What’s on at BFI Southbank
Four screens open seven days a week for the widest choice of great films.
Find out moreThe Bride! at BFI IMAX
Maggie Gyllenhaal adds to the canon of Frankenstein and monsters with a punk and thrilling new film.
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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All about… how we acquire films, TV and other moving images
It’s one of the largest collections of moving images in the world, but how do we select what to preserve in the BFI National Archive? And what’s the process for bringing items into the collection?
By Dylan Cave, Sonia Genaitay and others
First details announced of increased £33.5 million BFI investment in audience development
First details announced of increased £33.5 million BFI investment in audience developmentObject of the week: Signed cast and crew photo from 1940s hit melodrama The Seventh Veil
By Melanie Williams
The BFI and the British Consulate-General Los Angeles celebrates the 2026 Oscars
The BFI and the British Consulate-General Los Angeles celebrates the 2026 Oscars“The bride is very disobedient”: Penélope Cruz and Peter Sarsgaard on Maggie Gyllenhaal’s noirish Frankenstein spin-off
By Lou Thomas
“I am not afraid of anything”: Andrzej Wajda interviewed in 2008
By Michael Brooke and Kamila Kuc
Plague and panic in 1870s Wisconsin: inside the apocalyptic western A Prayer for the Dying
By Lou Thomas
Events
At BFI IMAX, Maggie Gyllenhaal talks through the evolution of her career and her imaginative reworking of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in The Bride!.
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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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