A kaleidoscopic tribute to oneiric cinema, Gerald Fox’s Kinaesthesia reimagines the film-history documentary as a drifting dream, guided by the words and ideas of his former teacher, the great ...

Scrapper director Charlotte Regan joined a BFI Film Academy masterclass with production designer Amy Maguire and cinematographer Chris Sabogal to discuss their new BBC crime show Mint and their ...

Kawamura Genki’s adaptation of The Exit 8 walking simulator game traps a man in the corridors of a Japanese metro station, using endless repetition to terrifying effect.

Petzoldian alienation blends with a strangely restorative world view in the story of Laura (Paula Beer), a woman taken in by a family who seem to be keeping a tragic secret.

From The Fog to Local Hero... Ahead of the release of Mark Jenkin’s new brine-encrusted time-loop mystery Rose of Nevada, we cast our net for other fine tales of fishing communities.

This week learn more about the process of collecting born-digital work and how we have been working to improve it.

François Ozon has brought Albert Camus’s classic existentialist novel The Stranger to the screen in brooding, Bressonian black-and-white. He tells us about drawing out the sensual elements of the ...

Mad Max, The Babadook, The Cars That Ate Paris... these first-time filmmakers showed us how to make a killer calling-card.

The first awards from the 2026 to 2029 BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund include multi-year awards for exhibitors, festivals, specialist audience organisations, as well as shorter-term ...

These sumptuous sketches by the Chilean-born British designer Olga Lehmann were created for the 1977 version of The Man in the Iron Mask, starring Richard Chamberlain, Jenny Agutter and Patrick ...

Designed by celebrated graphic artist Edward McKnight Kauffer, this 1938 brochure commemorated the 100th screening of the Film Society, the influential bohemian group who revolutionised film ...

Drawing inspiration from a book by nature writer Robert MacFarlane, Robert Petit’s cave exploring documentary follows three experts below the surface of the earth.