The 68th BFI London Film Festival
Discover the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling – from 9 to 20 October 2024 in London and around the UK.
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Four screens open seven days a week for the widest choice of great films.
Find out moreJoker: Folie à Deux at BFI IMAX
Joaquin Phoenix returns to his Oscar-winning role, this time accompanied by Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn on a stunning IMAX 70mm print.
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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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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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Flow: charming animal odyssey turns its limited resources into strengths
Director Gints Zilbalodis’s wordless environmental fable finds comedy in animal behaviours as an unlikely gang of castaway creatures fights to survive a flood.
By Kambole Campbell
“There is another way”: making The Wild Robot
By Nick Bradshaw
BFI invests £1.5 million to address practices negatively impacting the industry’s workforce
BFI invests £1.5 million to address practices negatively impacting the industry’s workforceA Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things: Mark Cousins’s astonishing portrait of Scottish abstractionist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
By Annabel Bai Jackson
Me: Don Hertzfeldt’s entropic musical short is out of this world
By Nick Bradshaw
The Wild Robot: a compassionate eco-fable
By Alex Dudok de Wit
Sean Baker on the politics in his films: “We’re telling stories that can be discussed by both sides” – LFF Screen Talk
By Josh Slater-Williams
Events
Will Ferrell and Harper Steele visit BFI Southbank to promote their documentary about a road trip to mark Harper coming out as a trans woman.
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