The ESCAPES initiative is renewed for three years following a successful pilot which saw over 215,000 tickets claimed across 223 independent cinemas since 2024.

With five Best Picture nominees and 40 nominations in total for UK talent, creativity and collaboration across this year’s Academy Awards, the BFI and the British Consulate-General Los Angeles will ...

Marking ten years since the death of Andrzej Wajda, a BFI retrospective celebrates the towering Polish director whose films bore witness to his country's experience of war and tyranny. In this late ...

With The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal unleashes a genre‑bending, punk‑toned Frankenstein tale. We spoke to stars Peter Sarsgaard and Penélope Cruz about playing detective, favourite icons and ...

Jodie Foster, Ethan Hawke, Daniel Day-Lewis and the legendary Kim Novak on the art of acting. Plus actors including Isabelle Huppert, Wagner Moura, Sopé Dìsírù and Jennifer Lawrence nominate ...

A 19th‑century contagion thriller for the 2020s: star Johnny Flynn and director Dara Van Dusen discuss the timely fears, inspirations and performances behind A Prayer for the Dying.

Mascha Schilinski’s fragmentary look into the lives of four generations of German women – each affected by violence and abuse in different ways – is as unsettling as it is breathtaking.

Set over the 20th and 21st centuries, Mascha Schilinski’s unsettling drama tells the stories of four German girls, exploring cycles of family secrecy and abuse. Here she explains her fascination with ...

This week, delve into the world of copyright data as some of the BFI attendees reflect on the Right from the Start: Copyright Data That Works conference.

Awarding National Lottery funding to support shortform live action, animation and immersive/virtual reality. This page was updated on 10 February 2026. BFI NETWORK Short Film funding is intended to ...