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 ...

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.

More hidden gems, chosen by critics and filmmakers including Steven Soderbergh, Jane Schoenbrun and Asif Kapadia. Inside: B. Ruby Rich on Sorry, Baby, Peter Sellers at 100, Stephanie Rothman’s ...