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BFI Future Film Festival 2022: The online line-up and how it works
January 27, 2022 | James R
The BFI is bringing back its Future Film Festival for 2022 with a hybrid version that will unfold online as well as in person.
The UK’s largest festival for young, emerging filmmakers, it will run across four days in February, … Read More
Russian Film Festival heads to BFI Player
November 9, 2021 | James R
The Russian Film Festival 2021 will be held for the first time in the UK on BFI Player.
The Russian Film Festival was launched in 2020 and has already been successfully held in 16 countries. Running from 12th November to … Read More
What’s coming soon to BFI Player in March 2021?
March 2, 2021 | James R
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
February 2, 2021 | James R
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
January 23, 2021 | James R
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
January 12, 2021 | James R
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
July 7, 2020 | James R
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
July 6, 2020 | James R
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
June 13, 2020 | James R
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
June 9, 2020 | James R
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
