In its 40th anniversary year, explore the rich legacy of the ever-evolving BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival.

Otherworldly visitors meet radical homegrown visions in a July line-up spanning sci-fi classics, Free Cinema landmarks and early Peter Weir gems.

Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol are the comedian-filmmakers behind hit web series and TV show Nirvanna the Band. In their anarchic new big-screen mockumentary, they go back to the future in a film ...

Andy Mundy Castle's thoughtful documentary follows British photographer Misan Harriman as he examines the clash between documenting injustice and earning social currency from it.

The Italian director Francesco Sossai’s boozy road movie avoids grand epiphanies, instead painting a leisurely textured portrait of desolate spaces, and day to day living.

Uberto Pasolini’s reworking of The Odyssey shuns spectacle to craft a potent, grown-up character study that mines the emotional core of Homer’s epic. Adapting just the poem’s second half, The Return ...

Anna Magnani, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti… Italy has certainly produced more than its fair share of world-class female stars. Towering above them all – in terms ...

Jan-Ole Gerster’s acclaimed Canary Islands-set thriller, starring Sam Riley as a tennis coach, will be in cinemas from 12 September and on BFI Player from 27 October. The film follows Tom (Sam Riley), ...

The shot that killed Bambi’s mother is etched into many people’s childhood memories, and tales about mankind’s destruction of nature have recurred at various points in animation history – take ...

Silent Sherlock Holmes series of the 1920s gets major restoration project The on-screen Sherlock Holmes who had the approval of Arthur Conan Doyle himself, Eille Norwood starred in a series of 1920s ...

Having already proved himself a virtuoso of scene-setting openers with Aquarius (2016) and Bacurau (2019), Kleber Mendonça Filho pulls off a hattrick with The Secret Agent. A vivid yellow VW Beetle ...

The winner of Sight and Sound magazine’s hugely anticipated and world-renowned Greatest Films of All Time Critics’ poll 2022 is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles ...