Events programme announced for BFI Future Film Festival 2025
The festival for aspiring filmmakers aged 16 to 25 will be taking place in-venue at BFI Southbank, online globally for free, and in cinemas UK-wide.
The UK’s largest festival for young, emerging filmmakers, the BFI Future Film Festival 2025 returns from 20 February to 6 March with a hybrid format that maintains a tradition of live and in-person screenings and events at BFI Southbank (20 to 23 February) alongside a globally accessible online programme, kindly supported by main sponsors Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery’s CrewHQ.
For the second year, the festival will also include a UK-wide programme in collaboration with BFI Film Academy delivery partners, with screenings and events echoing the spirit of the BFI Future Film Festival providing young people across the country a chance to participate in the UK’s largest festival for budding screen creatives.
The UK-wide programme for the BFI Future Film Festival (20 February to 6 March), in collaboration with BFI Film Academy partners and supported by BFI National Lottery funding, will feature events at Chapter Cardiff, Create Studios Swindon, Depot Cinema Lewes, The Engine Room Bridgwater, Glasgow Film Theatre, HOME Manchester, Midlands Arts Centre Birmingham, Nerve Centre Derry-Londonderry, Showroom Cinema Sheffield, The Underdog Cardiff, Vue Swansea and Watershed Bristol, while highlights of the online programme, accessible worldwide, will include sessions on writing a TV series, the representation of bisexuality in film and TV, and a deep-dive into the diverse roles of producers in unscripted TV.