Using old home video footage and re-enactments, Irish filmmaker Myrid Carten presents a frank exploration of her troubled relationship with her mother Nuala, who suffers from addiction and alcoholism.

Set in late 1990s New York, Emmi’s thriller about a cop who botches an arrest and ends up falling for his target (Russell Tovey) rattles with anxiety and paranoia.

A celebrity is terrorised by her doppelgänger in Kon Satoshi's delirious anime, which has been restored in 4K and returns to cinemas this week. Upon its original release, Jonathan Romney praised its ...

Director Ben Leonberg adopts a dog’s POV for a crafty little haunted house horror that makes the most of its endearing canine star.

The director enters French classrooms to film students’ discussions of Annie Ernaux’s intimate writing, allowing the teenagers’ profound observations to speak for themselves.

The annual Super 8mm film competition challenges creatives to shoot and edit entirely in-camera, without post-production.

In a London Film Festival programme crammed with the best of new cinema from across the world, many films – some by established auteurs, others by exciting new voices – are still seeking a distributor ...

As Keir Starmer leads a trade visit to India, the BFI and India’s National Film Development Corporation announce the intent to partner under a new MOU for growth in culture and creative economy.

It was wonderful to see such a wide range of film conservation activities represented at this year’s Heritage Open Day – from tours of the vaults with Louise and Anthony, who explained the importance ...

Having already established an international fanbase for her short films, Sophy Romvari has now made her feature debut with the gut-punching family drama Blue Heron. Ahead of its LFF screenings, we ...

As Perfect Blue returns to cinemas, we introduce the small but perfectly formed oeuvre of Satoshi Kon, a visionary of grown-up animation whose films blur the boundary between reality and fantasy, and ...

The Story of Rocky Horror hitting UK cinemas this week, we revisit an exploration of how midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show resurrected the idea of cinema as community. From our ...