most Amanda Awards, also won for best screenplay with his long-time collaborator Eksil Vogt. The film’s breakout star Renate Reinsve, already awarded at Cannes, picked up her first Amanda for her portrayal of Julie, with Anders Danielsen Lie named best supporting actor.

Back in February, Reinsve – who will be next seen in “A Different Man” alongside Sebastian Stan – opened up about her work with Trier, which started in 2011 on “Oslo, August 31st,” her very first feature film.

“I was an extra with one line. I had nothing to compare it to – it was my first movie set.

An aging Norwegian pop artist, Hariton Pushwagner, is the subject of this larger-than-life documentary, directed by Even Benestad and August B. Hanssen. And it's a great doc about an eccentric artist, rivaling Crumb in its charm and scope.It is clear from the beginning, as this pint sized, chain smoking, always inebriated man lets us know just who is in charge; he dictates the first scene of the film, "Ok, it starts with me reading a book, now you ask me a question 'what are you reading Push?' and I just hold up the book over my face like this." We soon find out that there is no need to cover his face. Resembling Harry Dean Stanton on a bad day, his face, devastated by years of...

LONDON -- Organizers have unveiled the runners in this year's race for the European Film Academy's best documentary award as well as the names of the jurors who will decide which film is first past the post. Among the nine feature-length docs competing for EFA's Prix Arte, to be presented at a Dec. 7 ceremony in Rome, is Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's Lost in La Mancha, which chronicles Terry Gilliam's trials and tribulations when trying to adapt The Adventures of Don Quixote to the big screen. The other titles in the running are Even Benestad's All About My Father, Enzo Balestrieri and Stefano Moser's Clown in'Kabul, Nicolas Philibert's To Be and to Have, Damian Pettigrew's Federico Fellini: I'm a Born Liar, Andre Heller and Othmar Shmiderer's Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats and Jacques Perrin's Le peuple migrateur (Winged Migration), Christian Bauer's Missing Allen and Stefan Jarl's The Bricklayer. The jury members are U.S.-based Russian documentary Marina Goldovskaya, French producer Luc Martin-Gousset and German film school director Simone Stewens. The documentary prize is presented in association with French-German cultural channel Arte.

Organizers have unveiled the runners in this year's race for the European Film Academy's best documentary award as well as the names of the jurors who will decide which film is first past the post. Among the nine feature-length docs competing for EFA's Prix Arte, to be presented at a Dec. 7 ceremony in Rome, is Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's "Lost in La Mancha", which chronicles Terry Gilliam's trials and tribulations when trying to adapt "The Adventures of Don Quixote" to the big screen. The other titles in the running are Even Benestad's "All About My Father", Enzo Balestrieri and Stefano Moser's "Clown in'Kabul", Nicolas Philibert's "To Be and to Have", Damian Pettigrew's "Federico Fellini: I'm a Born Liar," Andre Heller and Othmar Shmiderer's "Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary", Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats and Jacques Perrin's "Le peuple migrateur" (Winged Migration), Christian Bauer's "Missing Allen" and Stefan Jarl's "The Bricklayer". The jury members are U.S.-based Russian documentary Marina Goldovskaya, French producer Luc Martin-Gousset and German film school director Simone Stewens. The documentary prize is presented in association with French-German cultural channel Arte.