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Further information on the exciting new Mediatheque offerings in early 2010.

Film Professor Ian Christie discusses the significance of Powell and Pressburger’s tragic fairytale The Red Shoes, playing on extended run at BFI Southbank.

Curator Vic Pratt comments on the upcoming Cheap Thrills, Double Bills season at BFI Southbank.

Mediatheque Curator Simon McCallum discusses the latest collection; an exploration of Jewish life in the United Kingdom titled Oy Britannia.

An in-depth discussion of the December 2009 collection in the BFI Mediatheque.

Marking the latest adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the BFI Mediatheque pays tribute to past versions of the classic Christmas tale.

Day 10 saw the first ever Archive Gala, which featured the restoration of Anthony Asquith's Underground.

Day 9 of the Festival saw our most successful Trafalgar Square screening yet.

Under the watchful gaze of Horatio Nelson, the London Film Festival's annual free screening of short films from the BFI National Archive and London's Screen Archives once again takes place in Trafalgar Square.

A behind-the-scenes look at the BFI's restoration of Anthony Asquith's masterpiece.

Iconoclastic artist Deimantas Narkevičius joins us at BFI Southbank to discuss his gallery commission

A revisiting of the rarely seen 1973 documentary Swastika followed by an onstage discussion with the creative team.

The launch of the BFI's third Mediatheque, forming a vital part of the Cambridge Central Library.

The BFI launches its brand new online non-fiction archive project

As part of the BFI's This Working Life project and King Coal season, we welcome director Peter Pickering to the stage to discuss the challenges he faced whilst filming in British coal mines.