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Project Hail Mary at BFI IMAX

Based on Andy Weir’s (The Martian) novel of the same name, Ryan Gosling stars in this year’s hottest sci-fi space adventure.

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BFI 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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Features and reviews

Lists

40 hidden gems of LGBTQIA+ cinema

As BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary, we travel back through its history to select 40 queer cinema classics that you might not have seen.

By Alex Davidson, Grace Barber-Plentie and others

40 hidden gems of LGBTQIA+ cinema
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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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Watch archive collections

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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Screen 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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