The Five Films for Freedom initiative has showcased 55 films for free on BFI Player, reaching 28 million in 220 countries.

Five Films For Freedom (FFFF), the British Council's global LGBTQIA+ short film program, returns with five new stories ...

If you enter the foyer of the BFI on the London Southbank from the 12 th to 15 th of June 2025, you’ll be confronted with a mechanical machine sporting a large lens at one end and large round disks on ...

March 2026, is 40 years young! Here Darren Jones, Flare’s Production and Events Manager and Programmer, discusses its epic ...

London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival has built a global reputation for spotlighting diverse queer stories while also nurturing raw ...

A galaxy far, far away has gotten just a little bit closer: George Lucas' original 1977 theatrical cut of "Star Wars" is screening publicly for the first time in decades thanks to the BFI Film on Film ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before Alfred Hitchcock became a household name associated with classics like “Psycho” and “Dial M for Murder,” he began his ...

From The Searchers to It Was Just an Accident, kidnapping stories have provided tense movie drama ever since the silent era. As Gus Van Sant’s new thriller Dead Man’s Wire goes on release, we pin down ...

George MacKay, Maria Bakalova, Stephen Graham, Rory Kinnear, and Rupert Everett also feature in the annual spotlight on features for distributors and festival programmers by the BFI and British Film ...

The Open Cinemas Fund is set to receive £3m for the Escapes programme, which launched in February 2024 and offers free access to screenings in over 120 independent cinemas across the UK each month.

The fund has awarded £200,000 to British Screen Forum to focus on mapping and improving analysis of data related to financing, audience engagement and commercial performance of independent film.