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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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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Milisuthando: a personal interrogation into the lingering horrors of South African apartheid
Milisuthando Bongela’s remarkable documentary examines the history of South African apartheid through the lens of her childhood in the Transkei, a segregated South African state reserved for Black people.
By Kambole Campbell
A year with Andrei
By Michal Leszczylowski
10 great New Zealand films
By Carmen Gray
Mark Cousins on his portrait of a neglected painter: “Once you’re infected by an artist’s work, it’s timeless”
By Georgia Korossi
Flow: charming animal odyssey turns its limited resources into strengths
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 workforceEvents
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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The BFI National Archive has one of the most important film and TV collections in the world. Choose from a selection of 11,000 titles that cover 120 years of British life, and the history and art of film.
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