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Mahershala Ali on Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother and the impact of representation
The two-time Oscar winner joined us for an LFF Screen Talk to discuss the cost of acclaim, portraying a Black father, and the challenge of finding fully realised roles now he's stepping up to play leading men.
By Whelan Barzey
Where to begin with Billy Wilder
By Ruby McGuigan
Competition winners announced at 70th BFI London Film Festival
Competition winners announced at 70th BFI London Film FestivalClub Kid: an outrageously funny crowdpleaser
By Barry Levitt
Danny Boyle on his tabloid chronicle Ink: “The attention economy, clickbait, the dopamine economy – this is its hatching point”
By Lou Thomas
Revisiting Pakeezah, Hindi cinema’s great tragedy of desire and entrapment
By Nasheed Qamar Faruqi
Robert Eggers on Werwulf and his career in film: “Everybody is a bit of an island”
By Ibrahim Azam
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Mike Leigh discusses Bleak Moments at BFI Southbank, his powerful debut film about loneliness, routine and the search for connection.
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