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Sparks fly! The cast own the #LFF red carpet for Pillion.

Frankenstein and The Creature. Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac join us on the red carpet for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. #LFF

'This is our love letter to drag.' Amrou Al-Kadhi 🦄's wonderful queer portrait of a struggling drag queen, Layla is released today in cinemas across the UK &amp; Ireland. #BFIBacked #NationalLottery Curzon Film

Director Andrew Haigh on what it means to screen #LFF Headline Gala #AllofUsStrangers at Royal Festival Hall this evening!

The Testament of Ann Lee premieres at Curzon Mayfair 🎬 Director Mona Fastvold and cast, Amanda Seyfried,Thomasin McKenzie, Matthew Beard, Viola Prettejohn, Stacy Martin, and composer Daniel Blumberg pose for a photo ahead of the screening 🎥

'Few caper comedies have this much heart, and few romantic dramas offer such an appealingly nutty plot.' - The Wall Street Journal The Innocent - written, directed and starring Louis Garrel - plays from tomorrow at BFI Southbank.

★★★★ Little White Lies ★★★★ Cinerama ★★★★ WeLoveCinema A heart-warming debut from Charlotte Regan, Scrapper is playing now at BFI Southbank! Backed by the BFI with #NationalLottery funding

Molly Manning Walker's #BFIBacked debut feature is up for three awards at tonight's #EEBAFTAs, including Outstanding British Film! #NationalLottery funded

In November 2007, Paul Weedon went viral with this short and punchy video. It has since recorded over 16 millions views on YouTube and continues to resurface as a meme expressing shock and disbelief.

Sean Baker wins Best Director! We were thrilled to welcome Baker to last year's #LFF for a Screen Talk and the UK premiere of Anora. #Oscars

Amy Adams on the red carpet at #LFF for the Nightbitch Headline Gala 🐶

'Refreshingly frank' - Mark Kermode Writer-director Mikko Mäkelä's, #BFIBacked queer drama Sebastian, is released today! An empowering, sex positive London-set story of sex work and the quest for authenticity. #NationalLottery

BAFTA-nominated, BFI Film Academy alumni Charlotte Regan joins on the #EEBAFTAs red carpet with producer Theo Barrowclough. Scrapper was #BFIBacked with #NationalLottery funding. #EEBAFTAs

Videos

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George MacKay and Callum Turner star in Mark Jenkin’s time-travelling odyssey about a long-lost fishing boat that mysteriously returns to harbour. Rose of Nevada is out now on BFI Player and Blu-ray.

Badger, badger, badger... MUSHROOM, MUSHROOM 🍄 Jonti Picking's flash animation - and earworm - set the world alight in 2003, becoming one of the internet's most iconic memes. Now preserved in the BFI National Archive.

Guillermo Del Toro on AI, emotion and the value of art. Watch the full In Conversation on our YouTube channel. Guillermo del Toro

Everyone is invited to the 70th BFI London Film Festival! Discover the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling. Tickets on sale 17 September. Explore the programme at #LFF

Eid Mubarak to all our audiences, colleagues and friends celebrating! 🌙

Watch a new trailer for the UK's first animated feature film, Animal Farm (1954). Created by trailblazing animators John Halas and Joy Batchelor and newly restored in 4K by the BFI, this landmark work returns with renewed clarity and power. Available to pre-order on 4K UHD & Blu-ray.

Newly restored in 4K with the characters and colours sparkling as never before, Watership Down is coming soon to UK and Ireland cinemas and to UHD and Blu-ray.

Trailer drop for award-winning Scottish Folk comedy The Incomer, starring Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin and Grant O’Rourke! #BFIBacked The Incomer is in cinemas UK wide from 4 Sep. #NationalLottery #BecauseOfYou

Succumb to the siren song of the undead. Vampyros Lesbos (1971), streaming now on #BFIPlayer

Everyone is invited to the 67th BFI London Film Festival. Taking place in London and across the UK 4-15 October with tickets from £10. Explore the line-up #LFF

Watch the new trailer for the 4K restoration of legendary Madness film Take It Or Leave it. In cinemas 2 October, with previews from 30 September. Blu-ray/DVD Limited Edition available to pre-order now.

Be the first to see the new 4K restoration of Seven Samurai at its UK premiere at BFI IMAX on 26 Sep. Screening in other selected cinemas from 27 Sep, ahead of a 4K UHD/Blu-ray box set release on 21 Oct.

'It's the oldest remedy in the world...' Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre is out now on 4K UHD &amp; Blu-ray.

Our Sinners IMAX 70mm print in all its glory 🎞️ Ryan Coogler's latest film, starring Michael B. Jordan, was #ShotWithIMAXFilmCameras and features IMAX's exclusive Expanded Aspect Ratio. Experience it on the biggest screen possible from 18 April! #BFIIMAX #SinnersMovie

Dame Maggie Smith (1934-2024)

Lust and larceny, deceit and double crosses. The Handmaiden (2016), streaming now on #BFIPlayer

Tom Cruise on how he wrote his own opening monologue for Magnolia. Watch the full discussion on YouTube.

Guillermo del Toro’s feature debut Cronos announced the arrival of a strikingly original cinematic voice. Don't miss the 4K restoration now playing at BFI Southbank and in cinemas around the UK.

It's Tom Cruise month! Our season celebrating Cruise's extraordinary career runs throughout May at BFI Southbank. We'll see you at the movies.

'This is our love letter to drag.' Amrou Al-Kadhi 🦄's wonderful queer portrait of a struggling drag queen, Layla is released today in cinemas across the UK & Ireland. #BFIBacked #NationalLottery Curzon Film

'It's the oldest remedy in the world...' Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre is out now on 4K UHD & Blu-ray.