BFI London Film Festival is for everyone. We’re committed to ensuring it is as inclusive and accessible as possible.
We offer a number of accessible screenings and events and will make reasonable efforts to meet any additional requirements where we’re able. If you have any questions, suggestions or feedback, email festival@bfi.org.uk.
Access tickets
A limited number of tickets have been ring-fenced for guests with specific seating requirements including aisle seats for guests with restricted mobility and seating for BSL interpreted events in order to provide the best sight lines.
How to book
Email box.office@bfi.org.uk
Call the Box Office (lines open 11:30-20:30)
020 7960 2102
Quote ‘ACCESS’
Access tickets are available on a first come, first served basis and are subject to BFI priority membership booking periods.
CEA Cardholders
We welcome CEA Cardholders. The CEA Card is a national card scheme developed for UK cinemas by the UK Cinema Association. The card enables a disabled cinema guest to receive a complimentary ticket for someone to go with them when they visit a participating cinema.
Accessible screenings at cinemas
We have a number of cinema screenings with Hard of Hearing (HOH) subtitles, Audio Described Description (AD).
Cinema screenings for customers who are D/deaf or hard of hearing
Hard of Hearing subtitled
English language films with English subtitles, including descriptions of non-dialogue audio.
The following screenings will have HoH subtitles, including descriptions of non-dialogue audio, for customers who are D/deaf or hard of hearing.
Herself Fri 9 Oct 14:50 NFT3
After Love Fri 16 Oct 14:50 NFT3
Ammonite on Sun 18 Oct 14:20 NFT3
Please contact the LFF partner venues directly for details of their Access screenings.
Cinema screenings for customers who are blind or partially-sighted
Audio Described Description
Films with an audio-description soundtrack. Headphones are available on request.
All BFI Southbank screenings of the following with have Audio Description available:
Accessible digital screenings and events
Short films
Closed captioning and Audio description is available for the following short films in the English language (or predominantly in the English language)
#FollowMe
Apparition
Bitter Sky
Buck
Cage
Chicken
Down There the Seafolk Live
Dungarees
Expensive Shit
Glenville
Good Thanks, You?
Gramercy
Here is the Imagination of the Black Radical
Hungry Joe
Jello
Leave the Edges
Majority
Mandem
Missing Time
No Archive Can Restore You
No Go Backs
Passage
Shagbands
Shuttlecock
Truth and Kinship
Two Single Beds
Wood Child and Hidden Forest Mother
Feature films
Closed captioning is available for the following feature films in the English language (or predominantly in the English language).
African Apocalypse
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes
Farewell Amor
Friendship’s Death
Herself
Mogul Mowgli
One Man and His Shoes
Relic
Rose: A Love Story
Shirley
Ultraviolence
Subtitled Films (English language subtitles only)
Non-English language films that are fully subtitled
Shorts
Asho
Panthers
Stray Dogs Come out at Night
Henet Ward
The Spark
Little Princess
The End of Suffering (a proposal)
Summer Shade
Bechora
Mountain Cat
Witness
Mother
The Name of the Son
Difficult
A Horse has More Blood Than a Human
Loose Fish
Features
The Salt in our Waters
Shadow Country
Another Round
Genus Pan
Gold for Dogs
Undine
Honeymood
Striding Into the Wind
Eyimofe (This is My Desire)
I am Samuel
Chess of the Wind
A Common Crime
The Intruder
Bad Tales
A Day-off of Kasumi Arimura — ep1 at my Home
180 Degree Rule
Stray
The Disciple
200 Meters
Silent films
No Archive Can Restore You
Glenville
No Go Backs
Passage
Wood Child and Hidden Forest Mother
Cage
The Cheaters
BFI London Film Festival is a safe space
The festival is a place for everyone. If you are feeling uncomfortable, overwhelmed or just in need of a quiet moment, please ask one of the friendly Front of House staff and they’ll be happy to help you.