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Find out moreAvatar: Fire and Ash (3D) at BFI IMAX
James Cameron returns to Pandora for a third adventure, this time set amid the fire of nature at its most elemental.
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Uncommon Threads
Our partner Sofas & Stuff invite you to enjoy some of their favourite films on BFI Player, revealing the uncommon threads that make their festive season special. Subscription free for 14 days, then £6.99 a month – cancel anytime. But anyone who makes a purchase or requests a quote from Sofas & Stuff between 15 December 2025 and 6 February 2026 can claim a £15 discount on an annual subscription.
Find out moreBFI 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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David Bowie, film fan
Ten years after his death, we look back at David Bowie’s voracious cinephilia, which encompassed everything from German expressionist classics to golden-age Hollywood. Originally published in 2022.
By Stephen Dalton
Inside the Archive #56: Celebrating film and connection with Youth Beyond Borders and BFI Replay
By Milo Holmes, Ana Levisky and others
In memoriam: obituaries of those who died in 2025
By Bob Mastrangelo
“I have a responsibility to be provocative in my films”: Rosa von Praunheim’s activist cinema
By Mark Nash
10 great Lynchian films
By Leigh Singer
“This is definitely a closing movie because I collected everything”: Béla Tarr on his final film, The Turin Horse
By Jonathan Romney
Béla Tarr obituary: Hungary’s slow-cinema visionary
By Jonathan Romney
Events
The star and director-producer-writer of one of the most critically-acclaimed films of the year visit BFI IMAX to introduce a special screening of One Battle After Another.
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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.
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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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