BFI Player’s October 2026 line-up

They called him The Red Priest, and he, Antonio Vivaldi, is the tempest who stirs the Venetian seas in Primavera. Charles Burnett’s lacerating drama The Glass Shield leads our new titles for Black History Month, and October ends with Halloween horrors from Dario Argento and David Cronenberg.

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Primavera 

Italy 2025 
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Damiano Michieletto’s enthralling Venetian drama inspired by the life of Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi. 

The Glass Shield 

USA 1994 

The first Black recruit in his squad, rookie cop J.J. Johnson struggles to adapt to life on the force, in this thrilling 90s drama from Charles Burnett. 

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask

United Kingdom 1997 

Isaac Julien and Mark Nash’s celebrated experimental documentary about the Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist and revolutionary. 

Being Blacker 

United Kingdom 2018 

Molly Dineen’s acclaimed documentary about renowned Brixton-based music producer Blacker Dread. 

La Femme infidèle 

France 1969 

The first of Chabrol’s great run of bourgeois psychological thrillers follows the fall-out from a husband discovering his wife’s affair. 

Kinaesthesia 

United Kingdom 2026 

A kaleidoscopic documentary exploring the relationship between film and dreams, and inspired by the film historian and theorist Vlada Petrić. 

The Stendhal Syndrome 

Italy 1996 

Dario Argento’s dizzying and gut-wrenching drama about a young policewoman (Asia Argento) on the hunt for a serial killer who becomes obsessed with her. 

Opera 

Italy 1987 

Boasting quite possibly Argento’s most iconic single image, almost certainly his most spectacular death, and indisputably his most insane ending. 

The Shrouds 

Canada 2024 
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David Cronenberg’s latest film sees Vincent Cassel as a widower channelling his grief into a new technology that lets people observe the decaying bodies of the dead.