Applications are now open for the BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund, which will award £19.7m of National Lottery funding over three years to support the exhibition and distribution of ...

Following his autobiographical films, Terence Davies directed a run of four sublime adaptations, including The House of Mirth and Sunset Song. His personal archive sheds fascinating light on his ...

Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari’s vibrant documentary about everyday life in Gaza circa 2001 is an act of preservation and resistance writes Arron Kennon, one of the critics on this year’s LFF ...

Over half a century and around the globe, Laura Mulvey’s influence on thinking about film, through her writing and her own filmmaking practice, has been unparalleled. As she receives a BFI Fellowship, ...

The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90.

This Halloween, we revisit Rhidian Davis’s reckoning with the gothic’s many monstrous manifestations, from silent film to Hammer horror to Twilight. From our November 2013 issue.

Ahmed stars Ash, a go-between for corporate whistleblowers, in Justin Piasecki and David Mackenzie’s smart surveillance conspiracy plot.

Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir’s sweeping period film tackles a moment of profound change: the year 1936, when the Great Palestinian Revolt broke through the complacency of British rule.

Emma Stone stars as a CEO who is kidnapped and accused of being an alien in Lanthimos’s dark and schlocky class-warfare thriller.

Eros and Thanatos battle it out in these horny Halloween horrors, where monstrosity, repressed sexuality and devilish decadence feed into some truly transgressive movies.

Coming to BFI Player this November are films by Bong Joon Ho, Gaspar Noé and Ken Loach, plus a subscription exclusive for Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun.

The stars of Guillermo del Toro’s inimitable new spin on the Frankenstein story tell us why, like the creature itself, the director’s reimagining is pieced together from some unexpected parts.