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 The Mortuary Assistant (review) – Jeremiah Kipp’s horror game adaptation juggles supernatural terror and psychological torment 27th July 2026
2 The Wolf (review) – an observational meditation on queer love and life in contemporary China 25th July 2026
3 Robota (review) – the Schwarzman Centre reimagines Čapek’s classic in examining what it means to be human in the age of AI 25th July 2026
4 Home Bodies (Fantasia Film Festival) review – one of the most inventive, unique and enthralling science fiction films of the year 24th July 2026
5 No Rest for the Wicked (Fantasia Film Festival) review – hauntingly beautiful, Kalle’s adaptation of Ulrichs’ Manor is unmissable 23rd July 2026
6 Pinocchio: Unstrung (review) – Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s movie is a sordid, cynical and shoddy exploitation flick with even cheaper ethics 23rd July 2026
7 Animal Farm (2026) review – Serkis’s film butchers Orwell’s source material so thoroughly it could be branded animal cruelty 21st July 2026
8 The Virgin Suicides (2000) rewind review – Sophia Coppola’s film is a girlhood classic that balances sweetness, sweatiness and sorrow 21st July 2026
9 Blue Mist (UK Tour) review – Who has the authority to define another person’s story? And who decides what counts as an “authentic voice?” 21st July 2026
10 Attack on Paradise (Fantasia Film Festival) review – a high-octane crime action thriller that never quite reaches its full potential 20th July 2026
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