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.

Sara Dosa and Andri Snær Magnason’s Time and Water explores Iceland’s vanishing glaciers through myth, family memory and climate science.

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 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 ...

We’re excited to share the public beta of our redesigned BFI Cinemas website. It’s now live alongside the current BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX sites, and you’re invited to explore it while we continue ...

Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s Cannes-awarded film reimagines Federico García Lorca’s unfinished play with an extravagant film about Spain’s history of political and homophobic persecution that ...

On the cover: 21st-century sci-fi special – from dystopias to dreamworlds, the essential science-fiction films of the millennium so far Inside: Cannes bulletin including interviews with Sandra Hüller ...

Reports commissioned to monitor the delivery and impact of the funding we provide. As an organisation managing public funding and with a remit to provide leadership and support for the sector and its ...

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 ...

At the BFI we champion new talent and unfamiliar stories from unfamiliar voices. We’re passionate about projects that reach new audiences, and we back the international promotion of the UK industry.

An audience study providing fresh insights into the role of film in the context of the wider viewing landscape – including measurement of all the ways audiences consume films, the factors that ...

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