London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

An epic and engaging drama of life and sexual politics in France, following friends and lovers caught up in the fervour of May '68 before they eventually leave Paris for a rural commune. The initial joyfully collective experience gives way to a betrayal of youthful ideals. ...

Set in the Italian community in Canada, this is an account of handsome Angelo, his overbearing family and his relationships. It’s a sharply written feel-good film that’s not afraid of Italian stereotypes but uses them to create something which is both authentic and often hilarious. ...

A chance meeting up on the Yorkshire moors between working-class Mona and middle-class Tamsin leads to an intense and passionate summer love affair. But not everyone is as they first appear, and while Mona dreams of escape from her evangelical brother, Tamsin has other ideas when summer ends. ...

This exquisitely art-directed tale of troubled wife Cathy Whitaker (a luminous performance by Julianne Moore) is like a synthesis of some of the great studio pics of the era, notably those of Douglas Sirk. ...

Filmed the year 'The Naked Civil Servant' was first published, and before he had become a household name, this very rare footage of Quentin Crisp was filmed as part of a series of interviews by Bernard Braden which were never broadcast. ...

An award-winning hit on the festival circuit, Shamin Sarif skillfully brings her own novel about forbidden love in apartheid era South Africa to the screen with mesmerising results.

Shirley MacLaine and Audrey Hepburn are superb in William Wyler's film, following the devastating consequences of a lie told by a spiteful child in school.

As a young child Jonathan Caouette recorded himself and his family on Super-8 and video. In his twenties, he edited this material with new interviews, photographs and answerphone messages to create an intensely intimate portrait of his fascinating, dysfunctional family life.

Closing Night Gala.Photograph: www.christaholka.com