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Mari

Modern dance is an evocative narrative tool in Georgia Parris’s debut, which investigates a young woman’s identity and the complex relationship she has with her mother and sister.

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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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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

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Mari

Georgia Parris’s debut investigates a young woman’s identity via modern dance.

If Beale Street Could Talk

Soulful James Baldwin adaptation from the director of Moonlight.

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