The UK’s most important film industry festival for young, emerging filmmakers is back from 15-18 February with another jam-packed lineup of events that will inspire you to make films and provide you with the industry insights you need to pursue a career in the film, TV and creative industries.
A troubled young sheep farmer falls for a hired hand in this stunning debut from Francis Lee.
David Lowery’s haunting exploration of love and loss stars Casey Affleck as a tormented spectre and is a high-point of recent independent American cinema.
Nick Park’s stop-motion marvel, backed by the BFI, is in cinemas nationwide now.
Read about Nick Park’s seven animation heroes
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Francis Lee’s moving gay love story.
David Lowery’s haunting exploration of love and loss.
Maysaloun Hamoud’s charming and vital drama.
Bertrand Tavernier guides us through French film history.
1,000s of films, preserved.
120 years of British life, many unseen for decades.
Hidden histories and forgotten stories of people and places from the UK’s key film and TV archives.
19 sun-kissed snapshots of seaside holidays in 1960s Bournemouth
Tourist hotspot is a city in bloom for sun-seekers, sportsmen, families and the foxtrot…
15 revealing pictures showing the Southern Railway experience 80 years ago
OK commuter: back in the 1920s Southern was a byword for train innovation and efficiency.
When the Wind Blows (dual format edition)
First time on Blu-ray for this masterpiece of British animation.
£14.99
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Blu-ray)
Superb new HD presentation of Jacques Rivette’s masterpiece.
£14.99
Will it Snow for Christmas? (dual format edition)
Director Sandrine Veysset’s remarkable debut film on Blu-ray for the first time.
£14.99
The new BFI Compendium explores how on-screen thrillers have always captured the unease of the times.
£16.99
Three Films by Ken Loach (Blu-ray set)
Three of Loach’s greatest films on Blu-ray for the first time.
£29.99
How Ida Lupino lit a path for women directors and indie filmmakers alike
Friday 2 February 2018
New archive compilation film goes Around India with a Movie Camera
Friday 2 February 2018
10 great war films of the 21st century
Friday 2 February 2018
Where to begin with Kenneth Anger
Thursday 1 February 2018
Video: Nick Park on Aardman animation's stone age story, Early Man
Thursday 1 February 2018
Behind the scenes on our new Derek Jarman box-sets
Wednesday 31 January 2018
When videotapes were sinister – 20 years of J-horror classic Ring
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Ingmar Bergman: A definitive film season
Our comprehensive, three-month survey at BFI Southbank, marking Bergman’s centenary.
Throughout 2018 at BFI Southbank we’ll be celebrating animation in all its guises.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi at BFI IMAX
Experience writer-director Rian Johnson’s spectacular new entry in the Star Wars saga on Britain’s biggest screen.
Daniel Day-Lewis stars as a chilly 1950s couturier resisting romantic intimacy in Paul Thomas Anderson's slyly comic Hitchcockian drama. It's his most ambitious and surprising film yet, writes Adam Nayman.
Thursday 1 February 2018
Women on a Bergman screen – a video essay
Friday 2 February 2018
How Twin Peaks stretches television into the unknown
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Early Man review: a deliciously tactile and nostalgic feat of clay
Thursday 25 January 2018
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