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.

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.

The LFF Closing Night Gala is hosted at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 18 October with screenings around the UK.

From BAFTA wins and major festival premieres to international development opportunities and feature debuts, BFI NETWORK alumni continue to make their mark on the global screen industry, demonstrating ...

From its roots in Luton to acclaim on the international festival circuit, Imran Perretta’s debut demonstrates how National Lottery funding helps bring underrepresented stories and distinctively ...

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

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 ...

To the cine-palaeontologist tracing the evolutionary history of film, Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park appears at first to be a rather obvious hybrid of Jaws and writer Michael Crichton’s earlier ...

Once upon a tele-time, it was all about single plays, soaps and sitcoms, but in the late 1970s ambitious multi-episode drama series such as Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), Roots (1977) and Jesus of ...

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 ...

Film, like magic, combines art and science. Film is a highly technical medium, but perfect for delivering illusion. The pioneer filmmakers of the 1890s were quick to exploit stop-motion and the ...

David Lean was one of Britain’s most successful directors. Few managed to match his effective mixing of artful visuals, emotional depth and accessible drama, building a highly respected career ...