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.

Lance Hammer’s film starring Juliette Binoche as the concerned daughter of a mother with advancing dementia presents an unsentimental yet highly empathetic meditation on the limits of love in the face ...

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.

Unconvincing Manchester accent aside, Amanda Seyfried delivers a brilliant, primal performance as Ann Lee, the radical leader of a celibate religious sect that absolved sins through intense physical ...

A fraught tale of desire, accusation and moral compromise, Term of Trial is a striking Northern drama of the British New Wave era, offering one of Olivier’s most complex screen performances and a ...

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.

Shahrbanoo Sadat’s confidently-made film about the relationship between two journalists in Afghanistan underlines the difficulty of having a mutually respectful romance while a volatile political ...