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Find out moreNe Zha 2 at BFI IMAX
The biggest Chinese animated action saga ever comes to the largest screen in the UK.
Find out moreBFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Our springtime celebration of queer cinema at BFI Southbank – 19 to 30 March 2025.
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BFI Replay
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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The Stimming Pool: a truly radical cinematic exploration of neurodiversity
The first feature from The Neurocultures Collective doesn’t just challenge neurodiverse stereotypes, it presents a manifesto for a new kind of cinematic language.
By Sophie Monks Kaufman
Atomfall: the game inspired by Windscale Pines’ near nuclear disaster
By George Bass
Build my gallows high: Joshua Oppenheimer on The Act of Killing
By Nick Bradshaw
La cocina: tensions boil over in Alonso Ruizpalacios’s frenzied New York kitchen drama
By Maria Delgado
5 things to watch this weekend – 21 to 23 March
By Sam Wigley
“It’s a blood opera”: on set for Gangs of London season three
By Josh Slater-Williams
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other: elegant portrait of an artist marriage
By Nick Bradshaw
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Director Raoul Peck, photographer Misan Harriman and writer Ekow Eshun visit BFI Southbank to talk about Peck‘s documentary on photographer Ernest Cole.
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