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Trailer drop for award-winning Scottish Folk comedy The Incomer, starring Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin and Grant O’Rourke! #BFIBacked The Incomer is in cinemas UK wide from 4 Sep. #NationalLottery #BecauseOfYou

#UKGlobalScreenFund supported titles take home two awards at this year's Galway Film Fleadh! Learning to Breathe Underwater - Audience Award You'll Never Believe Who's Dead? - Best Irish debut feature Congrats to both teams 👏

Pithy, playful, provocative – video essays have emerged as a major form of cultural commentary since the dawn of online video sites in the mid 2000s. Here we introduce the five video essay makers whose work we’ve selected for preserving in the BFI National Archive. theb.fi/4aRE1Wj

Supporting bold new voices, the BFI National Lottery Discovery Fund is open for applications from teams with a live-action or animated fiction directorial debut. Applicants must submit a fully developed script, and a comprehensive production and financing plan. Apply by 13 Aug: theb.fi/4mdJl9w

Three more sleeps until our first screening of The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm! 🎞️

The @BritishCouncil has relaunched its Travel Grant Fund, to help filmmakers and XR creatives attend international festivals and labs where their work has been selected. The new run has £623,000 funding across three years - details: screendaily.com/news/british-c…

As the UK marks Disability Pride Month, we celebrate the impact and influence of pioneering online video creator Lucy Edwards, whose work has recently been acquired by the BFI National Archive. Learn more about her work with our Online Video collection, available now on BFI Replay. theb.fi/3PD86S4

A groundbreaking Sri Lankan film with a uniquely feminine perspective, The Girls (Gehenu Lamai) wowed critics in the late 1970s and is now returning in a new restoration. theb.fi/4aL6ygj

First look at Simon Ryninks' #BFIBacked Welsh UFO comedy-drama Out There 👀 Starring Michael Sheen and introducing Nerys Amber Stocks and Tom Moya, Out There will have its world premiere at #EIFF next month, with Film Seekers handling worldwide sales. #NationalLottery #BecauseOfYou

Not to bang the BFI drum but there's a good bunch of Tony Rayns works in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank. Editions of VISIONS with specials on cinema of Shanghai, Hong Kong + Vietnam, plus a Q&A with Bong Joon Ho circa MOTHER and a lecture on the films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

@naointhevoid It's unlikely to return this summer but there's always a chance later in the year.

@BFI will you be bringing project Hail Mary back after this weekends showings ?

One week to go #SuperExcited @BFI IMAX

2001 at IMAX. Like seeing it for the first time. @bfi

The John Woo season continues at the @BFI with Bullet in the Head and Woo himself sent a video message thanking the Institute and the audience in attendance for supporting him and his films As you can imagine it was a very emotional experience seeing him on the big screen

@vickster51 We're afraid we won't have these popcorn buckets.

Hey @BFI - will the IMAX camera bucket be on sale at BFI IMAX? I’m assuming not, but wanted to check.

As Sumitra Peries’s remarkable 1978 coming-of-age drama The Girls returns in a new restoration, we present a 10-film introduction to the often under-recognised cinema of Sri Lanka. theb.fi/3SPpRyR

Additional funding now available for BFI #NationalLottery Skills Clusters - working with local industry, education & training providers to help people in their local communities develop skills to pursue a career in the film industry. Applications close on 25 September. theb.fi/3Ny9pwa

'Unprecedented in the history of cinema' - Werner Herzog The Act of Killing (2012), streaming now on #BFIPlayer

His biggest popular success and one of his darkest comedies are arriving in the Criterion Collection at the same time. We spoke to Waters to hear why 'The very fact that Desperate Living is in 4K is funny.' theb.fi/4f2nnVc

The original production notes on falconry from Ken Loach’s Kes (1969). Preserved by the BFI National Archive: theb.fi/4pcUmLk