David Farnor | On 01, Oct 2022

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.

This month, BFI Player’s rental library includes a selection of films from the 2022 London Film Festival, available from 14th to 23rd October for £10 each (£8 for BFI members). You can view the line-up here.

Here’s what’s coming to BFI Player’s subscription service in October 2022:

Beach Rats – 3rd October

Frankie, an aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn, is having a miserable summer, until he starts to pick up older men online.

Black Joy (1977) – 3rd October

Based on Jamal Ali’s acclaimed stage play Dark Days and Light Nights, Black Joy tells the story of a naïve Guyanese immigrant who learns the hard way about life on the streets of Brixton.

Pina – 3rd October

Legendary dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch’s unique creations transformed the language of dance, offering visual and emotional experiences like no other. A revolutionary film captures the aesthetic of Bausch’s greatest works.

The Salt of the Earth – 3rd October

For the last 40 years, acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado has travelled the world, tracing the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed and documented many of the major events of our times, but now embarks on a new journey: to discover pristine territories, grandiose landscapes and wild nature as part of a huge photographic tribute to the planet’s beauty.

Dobermann – 10th October

A crook known as Dobermann has a soft spot for guns, and he loves using them — especially to rob banks. Flanked by his deaf but equally violent lover, plus a brutal and bizarre pack of fellow thieves, Dobermann pulls off a tricky job with a high body count. After the heist, the group is pursued by a rogue cop who will stop at nothing to take them down.

Losing Ground – 10th October

The story of two remarkable people, married and hurtling toward a crossroads in their lives: Sara Rogers, a Black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest just as her painter husband, Victor, sets off on an exploration of joy. Victor decides to rent a country house away from the city, but the couple’s summer idyll becomes complicated by his involvement with a younger model.

Macunaima – 10th October

An anarchic comedy that mixes ancient myths, racial burlesque, and urban guerillas into a hallucinatory masterpiece. Adapted from the classic 1928 modernist novel, the film follows Macunaíma after he emerges as a full-size adult from his mother’s belly. Born black, he magically turns white as he wanders aimlessly across the country, tricking his way through traps laid out by witches and giants, while also falling in with a beautiful revolutionary.

Snowtown – 10th October

Elizabeth Harvey is raising her three boys in Adelaide’s poor northern suburbs. When she takes up with a new man, she hopes for security but instead winds up welcoming a vicious predator into her home. Based on the horrifying crimes committed by one of Australia’s most notorious serial killers.

Memoria – 14th October

Tilda Swinton stars as Jessica Holland, who, after hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia. She experiences auditory hallucinations and tries to find the sources of the sounds causing her insomnia. Soon, she begins to confront the unsettling sights and sounds that call her identity into question.

Nitram – 14th October

Nitram lives a life of isolation and frustration in suburban Australia in the Mid 1990s, never able to fit in. That is until he unexpectedly finds a close friend in a reclusive heiress, Helen. However, when that friendship meets its tragic end and Nitram’s loneliness and anger grow, he begins a slow descent that leads to disaster.

Petrov’s Flu – 14th October

Petrov lives his life in a parallel comic universe, breaking out of the mundane to do everything from abducting children as a humanoid alien, to lining up Russian aristocrats and shooting them down. Petrov has been dealing with the flu, but goes about his regular life, often getting drunk and spending the night out. His wife, Petrova, is a librarian by day and a superhero vigilante with a maniacal streak by night; she kills abusive men.

White Zombie (1932) – 17th October

In spite of its budgetary limitations, White Zombie manages to be a remarkably atmospheric treatment of the Haitian zombie myth, which would evolve into one of the most popular and enduring subgenres of the horror film. Starring Bela Lugosi, in one of the rare films to provide him with a role worthy of his acting talent post-Dracula.

Lord Shango (1975) – 17th October

A tribal priest returns from the dead to take his revenge on non-believers.

Evil of Dracula (1974) – 17th October

A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the school’s principle conceals a dark secret and the pupils are in grave danger.

[Rec] – 17th October

Fusing the zombie genre with the “found footage” format to throw the audience right into the midst of the action, [REC] is a terrifying, relentless rollercoaster ride which builds to one of the horror genre’s all time bone-chilling climaxes.

Nosferatu – 17th October

An iconic film of the German expressionist cinema, and one of the most famous of all silent movies, F W Murnau’s classic continues to haunt — and, indeed, terrify — modern audiences with the unshakable power of its images.

 
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