Nadia Fall and Thea Gajic are among a number of UK filmmakers from BFI NETWORK alumni to land at Edinburgh International Film Festival for the UK premiere of their debut features and short films.

From a Kurosawa-style epic of towering scale to a 1960s geisha drama, Christina Newland finds Bristol’s annual feast of archive cinema as alluring as ever.

An ordinary day on a surgical ward spirals out of control in the new thriller Late Shift, the latest in a long line of films depicting the drama, emotion and high stakes of hospital life.

Two siblings are taken into the care of Laura, a foster parent obsessed with bringing her deceased child back to life, in Danny and Michael Philippou’s impressive follow-up to 2022’s Talk to Me.

The magic of Charles Laughton's Southern gothic one-off may be in Mitchum's willing flamboyance, argued David Thomson in our April 1999 issue ...

Here are 10 great films from directors who – whether voluntarily or not – were one and done.

From the dystopian visions of Brazil and Twelve Monkeys to the surreal odyssey of The Fisher King, Terry Gilliam has spent half a century defying cinematic convention. In this wide-ranging interview, ...

Director Petra Biondina Volpe captures the chaos and pressure of a night shift at an understaffed hospital in a cinematic tribute to nurses that’s elevated by the unflashy skill of Leonie Benesch.

To celebrate Helen Mirren’s 80th birthday, Kate Stables hails her extraordinary 2006 metamorphosis into Queen Elizabeth II – “a human submarine with her emotions and personality largely submerged”.

Censors quibbled some of the adult language in the script, but otherwise passed this boundary-pushing drama starring Julie London and Anthony Steel as a married couple seeking out a fertility clinic.

A swashbuckling adventure leads BFI Player’s August line-up, alongside a stunning homegrown debut and suite of Sophia Loren classics.

Mohammad Bakri is one of the founding fathers of Palestinian cinema, with four of his sons now actors too. He tells us about growing up with a cinema but no electricity, the burden of playing ...