BFI London Film Festival
Discover the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling, in London and around the UK – 7 to 18 October 2026.
Explore the programmeWhat’s on at BFI Southbank
Four screens open seven days a week for the widest choice of great films.
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Experience IMAX 70mm screenings of The Odyssey on the UK’s biggest screen.
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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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Queer Edward II: New Derek Jarman documentary captures a vital piece of cinematic history
Theo Rollason’s remarkable found-footage documentary examines the wider political context that shaped Derek Jarman’s creation of his 1991 drama Edward II.
By Travis Jeppesen
“We’re being asked to check our humanity at the door”: Cate Blanchett and Shahrbanoo Sadat on cinema’s power to reconnect us
By Lou Thomas
Eva Marie Saint obituary: Oscar-winning star of On the Waterfront and North by Northwest
By Thirza Wakefield
Tender Loving Care: Mike Leigh laces his heartbreaking intergenerational drama with humour and self-deprecation
By Sophie Monks Kaufman
Beatrice Gibson on her Paris nocturne At Night: “One woman’s liberation can be another woman’s oppression, and vice versa”
By Sophia Satchell-Baeza
The Face of Horror: Anna Biller bewitches with a tragic medieval horrorshow
By Savina Petkova
Digger: an unwieldy but compulsively watchable satire
By Philip Concannon
Events
Mike Leigh discusses Bleak Moments at BFI Southbank, his powerful debut film about loneliness, routine and the search for connection.
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Our Screen Culture 2033 strategy for the BFI and ten-year National Lottery funding strategy from 2023 to 2033.
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