What’s on at BFI Southbank
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Find out moreDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle at BFI IMAX
See the highly anticipated Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle on the largest screen in the UK.
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New and exclusive: I’m Still Here
Winner of Best International Feature Film at the 2025 Academy Awards.
Watch with a free trialThe 69th BFI London Film Festival
Discover the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling, in London and around the UK – 8 to 19 October 2025.
Explore the programmeBFI 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.
Subscribe nowFeatures and reviews
Robert Redford (1936 to 2025): 10 essential films
Two handfuls of the finest films starring the magnificent Robert Redford, who has died at the age of 89.
By Christina Newland
How Anna May Wong became TV’s first female detective
By Dick Fiddy
Behind-the-scenes photos of documentary pioneer Humphrey Jennings filming alt-history drama The Silent Village
By Nathalie Morris
Aguirre, the Wrath of God: real history and Herzog’s otherworldly allegory of empire
By Graham Fuller
6 discoveries from Venice Film Festival 2025
By John Bleasdale, Rory Doherty and others
Heritage Open Days 2025: Go inside the archive at the BFI Conservation Centre
Heritage Open Days 2025: Go inside the archive at the BFI Conservation CentreIslands: Sam Riley is superb as a burned-out tennis pro in this slippery summer noir
By Tom Charity
Events
The director and stars of Islands, in which Sam Riley delivers a career-best performance as a washed-up tennis coach caught up in a strange disappearance, visit the BFI Southbank to talk about the film.
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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.
ExploreScreen Culture 2033
Our Screen Culture 2033 strategy for the BFI and ten-year National Lottery funding strategy from 2023 to 2033.
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