For every individual, imagination is personal, intuitive. For me, imagination is planetary, cosmic…” — Souleymane Cissé, 1940 to 2025 ...

One hundred years after The New Yorker published its first issue, we delve into the rich history of movies that have been inspired by its writing – from Meet Me in St. Louis to Adaptation.

In horror director Osgood Perkins’s nightmare version of America, a killer toy monkey’s rising body count becomes a source of local pride.

By retelling the real-life story of activist Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), whose husband was abducted by Brazil’s military dictatorship in 1971, director Walter Salles is speaking of and to the ...

The BFI Flare 2025 Programming team announce the line-up of one of the world’s most significant queer film events in the LGBTQIA+ calendar.

Supporting targeted regional growth, a new BFI Places Fund will support organisations in Swindon, Bristol and Cornwall to pilot skills and training activity ...

Kneecap, Rich Peppiatt’s comedy-drama about the rise of the titular Belfast hip-hop trio, won outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer. The film, which had previously won seven ...

The MCU’s latest outing, starring Harrison Ford as the hulk and Anthony Mackie as Captain America, is built from the foundations of some of the least-liked Marvel film and TV-projects.

In the week of Valentine’s Day and the kickoff of the Berlin Film Festival, we go looking for the locations of the most romantic of all Berlin films: Wim Wenders’ soaring tale of angelic love and ...

Sweden, Jon Blåhed’s engaging debut about a doomsday cult’s increasingly unhinged hijinks is undermined by its controlled, conventional style.

With the help of local dustmen and war vets, director Igor Bezinović’s meta documentary restages a bizarre episode Rijeka’s history, when it was placed under nationalist occupation by the Italian poet ...

When Renée Zellweger first appeared on UK screens as Bridget Jones, critic Leslie Felperin was impressed by her fine comic timing in a film that ‘slips down as easily as Chardonnay’.