BAFTA nominated Simon Stone (The Dig) directs Elsinore based on the life of Ian Charleson, written by BAFTA winner and Golden Globe nominee Stephen Beresford (Pride). Elsinore is a powerful, deeply ...

“The pre-release posters for The Odyssey did not feature the names and faces of the many stars, or a tagline about the greatest story ever told, with exclamation marks – it just showed Christopher ...

The Serbian director – who has died aged 93 – transformed film language as a key figure of the Yugoslav Black Wave during the 1960s, made the country’s first horror and brought remarkable versatility ...

Exam season is over, and we’ve scored some great Marks – a substantial retrospective of Mark Jenkin’s brilliant and singular work, from early shorts to his latest winner, Rose of Nevada. Get a little ...

Five programmes were funded in round 1 of the 2026-2029 funding cycle collectively receiving £511,496 of National Lottery Good Cause funding: Isabel Davis appointed as director of BFI National Lottery ...

Between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the weird and wonderful film production line in communist East Germany included sci-fi, westerns, film noir and some uniquely ...

Isabel Davis will lead the BFI’s £20 million annual Filmmaking Funds and its strategic support for UK independent filmmakers when she joins from Screen Scotland as Director on a five-year contract ...

Field’s grasp of global cinema history and abiding desire to discover new films and filmmakers of interest made him an exemplary programmer. But his considerable success as a festival director and ...

Fifty years after the release of Bugsy Malone, we share the illustrations with which director Alan Parker first imagined the idea of a gangster musical in which all of the parts would be played by ...

You wonder whether Imran Perretta was thinking of Kes (1969) when he gave a three-letter name to his own film about a painful childhood. Ish might, to a degree, be categorised as British realism in ...

Director-author Helen Walsh’s previous works have included tough tales set in working-class communities, sometimes focusing on sexuality and forbidden passion. In her 2014 novel The Lemon Grove, a ...

At the end of 2011, I drove out to Virginia Water with a colleague, to collect a film donation to the BFI National Archive. Meeting actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes at his Surrey home is a treasured ...