US indie great Richard Linklater joined the festival to talk time, hangouts and why the era when he made Dazed and Confused was ”a different world”.

Voting for the ever-popular LFF Audience Awards closes on Monday 20 October. The winners of Best Feature Film and Best British Feature Film categories will be announced in due course. 2024 winners of ...

Mixing romance, bromance, crime, spaghetti western action and unforgettable musical numbers, Ramesh Sippy’s colourful classic remains one of Bollywood’s defining hits.

The LFF closing night film is a storybook fable based on Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel. We spoke to director Julia Jackman about a movie rooted in fairytales but with a very contemporary call to ...

The final shot of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s glorious, barbed 1950 masterpiece sneakily suggests that the real villain is not Eve Harrington herself but female ambition in general.

From Akinola Davies Jr’s feature debut My Father’s Shadow to Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada, this year’s festival programme features the work of many alumni of our early-career support and funding ...

A young girl’s life is upended by tragedy in Belgian drama Têtes brûlées. Director Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama told us about avoiding the clichés of violent masculinity and the limits of storytelling as a ...

The Oscar-winning Nomadland director joined an LFF Screen Talk to discuss her sensitivity to sadness, building pressure with the frame, and her acclaimed new adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet.

Our library at BFI Southbank is available to everyone, free of charge. It contains a huge collection of books, journals and digitised material about the world of film, television and the moving image.

Actor Benjamin Voisin stars as Camus’ naive anti-hero Mersault, a man who is ill at ease with his desire, in this beautifully shot black and white rendition of this classic of existentialism.

From Eyes Without a Face to Raw, French horror trips the line between realism and the uncanny, and pushes into a realm of profound discomfort.

In a London Film Festival programme crammed with the best of new cinema from across the world, many films – some by established auteurs, others by exciting new voices – are still seeking a distributor ...