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At the movies with Guillermo del Toro
The Mexican director is receiving a BFI Fellowship for his prolific body of work straddling fantasy and gothic horror, as well as his unstoppable endeavours to support the wider film culture. Here he retraces the roots of his cinephilia, extolling little men, ecstatic monsters and his holy trinity of Hitchcock, Buñuel and Fellini.
By Mar Diestro-Dópido
UK Global Screen Fund announces latest international co-production awards
UK Global Screen Fund announces latest international co-production awardsMichael Ffolkes’s Punch illustrations for This Sporting Life and other 1960s British classics
By Melanie Williams
“Never were cloth caps worn more rakishly”: Alberto Cavalcanti’s neglected British ‘low-life’ drama For Them That Trespass
By Josephine Botting
Inside the Archive #69: Bringing national collections to new audiences
By Paola Martucci, Molly Petter and others
BFI Player’s May 2026 line-up
BFI Player’s May 2026 line-up10 great films set in São Paulo
By Filipe Furtado
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Writer-director Thea Gajić visits BFI Southbank to discuss Surviving Earth, her drama about a Yugoslavian refugee forging a new life in Bristol while battling addiction, joined by cast members Slavko Sobin and Olive Gray.
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