Lovestruck Agnes is relentlessly reincarnated as Georgian aristocrat, Victorian teacher and fan of an 80s pop star as she pursues her ‘true love’ through time in Alice Lowe’s macabre comedy subversion ...

An amnesiac pieces together fragments of his life and lost love in Weightless. Italian director Sara Fgaier tells us about her ambitious use of archive footage to evoke a passing era.

Cinema founded itself in documentary, but how did the form develop an alternative visual language to that of the fiction film? Is it, as pioneer Joris Ivens claimed, “a creative no-man’s land”? From ...

Steven Eastwood and Georgia Bradburn of the Neurocultures Collective tell us about their bold experiments with an ’autistic camera’ on The Stimming Pool, and why they resisted explaining autistic ...

Short films provide a vital training ground for filmmakers, meaning funds and programmes supporting short-form cinema must strive to ensure their help has far-reaching impact.

Burke makes a rare screen appearance in Blitz as “lovely and horrible” gang-leader Beryl. She discusses being directed by McQueen, her disinterest in awards, and being drawn to nastiness.

In the late 1940s and 50s, comedy horror was dominated by a series of films bringing Universal’s top-billing comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into corny collision with various old-school ...

The new tax reliefs will empower UK filmmakers to create more independent films and co-produce with other countries.

The African Odysseys event series has been a valuable and vitally important part of the BFI programme for 17 years, and it remains so. There is some misleading information around the programme out ...

Déa Kulumbegashvili follows up her masterpiece Beginning (2020) with an unflinching story of a Georgian obstetrician whose career is threatened by her reputation as an abortionist.

Catherine Breillat’s Romance confronts sexual taboos and desire, explains Leslie Felperin, while Linda Ruth Williams interviews the director. From our October 1999 issue.

Winner of the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Film Festival, the Spanish auteur’s mesmerising bullfighting documentary shows the beauty and the barbarism of the controversial tradition.