London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival ( LLGFF ) is a film festival for films with bi-/homosexuellen content.

As a precursor Richard Dyer organized in 1977 a film festival with 30 films. This, however, remained a long time to a single event. The festival takes place since 1986 in the spring held in London and organized by the British Film Institute. From a program of the Tyneside Film Festival ( Tyneside Cinema ) by Peter Packer of Mark Finch put together a program of nine films in five days, calling it Gay 's Own Pictures. 1988 was the film festival its present name. In the early years the Festivail took two weeks, but was then reduced to one week. The films will be shown in cinemas BFI Southbank.

In the months after the actual festival in London in late March, a selection was at least until 2010 in several cities in the UK and Ireland on the road and partly incorporated under the title London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on Tour in the event Plan of the local Gay Prides and other cultural events. 2006, for example made ​​it here from May to September in 40 cities and towns hold. 2010 was three months on the road.

Importance

The festival is the third-largest film festival in the United Kingdom and the largest (2007 ) or drittgröste (2011) Queer film festival in Europe. It is the longest running queer film festival in the United Kingdom.

The festival is large enough that the program makers until shortly before Christmas from interested filmmakers whose works have not yet been published in the UK, wait on each other.