Jordan, Coogler and Caton on Sinners | BFI in Conversation
Director-Writer-Producer Ryan Coogler takes us behind the scenes of Sinners
15th January 2026
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2025
Ryan Coogler gives a masterclass to BFI Film Academy
The director of films including Sinners, Black Panther and Fruitvale Station visited BFI Southbank to talk to a group of BFI Film Academy students and alumni about his career in filmmaking. The masterclass was hosted by film programmer Wema Mumma, Coogler talked about pivoting from sports and science to the...
15th December 2025
Guillermo del Toro to receive a BFI Fellowship
The BFI today announces that it is honouring filmmaker Guillermo del Toro with its highest accolade, a BFI Fellowship. The award recognises his extraordinary contribution to film and the distinctive artistry that runs through his work across animation and live action, and as a Mexican filmmaker, in both Spanish and English. Fusing dark horror and...
3rd December 2025
Edgar Wright talks to Mark Kermode about The Running Man | BFI IMAX Q&A
As Edgar Wright brings his high-octane, fast-paced and thrilling adaptation to the big screen, the director visited BFI IMAX to talk to Mark Kermode about putting Stephen King’s dystopian life-or-death gameshow thriller through its paces. Welcome to the BFI, bringing you exclusive Screen Talks and Filmmaker Q&As from London’s BFI...
1st December 2025
Tom Cruise pays a visit to the BFI National Archive
Hollywood icon Tom Cruise paid a visit to the BFI National Archive last week, immersing himself in the history and artistry of filmmaking with infectious enthusiasm. Ahead of receiving an honorary Oscar on Sunday, Cruise – who was awarded the BFI Fellowship in May – spent hours exploring rare materials and engaging in animated conversations with archivists....
18th November 2025
Tim Burton on animation | BFI in Conversation
As we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, we welcome BFI Fellow Tim Burton to talk about his films and passion for animation, looking back at his work to date and the animation that has inspired him. BFI
27th October 2025
Ridley Scott on the state of movies today | BFI in Conversation
Director Ridley Scott visits BFI Southbank to talk about his long career in film-making including titles such as Gladiator, Alien, Blade Runner and The Martian. Across a career spanning more than 60 years, Scott has directed a wide range of ambitious, hugely entertaining and technologically innovative features, as well as...
16th October 2025
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror | BFI Q&A
Director Linus O’Brien, composer Richard Hartley, actor Belinda Sinclair and costume designer Sue Blane visit BFI Southbank to talk about a documentary about the creation of The Rocky Horror Show and its enduring legacy. BFI
9th October 2025
Cillian Murphy and the director, cast and writer of Steve | BFI Q&A
Cillian Murphy, director Tim Mielants, actors Tracey Ullman and Jay Lycurgo and writer Max Porter visit BFI Southbank to talk about Steve, a story set in a reform school for boys in the 90s. Set in the mid-90s, Steve is a reimagining of Max Porter’s Sunday Times bestseller Shy. The...
3rd October 2025
BFI Short Form Animation Fund showreel 2025
Thanks to National Lottery funding, the BFI Short Form Animation Fund helps support cutting-edge work by a wide range of animators and makers across the UK. BFI
29th September 2025
BFI National Lottery Funding Plan launched for 2026 to 2029
The BFI today announces the BFI National Lottery Funding Plan 2026-2029 with £150 million available for UK Screen Culture over three years. Through six strands addressing key areas across the sector, a range of funds and programmes benefiting public and industry seek to continue to deliver on the 10-year National Lottery Strategy 2023-2033 which was published as...
18th September 2025
David Mitchell and Robert Webb on Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping | BFI Q&A
Succession showrunner Jesse Armstrong talks to David Mitchell, Robert Webb and the cast and crew of their new series, Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping at the BFI Southbank. Mitchell and Webb are back! The legendary duo return to Channel 4 in a brand-new sketch show, an innovative merging of...
11th September 2025
Full Programme Announced for BFI LFF 69
The 69th BFI London Film Festival (LFF) in partnership with American Express today announces the full programme line-up, presented in cinemas and online across the UK. Over twelve days from 8 to 19 October, the LFF invites audiences to return to its fantastic flagship venues in the heart of London, BFI Southbank and the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall....
3rd September 2025
69th BFI London Film Festival – Screen Talks
The 69th BFI London Film Festival (8 to 19 October), in partnership with American Express, is thrilled to reveal the filmmakers participating in this year’s programme of Screen Talks. This year’s line-up of Screen Talks includes interviews with Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread, There Will Be Blood), Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, Kinds of...
1st September 2025
BFI Player’s September 2025 line-up
Thirty-two films in 30 days. A hectic month with multiple connections. A theme of incarceration, be it legal or not, links the Brazilian hit I’m Still Here and Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners with the classic Midnight Express or the home invasion nightmare of Funny Games. That’s one of ten titles from Michael...
30th August 2025
Steve Oram and the cast of Aaaaaaaah! | BFI Q&A
Writer-director Steve Oram, cast Sean Reynard and Holli Dempsey and producer Andy Starke visit BFI Southbank to talk about Oram’s directorial debut, a horror comedy in which people talk like apes. Debauchery, chaos and the jarringly mundane unfold in weird ways, and amid drab suburban contexts, in actor-comedian Steve Oram’s...
29th August 2025
Ridley Scott: Building Cinematic Worlds | BFI trailer
Big things have small beginnings. Ridley Scott is a titan of filmmaking and worldbuilding. See his cinematic visions back on the big screen with our career retrospective, screening at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX from Sep-Oct. BFI
29th August 2025
BFI announces Too Much: Melodrama on Film
The BFI today announces a new season celebrating the vivid visual language, heightened dramatics and emotional pathos at the heart of film melodrama, inviting film audiences to follow their emotions. United by their emotion driven plots, vivid visual language and self-conscious audience manipulation, these films are designed to make you break down...
28th August 2025
Tarsem Singh on The Fall | BFI IMAX Q&A
Director Tarsem Singh visits the BFI IMAX to talk about The Fall, a fantasy drama in which a hospitalised stuntman befriends a young girl and tells an epic story of heroism and revenge. Filmed over 24 countries without a completed script and heavily improvised, this film is more than unique...
21st August 2025
Mark Gatiss and the cast and crew of Bookish | BFI Q&A
Mark Gatiss, star of the crime drama Bookish, visits BFI Southbank to talk about the show. Gatiss plays Gabriel Book, a bookshop owner and investigator, who works in tandem with his childhood best friend and wife Trottie (Polly Walker), Book and Trottie run his shop and mystery solving enterprise in...
20th August 2025
The Ice Tower to be released by BFI Distribution
BFI Distribution announces that The Ice Tower, co-written and directed by Lucile Hadžihalilović (Innocence, Evolution, Earwig), starring Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose, Rust and Bone, Two Days, One Night) and newcomer Clara Pacini, will be released in UK and Irish cinemas on 21 November 2025. A richly textured and deeply moving tale of longing...
14th August 2025
Laura Mulvey to receive a BFI Fellowship
The BFI is celebrating the influential filmmaker, author, theorist and academic Laura Mulvey with its highest honour, a BFI Fellowship, and an accompanying season at BFI Southbank, Laura Mulvey: Thinking Through Film, a BFI Player collection and BFI educational events, season discussions and talks. The BFI Fellowship honours Mulvey’s multi-faceted achievements over the last 50 years and the huge global impact of her work,...
14th August 2025
BFI NETWORK alumni at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025
As the summer months are here, the film calendar is gearing up for Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF). This year’s programme features BFI NETWORK alumni landing at the festival with some striking debut feature films, and two BFI NETWORK funded short films also screening in the festival programme. Following a standout premiere at Sundance, Brides will be...
4th August 2025
BFI Player’s August 2025 line-up
With the looseness of a summer shirt, our monthly slate connects to a theme of summer getaway. We have an excellent homegrown debut of Last Swim, and Aussie comedy Audrey, a woman who knows the sun revolves around her. Things darken in the Turkish heat with Vampyros Lesbos and lighten...
30th July 2025
September and early October at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX
The programme for BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX for September and early October 2025 begins with Ridley Scott: Building Cinematic Worlds. BFI Fellow Ridley Scott has helped define the modern blockbuster with a prodigious, wide-ranging and technologically innovative body of feature work alongside a successful career in TV production and commercials across more than 60 years. His films range...
22nd July 2025
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery to open the 69th BFI London Film Festival
The 69th BFI London Film Festival (8 to 19 October) in partnership with American Express is excited to announce that this year’s Opening Night Gala will be the eagerly anticipated international premiere of the Netflix film Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, by director Rian Johnson, at the Southbank Centre’s...
9th July 2025
Kyle MacLachlan on working with David Lynch | BFI in Conversation
Kyle MacLachlan, speaking to BFI CEO Ben Roberts after the UK’s first ever screening of a 35mm print of the pilot episode of Twin Peaks, talks about working with David Lynch on the legendary series. ‘She’s dead! Wrapped in plastic.’ These words, spoken by David Lynch regular Jack Nance, sparked...
7th July 2025
August 2025 programme for BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX
Presented in partnership with Cinecittà and the Cinema Department of the Ministry of Culture of Italy, this season celebrates more than 70 years of Sophia Loren’s career as a star, style icon and groundbreaking actress. Featuring numerous 4K restorations, the season highlights Loren’s versatility and magnetism through her work in...
27th June 2025
BFI Player’s July 2025 line-up
Immerse yourself with a dive into the cooling waters of celluloid swimming pools. Come up for air with a celebration of the majestic Moviedrome, BBC2’s Sunday-night film school for the soul that gathered brilliant cult cinema for a new audience – a mission that BFI Player is proud to continue. BFI Player is the go-to...
25th June 2025
BFI welcomes £75 million funding boost
The BFI welcomes the government’s £75m Screen Growth Package for the UK’s film and TV industry as part of its Creative Industries Sector Plan which focused on international development, growing the sector’s talent pool and strengthening creative clusters nationwide. The package includes funding boosts across BFI activities and programmes over three years, that are vital to supporting the...
24th June 2025
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