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Sobriety is hard. Compassion is crucial. Surviving Earth (2025), streaming now on #BFIPlayer
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It was a very emotional night for me being with you all last at the IMAX Waterloo. Your appreciation of our documentary Frampton means the world to me and director, Rob Arthur You blew me away! It was very humbling. Thank you all so much. Photo credit: Elena Benedettini
With this year’s London Korean Film Festival under way, and Lee Chang-dong’s acclaimed drama Possible Love landing on Netflix, we cast a net over a wide selection of some of the best recent films from South Korea. theb.fi/4iq733D
The UK Global Screen Fund has opened applications for its Video Games Release funding, supporting UK video game developers to mount release campaigns for their games in international territories. Find out more: theb.fi/3PBncrc
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And the winners of the 2026 BFI London Film Festival Audience Awards are…
Best Feature Film: La Bola Negra (dirs. Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo).
Best British Discovery: Dependence (dir. Grace Harper Brighouse).
ALT Best Feature Film Audience Award winner is La Bola Negra
ALT Best British Discovery Audience Award winner: Dependence
As our season celebrating his work opens at BFI Southbank, we look back on previously unpublished stories and reflections on the changing movie industry from the late Roger Corman, the legendarily resourceful producer, director, career-launcher and ’King of the B’s’. theb.fi/4yOMrXy
Imran Perretta, cinematographer Jermaine Canute Edwards and location manager Aly Ripo joined a BFI Film Academy masterclass to discuss the making of Ish, from its roots in Perretta’s own teenage experiences to the importance of creative collaboration and community. theb.fi/4yM16ml
Settle into November with a feast of cinema, from the splendour of silent classics to bold new voices and rare discoveries. theb.fi/48qDGIo
Nightborn, an international co-production (UK-Finland-Lithuania-France), proudly supported by #UKGlobalScreenFund, out now in cinemas!
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Shocking. Obscene. Bizarrely contemporary.
Horror drama The Devils is back and uncut, 55 years after it was banned – and is the buzziest film in cinemas this Halloween. Here's why audiences are going wild for its revival.
Read more: empireonline.com/movies/feat…
As Animol, his first feature as director, reaches audiences, Ashley Walters talks to us about bringing authenticity to prison drama, nurturing young talent and broadening the stories told about Black British lives. theb.fi/4iwSKZX
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My review of the re-release of The Devils (1971) (dir. Ken Russell) is up here: theguardian.com/film/2026/oc…
From silent-era demons to modern folk-horror nightmares, witches have haunted cinema for well over a century. These 10 films chart the evolution of the screen witch, revealing how ideas about female power, fear and otherness have been transformed across cultures and generations. theb.fi/4sxRPNd
From overlooked office workers to fading movie stars, ageing in Billy Wilder’s films is about more than growing old. Across his career, he wittily chronicled characters confronting missed opportunities, diminished relevance and the feeling that life has passed them by. theb.fi/4idhur1
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Just out of a 35mm screening of Ken Russell’s The Devils at the @BFI Southbank. Such a powerful, funny, disturbing film. I’ve seen this cut twice before. A packed audience seemed very much affected by its power.
