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Guillermo del Toro receives BFI Fellowship from Cate Blanchett at the BFI Chair’s Dinner
The event was attended by leading filmmakers and talent including J. J. Abrams, John Waters, Rian Johnson, J. A. Bayona, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, David Bradley, Burn Gorman and more.
At the movies with Guillermo del Toro
By Mar Diestro-Dópido
UK Global Screen Fund announces latest international co-production awards
UK Global Screen Fund announces latest international co-production awardsMichael Ffolkes’s Punch illustrations for This Sporting Life and other 1960s British classics
By Melanie Williams
“Never were cloth caps worn more rakishly”: Alberto Cavalcanti’s neglected British ‘low-life’ drama For Them That Trespass
By Josephine Botting
Inside the Archive #69: Bringing national collections to new audiences
By Paola Martucci, Molly Petter and others
BFI Player’s May 2026 line-up
BFI Player’s May 2026 line-upEvents
Writer-director Thea Gajić visits BFI Southbank to discuss Surviving Earth, her drama about a Yugoslavian refugee forging a new life in Bristol while battling addiction, joined by cast members Slavko Sobin and Olive Gray.
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