The first awards from the 2026 to 2029 BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund include multi-year awards for exhibitors, festivals, specialist audience organisations, as well as shorter-term ...

These sumptuous sketches by the Chilean-born British designer Olga Lehmann were created for the 1977 version of The Man in the Iron Mask, starring Richard Chamberlain, Jenny Agutter and Patrick ...

Mad Max, The Babadook, The Cars That Ate Paris... these first-time filmmakers showed us how to make a killer calling-card.

François Ozon has brought Albert Camus’s classic existentialist novel The Stranger to the screen in brooding, Bressonian black-and-white. He tells us about drawing out the sensual elements of the ...

Designed by celebrated graphic artist Edward McKnight Kauffer, this 1938 brochure commemorated the 100th screening of the Film Society, the influential bohemian group who revolutionised film ...

Robert Pattinson and Zendaya star as a happily engaged couple whose idyll begins to dissolve when the bride-to-be makes a shock confession in an absurdist comedy from provocateur director Kristoffer ...

In Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary, Kim Novak is the one doing the looking, casting a critical eye over her career, her professional relationship with Alfred Hitchcock and the 1958 film that made ...

Co-directors Chris Petit and Emma Matthews explore their son’s experience of epilepsy and their own struggle to find him adequate medical care in an essayistic film that has a flavour of Adam Curtis’s ...

Drawing inspiration from a book by nature writer Robert MacFarlane, Robert Petit’s cave exploring documentary follows three experts below the surface of the earth.

Mathieu Kassovitz’s sensational second feature as a director changed the cultural landscape of French cinema when it landed at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995, winning the Best Director prize. It ...

Best known for playing stiff-upper-lip Brits, Clive Brook made only one feature as director: a period comedy set during the ‘naughty ’90s’ which is packed with modern humour and visual ingenuity.

Up to £150,000 will be available per project from experienced UK producers and creative leads with a track record in immersive or related screen-based practice.