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Ne Zha 2 at BFI IMAX

The biggest Chinese animated action saga ever comes to the largest screen in the UK.

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BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival

Our springtime celebration of queer cinema at BFI Southbank – 19 to 30 March 2025.

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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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Features and reviews

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The End: bunker-bound billionaires make a song and dance of the apocalypse

Joshua Oppenheimer’s debut fiction feature – following a series of intense political documentaries – is a daring but slow-paced end-of-the-world musical, buoyed by spirited lead performances from Michael Shannon and Tilda Swinton.

By Jonathan Romney

The End: bunker-bound billionaires make a song and dance of the apocalypse
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Events

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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Screen Culture 2033

Our new ten-year strategy that sets out how we will transform access to our programmes, screen culture and jobs.

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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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