All screenings and events

All films, TV and events at BFI Southbank.

• 12 Stars: Sebastian Lelio on Wings of Desire
• 9 to 5
• Preview: 9 to 5 + intro by Jane Fonda
• Member Exclusive: 9 to 5
• Ace in the Hole
• Adaptation.
• UK Premiere: A Simple Favour + extended introduction with Paul Feig, Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively
• Airplane!
• Airplane! + intro by Comedian and Actress Hattie Hayridge
• All About Trailers: Why We Love Them and How to Create Them
• All of Me
• Animate and Innovate: Animation Craft in the New World of Stories
• UK Premiere: Animation 2018 + Q&A
• Autumn Leaves
• Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story
• Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story + intro by Gaylene Gould, BFI Head of Cinemas and Events
• The Awful Truth
• Babette’s Feast
• Barbarella
• Barefoot in the Park
• Barton Fink
• Beau Travail
• Beau Travail + intro by Tara Judah, Watershed Cinema Producer and critic
• Bend It Like Beckham
• Bernice Rubens and Andrea Newman: Love Story
• Best Friends Forever + Q&A
• Bigger Than Life
• Bigger Than Life + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large
• Billy Liar
• TV Preview: The Bisexual + Q&A
• Black and Banned: Season Introduction
• Black British Animators + Q&A
• Black, British, Banned!
• The Black Comedy Revolution
• Black Power Salute + Tommie Smith in conversation with Kunle Olulode, director of Voice4Change
• Blood and Roses
• London Restoration Premiere: Blue Black Permanent + intro by writer So Mayer
• Bob Godfrey’s Great + Q&A with Tom Lowe and guests, chaired by the Jez Stewart, Curator, BFI National Archive
• Body Contact + extended intro by season programmer David Somerset plus guests
• Bright Star
• Bright Star + intro by Nikki Baughan, film journalist and contributing editor, Screen International
• Bringing Up Baby
• Broad Strokes: Trailblazing Comedy Screenwriters
• Bullet Boy
• Bullet Boy + Q&A with actor Ashley Walters (work permitting)
• Opening Night Gala (UK Premiere): The Burial of Kojo + Q&A with director Sam Blitz Bazawule
• TV Preview: Butterfly + Q&A
• The Cable Guy
• Camp de Thiaroye
• Camp de Thiaroye + intro by Tony Warner, Black History Walks
• Caravaggio
• Carry On Cleo
• Cat Ballou
• Chameleon Street
• Chameleon Street + intro by Kunle Olulode, director of Voice4Change
• Charlie Bubbles
• Chinatown
• Choice + panel discussion
• Christmas
• A Chump at Oxford
• Preview: Climax
• Preview: Columbus
• Come Back, Africa
• Coming to America + Q&A with director John Landis and costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis
• Preview: Creed II
• Cries and Whispers
• Experimenta Presents: Cross-generation Dialogue: The Margaret Tait Award + Q&A
• Ctrl Alt Del: From Book to Screen
• Daisy Kenyon
• Day for Night
• Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
• Les Demoiselles de Rochefort + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large
• Disobedience
• Distant Voices, Still Lives
• Doc Brown in Conversation
• Doctor Who: Earthshock + Q&A with writer Eric Saward and actor Matthew Waterhouse
• Documentary Filmmaking in Six Weeks
• Duck Soup
• Edith Bowman presents Soundtracking at the BFI
• Educating Rita
• Elaine Morgan, Julia Jones and Buchi Emecheta: The Tamer Tamed + Still Waters + A Kind of Marriage
• BFI Screen Epiphany: Emily Beecham introduces Wonderland
• The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On + Q&A with director Kazuo Hara
• Les Enfants du paradis
• Halloween Special: The Evil Dead
• Exit Smiling + She Done Him Wrong
• ICO Archive Screening Day: Exit Smiling
• Experimenta Salon: Don’t You Want Me
• Experiments in Synesthesia, Early Cinema and Artist Film + intro
• Eyes Without a Face
• Fable + intro by season programmer David Somerset
• Face
• Faces Places
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• A Fantastic Woman
• Fay Weldon and Edna O’Brien: A Splinter of Ice + Over
• BFI Screen Epiphany: Felicity Kendal introduces Some Like It Hot
• F for Fake
• F for Fake + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large
• Film at the BFI: Comedy Double Acts - Like Two Peas in a Pod
• Film at the BFI: seasons, film festival and Mediatheque
• Film Poems + discussion with Anna Coatman, So Mayer, Lucy Reynolds and Peter Todd
• The Fountainhead
• Free Speech ‘Punch Up’!
• French Cancan
• French Cancan + intro
• Opening Night: The Future Belongs to Us + Q&A
• Future Film Labs: The Humanity Factor
• BFI Screen Epiphany: Georgina Campbell introduces Clouds of Sils Maria
• Gert and Daisy’s Weekend + intro by Claire Mortimer, University of East Anglia
• Girls Trip
• Gloria
• The Godfather
• The Godfather: Part II
• The Godfather: Part III
• Goodbye Uncle Tom
• Goodbye Uncle Tom + intro by Tony Warner, founder of Black History Walks
• La Grande Illusion
• The Guilty Feminist Live!
• Harriet Craig
• Have a Nice Day!
• Henning Wehn: Are Germans Funny? + Manta, Manta
• His Girl Friday
• DVD Launch: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy + Q&A
• Home Again + Q&A
• A Hotel Called Memory + intro
• The Hot Take: It’s Political Correctness Gone Mad
• House Party
• Howl’s Moving Castle
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Hysterical + Q&A
• Ice + Q&A
• ICO Archive Screening Day: Women in Silent Film Comedy
• I Love Lucy
• Innocence
• Member Picks: In the Bleak Midwinter (aka A Midwinter’s Tale)
• UK Premiere: I Remember the Crows
• The Iron Rose
• I Saw What You Did
• James and the Giant Peach
• Jane Fonda in Conversation
• TV Preview: Jane Fonda in Five Acts
• Jennifer Saunders in Conversation
• The Jerk
• The Jerk + intro by actor Marc Wootton
• Jo Brand: The Unvarnished Truth
• BFI Screen Epiphany: Joe Thomas introduces The Big Lebowski
• Journey to Italy
• The Joy of Smut
• Kiss Me Deadly
• Klute
• The Lady Eve
• Lake Mungo
• Land Makar + intro by season curator Peter Todd
• Le fantastique: A Curious Tour of the French Weird
• Lenny Henry’s Father Ted Talk: Black Comedy on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
• Lift to the Scaffold
• Preview: Lizzie
• Lola Montès
• Lola Montès + intro by Sight & Sound’s Isabel Stevens
• The Long Good Friday
• The Long Good Friday + Q&A with admirer of the film, writer-director Steven Knight
• Lost Warrior + Q&A
• Love’s Crucible + intro by BFI curator Bryony Dixon
• Lucky
• Member Exclusive: Lucky
• Member Salon: Lucky
• Lumumba
• Lumumba + intro by Tony Warner, founder of Black History Walks
• Lust for Life
• Magic Lantern Show
• Magic Lantern Slide Making (and Other Optical Toys)
• Future Film Labs: The Magnanimity Method
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• The Magnificent Ambersons + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large
• La Main du diable
• Malpertuis
• The Many Lives of Jane Fonda
• How Does It Feel? A Life of Musical Misadventures
• Mark Kermode Live in 4D at the BFI
• Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI
• Mark Little’s Fools School
• Preview: MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A. + Q&A with M.I.A.
• Mean Girls
• Member Salon: 9 to 5
• BFI Screen Epiphany: Michael Dudok de Wit introduces the short animated films of Yuri Norstein
• Mickey
• ICO Archive Screening Day: Mickey + intro
• Missing, Believed Married + intro by Jo Botting, BFI Curator
• Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday
• Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday + extended intro by Professor John O Maoilearca, Kingston University
• Morvern Callar
• Morvern Callar + Q&A with director Lynne Ramsay and actor Samantha Morton
• Mouchette
• My Left Foot
• National Lottery Cinema Day
• New Writings: Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres
• Night Watch
• Nighty Night + Q&A
• Nosferatu the Vampyre
• La Nuit fantastique
• Oh! What a Lovely War
• Once Upon a Time + Q&A
• Opening Night
• Orphée
• Overboard
• The Pain of Others + Q&A with director Penny Lane
• The Palm Beach Story
• Paris, Texas
• TV Preview: People Just Do Nothing (Series 5) + Q&A with cast members TBC
• Persona
• Persona + intro by Dr Claire Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Film at UCL
• Peter Pan
• The Phantom Baron
• Philosophy up to 11: Memory, Truth and Masculinity in This Is Spinal Tap
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again + intro by actor and author David Walliams
• Places of Work + intro by season curator Peter Todd
• Playing the Fool
• Podstock
• Poor Cow
• Poor Cow + interview with actor Lesley Sharp
• Possessed (1931)
• Possessed (1947)
• Private Peaceful
• Private Peaceful + discussion with silent film pianist, writer and broadcaster Neil Brand
• The Rape of Recy Taylor + intro by Chardine Taylor Stone, Cultural Producer and Activist
• The Real McCoy Reunion
• Regeneration
• Regeneration + intro by director Gillies MacKinnon
• René Clair Double-bill (with live piano accompaniment)
• Member Picks: Repo Man
• Preview: The Rider
• Right On!
• BFI presents: Ripping It Up + discussion with filmmakers
• The Sacred Family
• Save the Children Fund Film + discussion
• New Writings: Scala Confidential with Jane Giles
• Close Up: Sebastian Lelio
• Sebastian Lelio in Conversation
• TV Preview: The Secrets of British Animation + Q&A with director Seb Barfield and guests
• Seniors’ Paid Matinee: Distant Voices, Still Lives + intro
• Seniors’ free matinee: Half of a Yellow Sun + intro + Q&A
• Seniors’ Free Matinee: The Naked Truth + Q&A with author Graham Rinaldi and BFI programmer Dick Fiddy
• Seniors’ Programme Matinee: A Portrait of Margaret Tait: Filmmaker and Poet
• Seniors’ Free Talk: What Have the Film Comedians Ever Done for Us?
• Seoul Station
• Serial Mom
• Shallow Grave
• Halloween Special: Shaun of the Dead
• The Shining
• Preview: Shoplifters
• The Short Films of Penny Lane + Q&A with Penny Lane
• Should We Still Be At It?
• Silent Cinema presents: Blighty
• Sister Act
• Preview: Skate Kitchen + Q&A with director Crystal Moselle
• Preview: Smallfoot
• Smoke and Mirrors: the Awesome Art of Editing
• Some Like It Hot
• Sonic Cinema presents: Mabel Normand Shorts with live score by the Meg Morley trio
• The Spook Who Sat by the Door
• The Spook Who Sat by the Door + intro by Tony Warner, founder of Black History Walks
• Future Film Labs: The Statutory Speculation
• Stereoscopy: A Wonder of Victorian Entertainment
• The Straight Story
• Strait-Jacket
• Sudden Fear
• Sudden Fear + intro by season programmer Anna Bogutskaya
• Summer + Q&A
• Supa Modo + intro
• Susan Pleat and Pat Hooker: Brenda + Susan + intro from Susan Pleat
• Sylvia + intro
• Preview: Tehran Taboo + Q&A with director Ali Soozandeh
• Temporary Difficulties + Q&A
• Tenderflix: Future Responsibilities
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
• Theorem
• Theorem + intro by Dr Matilde Nardelli, University of West London
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
• The Thief and the Cobbler: A Moment in Time + Q&A with director Richard Williams
• This Is England
• This Is England + Q&A
• This Is Spinal Tap
• This Is Spinal Tap + intro by comedy actor-writer Morwenna Banks
• Three Seconds (aka Going Vertical) + Q&A
• Throne of Blood
• Throne of Blood + intro by Dr Alastair Phillips, University of Warwick
• Tracey Ullman on Ullman
• Track 29
• Two Gentlemen Sharing
• Two Gentlemen Sharing + Q&A
• The Unloved + Q&A with director Samantha Morton
• Using Animation to Make an Impact: Passion Animation Studios
• TV Preview: Vic and Bob’s Big Night Out + Q&A with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer
• Les Visiteurs du soir
• TV Preview: Watership Down + Q&A
• Watson Gould and Jill Laurimore: The Other Woman + Shall I See You Now?
• The Wedding Ring
• Westfront 1918
• What’s the Big Idea? Screenwriting for Beginners
• What’s Up, Doc?
• Funday: Who Framed Roger Rabbit + Q&A with animation director Richard Williams
• Preview: Wildlife
• Winnie + Q&A by director Pascale Lamche
• Woman With a Movie Camera presents: A New Leaf
• Woman With a Movie Camera presents: A New Leaf + intro
• Working Class Heroes: The Filmmakers
• Yardie
• The Year of the Tiger
• The Young Ones + Q&A