David Farnor | On 15, Mar 2025

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 March 2025:

BIRTHDAY GIRL (Michael Noer, 2023) – 3rd March

Heart-pounding Danish drama about a mother’s desperate attempts to unmask her daughter’s attacker on board a cruise ship.

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (Tomas Alfredson, 2008) – 3rd March

A twelve-year-old boy befriends a mysterious girl with a dark secret, in Tomas Alfredson’s grownup tale of childhood vampirism.

WHEN I SAW YOU (Annemarie Jacir, 2014) – 6th March

Following the Six-Day War in 1967, a young Palestinian refugee boy yearns to be reunited with his father and joins a band of freedom fighters.

ARCHITECTON (Viktor Kossakovsky, 2024) – 10th March

Victor Kossakovsky’s film essay looks at the way we have constructed our built world through a series of breathtaking sequences.

LAYLA (Amrou Al-Kadhi, 2024) – 10th March

A British-Palestinian drag performer catches the eye of a straightlaced white man in Amrou Al-Kadhi’s stunning, semi-autobiographical debut.

MAURICE (James Ivory, 1987) – 10th March

Merchant Ivory’s landmark adaptation of E M Forster’s classic LGBTQ+ novel and a precursor to the James Ivory-scripted Call Me By Your Name, starring Hugh Grant, James Wilby and Rupert Graves.

AMORES PERROS (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000) – 13th March

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s gripping debut feature is a savagely brilliant triptych around the theme of animalistic desires.

DRUGSTORE COWBOY (Gus Van Sant, 1989) – 13th March

Matt Dillon and his not-so-merry band of junkies rob pharmacies and cheat death. Still in spite of this tragic lifestyle, they share moments of compassion and humour.

PORNOMELANCHOLIA (Manuel Abramovich, 2022) – 17th March

Argentine filmmaker Manuel Abramovich’s presents an intelligent and uncompromising work of docufiction which features a soulful performance from real-life porn actor Lalo Santos.

BOUND (Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, 1996) – 17th March

The Wachowskis’ stylish Mob thriller has roots in the classic film noirs of the 40s, with Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon and Joe Pantoliano.

GOD’S OWN COUNTRY (Francis Lee, 2017) – 17th March

Yorkshire sheep farmer Johnny finds release from his exhausting everyday life through binge drinking and casual sex, until Romanian worker Gheorghe conjures unspoken emotions in him.

HIGH LIFE (Claire Denis, 2019) – 17th March

The messiness of sex, the mysteries of birth and the moving spectacle of devoted parenting in the face of impending oblivion create a potent atmosphere in Claire Denis’ English-language debut.

EAT THE NIGHT (Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, 2024) – 20th March

Siblings encounter passion and peril in the real world, and the digital domain, in this visually electric drama from innovative French duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel.

CHOCOLAT (Claire Denis, 1988) – 24th March

Claire Denis’ fully formed debut offers a child’s-eye-view of racial and sexual tension that bubbles with unspoken desires.

PATERSON (Jim Jarmusch, 2016) – 24th March

Adam Driver excels in this effortlessly charming tale of a bus driver poet in New Jersey, filmed with typically groovy elan by Jim Jarmusch.

THE LIVING WAKE (Sol Tyron, 2007) – 27th March

Accompanied by his faithful assistant Mills (Jesse Eisenberg), self-proclaimed genius K. Roth Binew (Mike O’Connell) decides to go out in style following a terminal prognosis – staging a living wake.

WAR PONY (Gina Gammell and Riley Keough, 2022) – 27th March

The lives of two Oglala Lakota boys interlock in this coming-of-age drama set against the backdrop of South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation.

 

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