As this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival gets under way, we pick out 10 recommendations from a programme that embraces the thrill of the new with a stack of world premieres from early-career directors.

BFI Distribution and Warner Bros. Clockwork unveil a 30 October 2026 cinema release and a major BFI Southbank retrospective celebrating Ken Russell’s work in summer 2027.

From BAFTA wins and major festival premieres to international development opportunities and feature debuts, BFI NETWORK alumni continue to make their mark on the global screen industry, demonstrating ...

The LFF Industry Forum runs from 8 to 15 October at Picturehouse Central, with accreditation for industry and press delegates now open.

From its roots in Luton to acclaim on the international festival circuit, Imran Perretta’s debut demonstrates how National Lottery funding helps bring underrepresented stories and distinctively ...

The LFF Closing Night Gala is hosted at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 18 October with screenings around the UK.

Tom Holland’s Peter Parker returns amid an existential crisis in a brand-extension blockbuster that lacks the springy spontaneity of Spider-Man: Homecoming.

To the cine-palaeontologist tracing the evolutionary history of film, Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park appears at first to be a rather obvious hybrid of Jaws and writer Michael Crichton’s earlier ...

David Lean’s classic 1945 film of Noël Coward’s stage play sticks quite closely to the original. But then, since Coward himself was producing, Lean didn’t really have much choice. (By all accounts, he ...

Director Wim Wenders often made films about journeying. Famed for his distinctly more pessimistic, European take on the American road movie form, Wenders regularly looked at journeys heading nowhere ...

Not only was Ingmar Bergman one of the greatest artists in the history of cinema, he was also one of the most prolific. Chalking up over 60 films as director, he worked quickly with regular ...

Screenwriter Jesse Armstrong described Yorgos Lanthimos best. In the current cinematic landscape, the Greek filmmaker holds the position of “surpriser, unsettler in chief”. Despite the clinical, ...