Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Sheffield DocFest brings together 45 World, 17 International, 5 European and 35 UK Premieres for its 33rd edition by Neil Baker 27th May 2026
Arts·Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance·Rewind Rip It Up: A UK-wide season of film, TV and events celebrating 75 years of youth culture presented by BFI Film Audience Network by Neil Baker 1st May 2026
Film and Television·Rewind Celebrate the New Year at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX with a jam-packed programme of retrospectives, celebrations and previews by Neil Baker 21st November 2025
Film and Television·Rewind BFI announces Too Much – Melodrama on Film, a UK-wide celebration of emotion and heightened drama by Neil Baker 28th August 2025
Film and Television·Music and Dance·Rewind BFI marks the centenary of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary silent film Battleship Potemkin by Neil Baker 11th July 2025
Film and Television·Rewind Celebrate Christmas at BFI IMAX with Elf, Wonka, Die Hard and more by Neil Baker 2nd November 2023
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Short Films How BMW and BFI changed one filmmaking team’s life at BFI London Film Festival 2023 by Sabastian Astley 18th October 2023
Film and Television·Rewind BFI Cinema Unbound: the creative worlds of Powell and Pressburger comes to big screens UK-wide this autumn by Neil Baker 15th September 2023
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Rewind Full programme announced for Be Gay, Do Crime season at BFI Southbank by Neil Baker 5th July 2023
Film and Arts Festivals BFI Flare 2020 – Special Presentations announced ahead of full programme launch by Neil Baker 14th February 2020
1 Just an Illusion (review) – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age film is a pure delight
2 CATS (review) – The open-air theatre in Regent’s Park becomes the cats’ secret world in this masterful new production
3 The Edinburgh Fringe Award-winning, wickedly funny and unflinching Goblin takes to the stage at the Park Theatre this November
4 Tom Daley adds the final stitch to the giant ‘Baa-Ewe’ Tapestry celebrating Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
5 The Oresteia (review): What Stone brings from Greek tragedy into the present is not the myth but the people
6 Saturday Night Live UK announces Jeff Goldblum as the first host of the new series and the addition of Freddie Meredith to the cast
7 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
8 Her Worm (review) – a deliciously dark, lovingly crafted short film that asks us all to reflect on the real parasites in our midst
9 Blue Film: Elliot Tuttle on his provocative, nuanced, artistically ambitious exploration of trauma, memory, identity and guilt
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