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.

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

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”.

Tragedy draws successful German orchestra conductor Tom back to his complicated family in a bleak three-hour saga from Matthias Glasner that finds hope in the darkest of places.

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.