From Harry Lighton to Akinola Davies, a number of UK filmmakers making a splash with their debut features at this year’s Cannes are alumni of BFI NETWORK.

In what is probably his final outing as Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise squares up against AI in a series of spectacular set-pieces in the sky and sea.

A young woman struggles to conceal the depth of her loss when her lover-in-secret suddenly dies in Rúnar Rúnarsson’s assured feature.

The Brazilian director’s stellar filmmaking and sharp storytelling make this portrait of life under dictatorship as politically incisive as it is entertaining.

A father in search of his lost daughter enters a world of illegal desert raves in the Spanish director’s teeth-rattling sensorial experiment.

As the controversial debut film by British auteur Thomas Clay comes to BFI Player, we look back on the outrage it caused in 2005, the method behind the film‘s upsetting impact, and its parallels with ...

Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint.

Inspired by a lunchtime pizza, Bandai Namco’s bright yellow mascot has endured remarkably since he first started chomping 45 years ago. From Saturday morning cartoons to cereal, pop songs to pyjamas, ...

The German director’s gorgeous, drifting study of a woman taken in by a stranger after a car crash has faint echos of Vertigo, but is more concerned with unnerving family dynamics than romance.

Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone’s comic talents are lost to one-dimensional roles in a misguided pandemic satire filled with dated jokes and disingenuous political messaging.

To speak with Fran Rubel Kuzui is to feast on fascinating stories from the international art and film worlds of the late 20th century, to the extent that a full transcript of our entire unedited ...

Death is patient. Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein’s Final Destination Bloodlines has been a long time coming, some 14 years after the last in the franchise – and while every entry is inscribed with the ...