Three decades after it won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, we went looking for the locations where Mike Leigh shot his bittersweet drama about an adopted daughter reconnecting with her birth mother.

As in Grisebach’s 2017 film Western, the battle here is a lawless one over land and resources as a tough archaeologist tries to protect her work site from an interfering mafioso.

Sara Dosa and Andri Snær Magnason’s Time and Water explores Iceland’s vanishing glaciers through myth, family memory and climate science.

In her centenary year, look inside a British fan magazine which reveals how Marilyn Monroe was packaged at the height of her fame – balancing the intimate promise of her ‘real’ life with the carefully ...

A creatively challenged writer-director is writing a screenplay about a creatively challenged writer-director in an entertaining self-reflexive experiment from the Spanish great that feels like a ...

Loosely based on Claude Chabrol’s psychological thriller The Unfaithful Wife, Zvyagintsev’s story of a CEO under personal and professional pressure doubles as a potent reflection on corruption in ...

Pete Ohs’ airy exploration of desire, travel and self-mythology feels like Premium-Class Mumblecore, starring Charli xcx as a restless British tourist hoping to reconnect with someone from her past.

We’re excited to share the public beta of our redesigned BFI Cinemas website. It’s now live alongside the current BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX sites, and you’re invited to explore it while we continue ...

The young director’s feature-length version of his YouTube shorts stays true to its creepypasta origins, turning a wasteland of cheap furniture into an infinite hellscape that entraps the viewer along ...

This is the pass that Emeric Pressburger – later half of Powell and Pressburger – used to access the screening theatre at Germany’s biggest film studio, just before he fled Berlin in the early 1930s.

Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s Cannes-awarded film reimagines Federico García Lorca’s unfinished play with an extravagant film about Spain’s history of political and homophobic persecution that ...

On the cover: 21st-century sci-fi special – from dystopias to dreamworlds, the essential science-fiction films of the millennium so far Inside: Cannes bulletin including interviews with Sandra Hüller ...