What’s coming soon to BFI Player in March 2021?

BFI Player, the BFI’s streaming platform, 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 it’s all … Read More

ICA’s Cinema 3 and BFI Player team up for Wong Kar-wai season

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) has launched its own streaming platform – Cinema 3 – and its opening the doors in style with a season dedicated to Wong Kar-wai in partnership with BFI Player.

Streaming on both Cinema 3 … Read More

BFI Future Film Festival 2021: The online line-up

The 2021 BFI Future Film Festival will be taking place virtually this year, with a four-day event that will feature 45 short films.

Now in its 14th year, the festival is dedicated to showcasing work by young filmmakers aged 16 … Read More

MLK/FBI heads to BFI Player for virtual premiere

New documentary MLK/FBI is heading to BFI Player today for its virtual premiere, before being released online across the UK this weekend.

MLK/FBI is the first film to uncover the extent of the FBI’s surveillance and harassment of Dr Martin … Read More

BFI Player to release Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Last and First Men

BFI Player will release Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Last and First Men this July.

The film marks the feature directorial debut of the Oscar-nominated Icelandic composer, who tragically passed away in 2018.

Two billion years ahead of us, a future race … Read More

Who We Are: BFI Player and We Are Parable announce Black British cinema season

BFI Player is teaming up with We Are Parable for a season celebrating Black British cinema.

Titled Who We Are, the weeklong collaboration will lok at the past, and the canon of work from Black British filmmakers, look at the … Read More

Trailer: Little Joe heads to BFI Player this June

Emily Beecham and Ben Whishaw star in Little Joe, a new sci-fi horror released by BFI this week.

Directed by Jessica Hausner, it follows Alice, a single mother and a dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing … Read More

BFI lines up Lynn + Lucy for July release

The BFI has acquired the rights to distribute Lynn + Lucy, with a release for the British drama planned this July.

The award-winning debut feature from writer/director Fyzal Boulifa is a fable-like story revealing the impact of escalating hysteria within … Read More

BFI Japan: BFI Player launches mammoth six-month season

BFI Player is launching a mammoth six-month season, starting this May, celebrating 100 years of Japanese cinema.

Simply called BFI Japan, the season will originally scheduled to run in venues across the UK, but with cinemas still closed amid the … Read More

BFI Player launches Female Desire on Screen season

BFI Player is launching a new online season dedicated to Female Desire on Screen.

The season, which was originally going to run at BFI Southbank in April, is going digital, with BFI Player unveiling a new collection of films from … Read More