An 11-year-old rescues an orangutan orphaned by loggers in Claude Barras’s predictable but vibrantly designed follow-up to 2016 hit My Life as a Courgette.

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.

Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s rich trilogy of films exploring modern relationships concludes beautifully with the story of Johanne, a 17-year-old who grapples with her unrequited love for ...

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.

A swashbuckling adventure leads BFI Player's August line-up, alongside a stunning homegrown debut and suite of Sophia Loren classics.

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, ...

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”.

Here are 10 great films from directors who – whether voluntarily or not – were one and done.

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.

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 ...

Mentees will be paid the London Living Wage for work produced during the LFF and will have full press accreditation for the 12-day duration of the LFF (8-19 October 2025). Mentees from outside London ...