Thirty years after its release, Trainspotting is returning to cinemas. In our February 1996 issue, Geoffrey Macnab spoke to director Danny Boyle, screenwriter John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald ...

Patrick Wang’s richly experimental film about the French poet Arthur Rimbaud stars a single actor telling his life story to a series of musical instruments. The result is extraordinary.

From Super 8 to Berberian Sound Studio... As Jane Schoenbrun’s meta-slasher movie Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma arrives in cinemas, we turn a lens on the surprisingly rich history of dramas and ...

This month, read a selection of on-the-ground reports from festivals in the UK and internationally and dive into an exciting BFI-supported transmedia project.

Rafael Manuel’s debut feature, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at this year’s Sundance, will be in cinemas on 20 November.

Horror expert Anton Bitel has spent long days and nights watching films from this year’s packed FrightFest programme. These are his eight favourite discoveries.

As this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival gets under way, we pick out 10 recommendations from a programme that embraces the thrill of the new with a stack of world premieres from early-career directors.

The LFF Industry Forum runs from 8 to 15 October at Picturehouse Central, with accreditation for industry and press delegates now open.

A struggling director follows the deluded Lady Isabella (Sian Clifford) around her country estate for a documentary in Samuel Abrahams’s eccentric comedy about the parasitic relationship between ...

The new delivery model for 2026 to 2029 increases opportunities for underrepresented young people to access free year-round training, networking opportunities and career development closer to home.

Ten films will compete for Best Film at the 2026 BFI London Film Festival Awards, with the winner to be chosen by the LFF Awards Jury and revealed on Sunday 18 October. The 70th BFI London Film ...

Ever since the first attempts to realise extinct animals on film – Winsor McCay’s Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) and Willis H. O’Brien’s The Dinosaur and the Missing Link (1915) – the trick has not just ...