The 69th BFI London Film Festival
Discover the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling, in London and around the UK – 8 to 19 October 2025.
Explore the programmeWhat’s on at BFI Southbank
Four screens open seven days a week for the widest choice of great films.
Find out moreTron: Ares at BFI IMAX
Jared Leto plays the antagonist in this sci-fi spectacular, which finds the gaming world breaching the boundaries of reality – see it on the largest screen in the UK.
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New and exclusive: I’m Still Here
Winner of Best International Feature Film at the 2025 Academy Awards.
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A new free-to-access digital archive exclusively available in UK public lending libraries. Discover thousands of digitised videos and television programmes from the 1960s to the 2010s, offering a glimpse into Britain’s past, its people and places.
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The Greatest Films of All Time issue
Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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A century of cinephilia: the legacy of the Film Society
The Film Society, a monthly miscellany staged at West End venues in London between 1925 and 1939, played a critical role in helping to define film as the seventh art. Here are seven ways it did so, from introducing films from around the world to Britain to its influence as a seedbed for artists’ films.
By Henry K Miller
Object of the week: What’s a Kalamazoo?
By Jez Stewart
Yorgos Lanthimos, the unsettler in chief: an audience with the director of Poor Things and Bugonia
By Ibrahim Azam
Chloé Zhao on intuition, instinct and Hamnet: “Directing is not intellectual” – LFF Screen Talk
By Baneet Sarai
Plainclothes: a gay policeman goes undercover in Carmen Emmi’s tense directorial debut
By Alex Davidson
A Want In Her: devastating mother-daughter documentary about the cycle of addiction
By Bedatri D. Choudhury
Good Boy: doggy ghost story goes for creeping dread over shocks
By Kim Newman
Events
The director and star of Urchin, a drama about Mike – who is sleeping rough in London and prone to impulsive outbursts – visit BFI Southbank to discuss their film.
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