Brigitte Bardot (1934 to 2025)
Explore Brigitte Bardot’s standout films, including ‘And God Created Woman’, celebrating her as a pre-feminist icon. Discover more @ BFI.
28th December 2025
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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
George Clooney on his life and career, including Batman & Robin…
With his new film, Jay Kelly – about a world-famous movie star looking back on his life and career – now on Netflix, George Clooney visited BFI Southbank to do the same. In a forthright interview covering everything from celebrity to social media to politics, Clooney talks about his rise...
12th December 2025
Leonardo DiCaprio and Paul Thomas Anderson on One Battle After Another
The star and director-producer-writer of one of the most critically-acclaimed films of the year visit BFI IMAX to introduce a special screening of One Battle After Another. In One Battle After Another washed-up revolutionary Bob (DiCaprio) exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter,...
8th 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
British Independent Film Awards 2025: the winners in full
Harry Lighton’s BDSM drama Pillion was given the top prize at this year’s British Independent Film Awards. Winning Best British Independent Film, the film – which stars Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård and was funded by the BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Fund, also won Best Debut Screenwriter for Lighton and two craft categories: Best...
1st December 2025
Richard Linklater interviewed by Ian Haydn Smith
Richard Linklater joins us to discuss his incredibly diverse body of work, after screening two films, Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague, at the 2025 BFI London film festival. Few filmmakers have been as prolific, prodigious and endlessly inventive as Richard Linklater. His work has ranged from playful engagement with Hollywood...
22nd November 2025
Daniel Day-Lewis and Ronan Day-Lewis interviewed by Mark Kermode
One of cinema’s most admired screen actors visits BFI Southbank to talk to Mark Kermode about his career. The ultimate actors’ actor, Daniel Day-Lewis has worked with some of the world’s finest filmmakers, amassing a body of films that is defined by a commitment to excellence. From his first screen...
20th November 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
Yorgos Lanthimos interviewed by Jesse Armstrong
Writer and director Yorgos Lanthimos talks to Jesse Armstrong about his career, including Bugonia, which screened at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. Since his 2009 international breakthrough with Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos has cut one of the most distinctive paths in contemporary cinema. Initially associated with the critic-coined Greek Weird...
14th November 2025
Tessa Thompson interviewed by Edith Bowman
Actor Tessa Thompson talks to Edith Bowman about her career, including her new film, Hedda, which screened at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival. Equally at home in cutting-edge drama and comedy as she is big-budget blockbusters, Tessa Thompson is often the trump card in the cast of any film....
6th November 2025
“It’s alive!”
Where to begin? Perhaps it is a dark and stormy night. Or perhaps the clouds hang oppressively in the heavens. Perhaps the moon is on the wane and the silent leaves are still in the shadow of the hill. To approach the subject of the gothic is to take a...
31st October 2025
Tim Burton on the 20th anniversary of Corpse Bride
Director and writer Tim Burton helps us celebrate Halloween by looking back on the making of his animated tale of an undead love story, 20 years old this October. Nervous about his forthcoming nuptials, especially after ruining the wedding rehearsal, bridegroom Victor Van Dort runs into the woods to practice...
30th October 2025
Inside the Archive: designing an archive for the 1980s and beyond
Ever wondered what the BFI National Archive looked like in the 1980s? As the archive celebrates its 90th anniversary, find out more and discover how, and why, the Archive established the John Paul Getty Jr Conservation Centre with this short Inside the Archive video essay. Video produced with the support...
29th October 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
Inside the Archive #44
On Sunday 21 September, we welcomed over 300 visitors to the BFI National Archive’s John Paul Getty Jr Conservation Centre in Berkhamsted as part of Heritage Open Days, the UK’s largest festival of history and culture. As we continue to celebrate the Archive’s 90th year, Heritage Open Day presents a unique opportunity to welcome...
3rd October 2025
A great Hammer horror from every year
On 2 May 1957, a very special film was released in London cinemas. The Curse of Frankenstein, from Hammer Films, was the the first of the now legendary British studio’s great gothic horrors, which would come to dominate the horror genre for the next decade and a half. Hammer had dabbled in horror...
30th September 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
Love, Sex, Religion, Death: The Complete Films of Terence Davies
The trailer for the BFI’s upcoming Terence Davies season, a complete retrospective of the director’s work that runs 20 October-30 November. Davies’ cinema is one of memory, longing and tragedy, profoundly personal but universal in its themes: the suffocation of love, the cruelty of faith, the temptations of the flesh...
19th 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
Sophie Willan to host The Great British Sewing Bee
BBC Factual Entertainment has announced a change at the helm of The Great British Sewing Bee, with BAFTA-winning comedian, writer and actor Sophie Willan joining as the new host, following three series with Sara Pascoe. Bringing her own trademark wit and warmth, Sophie will join judges Patrick Grant and Esme...
11th 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
Terence Davies Celebration
One of British cinema’s most singular filmmakers, Terence Davies will be celebrated with an extensive BFI Southbank season from 20 October to 30 November, programmed by BFI Chief Executive Ben Roberts. Love. Sex. Religion. Death. The Complete Films of Terence Davies will provide a comprehensive journey through Davies’ body of work, alongside a free...
9th 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
The Films of Frederick Wiseman
The BFI announces today a forthcoming comprehensive retrospective of the work of legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman on both the big and small screen, running from 20 October 2025 to 31 January 2026. With a groundbreaking career spanning seven decades, Wiseman, now 95 years old, is one of the great American storytellers. All...
30th August 2025
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