All screenings and events

All films, TV and events at BFI Southbank.

• An Actor’s Workshop for Film Creatives
• African Odysseys presents: Preview: Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am + Q&A with publisher, Margaret Busby OBE
• The African Queen
• The African Queen + intro by script supervisor Angela Allen
• TV Preview: After Life + Q&A with Ricky Gervais
• Alan Yentob interviews Sir Lenny Henry: Discussion and Q&A
• Alice in Wonderland
• Amarcord
• America, America (aka The Anatolian Smile)
• Amour Fou
• And the Ship Sails On
• Animation: The Write Stuff with Jez Stewart, BFI National Archive and Alex Dudok de Wit, Lilly Husbands, Christopher Holliday, Chris Pallant and Tashi Petter
• The Arrangement
• Arrietty
• Baby Doll
• Preview: Bacurau + Q&A with directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
• Bait
• Bait + intro by director Mark Jenkin
• A Beautiful day in the Neighbourhood
• Beyond Belief: Discussion and Q&A with Dynamo
• BFI Flare Programme Launch
• BFI Labs Presents: So You Wanna Make a Film?
• BFI Quiz: Awards Season
• BFI Quiz: Thirst!
• Il Bidone
• The Big Parade + intro by author Michael Hammond
• The Blue Lagoon + intro by BFI Curator Josephine Botting
• Boomerang!
• Bound
• Bound + intro by Willow Catelyn Maclay, writer and film critic MUBI Notebook (via Skype)
• Brief Encounter
• BUG: Supergrass (Feb)
• BUG: Supergrass + on-stage interview with Supergrass (March)
• Preview: Calm With Horses + intro by director Nick Rowland
• Caravaggio
• Casablanca
• Champion Preview: Radioactive + Q&A with director Marjane Satrapi
• Channel 4’s Short-form Original Comedy Initiative: Discussion and Q&A with writer-performers Donna Preston and Verona Rose and producers Guy Davidson and Daniel Clarke
• Citizen Kane
• Clint Eastwood: Loner, Lover, Star
• Close-up Salon: Celine Sciamma
• The Clowns
• County Lines
• Preview: County Lines + Q&A with director Henry Blake (plus cast TBA)
• Critics’ Salon: Little Joe
• Critics’ Salon: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Dead & Buried
• The Deep End
• Deliverance
• Design for Living
• Diary of a Teenage Girl
• Dil Dhadakne Do + intro by Sâmir Bhamra (Creative Director of the UK Asian Film Festival and Artistic Director of Phizzical Productions)
• Dirty Dancing
• Dirty Harry
• DVD Preview: Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones (animated) + Q&A with actor Anneke Wills
• Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang + Q&A with actor Louise Jameson
• Preview: Dogs Don’t Wear Pants
• East of Eden
• L’eclisse
• 8½
• The Elephant Man
• The Enforcer
• Episodic Fellini
• Eraserhead
• Eraserhead + intro by Richard Martin, author of The Architecture of David Lynch
• Escape from Alcatraz
• The European Film Awards’ Young Audience Award 2020
• Experimenta Salon: Un chant d’amour + discussion
• Experimenta Mixtape #8
• A Face in the Crowd
• Fellini’s Roma
• Films to Be Buried With
• TV Preview: The First Team + Q&A with co-writer and director Iain Morris and actors Shaquille Ali-Yebuah and Jack McMullen
• A Fistful of Dollars
• Fitzcarraldo
• TV Preview: Flesh and Blood + Q&A with Imelda Staunton
• The Flight of the Phoenix
• Flora + Inter-View
• For a Few Dollars More
• From the Archive: The Goodies at 50! Discussion and Q&A with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden
• From the Archive: Prince + intro
• From the Archive: Remembering Dave Allen
• The Garden
• The Garden + intro by Tilda Swinton
• Gentleman’s Agreement
• Gerry
• Giri/Haji: Discussion and Q&A with creator and writer Joe Barton, director Julian Farino and cast TBA
• Girlhood
• The Gold Rush
• The Gold Rush + intro by film historian and academic Professor Ian Christie
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• The Gospel According to Matthew
• The Gospel According to Matthew + intro by academic Catherine Wheatley, King’s College London
• Grantchester: Discussion and Q&A with actors Robson Green and Kacey Ainsworth, writer Daisy Coulam and executive producer Emma Kingsman-Lloyd
• Gran Torino
• Preview: Greed
• Galentine’s Day Preview: A Guide to Second Date Sex + Q&A
• Hardware
• Hollyoaks’ 25th Anniversary: How to Start a Conversation in the Living Room. Discussion and Q&A with actors Gary Lucy, Talia Grant and Rashi Nair, and Exec Producer Bryan Kirkwood
• Hotel
• The Hot Take: Is There Such a Thing as Ethical Thirst?
• I Am Love
• I Am Love + intro by Tilda Swinton
• The Innocents
• Preview: Instinct + Q&A with director Halina Reijn
• International Women’s Day Preview: Misbehaviour + intro by director Philippa Lowthorpe, producer Suzanne Mackie and guests TBA
• International Women’s Day Preview: The Perfect Candidate + Q&A with director Haifaa Al-Mansour
• Intervista
• In the Cut
• In the Cut + intro by film critic Simran Hans
• BFI Blu-ray/DVD Launch: It Couldn’t Happen Here + Q&A with Neil Tennant, director Jack Bond and choreographer Arlene Phillips
• Javed Akhtar in Conversation
• Jaws
• Jaws + intro by Justin Johnson, BFI Lead Programmer
• Julia
• Julia + intro by Tilda Swinton
• Juliet of the Spirits
• The Jungle Book
• King Kong
• Kinoteka Film Festival Closing Night Gala: Forbidden Paradise with live score by Marcin Pukaluk
• Klaus Lutz: Performances for Screens
• Knives Out
• Koyaanisqatsi
• Koyaanisqatsi + intro by film programmer and writer Sophie Brown
• La dolce vita
• The Last Picture Show (director’s cut)
• Last Tango in Halifax: Discussion and Q&A with actor Anne Reid, writer Sally Wainwright and exec producer Faith Penhale
• The Last Tycoon
• The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan: Discussion and Q&A with Mo Gilligan
• Lawrence of Arabia
• The Lighthouse
• The Lighthouse + intro by Bait director Mark Jenkin
• Little Joe
• Little Joe + intro by director Jessica Hausner
• Little Joe + Jessica Hausner in Conversation
• Lord of the Flies
• Lourdes
• Lourdes + Q&A with Jessica Hausner
• Lovely Rita
• Lovely Rita + Q&A with Jessica Hausner
• Preview: Love Sarah + Q&A with director Eliza Schroeder and actor Celia Imrie
• Madchen in Uniform
• Magic Mike XXL
• Magnificent Obsession + intro by Prof. Dr Barbara Flueckiger, University of Zurich
• Magnum Force
• Man on a Tightrope
• Man to Man
• Man to Man + intro by filmmaker Joanna Hogg, Tilda Swinton and director John Maybury
• African Odysseys presents: UK Premiere: Marighella
• Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI
• Marry Me + intro by BFI Curator Josephine Botting
• The Mash Report: Discussion and Q&A with Nish Kumar, Michael Spicer, Rachel Parris and Desiree Burch
• Member Exclusive: County Lines
• Member Exclusive: The Elephant Man
• Member Exclusive: The Lighthouse
• Member Picks: Booksmart
• Member Picks: The Fisher King
• Member Salon: County Lines
• Member Salon: The Elephant Man
• Member Salon: The Lighthouse
• Michael Clayton
• Preview: Midnight Family + Skype Q&A with director Luke Lorentzen
• Mira Nair in Conversation
• Les Miserables
• Monsoon Wedding + intro by director Mira Nair
• Monterey Pop
• The Mule
• My Beautiful Laundrette
• My Friend Fela + Q&A with director Joel Zito Araujo (Skype), hosted by Kunle Olulode, film historian, cultural critic and broadcaster (more guests TBA)
• My Life as a Courgette
• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
• BFI NETWORK Nights
• New Writings: Afterimages: On Cinema, Women and Changing Time
• New Writings: Coming Together: The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male Life, 1945-1979
• New Writings: Of Mud & Flame: The Penda’s Fen Source Book
• New Writings: Playing Gay in the Golden Age of British TV
• New Writings: Star Attractions: Twentieth-Century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom
• Talent Spotlight: Nicola Coughlan Discussion and Q&A
• The Night of the Hunter
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• On the Waterfront
• Orlando
• Orlando + intro by Tilda Swinton and director Sally Potter
• The Outlaw Josey Wales
• Pale Rider
• Panic in the Streets
• Parasite
• Pariah
• Pariah + intro by film writer and programmer Grace Barber-Plentie
• Pather Panchali
• Persona
• Pinky
• Pinky + intro by actor-director Burt Caesar
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Preview: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Preview: Proxima + Q&A with director Alice Winocour and actor Eva Green
• Queen & Slim
• TV Preview: Quiz + Q&A with writer James Graham and cast TBA
• Radio Times Hall of Fame: Mary Berry
• Radio Times Hall of Fame: Russell T Davies
• Raga: A Film Journey Into the Soul of India
• Raging Bull
• Ready Steady Go! The Weekend Starts Here! Session 1 + discussion
• Ready Steady Go! The Weekend Starts Here! Session 2 + discussion
• Re-considering Kazan: An Illustrated Talk by Geoff Andrew + A Letter to Elia
• Preview: Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project + Q&A with director Matt Wolf
• Relaxed Screening: A Fistful of Dollars
• Relaxed Screening: Illuminating the Wilderness + discussion with artists and makers from Project Art Works
• Relaxed Screening: My Life as a Courgette
• Relaxed Screening: Steamboat Bill, Jr.
• Rocks
• Preview: Rocks + Q&A
• Rocks Preview Day + Venue Takeover
• Roundtable: Gender and sexuality in Federico Fellini’s cinema
• Preview: Saint Maud
• BFI Blu-ray/DVD Launch: Scandal + Q&A with director Michael Caton-Jones, producer Stephen Woolley and writer Michael Thomas
• Screen Epiphany: Craig Roberts introduces Punch-Drunk Love
• Screen Epiphany: Tilda Swinton introduces Peter Ibbetson
• The Sea of Grass
• Thirst: Season Introduction and Book Launch
• The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
• Funday Preview: The Secret Garden
• Seniors’ Paid Matinee: The Elephant Man + intro
• Seniors’ Free Talk: Fellow Traveller + intro
• Seniors’ Free Matinee: Hell Drivers + intro
• Seniors’ Free Matinee: It Always Rains on Sunday + intro
• Seniors’ Paid Matinee: The Outlaw Josey Wales + intro
• Seniors’ paid matinee: A Streetcar Named Desire + intro
• Seniors’ Free Matinee: Underground + intro
• The Shining
• Snowpiercer
• Snowpiercer + Q&A with director Bong Joon-ho and Tilda Swinton
• Sonic Cinema: Alessandro Cortini presents Volume Massimo
• The Sound of TV: Discussion and Q&A with Neil Brand and composer David Arnold
• South, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Glorious Epic of the Antarctic
• South, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Glorious Epic of the Antarctic + intro by Bryony Dixon, BFI National Archive Curator
• Splendor in the Grass
• Steamboat Bill, Jr.
• Steamboat Bill, Jr. + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large
• Still Thirsty? A Conversation Series: Bound
• Still Thirsty? A Conversation Series: In the Cut
• Still Thirsty? A Conversation Series: Pariah
• Still Thirsty? A Conversation Series: The Way We Were
• Stolen Life + intro by Vic Pratt, BFI DVD
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Stromboli
• Superhero Filmmaking
• The Tango Lesson
• The Tango Lesson + intro by So Mayer, author of The Cinema of Sally Potter
• This One’s for the Ladies
• Tightrope
• Tilda Swinton in Conversation
• Tilda Swinton and Wes Anderson on stage: a magical tour of cinema
• Tomboy
• Tourist Trap
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Turn Me On, Dammit!
• Unforgiven
• Us: Discussion and Q&A with writer David Nicholls, actor Tom Hollander and executive producer Greg Brenman
• The Visitors
• Viva Zapata!
• The Wages of Fear
• Preview: Waiting for Anya + Q&A with writer Michael Morpurgo and director Ben Cookson
• Waiting for Happiness
• Waiting for Happiness + intro by writer and curator Nadia Denton
• Walkabout
• Water Lilies
• The Way We Were
• The Way We Were + intro by season programmer Christina Newland
• Weathering With You
• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• What Happened to Jones? + intro on behalf of Reginald Denny’s granddaughter and biographer Kimberly Pucci
• White Hunter, Black Heart
• The White Ribbon
• The White Ribbon + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large
• Who Do You Think You Are? Discussion and Q&A with Sophie Raworth + creatives
• Wild River
• The Wind
• The Wind + intro by film writer Pamela Hutchinson
• World on Fire: Discussion and Q&A with actor Julia Brown, writer Peter Bowker and designer Paul Spriggs
• The Year of the Sex Olympics + extended intro
• Yes Minister at 40: Party Games + Jonathan Lynn in Conversation
• A Zed & Two Noughts
• A Zed & Two Noughts + intro by Justin Johnson, Lead Programmer