Inside the Archive #36
In July, a group of staff travelled to Manchester to attend the Future of Museums: Collection Management event...
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)...
British Touring Car Championship
ITV has announced Nicki Shields will lead all coverage of the British Touring Car Championship...
BFI Player’s August 2025 line-up
With the looseness of a summer shirt, our monthly slate connects to a theme of summer getaway...
September and early October at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX
The programme for BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX for September and early October 2025...
True Cyber Resilience Comes From Culture
Resilience is a fashionable word in a world of economic uncertainty and, at times, confusion...
Battleship Potemkin Centenary Celebrated
To mark the centenary of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary silent Battleship Potemkin...
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...
Where to begin with Guru Dutt
Guru Dutt remains one of Indian cinema’s most enigmatic and tragic figures...
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...
Groundbreaking Sustainability Standards Launched
In a landmark move to drive environmental responsibility in the screen industries...
1975: the year that changed cinema forever
Reviewing Barry Lyndon for the New Yorker in December 1975, a California girl made a plea...
UK Global Screen Fund backs further 11 international co-productions
The BFI has made a further 11 awards through its UK Global Screen Fund...
BFI Player’s July 2025 line-up
Immerse yourself with a dive into the cooling waters of celluloid swimming pools...
BFI welcomes £75 million funding boost
The BFI welcomes the government’s £75m Screen Growth Package for the UK’s film and TV industry...
Details Announced for the We Crip Film Festival 2025
The inaugural We Crip Film Festival will take place at BFI Southbank from 26 to 27 July...
David Lynch Season – January 2026
Last night, the second edition of the BFI Film on Film Festival came to a close at BFI Southbank...
70 years of Hammer’s The Quatermass Xperiment
An experimental space rocket has returned to earth, crash-landing outside an English village...
Islands to be released by BFI Distribution
Directed by Jan-Ole Gerster, the tense thriller Islands stars Sam Riley...
BFI and CoSTAR launch report on generative AI
A new report published today by the BFI, AI in the Screen Sector: Perspectives and Paths Forward...
Future Film goes full-time
Launching in January 2026, the programme will replace the annual weekend festival...
I’m telling the story of me…
The BFI Film on Film festival will open with a screening of Star Wars (1977)...
July 2025 programme for BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX
Launching a two-month season on 4 July, Moviedrome: Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen...
BFI NETWORK alumni at Cannes 2025
With the film industry currently gathered at Cannes Film Festival...
Tom Cruise receives BFI Fellowship
Tonight (Wednesday) Tom Cruise received the BFI’s highest honour, the BFI Fellowship...
Little Trouble Girls to be released by BFI Distribution
Little Trouble Girls – the debut feature from Slovenian director Urška Djukić...
BFI America launches
The BFI was out in force in Los Angeles this week to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the BFI National Archive...
Shirley MacLaine: 10 essential films
In her ingénue era, former Broadway chorus girl Shirley MacLaine excelled at embodying wisecracking characters...