The programme for February and the first half of March 2025 at BFI Southbank leads with Chantal Akerman: Adventures in Perception, a (near) complete retrospective that celebrates Akerman’s extraordinary impact on contemporary cinema.
This major two-month season, presented in partnership with the Chantal Akerman Foundation and CINEMATEK (The Royal Film Archive of Belgium) and curated by Sight and Sound managing editor Isabel Stevens encompasses fiction features, documentaries, shorts and archive interviews, and coincides with a BFI Distribution releasing of a 2K restoration of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) on 7 February, which was voted the Greatest Film of All Time by Sight and Sound’s once a decade poll in 2022….