London Film Festival 2022 announces hybrid format

The BFI London Film Festival will once again go online for 2022 with another hybrid edition spanning both cinemas and digital.

The format, which has been developed over the past two years when many festivals when virtual due to the … Read More

BFI Flare 2022: The online line-up and how it works

BFI Flare returns this spring with another hybrid edition. Now in its 7th year, the London LGBTQIA+ festival will present 5 world premieres, 56 features and 84 shorts from around the world, with films available both on the big screen … Read More

BFI Future Film Festival 2022: The online line-up and how it works

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

Japan on Film: BFI releases restorations online for free

The BFI has released a host of restored Japanese footage online for free, as part of its celebration of 100 years of Japanese cinema.

The new digital restorations are of some of the earliest surviving moving images of Japan preserved … 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

From Apostasy to Monsoon: BBC Two presents season of British films

BBC Two is presenting a season of British films this autumn, with seven new premieres lined up for Saturday nights.

The season, backed by the BFI and BBC Film, is titled “British Film Premiere: New Films from New Voices” and … Read More

Host heads to BFI for online Q&A

Host is heading to the BFI in more ways than one.

The film, which debuted on Shudder last month, follows a group of six friends who hire a medium to conduct a séance over Zoom during lockdown. When things go … Read More

Pride and Protest: BFI hosts screening and Q&A

BFI is celebrity Pride weekend with a special screening of Pride and Protest along with a live online Q&A.

Opening with the anti-LGBTIQ+ lessons protests in Birmingham, Pride and Protest refuses to shy away from the many issues faced by … 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