Otherworldly visitors meet radical homegrown visions in a July line-up spanning sci-fi classics, Free Cinema landmarks and early Peter Weir gems.

In its 40th anniversary year, explore the rich legacy of the ever-evolving BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival.

Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol are the comedian-filmmakers behind hit web series and TV show Nirvanna the Band. In their anarchic new big-screen mockumentary, they go back to the future in a film ...

Andy Mundy Castle's thoughtful documentary follows British photographer Misan Harriman as he examines the clash between documenting injustice and earning social currency from it.

The Italian director Francesco Sossai’s boozy road movie avoids grand epiphanies, instead painting a leisurely textured portrait of desolate spaces, and day to day living.

Restoration of Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases to premiere at the 68th BFI London Film Festival The BFI National Archive’s major new project – the restoration of a series of films starring Eille ...

Silent Sherlock Holmes series of the 1920s gets major restoration project The on-screen Sherlock Holmes who had the approval of Arthur Conan Doyle himself, Eille Norwood starred in a series of 1920s ...

Yamazaki Takashi’s period blockbuster acts as a companion piece to the 1954 film where Godzilla made his debut, giving space to human stories and national politics while letting its seventy-year-old ...

A swimmer floats on her back off Copacabana Beach as a helicopter flies above. She is Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), whose five children are playing beach volleyball while a stray dog keeps ...

Stanley Kubrick was undoubtedly a child of the Bronx, but the great director – who died 25 years ago on 7 March 1999 – spent much of his creative life in Britain, in particular in the outer orbit of ...

Maya Deren (1917–61) once wrote: “In film I can make the world dance.” And that’s exactly what she did. Born in Kyiv 100 years ago, Deren is one of the most influential figures in American avant-garde ...

The winner of Sight and Sound magazine’s hugely anticipated and world-renowned Greatest Films of All Time Critics’ poll 2022 is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles ...