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BFI Film on Film Festival 2025
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The Rebellion + intro by Ruby McGuigan, season curator
Haneke’s adaptation of Joseph Roth’s novel challenges the moral authority of the state, as a war veteran is broken by a series of indignities.

Hidden + intro by Professor Catherine Wheatley, King’s College London
Haneke’s Cannes award-winning masterpiece is both an enthralling thriller and a piercing analysis of colonial guilt.

Philosophical Screens: Hidden
Join our film philosophers for a discussion about Haneke’s 2005 masterpiece.

UK Premiere: Valley of the Shadow of Death
Anthony Wong excels as a man of the cloth whose feelings of vengeance threaten to consume his faith.

UK Premiere: Possession Street
A spirited and inventive revitalisation of the zombie genre.

Refugee Week: Bread and Roses + intro and discussion
A powerful look at the seismic impact on women’s rights and livelihoods faced by women in Kabul following the Taliban’s return to power in 2021.

The Chelsea Girls + intro by season curator Elena Gorfinkel
A singular work of 1960s expanded cinema – Andy Warhol’s alluring record of the New York underground scene.

UK Premiere: The Black Tavern
A thrilling action drama that set a high benchmark for the wuxia genre.

UK Premiere of 4K Restoration: Hong Kong 1941
Chow Yun-Fat established his status with his breakthrough performance in this wartime drama.

Marry Me + intro by Miles Jupp and James Kettle
Love conquers all in this lively British comedy about a reporter who goes under cover for a story on the matchmaking business.

Time of the Wolf + intro by Geoff Andrew, Film Critic, Lecturer and Programmer
A post-apocalyptic film like no other, and under-appreciated in Haneke’s oeuvre.

CODE: DAMP Experimenta Mixtape – Curated by Sophie Sleigh-Johnson + Q&A with Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, hosted by comedian and writer Stewart Lee
A fascinating, singular delve into the world of the TV sitcom.

In the Mood for Love 25th Anniversary Edition + intro by Sam Wigley, BFI Digital Features Editor at Sight and Sound
In celebration of the 25th Anniversary, Wong Kar Wai has revisited his original concept of the film and with this special edition offers an unseen chapter as a bonus to the initial version.

New Writings: Radical Children’s Film and Television
A discussion of what is possible in children’s television.
July

My Grandmother + extended season intro by season curator Giulia Saccogna
This riotous anti-bureaucratic satire, whose themes are as relevant today as they ever were, is one of the high points of Soviet silent cinema and Georgian avant-garde.

Preview: Happyend
Neo Sora’s narrative feature debut is a startling coming-of-age portrait of a society under the yolk of oppressive authoritarianism.

Welcome to the Moviedrome
Join Alex Cox and Nick Freand Jones for a discussion about this legendary series.

The Wicker Man (Final Cut) + intro by Alex Cox and Nick Freand Jones
The ultimate final-act-twist thriller finds Edward Woodward’s mainland policeman travelling to a Scottish island to investigate the disappearance of a young girl.

The Fly (1958) + intro by season curator and Moviedrome’s producer Nick Freand Jones
The emergence of the atomic age and rising fear over communist infiltration in the US drive this superb 1950s sci-fi thriller.

Walker + intro by filmmaker and Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox
Ed Harris is a colonising US mercenary in Alex Cox’s unconventional and politically incendiary historical drama.

Carmen Jones + extended season intro by season curator Miriam Bale
Factory worker Carmen and aspiring flyer Joe fall hotly in love in this rapturous version of Bizet’s Carmen.

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (aka Face of an Angel) + intro by season curator Miriam Bale
Halle Berry impresses in this biopic of Dorothy Dandridge, capturing the highs and lows of her life and career.

UK Premiere of 4K Restoration: L’Atalante + Zéro de conduite
The only full-length feature by Jean Vigo is a beguiling tale rich in sensuality and poetry, unjustly butchered ahead of its release.

Psychoville + Q&A with Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith
A celebration of Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s macabre, wonderfully offbeat comic TV series.

Sweet Smell of Success + intro by filmmaker and Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox
Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis let rip as a feared columnist and ruthless press agent in this uncompromising portrait of New York’s entertainment world.

The Great Silence + intro by filmmaker and Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox
This wintry western from the director of Django pits Jean-Louis Trintignant’s gunman against Klaus Kinski’s crazed bandit.

The Harlem Globetrotters + intro by season curator Miriam Bale
A chemistry student quits college to play basketball on the all-Black Harlem Globetrotters.

UK Premiere of 4K Restoration: Le Rendez-vous des quais + intro
A year before On the Waterfront, Paul Carpita took to the streets to film the dockers’ strikes that appear in his feature debut.

New Writings: In the Scene – Steve McQueen
A discussion of the wide-ranging work of the acclaimed and Oscar-winning British filmmaker.

Les Diaboliques + intro by season curator and Moviedrome’s producer Nick Freand Jones
A heart-stopping thriller revolving around a love triangle in a small, rural French school.

The Cow + intro by film curator Ehsan Khoshbakht
Inspired by Au hasard Balthazar and Los olvidados, with his second feature Dariush Mehrjui defined the Iranian New Wave and transformed Iranian cinema in the process.

The Saint Strikes Back + intro by Jonathan Rigby, film historian
The smooth British detective pursues his campaign against crime in this neat, punchy melodrama.

Two-Lane Blacktop + intro by season curator and Moviedrome’s producer Nick Freand Jones
Monte Hellman’s race/road movie remains one of the most iconic low key US films of the 1970s.

Viridiana + intro by filmmaker Peter Strickland
After over two decades in exile in Mexico, Luis Buñuel returned to Spain to make his first feature film in his native country, which proved as irreverent as his mad early Surrealist work.

Witchfinder General + intro by Reece Shearsmith
A classic British period horror, featuring a career-best performance by Vincent Price as the titular, malevolent villain.

Tamango + intro by season curator Miriam Bale
An enslaved African man plans a shipboard rebellion and wants the captain’s sexual slave to help.

Hypocrites + intro by film programmer Caroline Cassin
Religious hypocrisy is laid bare in this incendiary tale of truth and censorship from one of cinema’s first female auteurs.

UK Premiere of Restoration: Act of Violence
This stark tale about a manhunt, tightly edited and suspenseful as the best of noirs, is in safe hands with Fred Zinnemann, whose career spans an impressive range of genres.

Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI
The critic presents the latest episode of his live discussion, on stage in NFT1.

TV Preview: Bookish + Q&A with cast and creator TBC
In 1946, a bookstore owner solves complex crimes of post-war London.

New Writings: It Used to Be Witches – Under the Spell of Queer Cinema
Ryan Gilbey discusses his new book, which offers an original take on Queerness in cinema.

Human Traffic
A 1990s club-culture cult classic remastered. The weekend has landed!

London Indian Film Festival: UK Premiere: Little Jaffna
La Haine meets Gangs of Wasseypur in this action story of a rookie cop who goes undercover with Tamil gangsters in Paris.

Cinenova: Recent Video Digitisations from the Feminist Film Organisation + intro
Illustrating the incredible breadth of the Cinenova collection, the introduction to this selection of digitised video works provides more information about the organisation’s work with feminist film.

UK Premiere of 4K Restoration: Le Rendez-vous des quais + intro
A year before On the Waterfront, Paul Carpita took to the streets to film the dockers’ strikes that appear in his feature debut.

London Indian Film Festival: UK Premiere: The Mahabharata + intro
This new restoration of Peter Brook’s stunning take on The Mahabharata is an unforgettable epic, telling the ancient story of familial strife.

Raskolnikow + intro
A must see – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari director Robert Wiene’s film is arguably the least known masterpiece of German expressionism.

Library Event: The Graveyard Shift – The Summer of Final Scores
Join BFI staff in locating the death dates of composers and musicians who had key filmmaking roles.

London Indian Film Festival: UK Premiere: Pyre
With stunning views of the Himalayas, the tale of a couple’s quirky love story and resilience in spite of a changing mountain society.

London Indian Film Festival: UK Premiere: Boong
A mischievous Manipuri school boys quest to re-unite his mother and father.

California Dolls (aka All the Marbles) + intro by season curator and Moviedrome’s producer Nick Freand Jones
Robert Aldrich’s final film, about two female wrestlers journeying to a major bout in Reno, is a classic Moviedrome title.

We Crip Film Festival Opening Night: UK Festival Premiere: Deaf President Now! + pre-recorded intro by co-directors Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
Deaf President Now! is a rousing documentary that highlights a tipping point in Deaf representation and civil rights.

Oska Bright Film Festival: Joyful Intersections
A striking programme of films created by and featuring women with learning disabilities and autism.

‘It’s Not You, It’s Ableism’
A collection of the brightest and best shorts focusing on resistance to ableism.

We Crip Film Festival Closing Night: An Audience with Kyla Harris: Cripping The Screen Industries
We close the festival with a focus on the career and achievements of BAFTA Breakthrough winner Kyla Harris, the Chair of We Crip Film.

New Writings: Kate Bush and the Moving Image
A discussion of Kate Bush’s valuable contribution to visual arts.

Of God’s Men + Q&A with director Waheed Iqbal
Two brothers, forced to live together but poles apart in their worldviews, attempt to find common ground, in this heartfelt drama.

Exotica + pre-recorded intro by filmmaker Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan’s sublime, beautifully understated drama intertwines various lives linked by a Toronto strip club.

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