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BFI Film on Film Festival 2025

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June

16 June

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.

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19 June

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.

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19 June

Philosophical Screens: Hidden

Join our film philosophers for a discussion about Haneke’s 2005 masterpiece.

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19 June

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.

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20 June

UK Premiere: Possession Street

A spirited and inventive revitalisation of the zombie genre.

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20 June

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.

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21 June

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.

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21 June

UK Premiere: The Black Tavern

A thrilling action drama that set a high benchmark for the wuxia genre.

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22 June

UK Premiere of 4K Restoration: Hong Kong 1941

Chow Yun-Fat established his status with his breakthrough performance in this wartime drama.

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24 June

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.

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25 June

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.

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25 June

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.

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27 June

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.

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30 June

New Writings: Radical Children’s Film and Television

A discussion of what is possible in children’s television.

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July

2 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.

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3 July

Preview: Happyend

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

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4 July

Welcome to the Moviedrome

Join Alex Cox and Nick Freand Jones for a discussion about this legendary series.

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4 July

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.

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5 July

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.

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5 July

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.

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5 July

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.

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5 July

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.

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5, 20 and 21 July

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.

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6 July

Psychoville + Q&A with Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith

A celebration of Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s macabre, wonderfully offbeat comic TV series.

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6 July

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.

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6 July

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.

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7 July

The Harlem Globetrotters + intro by season curator Miriam Bale

A chemistry student quits college to play basketball on the all-Black Harlem Globetrotters.

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7 July

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.

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7 July

New Writings: In the Scene – Steve McQueen

A discussion of the wide-ranging work of the acclaimed and Oscar-winning British filmmaker.

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8 July

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.

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8 July

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.

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8 July

The Saint Strikes Back + intro by Jonathan Rigby, film historian

The smooth British detective pursues his campaign against crime in this neat, punchy melodrama.

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9 July

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.

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9 July

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.

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11 July

Witchfinder General + intro by Reece Shearsmith

A classic British period horror, featuring a career-best performance by Vincent Price as the titular, malevolent villain.

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11 July

Tamango + intro by season curator Miriam Bale

An enslaved African man plans a shipboard rebellion and wants the captain’s sexual slave to help.

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11 July

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.

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13 July

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.

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14 July

Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI

The critic presents the latest episode of his live discussion, on stage in NFT1.

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14 July

TV Preview: Bookish + Q&A with cast and creator TBC

In 1946, a bookstore owner solves complex crimes of post-war London.

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14 July

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.

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15 July

Human Traffic

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

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16 July

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.

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17 July

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.

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20 July

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.

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20 July

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.

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20 July

Raskolnikow + intro

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

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21 July

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.

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22 July

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.

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23 July

London Indian Film Festival: UK Premiere: Boong

A mischievous Manipuri school boys quest to re-unite his mother and father.

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23 July

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.

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26 July

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.

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27 July

Oska Bright Film Festival: Joyful Intersections

A striking programme of films created by and featuring women with learning disabilities and autism.

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27 July

‘It’s Not You, It’s Ableism’

A collection of the brightest and best shorts focusing on resistance to ableism.

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27 July

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.

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28 July

New Writings: Kate Bush and the Moving Image

A discussion of Kate Bush’s valuable contribution to visual arts.

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29 July

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.

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30 July

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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