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The Inaugural #FirstFemaleVoice Sheer Sparkles * “FIVE STAR”✨✨✨✨✨ goes to feature, picture, film and movie collaborations between @Film4 , @BBCFilm , @BFI @sundance @Film_London and @mubi *Fact: Five Star (@5starofficial) is also an 8Os started girl band. 💄👜🎥

Spike Lee on recruiting @Jensen_McRae for her #Highest2Lowest moment: "I needed a Black Joni Mitchell" More on the music in the film: rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…

Fancy £6 tickets to #LFF screenings and events - including all Galas and Special Presentations? Sign up for a free BFI 25 and Under account today! theb.fi/44CRyuV

Happy first day of #TIFF50 🎉 Today marks the beginning of the 50th edition of our Festival. Tell us your favourite TIFF memory in the comments to help us celebrate 👇

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We're here at the World Premiere of #DowntonAbbey: The Grand Finale in Leicester Square! ✨ Follow this thread to see who joins us on the red carpet 👇

@JustineHenzell @jaftaonline @nadeanrawlins @KeniaMattis @epicmayers Congratulations, well deserved! 🫶🏿🎥🎬🥂

Thank you ⁦@jaftaonline⁩ and the 🇯🇲 film family for my Legacy Award & Decade of dedication certificate! I am deeply honored and touched 🙏 Onward and Upward! ⁦@nadeanrawlins⁩ ⁦@KeniaMattis⁩ ⁦@epicmayers⁩

#LFF dates for the diary 🗓️ 3 Sep: Programme revealed! 8 Sep: Priority booking for BFI Patrons  9 Sep: Priority booking for BFI Members 16 Sep: Tickets on general sale 2 Oct: Extra tickets release 8-19 Oct: The Festival takes place

@deirdremhopkins Indeed, a curious composition written by 👇🏿 @dionnecwalker

Ripley vibe at our hotel in Rome, including a cat

A reminder that BAFTA Breakthrough UK, supported by @NetflixUK, is open for applications until Thursday 19 June 📢 Have you had a breakthrough year in film, games or TV? Find out more and apply here 👇 bafta.org/programmes/baf…

@SorryBabyMovie @RollingStone ✨

A truly astounding work of art, from start to finish” (@RollingStone) Experience Eva Victor's SORRY, BABY – now playing in theaters nationwide.

"A few words about Sorry, Baby … I wanted to tell a story about the intimacy and romance of friendship, how living with a cat can save your life, how a sandwich can make a day better. I wanted to make a film about a person desperately trying to heal, everyday." Director's Letter from Sorry, Baby filmmaker and star @evavictor. Now playing in select theaters, nationwide next weekend! tickets.sorrybaby.movie

Laura Mulvey is to receive a BFI Fellowship, in recognition of the huge global impact of her work through her groundbreaking writing and filmmaking including her seminal essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. theb.fi/47sXMm0

"A NEW ROMANCE CLASSIC" (@Collider) “★★★★★” (@BBCNews) "WILL MAKE YOU SWOON" - (@RollingStone) From Academy Award nominated director Celine Song, MATERIALISTS is a @NYTimes critics pick, certified fresh 🍅 and now playing in theaters nationwide!

@akorokoafrica Hashtag curious, meaning keen to Watch #filmmakers 🎬🎥

Kahlil Joseph’s “BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions” and the Currents of Black Time Screening next at the 51st Seattle International Film Festival, May 15-25, "BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions" is an expansive, genre-defying work set aboard a speculative shipping vessel headed for Ghana. Built from news segments, archival footage, theoretical texts, and memory fragments—Du Bois, Lloyd’s shipping registers, Bradford Young’s cinematography, and a matching experimental score by Klein. It's about "wake patterns." And about how "Black time" moves—through water, history, and across the African diaspora. Prefer to listen? 9-minute audio version available. Localized pricing is available in Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Jamaica. 7-day free trial included. Subscribe to read (or listen): akoroko.com/subscribe/

Looking forward to speaking on @BBCRadio4 @BBCFrontRow tonight from 7pm talking about @BFI #SophiaLoren film season I have curated that is screening throughout August @Film_London

Harmeet Singh Rahal features in a selection of films curated by artist Sarah Khan. The short film programme will explore how the sonic atmosphere of protests, insurgent field recordings and oral testimonies become tools to mobilise bodies. buff.ly/zOZ9y7e

Join @TheGardenCinema this August for Divine Trash: The Films of John Waters. With a filmography spanning from the late 1960s to early 2000s, the films of John Waters are unapologetically queer, subversive, and outrageous. buff.ly/y4KhKLk

Join LUX on Saturday 9 August, for a screening programme exploring how ritual and celebration reshape public space, memory, and identity in the UK. buff.ly/u8XGaTA

TIFF at 50: Tracking African and Diaspora Films Selected for 2025 Edition The 50th Toronto International Film Festival is shaping up fast. Akoroko is tracking all African and diaspora titles selected so far, and what they tell us. 📍 From Chad to South Africa, Tunisia to Western Sahara 📍 Cannes crossover: “My Father’s Shadow” heads to North America 📍 Debuts, diaspora stories, and experimental cinema in Wavelengths 📍 More sections still to come. This list will grow 🎧 Audio version available. Full dispatch and more recent market intelligence via Akoroko Premium | 7-day free trial → akoroko.com/localpricing/ Localized pricing now live in 🇳🇬 🇰🇪 🇿🇦 🇺🇬 🇧🇼 🇹🇿 🇿🇲 🇳🇦 🇯🇲 🇪🇹