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The 2026 BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival programme has been revealed! #BFIFlare

Byrne. Baby. Burn. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025), streaming now on #BFIPlayer

Mad Max, The Babadook, The Cars That Ate Paris... these first-time filmmakers showed us how to make a killer calling-card. theb.fi/3Q2WGa4

This Monday 13 April in the @BFI #Library: New Writings: Global Cult Cinemas Join Iain Robert Smith and Dolores Tierney as they challenge Eurocentric views, explore global cult film traditions and discuss ways we can decolonise cult cinema. Tickets + info: tinyurl.com/5acs987t

François Ozon has brought Albert Camus’s classic existentialist novel The Stranger to the screen in brooding, Bressonian black-and-white. He tells us about drawing out the sensual elements of the story and its colonial context. theb.fi/48BMGef

A 1938 brochure commemorating the 100th screening of the Film Society, the influential bohemian group who revolutionised film appreciation in the UK. Preserved by the BFI National Archive. Read more: theb.fi/47NZYEe

@mynameisaflower Possibly. Our programme for BFI IMAX is updated regularly on a week-by-week basis so do keep checking back or sign up to our mailing list for the latest information. theb.fi/3NVxpHZ

@BFI are you planning on scheduling more 70mm screenings of Project Hail Mary or is the run ending on the 16th?

@sbarbazza As we aren't able to offer BFI Members priority booking to runs of new releases, we didn't send out an email. You can sign up to our mailing list if you wish to receive BFI IMAX on sales updates. theb.fi/3NVxpHZ

@vickster51 @BFI I agree. As a @BFI member I received no comms these were going on sale. Really disappointing. What went wrong @BFI ?

Hey @BFI why weren’t BFI members given any warning of the Dune tickets going on sale?! That’s really poor.

@vickster51 We didn't send out an email as we aren't able to offer BFI Members priority booking to runs of new releases. If you would like updates for BFI IMAX on sales, we'd recommend joining our mailing list theb.fi/3NVxpHZ

@simoncwilson Afraid we're unable to confirm when the rest of the run will go on sale at this stage.

@BFI gutted to have missed the 3 released dates for Dune 3. Sold out so quickly. When will further dates/times be released please?

Don't miss the new documentary on iconic Hitchcock star #KimNovak - KIM NOVAK'S VERTIGO, screening at @BFI Southbank now.

On his 84th birthday, we revisit our 2022 interview with Peter Greenaway, in which the visionary British director spoke to us about cinema as a form of printmaking, Marvel Comics as ancient mythology, and death as a waste of good ideas. theb.fi/4c4igT6

Is this the worst film ever made? Plan 9 from Outer Space (1958), streaming now on #BFIPlayer

There was once a boy who fell to earth... D is For Distance from directors Emma Matthews and Christopher Petit is in cinemas from today.

From Rocky to Raging Bull – get in the ring with these 10 knockout boxing movies. theb.fi/4mcZTA2

NEW ISSUE! 🧡 Cornish auteur Mark Jenkin on Rose of Nevada and the alchemy of analogue Get your copy now: shop.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun… Read the full contents: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun… Out for subscribers on Monday

"Ninety-two-year-old star takes viewers on an emotional journey of her turbulent life, and shares the dirty secrets of "the greatest film of all time"" - @DMovies_org. KIM NOVAK'S is screening at @BFI Southbank from 3 April. dmovies.org/2025/09/01/kim…

Best known for playing stiff-upper-lip Brits, Clive Brook made only one feature as director: a period comedy set during the ‘naughty ’90s’ which is packed with modern humour and visual ingenuity. theb.fi/4dnmpns

The new BFI  Expanded Screen Fund has just launched! Applications close on 3 June. Find out more theb.fi/417UU9V

‘I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.’ Marilyn Monroe Join us this summer as we celebrate the centenary of Monroe's birth with a new season of films and events at BFI Southbank plus a re-release of The Misfits in UK and Ireland.

This week's object from the BFI National Archive is a state-of-the art scanner transforming the art of film preservation, the Lasergaphics Director 65. theb.fi/4v18o51