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 ...
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.
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.
The new tax reliefs will empower UK filmmakers to create more independent films and co-produce with other countries.
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.
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 ...
Identifying Features filmmakers Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez tell us about their latest drama Sujo, which follows a boy seeking to escape cycles of violence in rural Mexico.
Creative Assembly‘s 2014 video game took inspiration (and original design documents) from Ridley Scott‘s 1979 ‘haunted house in space’ horror. The result was a tense and claustrophobic experience that ...
Having broken through with a small role as one of the Manson family in Quentin Tarantino’s Once upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019), Mikey Madison has a rising-star status akin to that of her young ...