Between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the weird and wonderful film production line in communist East Germany included sci-fi, westerns, film noir and some uniquely ...

Fifty years after the release of Bugsy Malone, we share the illustrations with which director Alan Parker first imagined the idea of a gangster musical in which all of the parts would be played by ...

British lives, caught on film and collected online. Discover previously unseen film capturing 120 years of Britain on film. I’ve never seen my family on film before so it was a wonderful surprise to ...

Tsai Ming-liang: 90 minutes with the slow cinema master ...

At the end of 2011, I drove out to Virginia Water with a colleague, to collect a film donation to the BFI National Archive. Meeting actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes at his Surrey home is a treasured ...

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Isabel Davis will lead the BFI’s £20 million annual Filmmaking Funds and its strategic support for UK independent filmmakers when she joins from Screen Scotland as Director on a five-year contract ...

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Returning to the serial format of earlier work like Night on Earth (1991), Jim Jarmusch’s prize-winning latest film looks at adult sibling relationships in the long shadow of a parent. It’s typically ...

Director-author Helen Walsh’s previous works have included tough tales set in working-class communities, sometimes focusing on sexuality and forbidden passion. In her 2014 novel The Lemon Grove, a ...

You wonder whether Imran Perretta was thinking of Kes (1969) when he gave a three-letter name to his own film about a painful childhood. Ish might, to a degree, be categorised as British realism in ...