Pete Ohs’ airy exploration of desire, travel and self-mythology feels like Premium-Class Mumblecore, starring Charli xcx as a restless British tourist hoping to reconnect with someone from her past.

A creatively challenged writer-director is writing a screenplay about a creatively challenged writer-director in an entertaining self-reflexive experiment from the Spanish great that feels like a ...

Loosely based on Claude Chabrol’s psychological thriller The Unfaithful Wife, Zvyagintsev’s story of a CEO under personal and professional pressure doubles as a potent reflection on corruption in ...

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.

Since the pandemic, for me anyway, it seems almost impossible for a new movie to come out that I don’t pick to death. Flaws, implausibilities, audience pandering, miscast performers or just plain ...

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, ...

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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 ...