By Leila Latif
Questlove’s triumphant directorial debut charts the cultural impact and legacy of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival.
By Matt Turner
This year’s virtual programme seeks to reframe our understanding of a world in constant flux.
Scotland’s first digital-only festival is bursting with cinematic treats, including 48 UK premieres.
In Greece, the Thessaloniki Film Festival is working to safeguard the future of domestic film production.
Despite the pandemic, this year’s event showcased an impressive variety of emerging genre talent.
At the 64th BFI London Film Festival, three films provided a timely addition to discourse ignited by the Black Lives Matter movement.
By Leila Latif
Joanna Scanlan plays a Muslim convert who discovers a secret about her husband in Aleem Khan’s moving drama.
By Leila Latif
A new documentary gives a voice to the silenced natives in Joseph Conrad’s colonialist novel.
Four icons of African American history meet in a Miami hotel in Regina King’s promising directorial debut.
Jamie Foxx is a jazz musician reckoning with the afterlife in Pixar’s best film in quite some time.
Michelle Pfieffer prowls the upper social echelons of Paris and Manhattan in this trifling take on Patrick DeWitt’s novel.
By Katie Goh
Gabrielle Zilkha’s documentary Queering the Script looks at how fans have fought for more diverse representation.
By Matt Turner
Eight non-fiction features that are well worth seeking out at this year’s LFF.
John Boyega astonishes in Steve McQueen’s exploration of systemic racism in London’s Met police force.
This year’s Short Cuts programme brought together bite-size perspectives from around the world.
By Rógan Graham
Steve McQueen’s film about the Mangrove Nine trial is a masterful evocation of political determination.
Hungarian animator Nadja Andrasev reveals how personal experience informed her sensual new film Symbiosis.
The Festival Director speak about putting together the most accessible, expansive LFF programme yet.
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