What’s on at BFI Southbank
Four screens open seven days a week for the widest choice of great films.
Find out moreOne Battle After Another at BFI IMAX
See Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor star in Paul Thomas Anderson’s much anticipated period satire – on the largest screen in the UK.
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New and exclusive: I’m Still Here
Winner of Best International Feature Film at the 2025 Academy Awards.
Watch with a free trialThe 69th BFI London Film Festival
Discover the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling, in London and around the UK – 8 to 19 October 2025.
Explore 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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80 years of Rome, Open City: tracking down Roberto Rossellini’s locations today
Shot on the streets of the Italian capital at the end of the Second World War, Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City was made under precarious conditions but created an earthquake in film history with its unvarnished realism. Eighty years on, we went in search of the locations.
By Adam Scovell
“It was dance as action rather than as aesthetics”: Stephen Daldry on Billy Elliot
By Edward Lawrenson
Sight and Sound: the November 2025 issue
Sight and Sound: the November 2025 issue10 great films set in 1970s America
By Rory Doherty
Ellis Park: a Warren Ellis documentary in synch with its generous subject
By Leigh Singer
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey: passion takes a backseat in this earnest modern love story
By Ben Nicholson
The Wizard of the Kremlin: a westernised take on Putin’s rise to power
By Travis Jeppesen
Events
The director and stars of Islands, in which Sam Riley delivers a career-best performance as a washed-up tennis coach caught up in a strange disappearance, visit the BFI Southbank to talk about the film.
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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.
ExploreScreen Culture 2033
Our Screen Culture 2033 strategy for the BFI and ten-year National Lottery funding strategy from 2023 to 2033.
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