This is the pass that Emeric Pressburger – later half of Powell and Pressburger – used to access the screening theatre at Germany’s biggest film studio, just before he fled Berlin in the early 1930s.
The young director’s feature-length version of his YouTube shorts stays true to its creepypasta origins, turning a wasteland of cheap furniture into an infinite hellscape that entraps the viewer along ...
As Legally Blonde struts back into cinemas for its 25th anniversary, we revisit our original review of the film, where our critic praised its skilful satire and Reese Witherspoon’s winning performance ...
UK-wide partnerships with Into Film and National Saturday Club renewed over three years to deliver activity nationwide.
From mind-bending narrators to fourth-wall-breaking mechanics, these games delight in exposing the wires beneath the medium, turning play into a self-aware experience.
Following his recent BFI Fellowship, Mexican director Guillermo del Toro gave a masterclass to young creatives from the BFI Film Academy, exploring the craft behind his dark fairytales and how human ...
As we celebrate the centenary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth, let’s start by examining something I’ll call the ‘Marilyn moment’. That’s the one that makes you set aside everything else – and with Marilyn, ...
Emerging from the communist theatre movement in post-Partition Bengal, Ritwik Kumar Ghatak became one of cinema’s most radical voices and the conscience of his time. Ghatak’s influence on South Asian ...
When director Laurent Cantet passed away, his longtime collaborator Robin Campillo stepped in to finish his final film, Enzo, a tetchy portrait of adolescence that gracefully blends their directorial ...
Awarding National Lottery funding to support shortform live action, animation and immersive/virtual reality. This page was updated on 18 March 2026. BFI NETWORK Short Film funding is intended to ...
BFI NETWORK offer short film funding, and feature treatment funding for fiction live action, animation or immersive projects. Funding for short film fiction projects is available directly from BFI ...