What’s on at BFI Southbank
Four screens open seven days a week for the widest choice of great films.
Find out moreWicked: For Good at BFI IMAX
You would be a fool not to see the most anticipated magical blockbuster of the year on the UK’s largest screen.
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New and exclusive: I’m Still Here
Winner of Best International Feature Film at the 2025 Academy Awards.
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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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The Ice Tower: another cryptically macabre and magical fable from Lucile Hadžihalilović
Marion Cotillard’s impressive performance as a glacial screen diva is matched by newcomer Clara Pacini in Hadžihalilović’s coolly calibrated vision of The Snow Queen.
By Leigh Singer
10 great films set in Taipei
By John Berra
BFI programme highlights announced for January 2026
BFI programme highlights announced for January 2026The Ealing comedy that shows how the Wirral used to be: The Magnet at 75
By Adam Scovell
Inside the Archive #51: a Graveyard Shift and Frankenstein day in Derby
By Molly Petter, Iris Mathieson and others
Game: a tense British confinement thriller set to a backdrop of 1990s raves
By Kim Newman
“I want a formally perfect film”: Pier Paolo Pasolini on the making of Salò
By Gideon Bachmann
Events
The cast and crew of ITV's thrilling drama visit BFI Southbank as Vicky McClure’s Lana Washington returns with her team of bomb disposal experts in the incendiary opening episode of the third series.
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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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