Over the past two weeks, the Screencraft team at the BFI National Archive has been working in the local community to run talks and material-viewing sessions, introducing the BFI t ...

An atmospheric post-war thriller, For Them That Trespass marks Richard Todd’s screen debut while capturing director Alberto Cavalcanti at a moment where studio constraint, noir sensibility and ...

Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague arrives as a subscription exclusive in a month packed with Brazilian classics and a gripping Nordic noir.

One of the world’s largest cities, São Paulo has inspired generations of filmmakers to engage with its scale and contradictions, transforming the city's tensions and dynamism into some of Brazilian ...

Christian Petzold sorts through the older films that bubbled up into his imagination as he made his enigmatic new mystery drama Miroirs No. 3.

A young Argentinian woman searches the for her father in a defiantly introspective film from Sofía Petersen that looks like nothing else in the cinematic landscape.

With its angular typeface and graphic elements that feel both space-age and like a throwback to the art deco era, this original quad for the David Bowie sci-fi – now 50 years old – is a classic of ...

Carla Simón’s story of a young woman untangling a web of family secrets cements the Galician filmmaker’s aptitude for naturalism while also marking a bold new step towards magical realism.

Lee Sang-il’s historical epic has made box office history in Japan, and while its depictions of traditional kabuki theatre are spellbinding, the backstage drama between two competitive performers ...

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