As Film Africa opens with the UK premiere of Cannes prizewinner Ben’Imana, we explore 10 films that reveal the richness, diversity and transnational currents of East African cinema, challenging ...
As the 70th BFI London Film Festival ends, the BFI today announces the winners of this year’s LFF Awards. Showcasing an incredible range of talent from across the world, the Competition sections are a ...
This month, learn more about how we're preserving Guillermo del Toro’s latest creation, how funding is helping us transform vital archive facilities and a recent Colorado collaboration with actress ...
Ahead of the UK release of his acclaimed new film Possible Love, we pick a beginner’s path through the work of South Korea’s master of slow-burn drama and the emotional gut-punch.
Ahead of the release of Fatherland, Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest black-and-white vignette of mid-century Europe, we round up other films from the decade so far which reclaim monochrome from film history ...
Years in the making, Pakeezah is a haunting collaboration between a dying star and the artists around her. As a new restoration screens at LFF, writer and filmmaker Nasheed Qamar Faruqi explores one ...
Boyle discusses adapting James Graham’s Ink, tracing the roots of Britain’s tabloid revolution and exploring how the Sun helped create the attention economy that now shapes social media and modern ...
Whether playing an abusive filmmaker or an architect consumed by ambition, Javier Bardem’s latest characters struggle to see the harm they inflict on those around them. He discusses flawed masculinity ...
Passion4Fusion filmmakers from Wester Hailes, Scotland, on a shoot for Every Child a Filmmaker Sara Whybrew, Director of Skills and Workforce Development at BFI, adds: “All children and young people ...
In his 59 years as a filmmaker (1944-2003), Ingmar Bergman wrote and/or directed more than 60 films. It’s a daunting figure for newcomers, but not bad going for a filmmaker who considered cinema to be ...
During the shoot for Transit (2018), Christian Petzold made his cast and crew watch Mike Nichols’ The Graduate (1967). “They all said to me: ‘Why are we watching this movie with Mrs Robinson and Simon ...
With its working-class hero, regional accents and use of northern English locations, Room at the Top (1958) became an early flagship film in the British New Wave that caused a step-change for British ...