From Cat People to The Substance. How the depiction of monstrous women on screen has evolved and reflected society’s deeper fears about sexuality and the body.

Swinton was joined on the 2024 BFI & CHANEL Filmmaker Awards jury by Edward Enninful OBE, Editorial Advisor, British Vogue and Global Creative and Cultural Advisor, Vogue, Marie-Louise Khondji, ...

With his new film Abiding Nowhere screening at the BFI London Film Festival, we pick a beginner’s path through Tsai Ming-liang’s hypnotic cinema of loneliness and thwarted desire.

Winner of the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Film Festival, the Spanish auteur’s mesmerising bullfighting documentary shows the beauty and the barbarism of the controversial tradition.

Kieron Webb, Head of Conservation at the BFI National Archive, introduces our plan for a state-of-the-art heritage science laboratory – part of a major £80 million research and innovation investment ...

Meet this year's trailblazing writers, directors and producers selected to take part in BFI NETWORK@LFF talent development programme!

Devout fans of Todd Phillips’s 2019 Joker may feel let down by this drastically different sequel, an unusual jukebox musical which dials down the in-your-face toxicity to see Lady Gaga and Joaquin ...

This year’s competition jury presidents are Alexandre O. Philippe, Dionne Edwards, June Givanni and Chloe Abrahams.

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 ...

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.

Adam Driver teams with Francis Ford Coppola for a dazzling futuristic vision, while a Kurosawa classic returns. What are you watching this weekend?

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.