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This March, BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival returns to the capital’s Southbank for 12 days of films and frolics. Ahead of the 34th edition of this hotly anticipated (and quite frankly unmissable) cinematic feast, we caught up with festival programmer and former DIVA screen editor Emma Smart to find out the must-see movies for girls who like girls.

“We have a varied programme of films this year that encompass the whole

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