As Film Africa opens with the UK premiere of Cannes prizewinner Ben’Imana, we explore 10 films that reveal the richness, diversity and transnational currents of East African cinema, challenging ...

Daniel Krauss’s 2023 best-seller Whalefall is preposterously entertaining and moving almost in spite of its shamelessly high-concept horror scenario. It’s also the sort of novel that obliges you to ...

This month, learn more about how we're preserving Guillermo del Toro’s latest creation, how funding is helping us transform vital archive facilities and a recent Colorado collaboration with actress ...

As the 70th BFI London Film Festival ends, the BFI today announces the winners of this year’s LFF Awards. Showcasing an incredible range of talent from across the world, the Competition sections are a ...

Years in the making, Pakeezah is a haunting collaboration between a dying star and the artists around her. As a new restoration screens at LFF, writer and filmmaker Nasheed Qamar Faruqi explores one ...

Ahead of the release of Fatherland, Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest black-and-white vignette of mid-century Europe, we round up other films from the decade so far which reclaim monochrome from film history ...

Whether playing an abusive filmmaker or an architect consumed by ambition, Javier Bardem’s latest characters struggle to see the harm they inflict on those around them. He discusses flawed masculinity ...

Ahead of the UK release of his acclaimed new film Possible Love, we pick a beginner’s path through the work of South Korea’s master of slow-burn drama and the emotional gut-punch.

Power, so the old slogan goes, is nothing without control. It’s a lesson learned the thrillingly hard way by Mona Friedman (Julianne Moore), late-blooming protagonist of Jesse Eisenberg’s third outing ...

In a pivotal sequence in Sandra Wollner’s Everytime, the sun appears as a radiant box on the horizon. A visual reference to the survival game Vintage Story (easily mistaken for Minecraft), the ...