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Find out moreProject Hail Mary at BFI IMAX
Based on Andy Weir’s (The Martian) novel of the same name, Ryan Gosling stars in this year’s hottest sci-fi space adventure.
Find out moreBFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Our springtime celebration of queer cinema is back for its 40th anniversary edition – 18 to 29 March at BFI Southbank.
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BFI 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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“People crave being in the dark together”: Bill Morrison looks back on Decasia and the shift to digital memory
From Sun Ra’s origins to the future of climate‑ravaged memory, this year’s Thessaloniki Documentary Festival presented vital new works tackling archival practice and spotlighted early films by Bill Morrison, who here reflects on the shifting politics of preservation and the erasure of historical memory.
By Georgia Korossi
Inside the Archive #65: Exhibitions and a zine workshop
By Molly Petter and Sinéad Beverland
Broken English: meta Marianne Faithfull doc is a heartbreaking document of her final performance
By Simran Hans
Project Hail Mary: Ryan Gosling befriends an alien in a shameless crowd-pleaser
By Henry K Miller
10 great films about kidnapping
By Brogan Morris
Elijah Wood on Ready or Not 2 and the appeal of horror movies: “The stakes have to feel real”
By Lou Thomas
Object of the week: Derek Jarman’s workbook for Blue
By Tabitha Austin
Events
From its 1986 origins as Gays’ Own Pictures to its 40th edition, BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival is celebrated by the filmmakers and programmers who chart its evolution into a cornerstone of queer cinema and the people and events that define it.
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Our Screen Culture 2033 strategy for the BFI and ten-year National Lottery funding strategy from 2023 to 2033.
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