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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A haunted Irish hotel becomes a site of personal reckoning for a haunted man played by Adam Scott in Damian McCarthy’s surreal horror-comedy.

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 ...

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

As Alan Pakula’s Watergate thriller turns 50, we revisit Richard Combs’ assessment of its masterful pacing, controlled performances and potent tension. From our Summer 1976 issue.

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.

Following a Colorado cowboy (Josh O’Connor) who must piece his life back together after losing his ranch to a wildfire, Max Walker-Silverman’s quietly powerful film is an ode to family and community.

This week we hear from PhD researcher Rebecca Humphreys‑Lamford about their experiences undertaking a placement with the BFI to explore asexuality in the archive.