Paola Cortellesi’s debut – already a breakout hit in Italy – puts the spotlight on women’s post-war subjugation with a satirical depiction of an abusive marriage that’s full of formal playfulness.
Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck’s ambitious documentary spans the birth of camera obscura to the invention of TikTok using a cursory approach that allows for little insight.
Ahead of our neorealism season, we take a whistle-stop tour through the career of Italian master Roberto Rossellini – a man who reinvented cinema. And then kept on reinventing it.
A song from 1,000 years ago wreaks havoc, while family responsibility weighs heavily on a Mongolian maths whizz.
The kids’ adventure films of the Children’s Film Foundation were high on hijinks and low on boring stuff. From the 60 we’ve now released on DVD, here are 10 that might bring back memories.
In our Autumn 1956 issue, the future director of If.... and O Lucky Man! was disappointed by John Ford’s now-classic western.
Sgil Cymru, Creative Wales and Screen Alliance Wales (SAW) partner to launch the ‘One Stop Shop’, a BFI Skills Cluster for Wales supporting workforce development of the nation’s screen production ...
Daisy Ridley stars as an introverted Oregon officer worker who has elaborate visions of her own death in this slight, gentle story of a tentative search for human connection.
From gothic elements to surreal satire and unexplained weirdness, the films of Lindsay Anderson were never only about getting “ordinary life” on screen.
From Dreyer to Scorsese: to hail the release of Marco Bellocchio’s new papal drama Kidnapped, we survey the broad church that is Catholicism on screen.
Two musicologists obsessed with field recordings of Irish folk ballads uncover the dark, destructive secrets of an ancient song in Paul Duane’s chaotic and original low-budget folk horror.
The line-up includes Andrea Arnold’s Bird and Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, both backed by the BFI Filmmaking Fund, as well as September Says, directed by Ariane Labed and supported by the UK Global Screen ...