Big dreams, bad tackles, beautiful goals... as World Cup 2026 kicks off in North America, we look back over some of the best football films made since the millennium.

In The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford, Peter Mullan stars as a lonely tour guide whose grip on reality slips when a Game of Thrones-style TV production transforms his hometown into a spectacle. Debut ...

In her centenary year, look inside a British fan magazine which reveals how Marilyn Monroe was packaged at the height of her fame – balancing the intimate promise of her ‘real’ life with the carefully ...

As in Grisebach’s 2017 film Western, the battle here is a lawless one over land and resources as a tough archaeologist tries to protect her work site from an interfering mafioso.

In Rohan Kanawade’s tender debut, a closeted gay man finds solace in the company of an old flame as he returns to his ancestral village for his father’s funeral.

Three decades after it won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, we went looking for the locations where Mike Leigh shot his bittersweet drama about an adopted daughter reconnecting with her birth mother.

BFI, BBC Film and Film4 partner on The Independent Film Sustainability Handbook A UK industry first, the bespoke toolkit for independent film provides free, accessible and achievable guides to ...

David Hockney has played a leading, or emblematic, role in the transformation of British life over the past fourteen years. His rise as an exhibitionistic, homosexual, unabashedly North Country ...

Obsession: Curry Barker plays on the twisted ideas of the manosphere in a violent make-a-wish horror ...

The Culture Recovery Fund for Independent Cinemas in England was administered by the BFI on behalf of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS). The fund was part of the UK ...

Supporting UK producers to work as partners on international co-productions and help create new global projects.

We celebrate the career of multi-award winning writer-director Mike Leigh, one of Britain’s most critically acclaimed filmmakers. Mike Leigh’s films are a testament to the power of cinema, fusing ...