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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

The Tasters Trailer

In cinemas October 10 2025 Every meal could be their last. Based on the award-winning, bestselling book ‘At the Wolf’s Table’ by Rosella Postorino, The Tasters reconstructs the true story of the women coerced into being food tasters for Adolf Hitler towards the end of World War II. MetFilm Distribution...

23rd June 2025

The Courageous Trailer

In cinemas September 5 In a small town on the edge of wild country, an eccentric and delinquent mother has had enough of the rules. Crushed by her mistakes and by a society that does not give a damn about people like her, she will do anything to prove to...

19th June 2025

Islands to be released by BFI Distribution

Directed by Jan-Ole Gerster (Lara, A Coffee in Berlin), the tense thriller Islands stars Sam Riley (BAFTA-nominated for Control, Firebrand) as a tennis coach working at a hotel resort who becomes entangled with an enigmatic couple played by Stacy Martin (The Brutalist, Nymphomaniac) and Jack Farthing (Spencer, The Lost Daughter). The film...

11th June 2025

Savages Trailer

In cinemas August 1 2025 At the edge of Borneo’s vast rainforest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutan found in the palm plantation where her father works. Together, with her young cousin Selaï — who comes to live with them, seeking refuge from the conflict between his indigenous tribe and the...

4th June 2025

Little Trouble Girls to be released by BFI Distribution

Little Trouble Girls – the debut feature from Slovenian director Urška Djukić, which premiered as the opening film of the inaugural Perspectives competition, highlighting new filmmakers, at this year’s Berlinale – will be released in UK and Irish cinemas on 29 August 2025 by BFI Distribution. A BFI Player exclusive release will follow on 13 October 2025. Co-written by...

7th May 2025

A New Kind of Wilderness Trailer

In UK and Irish cinemas May 9 2025 On a small farm in a Norwegian forest, the Paynes live a purposefully isolated life, aiming to be wild and free. Maria and Nik, along with their four children Ulv, Falk, Freja, and Ronja are self-sufficient. They practice home-schooling and strive for...

31st January 2025

2024

The Order – Trailer

In cinemas December 26 A riveting historical thriller that recreates one of the largest manhunts in FBI history. Based on a chilling true story, The Order depicts a terrorist group determined to promote their racist ideology — and the lawmen who will go to any lengths to stop them. MetFilm Distribution...

28th November 2024

BFI Distribution and Break Out Pictures to release Four Mothers

BFI Distribution and Break Out Pictures have partnered in the acquisition of Irish comedy drama Four Mothers, winner of the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival. Break Out Pictures will release the film in Ireland and BFI Distribution will handle it in the UK. The release date for cinemas in...

26th November 2024

The Contestant Trailer

In cinemas November 29 The incredible true story of a man who lived for 15 months trapped inside a small room, naked, starving and alone… and completely unaware that his life was being broadcast on national TV in Japan, to over 15 million viewers a week. Before Big Brother, before...

31st October 2024

Architecton to be released by BFI Distribution in January 2025

Written and directed by Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda, Aquarela), Architecton has been acquired by BFI Distribution for theatrical release in the UK and Ireland. The film, which takes audiences on an extraordinary journey through the building materials concrete and stone, had its world premiere at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival, where it was nominated for...

24th September 2024

All We Imagine as Light to be released by BFI Distribution

BFI Distribution is excited to announce the release of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner, All We Imagine as Light (2024), written and directed by Payal Kapadia, in UK and Irish cinemas on 29 November 2024. A BFI Blu-ray and BFI Player release will follow in early 2025. Featuring Kani Kusruti (Prabha) Divya Prabha (Anu) and Chhaya Kadam (Parvaty)...

16th August 2024

Firebrand Trailer

In UK and Irish cinemas 6 September In blood-soaked Tudor England, twice married, accomplished, and educated Katherine Parr (Vikander), reluctantly agrees to become the sixth wife of the tyrannical King Henry VIII (Law). Her consent to marry him carries great personal risk, given that her predecessors are either vanquished, beheaded,...

10th July 2024

BFI Distribution Releases Official UK Trailer for SKY PEALS

4-stars – ‘an arresting first feature – unsettling and effective’ Xan Brooks, The Guardian ‘captures the strangeness of being caught between two worlds’ Hannah Strong, Little White Lies In UK & Irish cinemas on 9 August 2024 10 July 2024. This afternoon, BFI Distribution releases the official UK trailer for SKY PEALS. Written...

10th July 2024

The Goldman Case Trailer

In UK & Irish cinemas September 20 Cédric Kahn’s (Roberto Succo, Red Lights) gripping courtroom drama THE GOLDMAN CASE launched to widespread critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival and has garnered praise at a variety of international film festivals, including the BFI London Film Festival. Sharply written and superbly...

4th July 2024

Wilding Trailer

In UK and Irish cinemas June 14 Based on Isabella Tree’s best-selling book by the same title, Wilding tells the story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. The young couple battles entrenched tradition, and dares to place the fate of...

4th April 2024

Frida Trailer

In select cinemas now and on Prime Video March 14 https://www.fridamovie.co.uk/ An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo, FRIDA is told through her own words for the very first time, drawn from her famed illustrated diary, revealing letters, essays, and...

8th March 2024

Drift Trailer

In UK & Irish cinemas March 29 Jacqueline (Cynthia Erivo), a young refugee, lands alone and penniless on a Greek island, where she tries first to survive and then to cope with her past. While gathering her strength, she begins a friendship with a rootless tour-guide (Alia Shawkat) and together...

30th January 2024

Opponent Trailer

In UK and Irish Cinemas April 12 In the aftermath of a devastating rumour, Iman and his family have been forced to flee Iran. As refugees, they end up in a run-down hotel in northern Sweden. Despite feeling powerless, Iman tries to maintain his role as the family patriarch. To...

25th January 2024

2023

Nanny Trailer

In cinemas November 25 and on Prime Video December 16 Aisha is an undocumented nanny working for a privileged couple in New York City. As she prepares for the arrival of the son she left behind in West Africa, a violent presence invades her reality, threatening the American dream she...

21st October 2023

Cassandro Teaser

In selected cinemas 15 September & on Prime Video 22 September Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the character ‘Cassandro,’ the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world, but also his own...

7th September 2023

Golda Trailer

In UK and Irish Cinemas October 6 Golda, a ticking-clock thriller sharing the intensely dramatic events, high-stake responsibilities, and controversial decisions that Meir – also known as the ‘Iron Lady of Israel’ – faced during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Her actions, in impossible circumstances, would ultimately decide the...

29th August 2023

Foe

Amazon Studios will release FOE theatrically in the UK and Ireland on October 20 via MetFilm Distribution. Hen & Junior farm a secluded piece of land that has been in Junior’s family for generations, but their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their...

25th August 2023

While We Watched | Trailer

Directed by Vinay Shukla, the award-winning While We Watched is a turbulent newsroom drama intimately chronicling the working days of broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiralling world of truth and disinformation. As factual reporting is in freefall, globally While We Watched is a dignified lens into the...

16th June 2023

The Innocent Trailer

In cinemas across the UK and Ireland 25 August 2023 Abel (Louis Garrel), a museum educator and widower is at his wits’ end when his mother Sylvie marries Michel, a convict she met while teaching drama at the local prison. Caught up with his suspicions of his new stepfather, he...

12th June 2023

Loving Highsmith Trailer

Loving Highsmith is a unique look at the life of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith based on her diaries and notebooks and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends and family. Focusing on Highsmith’s quest for love and her troubled identity, the film sheds new light on her life and...

23rd January 2023