All screenings and events

All films, TV and events at BFI Southbank.

• 20-22 Omega
• 143 Sahara Street
• 200 Meters
• Abigail’s Party
• Abigail’s Party + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• Abou Leila
• Absolute Beginners + Q&A with Julien Temple and Oliver Stapleton
• An Actor’s Revenge
• An Actor’s Revenge + intro by Jennifer Coates, The University of Sheffield
• Adam
• Alex Wheatle
• Preview: All My Friends Hate Me + intro and Q&A with Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton
• All or Nothing
• All or Nothing + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• Altered States
• TV Preview: The Amazing Mr Blunden + Q&A with writer-director-actor Mark Gatiss and actor Tamsin Greig
• Preview: Anatomy of Wings + pre-recorded Q&A
• Annette
• Another Year
• Another Year + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• Arrival
• As Above, So Below
• As Above, So Below + pre-recorded Q&A with director Sarah Francis
• Asunder + intro by Esther Johnson and Bob Stanley
• Audition
• August 32nd on Earth
• Awkward Encounters
• Beat Girl
• The Big Heat
• The Big Heat + intro by Simran Hans, writer and film critic for The Observer
• The Big Sleep
• The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
• Bitter Harvest
• Bitter Victory
• The Black Arts Movement on Film + discussion
• African Odysseys Presents: The Black History of Comedy
• Black History Walks Presents: Cause for Concern: Equal Before the Law
• Black Is... Black Ain’t + intro by programmer Rico Johnson-Sinclair
• Black to Front + Q&A
• Blade Runner 2049
• Blazing Saddles
• Bleak Moments
• A Blonde in Love (aka Loves of a Blonde)
• Blue Collar
• Blue Collar + pre-recorded intro
• Blue Velvet
• Body and Soul + intro
• Brewster’s Millions
• Preview: Buladó
• Bustin’ Loose
• Call Northside 777
• Candyman
• Car Wash
• Career Girls
• Career Girls + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• Censor
• Chicken Run
• Children of the Beehive
• Children of the Beehive + intro by season co-programmer Alexander Jacoby
• Chinatown
• Cinema Architecture and Atmosphere + discussion
• Cinema Paradiso
• Preview: Convergence + Q&A with Orlando von Einsiedel and Hassan Akkad
• UK Premiere: Copilot + Q&A with director Anne Zohra Berrached
• Cry of the City
• Cure
• Dark Turns
• Dark Water
• Darling
• A Date with the Devil: Darcus Howe’s Journey from Black Power to Broadcasting
• Denis Villeneuve in Conversation
• Detective Story
• Devil in a Blue Dress
• Devil in a Blue Dress + intro by Empire Magazine Contributing Editor Amon Warmann
• Dirty Harry
• Dirty Harry + pre-recorded intro by film scholar Hannah Hamad, Cardiff University
• Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks (animated)
• Doctor Who: Galaxy 4 (animated)
• Double Indemnity
• Double Indemnity + intro by Lucy Bolton, Queen Mary University of London
• Preview: Drive My Car
• Preview: Dune + pre-recorded Q&A with Denis Villeneuve
• Dutchman + intro and panel discussion
• Early Spring
• Early Summer
• Early Summer + intro by Professor Alastair Phillips, University of Warwick
• Education
• Elegant Beast (aka The Graceful Brute)
• Elegant Beast (aka The Graceful Brute) + pre-recorded intro by Professor Yuka Kanno, Doshisha University
• Enemy
• An Evening with Roger and James Deakins
• Fallen Blossoms (aka Flowers Have Fallen)
• Fallen Blossoms (aka Flowers Have Fallen) + intro by Japanese film scholar Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández
• Seniors’ free matinee: The Fallen Idol + intro
• The Family and Home in the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema
• Female Archetypes in Classical Japanese Cinema
• BFI Film Academy September Lab: The future is now: Shooting a short film in 2021
• BFI Film Academy September Lab: Sustainable Filmmaking
• Finisterre + Q&A with Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs
• The Flavour of Green Tea over Rice
• Flesh and Blood + intro by Jason Morell, actor and son of Joan Greenwood
• Un Flic
• Un Flic + pre-recorded introduction by film critic Christina Newland
• Four Days in July
• Four Days in July + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask + discussion
• Frenzy
• Gallivant + intro by Eden and Andrew Kötting
• Godzilla
• The Great Mouse Detective
• Green Light: An immersive focus on Climate Change
• Grown-Ups
• Grown-Ups + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• H3
• H3 + Q&A with director Les Blair
• Preview: The Hand of God
• Happy-Go-Lucky
• Happy-Go-Lucky + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• Harakiri
• Hard Labour
• Family Funday: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, 20th Anniversary Screening
• Heat
• High Hopes
• High Hopes + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• Home Sweet Home
• Home Sweet Home + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• House of Bamboo
• How We Used to Live + Q&A with Pete Wiggs and Travis Elborough
• Humanity and Paper Balloons
• I Am Cuba
• Ichi the Killer
• Illustrious Corpses
• Incendies
• An Inn at Osaka
• An Inn at Osaka + pre-recorded intro by Professor Hiroshi Kitamura, College of William & Mary
• Inside Man
• In the Cut
• Intimate Details
• It Must Be Heaven
• UK Premiere: I’ve Been Trying to Tell You + Q&A with Alasdair McLellan, Bob Stanley and Sarah Cracknell
• UK Premiere: I’ve Been Trying to Tell You + Q&A with Alasdair McLellan, Pete Wiggs and Sarah Cracknell
• I Was Born, But...
• Jezebel
• Silent Cinema presents: I Was Born, But... + intro by Bryony Dixon, BFI National Archive curator
• Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling
• Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling + pre-recorded intro
• Jules et Jim
• Kinema Junpo and Film Criticism in Japan: In Conversation with Yuko Sekiguchi
• Kirikou and the Sorceress
• Kiss Me Deadly
• The Kiss of Death
• Kurt & Courtney
• Lady Sings the Blues
• Preview: Last Night in Soho
• Last Night in Soho + Q&A with Edgar Wright
• The Last Tree + Q&A with director Shola Amoo
• Laura
• Laura + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-Large
• Lawrence of Belgravia + Q&A with Paul Kelly and Lawrence
• Let’s Talk
• Let’s Talk + pre-recorded Q&A with director Marianne Khoury
• Life Is Sweet
• Life Is Sweet + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• The Life of Matsu the Untamed (aka The Rickshaw Man)
• LOCO: BAFTA-recognised Best of 2020
• The Long Goodbye
• The Long Goodbye + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-Large
• Lost Highway
• Love Letter
• Love Letter + intro by Irene González-López, co-editor of Tanaka Kinuyo: Nation, Stardom and Female Subjectivity
• Lovers Rock + Q&A with director Steve McQueen and guests TBA
• Lynda La Plante, Zoë Wanamaker and John Bowe in Conversation
• Maelström
• The Making of Small Axe with Steve McQueen, Tracey Scoffield, David Tanner and guests
• The Maltese Falcon
• Preview: The Maltese Falcon + extended intro: The Making of The Maltese Falcon
• Seniors’ matinee: The Maltese Falcon
• The Manchurian Candidate
• Mangrove + Q&A with director Steve McQueen
• The Man Who Sold His Skin
• Marital Relations
• Marital Relations + pre-recorded intro by Professor Hideaki Fujiki, Nagoya University
• Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI
• Meantime
• Meantime + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• Mike Leigh in Conversation
• Missing Belived Wiped Session 1: The London Palladium Show
• Missing Belived Wiped Session 2: Introducing ‘The Precious Things’: Holiday Startime
• Mr. Turner
• Mr. Turner + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• The Muppets Take Manhattan
• Murder on the Orient Express
• My Love Has Been Burning (aka Flame of My Love)
• Naked
• Naked + Q&A with director Mike Leigh
• Narrative Encounters: Shorts Programme
• Nasty Women: A Comic Tribute + intro by curator Bryony Dixon
• Never Gonna Snow Again
• Night Drum
• No Country for Old Men
• No Country for Old Men + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-Large
• No Place Like Home (Redux) + Q&A with Justine Henzell
• Now, Voyager
• Nuts in May
• Nuts in May + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• Of Human Bondage
• Of Time and the City + Q&A with director Terence Davies
• Old Pals
• Seniors’ free matinee, in partnership with African Odysseys: Once Upon a Time… When We Were Colored + intro
• Onibaba
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit + Q&A with director Beeban Kidron
• Our Neighbour, Miss Yae
• Our Neighbour, Miss Yae + intro by season co-programmer Alexander Jacoby
• A Page of Madness
• Passport to Shame (aka Room 43)
• Woman with a Movie Camera Preview: Passing + pre-recorded introduction from director-screenwriter Rebecca Hall
• Peeping Tom
• Peterloo
• Peterloo + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• Petite Maman
• Relaxed screening: Petite Maman
• Philosophical Screens: Temptation and Coincidence in Double Indemnity
• The Pleasure Girls
• Il Postino + Q&A with director Michael Radford
• Prime Suspect: 30th Anniversary (First Series Complete Screening)
• Primitive London
• The Princess and the Frog
• Prisoners
• Pulse
• Radio Days
• Rear Window
• Rear Window + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-Large
• Rebel Dykes
• Rebel Dykes + Q&A (guests TBA)
• Red, White and Blue
• Richard Pryor: A Comedy Genius
• Richard Pryor... Here and Now
• Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
• Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
• Ring
• Rocks + Q&A with director Sarah Gavron
• Rose Plays Julie
• Saint Etienne: Shorts Programme + intro by Paul Kelly and Pete Wiggs
• Saint Maud + Q&A with director Rose Glass
• Sansho the Bailiff
• Screen Epiphany: Adjoa Andoh introduces Mandabi
• Seeing The Unseen
• Secrets & Lies
• Secrets & Lies + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• The Selfish Giant + Q&A with director Clio Barnard
• Seven Samurai
• Seven Samurai + Inside Cinema: Akira Kurosawa
• Seniors’ matinee: Seven Samurai + intro
• Shaft
• She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
• Short Films by Eden and Andrew Kötting + Andrew Kötting in Conversation with film curator Gareth Evans
• The Silence of the Lambs
• The Silence of the Lambs + pre-recorded intro by Professor Yvonne Tasker, author of The Silence of the Lambs: BFI Film Classics
• Sicario
• Silver Streak
• The Small World of Sammy Lee
• Some Call It Loving
• Souls on the Road
• The Souvenir + Q&A with director Joanna Hogg
• Souad
• Stir Crazy
• The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
• The Stranger
• The Stranger + pre-recorded intro by film critic Farran Smith Nehme
• Surge + Q&A with director Aneil Karia
• Relaxed screening: Summer of Soul (... Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
• Sweetheart
• Sweet Thing
• Tales from the Hood
• Talking About Trees
• Theatre Girls + Q&A with director Kim Longinotto
• The Third Man
• This Is Tomorrow + intro by Bob Stanley and Paul Kelly
• Throne of Blood
• Throne of Blood + Inside Cinema: Akira Kurosawa
• A Time of Change and How Japanese Film Bore Witness to It
• Tlamess
• Tokyo Olympiad
• Tokyo Story
• Tokyo Story
• Tongues Untied + intro by programmer Rico Johnson-Sinclair
• Topsy-Turvy
• Topsy-Turvy + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• Travels with my Camera: Is This My Country?
• The Tree of Wooden Clogs
• Trouble in Paradise + Darcus Howe: Son of Mine
• The Undercover Man
• Vera Drake
• Vera Drake + Q&A with Mike Leigh
• Wattstax
• West End Jungle
• What Have You Done Today Mervyn Day? + Q&A with Pete Wiggs and Paul Kelly
• Which Way is Up?
• 60th Anniversary: Whistle Down the Wind + actor Hayley Mills in conversation
• Who’s Who
• Wildfire
• Yearning
• Yojimbo
• Yojimbo + Inside Cinema: Akira Kurosawa
• You Will Die at Twenty
• You Will Die at Twenty + pre-recorded Q&A with director Amjad Abu Alala
• Zero Dark Thirty