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We the Animals

Sensitive and increasingly different from his hyper-masculine brothers, a young boy faces the truth of his own desires.

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Sight & Sound: the July 2019 issue

A fresh crop of exciting films from Cannes, led by Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die. Plus the golden age of Mexican cinema, Andrew Bujalski’s Support the Girls, and celebrate the legacy of Pauline Kael.

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If Beale Street Could Talk

Barry Jenkins follows his Oscar®-winning Moonlight with an audacious, distinctive and assured adaptation of James Baldwin’s account of love, injustice and racism in America.

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Weimar Cinema 1919-1933

Groundbreaking, imaginative, innovative and astonishingly modern: welcome to the dreamscapes and nightmares of this creative era, on BFI Player and at BFI Southbank now.

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Brexit: Answering questions from the screen sectors

Brexit will change the way UK businesses interact with the EU, including those working in the screen sectors. We answer some of the key questions for the screen industries.

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Boy Erased

Lucas Hedges excels as a teen undergoing gay conversion therapy in this moving drama.

We the Animals

A heartrending account of early self-knowledge.

A Private War

Rosamund Pike stars in this pulse-racing biopic of Marie Colvin.

If Beale Street Could Talk

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins returns with a souful James Baldwin adaptation.

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