q&a

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

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

Daisy-May Hudson and the cast of Lollipop | BFI Q&A

The director of Lollipop, along with cast members Posy Sterling, Idil Ahmed and TerriAnn Cousins, visit BFI Southbank to about Hudson’s debut, a raw and urgent drama about one desperate mother’s relentless fight for justice against a broken system. When single mother Molly emerges from prison, she is forced to...

11th June 2025

Jesse Armstrong on Mountainhead | BFI Q&A

The writer-director of Mountainhead visits BFI Southbank to talk about his new film, the follow-up to the gargantuan multi-award-winning Succession. In Mountainhead four big tech billionaires, cocooned and isolated among the highest peaks of a luxury resort, holiday together as the world begins to implode. BFI

9th June 2025

Bridget Christie – The Change | BFI Q&A

The cast – including Bridget Christie, Jim Howick, Laura Checkley and Tanya Moodie – and crew of Christie’s comedy The Change visit BFI Southbank to talk about season two. May all your transitions be… complicated? In season two of The Change, Linda – played by series writer and creator Bridget...

2nd June 2025

The Extraordinary Miss Flower Q&A

The Icelandic singer-songwriter joins directors Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard and actor Caroline Catz to talk about their film at BFI Southbank. The new film by the makers of 20,000 Days on Earth tells the story of Geraldine Flower, whose vast trove of letters from the 1960s and 70s details...

22nd May 2025

Walter Murch on Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut | BFI Q&A

Editor and sound designer Walter Murch visits BFI Southbank to talk about Francis Ford Coppola’s war spectacle. Welcome to Vietnam – a Hieronymus Bosch-like world where ideal surfing conditions can be found at the centre of a war zone, TV crews capture death as entertainment, Playboy bunnies leap in and...

12th May 2025

Eclipse | BFI Q&A

The cast and director of Eclipse – an unsettling, little-seen 1970s psychological thriller that was recently re-released by the BFI on Blu-ray – visit BFI Southbank to talk about the film. A remote cliff-side house on the Scottish coast is the setting for Simon Perry’s atmospheric psychological thriller, barely seen...

29th April 2025

Black Mirror: Hotel Reverie | BFI Q&A

WARNING: Contains minor spoilers for the Black Mirror episode “Hotel Reverie”. The cast and crew of a Black Mirror: Hotel Reverie visit BFI Southbank to discuss an episode set partly within a fictional classic British film. Hotel Reverie – A high-tech, unusually immersive remake of a vintage British film sends...

12th April 2025

Get Millie Black | BFI Q&A

Booker prize-winner Marlon James, along with the cast of the crime series Get Millie Black, visit BFI Southbank to talk about the Jamaica-set show. From award-winning writer Marlon James, Get Millie Black follows ex-Scotland Yard detective Millie-Jean Black (Tamara Lawrance), who returns home to Jamaica after her mother’s passing and...

27th March 2025

Memoir of a Snail writer-director Adam Elliot | BFI Q&A

The writer-director of an Oscar-nominated Oscar-winning tale of separated twins in 1970s Australia visits BFI Southbank to talk about his film. This year’s LFF Best Film Award winner, Adam Elliot’s tale of separated twins in 1970s Australia is a funny and moving stop-motion triumph. Grace and Gilbert are separated as...

14th February 2025

‘Get Away’ Q&A with Nick Frost

The cast of ‘Get Away’ talk about training in a circus school in Finland, Sebastian’s love for killing, the perks of Sky Original skincare & more. 🍿 You can catch ‘Get Away’, now on Sky Cinema. Find #SkyCinema on: 👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/SkyCinema Sky Cinema

16th January 2025

2024

2073 | OFFICIAL TRAILER | IN CINEMAS 1 & 2 JANUARY + FILMMAKER Q&A

In Cinemas January 1 & 2 Theatrically exclusive Q&A with director Asif Kapadia and Carole Cadwalladr It’s the year 2073 where the worst fears of modern life have been realised. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarised police roam the wrecked streets, while humans hide away underground, struggling...

19th November 2024

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee | BFI Q&A

Director Jon Spira, producer Hank Starrs and Christopher Lee’s biographer Jonathan Rigby visit BFI Southbank to talk about a documentary about the star that tells his intriguing story through animation and archive footage. Produced in association with the BFI, The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee features exclusive interviews, previously...

18th November 2024

Layla director Amrou Al-Kadhi | BFI Q&A

The director of Layla, a drama about the nature of modern relationships and coming to terms with differing values, talks to Shon Faye at BFI Southbank. The question of how love alters our identity lies at the heart of this debut from one of London’s best-loved drag queens. Amrou Al-Kadhi’s...

15th November 2024

Kate Winslet on Lee | BFI Q&A

The star of Lee, a biopic about the fashion photographer turned world war II reporter, Lee Miller, visits BFI Southbank to talk about the making of the film. Ellen Kuras’ powerful drama details Lee Miller’s journey as an artist and photographer who would chronicle the worst moments of the Second...

6th November 2024

SAW 20th Anniversary Q&A

Enjoy the full Q&A from the Beyond Fest 20th Anniversary screening of SAW featuring Tobin Bell, Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Mark Burg, Oren Koules, and Billy the Puppet A young man named Adam (Leigh Whannell) wakes to find himself chained to a rusty pipe inside a decrepit subterranean chamber. Chained...

30th October 2024

Francis Ford Coppola on Megalopolis | BFI IMAX Q&A

Francis Ford Coppola and archaeologist and author David Wengrow visit BFI IMAX to talk about Megalopolis and Coppola’s legacy. Francis Ford Coppola’s film, a deeply personal project that has taken him decades to make, plays out on a scale that one has come to expect from the director of The...

4th October 2024

Nightsleeper actors Alexandra Roach and Joe Cole | BFI Q&A

The stars of Nightsleeper – a high-octane thriller by Control Room writer Nick Leather – join Leather and executive producer Kate Harwood for a Q&A at BFI Southbank. Nightsleeper asks what would happen if the UK railway network experienced a cyber-attack. A real-time thriller, it details the hacking of a...

17th September 2024

Robert Morgan on Stopmotion | BFI Q&A

Director Robert Morgan visits the BFI Southbank to talk about his film Stopmotion, a grisly story of murder and madness on the set of a new stop-motion animated film. Ella is working with her mother, Suzanne, a legendary stop-motion filmmaker, on her final movie. When the bullying Suzanne is admitted...

3rd September 2024

A Place Called Music | BFI Q&A

Director Enrique M. Rizo visits BFI Southbank alongside producer Cathia Cuevas to talk about their documentary about the musical collaboration between Philip Glass and the Mexican Wixarika musician Daniel Medina. The film captures them in rehearsal and performance around the world. What shines through is how music is not only...

26th August 2024

Star Wars Olympics – Star Wars Explained Weekly Q&A +1

What would the Olympics look like in Star Wars? Have there ever been any fourth wall breaks in Star Wars? 0:00 Intro 5:24 What would the Olympics look like in Star Wars? 14:15 The next animated series 18:53 The next publishing initiative 21:34 Fourth wall breaks in Star Wars 24:20...

11th August 2024