BFI Distribution and Warner Bros. Clockwork unveil a 30 October 2026 cinema release and a major BFI Southbank retrospective celebrating Ken Russell’s work in summer 2027.

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.

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

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 ...

Saluting six decades of prize-giving at the London Film Festival, we tell the evolving story of the festival’s awards and competitions – including a rollcall of past winners, from Yasujiro Ozu to ...

David Lean’s classic 1945 film of Noël Coward’s stage play sticks quite closely to the original. But then, since Coward himself was producing, Lean didn’t really have much choice. (By all accounts, he ...

Pensioners Madeleine and Nina are neighbours and lovers whose relationship is thrown into turmoil by a sudden illness in Filippo Meneghetti’s absorbing first feature. In Filippo Meneghetti’s ...

Love represents the possibility of transcending – or at least surviving – the grinding reality of life under capitalism in Fallen Leaves, Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s fourth addition to his ...

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 ...

Screenwriter Jesse Armstrong described Yorgos Lanthimos best. In the current cinematic landscape, the Greek filmmaker holds the position of “surpriser, unsettler in chief”. Despite the clinical, ...

Director Wim Wenders often made films about journeying. Famed for his distinctly more pessimistic, European take on the American road movie form, Wenders regularly looked at journeys heading nowhere ...