What’s on at BFI Southbank
Four screens open seven days a week for the widest choice of great films.
Find out moreCaptain America: Brave New World at BFI IMAX
See this brave new adventure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe on the UK’s largest screen.
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BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Our springtime celebration of queer cinema at BFI Southbank – 19 to 30 March 2025.
Browse the programmeBFI Replay
A new free-to-access digital archive exclusively available in UK public lending libraries. Discover thousands of digitised videos and television programmes from the 1960s to the 2010s, offering a glimpse into Britain’s past, its people and places.
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The Greatest Films of All Time issue
Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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Gene Hackman obituary: New Hollywood leading man who became an icon of American cinema
From The French Connection through to The Royal Tenenbaums, Hackman – who has died at 95 – redefined the idea of a leading man in his own image, bringing wit, humanity and deceptive expressiveness to five decades of memorable roles.
By Adam Nayman
Before Demi: every lead actress who has ever been nominated for a horror film
By Richard Pickard
Gene Hackman: 10 essential films
By Mike Sutton
Knockouts: 5 discoveries from Berlin Film Festival 2025
By Joseph Fahim, Savina Petkova and others
10 to watch at Borderlines Film Festival 2025
By Sam Wigley
Winners announced for the BFI Future Film Festival awards 2025
Winners announced for the BFI Future Film Festival awards 2025Heavy Rain – 15 years of Quantic Dream’s experiment in ‘interactive drama’
By Jacob Heayes
Events
Actor, writer, filmmaker and activist Mario Van Peebles visits BFI Southbank to talk about his career to date, including his contribution to the western genre.
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Our new ten-year strategy that sets out how we will transform access to our programmes, screen culture and jobs.
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The BFI National Archive has one of the most important film and TV collections in the world. Choose from a selection of 11,000 titles that cover 120 years of British life, and the history and art of film.
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