David Farnor | On 06, Jun 2023

BFI Player is a gateway to global film, offering a collection of arthouse and world cinema to subscribers, alongside its pay-per-view rental releases and free archive titles and silent movie shorts.

Here’s what’s coming to BFI Player’s subscription service in June 2023:

COLORS OF TOBI (2021) directed by Alexa Bakony – 1st June

A mesmerising portrait of a family grappling with teenage gender dysphoria, this uplifting documentary exudes the defiant message that love is all you need.

LUMINOUS PROCURESS (1971) directed by Steven Arnold – 1st June

Steven Arnold’s psychedelic odyssey is a hedonistic celebration of gender-fluidity and pan-sexuality in late 60s San Francisco.

JUSTINE (2021) directed by Jamie Patterson – 1st June

A young woman struggles with her demons, in this arresting sophomore feature from Tucked director Jamie Patterson.

WINNERS (2022) directed by Hassan Nazer – 1st June

Children in a small provincial Iranian town scour the local dump, looking for valuable materials they can sell to support their families. One day, film-obsessed nine-year-old Yahya and his best friend Leyla find a precious, familiar-looking golden statue in the sand. Sharing his passion for cinema, Yahya’s boss Naser Khan (Reza Naji) decides to help them locate the owner.

THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET (2019) directed by Marie Kreutzer – 1st June

Ghosts from the past threaten to engulf Lola’s tightly controlled present in this taut Austrian thriller from the director of Corsage.

KAMIKAZE HEARTS (1986) directed by Juliet Bashore – 1st June

Juliet Bashore’s queer docufiction, starring Tigr and real-life girlfriend porn star Sharon Mitchell, was shot in and celebrates the heady days of the San Francisco underground in the 1980s.

GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (2003) directed by Tsai Ming-liang – 8th June

In Taipei City, an ageing picture palace is screening King Hu’s ‘Dragon Inn’ to a meagre audience of tourists and gossipers, the remaining few staff, and perhaps even a ghost or two before it shuts its doors forever. An exquisite, wryly funny and tender tribute to the experience of movie-going.

THE JUNIPER TREE (1991) directed by Nietzchka Keene – 8th June

A teenage Björk stars in this Brothers Grimm adaptation, which finds witchcraft thriving in the wilds of medieval Iceland.

WITCHHAMMER (1970) directed by Otakar Vávra – 8th June

A notorious 17th-century witch trial turns into a powerful allegory of life under totalitarian rule, in this chilling Czech political fable.

ASKHAL (2022) directed by Youssef Chebbi – 12th June

The investigation into a series of unexplained deaths hints to the supernatural, in this thrillingly unconventional police procedural.

CHRISTIANE F. (1981) directed by Uli Edel – 12th June

David Bowie’s image and music gives brooding energy to this tale of a junkie sex-worker in 70s Berlin.

LET THE SUNSHINE IN (2018) directed by Claire Denis – 12th June

Claire Denis delivers a refreshingly honest tale of a middle-aged woman’s quest for love in this witty and heart-warming film.

1976 (2022) directed by Manuela Martelli – 19th June

An unnervingly brilliant portrait of the ways in which the Pinochet dictatorship realised its brute force and pervasive influence, from debut director Manuela Martelli. Winner of the 2022 London Film Festival First Feature Competition.

GODARD CINEMA (2022) directed by Cyril Leuthy – 19th June

A chance to look back at the career of Jean-Luc Godard, as well as his favourite subjects, and try to capture the essence of this revered director.

THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV (2016) directed by Albert Serra – 19th June

In August 1715, Louis XIV of France returns from a hunting trip with a pain in his left leg. Over the next month, Louis is confined to the royal bedchamber in the Palace of Versailles where he is surrounded by doctors, courtiers and his closest relatives, who witness the king’s slow decline and death from gangrene.

NON-FICTION (2017) directed by Olivier Assayas – 19th June

Juliette Binoche and Guillaume Canet lead the cast in Olivier Assayas’ wryly comic look at the quandaries of the publishing world.

 

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