Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Phil Marriott and Raj Rudolph continue their coverage of the BFI Flare 2025 LGBTQ+ Film Festival with a review of Departures, a comedy drama directed by Neil Ely and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, written by Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, starring Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, David Tag and Liam Boyle.

Benji meets Jake at an airport check-out gate and is immediately intrigued. Jake is fit, elusive, dominant and, as Benji happily suspects, ‘a bit gay’. Cue monthly getaways to Amsterdam, a lot of sex and the creeping emergence of a doomed power dynamic. This Manchester-made feature was self-funded by a collective of working-class LGBT+ filmmakers.

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💜 IT'S A SIN: UNPACKED
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00:00 Introduction
00:19 Synopsis
01:10 Unpacking
06:17 Verdict