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Two film negatives: left shows footballers on pitch under floodlights, right shows close-up of white football with geometric patterns on grass.
Opinion

The euphoric pleasures of movies and football

by Oscar Aitchison

How attending Brighton and Hove Albion games with my father delivers a similar hit to seeing Jeanne Dielman at the BFI Southbank.
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BFI London Film Festival

The Memory of Butterflies – first-look review

by Rebecca Buckley

Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski’s remarkable documentary offers a nuanced and innovative take on Western colonial oppression in Latin America.
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Festivals

Seven Unexpected Gems from the 2025 BFI London Film Festival

by Lucy Peters

Future screenings of these films are absolutely worth snapping up a ticket for, and guaranteed to be unlike anything else you watch this year.
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Interviews

Monica Sorelle: ‘I’m working through my grief about Miami changing so rapidly and violently’

by Juan Barquin

As her debut receives a UK première as part of the BFI’s Black Debutants season, Miami filmmaker Monica Sorelle reflects on the making of Mountains.
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Podcast

The Wedding Banquet | Seeking Mavis Beacon | The Wedding Banquet (1993)

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss The Wedding Banquet, a filmmaker goes on a quest to meet a touch typing icon in Seeking Mavis Beacon, Rógan Graham is here to talk to us about her BFI season The Black Debutantes and finally, for film club, we revisit Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet (1993).

Acting Up

The many faces of Sidney Poitier

by John Livesey

As the BFI celebrates the legacy of an acting icon, we delve into Poitier’s complex legacy.
Festivals

Trauma ripples through time at the London Film Festival

by Erin Mussett

Jesse Eisenberg, Malcolm Washington and Christopher Andrews explored the diverging manifestations of generational trauma at this year’s London Film Festival.
Festivals

20 Hidden Gems at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival

by Little White Lies

Our hand-picked haul of must-see titles from outside the main gala and competition strands.
Exhibitions

A new exhibition shows off the invisible processes behind stop motion

by Kambole Campbell

LAIKA’s Frame x Frame exhibition is a compact but detailed deep dive into how the studio approaches the mechanics of the medium.
What's On

Put on your red shoes and dance: the enduring euphoria of Powell & Pressburger

by Lillian Crawford

A new season organised by the BFI in partnership with Thelma Schoonmaker brings many classic Powell & Pressburger films – including new restorations – to the big screen once more.

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