Ten titles showcasing bold, inventive and distinctive filmmaking compete for Best Film at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival Awards.

BFI Discovery and Impact feature funding awards money from the National Lottery to support original live action and animation feature filmmaking.

Writer-director Anthony Schatteman’s film about a blossoming romance between two Belgian teenage boys has few surprises, but there’s something to admire in its relentless positivity.

This week we go back in time to the 1950s and 60s to explore the Archive's pioneering past and look ahead to Heritage Open Day.

Among a number of post-war British films testing the stereotypically wholesome depiction of mothers and daughters, The Woman in the Hall features Jean Simmons playing a young woman who is driven to ...

Becoming one of the iconic faces of the swinging 60s, Stamp worked with Fellini, Pasolini and Ken Loach and was branded “the most beautiful man in the world” before leaving the limelight altogether.

Packed with notes, sketches and Polaroids, this shooting script for Sally Potter’s film of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando illustrates the complexity of one of cinema’s undersung roles: the script supervisor ...

Using a DV camera and successive iPhones, Mapplebeck threads together 20 years of her and her son’s lives with humour, warmth and honesty.

A young couple move to the countryside and are overcome by a magnet-like attraction that threatens to fuse their bodies together permanently in Michael Shanks’s gruesome yarn.