This year’s competition jury presidents are Alexandre O. Philipe, Dionne Edwards, June Givanni and Chloe Abrahams.
One hundred years after he was born, we celebrate the Italian star who transcended his ’Latin lover’ image in all-time-great films for Federico Fellini.
Adam Driver teams with Francis Ford Coppola for a dazzling futuristic vision, while a Kurosawa classic returns. What are you watching this weekend?
Four decades in the making, Francis Ford Coppola’s audacious New Roman project is only conventionally digestible as an old-fashioned love story, writes Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Ahead of the premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s Queer at the BFI London Film Festival, we round up other films looking at the lives and fictions of William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the ...
Co-scripted by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and director Brian Taylor, this new instalment in the franchise respects its comic book source by tapping into Appalachian lore with soul-stealing demon The ...
At relaxed screenings for neurodivergent audiences, the unexpected isn’t always appealing. But introductions and post-screening discussions can help navigate the intensity of the cinematic experience.
Ralph Fiennes leads a bitter, gossipy group of cardinals through an attempt elect a new pope in Edward Berger’s entertaining papal thriller.
This showcase of nine new UK feature films and documentaries is a key part of the festival’s UK Talent Days, a weekend of events and activities designed to spotlight the diversity of UK talent.
Coralie Fargeat’s beauty-myth satire The Substance isn’t shy about its influences. It’s made up of the body parts and genetic code of many earlier films.
Two young Mormon missionaries find themselves entrapped by a villainous Hugh Grant in a gimmicky, zeitgeist-surfing horror that finds its chills in religious debate.
This epic meditation on architecture and the construction of buildings from the ancient past will be released in the UK and Ireland on 10 January, including screenings at BFI IMAX.