London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary, we travel back through its history to select 40 queer cinema classics that you might not have seen.

The Joye Collection – an early cinema collection assembled by a Swiss Jesuit between 1905 and 1915 and acquired by the BFI National Archive in 1977 – continues to yield surprises. In recent months, ...

As the awards season reaches its climax, Adam Nayman looks deeper at the how and the why of acting excellence, as well as the who.

A stranger in a strange land, Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) undergoes, like all Nicolas Roeg’s heroes, a personality change in which he is got at, taken over, transformed into an other. In the ...

Cillian Murphy reprises his role as the Brummie gangster, this time to face his estranged son Duke (Barry Keoghan), in a bloody big-screen version of the TV series that will go down well with fans.

Here’s a devil’s bargain: give up the ability to dream, and you could live forever. In Resurrection, Bi Gan’s first feature in seven years and his most head-spinning work yet, that’s the deal taken by ...

Fernando Eimbcke’s sharp eye for composition captures the restless present tense of childhood in a bittersweet film about a young boy in Mexico City trying to make sense of his mother’s illness.

The ESCAPES initiative is renewed for three years following a successful pilot which saw over 215,000 tickets claimed across 223 independent cinemas since 2024.

With five Best Picture nominees and 40 nominations in total for UK talent, creativity and collaboration across this year’s Academy Awards, the BFI and the British Consulate-General Los Angeles will ...

Marking ten years since the death of Andrzej Wajda, a BFI retrospective celebrates the towering Polish director whose films bore witness to his country's experience of war and tyranny. In this late ...

Lance Hammer’s film starring Juliette Binoche as the concerned daughter of a mother with advancing dementia presents an unsentimental yet highly empathetic meditation on the limits of love in the face ...

A 19th‑century contagion thriller for the 2020s: star Johnny Flynn and director Dara Van Dusen discuss the timely fears, inspirations and performances behind A Prayer for the Dying.