Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a fearless performance in Mike Leigh’s empathetic portrait of the outrageously hostile Pansy, whose hardened façade masks a real fragility.

Children’s experience and tense family drama have been at the heart of many of the greatest Iranian films. Ahead of the release of the Oscar-nominated thriller The Seed of the Sacred Fig, we recommend ...

From a pulp novel by Ed McBain, Akira Kurosawa fashioned a gripping procedural thriller that ranks among his greatest contemporary-set films. Jasper Sharp digs into a tale of extortion, social ...

The Young Vic’s artistic director tells us about her debut feature – the story of two teenage friends who run away from Britain on a journey to Syria – which has just been unveiled at Sundance.

Inspired by a treasure trove of archive healthcare films in the BFI National Archive, three filmmaking teams were tasked with making new short films tackling modern stories of the National Health ...

Alongside the latest round of awards, the UK Global Screen Fund has published its Multi-Year Evaluation, which looked into the process, impact and economic value of the fund from 2021-2024. Undertaken ...

This report gives the most complete picture to date of research into workforce diversity in the UK screen sector (film, television, video games, animation programming and visual effects). The report ...

Following the Referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union (EU), the BFI set up a UK Screen Sector Task Force to look at how the UK leaving the EU might affect the UK’s screen sector, which ...

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British lives, caught on film and collected online. Discover previously unseen film capturing 120 years of Britain on film. I’ve never seen my family on film before so it was a wonderful surprise to ...

A haunting romance of old Hong Kong, a vast epic of mid-century America, and one of the crucial documentaries. What are you watching this weekend?

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic contribution of the UK’s film, high-end TV, video games and animation programme sectors. This is the fifth report in the series on the UK ...