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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Funding ACES will enable research and consultation to develop and pilot new interventions to explore the impacts of convergent technologies on three key areas: environmental sustainability, equity, ...

Trodd, who has died aged 90, was the bold and influential producer behind Dennis Potter’s greatest works, championing radical drama and shaping British television with a lifelong commitment to ...

Blondeness is a force to be reckoned with, for better or worse; in this study of Britain’s fascination with hair colour between the 1940s-1960s, Nead explores the political complexities of blonde ...