All screenings and events

All films, TV and events at BFI Southbank.

• 2046
• 3 Women
• 35 Shots of Rum
• 35 Shots of Rum + pre-recorded intro by Be Manzini, poet and director of Caramel Film Club
• Adoption
• Adoption + pre-recorded intro by Selina Robertson, Club des Femmes
• After Love
• After Love + intro by director Aleem Khan
• After Love + Q&A with director Aleem Khan and lead actor Joanna Scanlan
• A’hr + pre-recorded Q&A
• Ahimsa – Gandhi: The Power of the Powerless + pre-recorded Q&A
• Alice in the Cities
• All About My Mother
• All the President’s Men
• Amazing Grace
• Ammonite
• Another Round
• As Tears Go By
• Ashes of Time Redux
• Ashes of Time Redux + pre-recorded intro by season programmer Ann Lee
• Battleship Potemkin
• Closing Night: The Beatles and India + Q&A with directors
• Beau Travail + pre-recorded intro by director Kirsten Johnson
• Beginning + pre-recorded intro by director Luca Guadagnino
• Beyond Therapy
• The Big City
• Billie
• Binding Sentiments
• Binti
• Bitter Victory
• Black Girl
• Black Narcissus
• Black Narcissus + intro by director Edgar Wright
• Blow Out
• Blow Out + intro by Ben Roberts, BFI CEO
• Born in Flames + discussion
• Brewster McCloud
• Broadcast News
• Broadcast News + pre-recorded intro by director Sarah Smith
• Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson
• Burning an Illusion
• ...But Then, She’s Betty Carter
• Seniors’ free archive matinee: Cabin in the Sky
• California Split
• Car Wash
• Car Wash + intro by director Gurinder Chadha
• Casablanca
• Censor + Q&A with director Prano Bailey-Bond
• Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things
• Chungking Express
• Citizen Kane
• Cleo from 5 to 7
• Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
• The Company
• The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
• The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover + intro by Justin Johnson, BFI Lead Programmer
• Cookie’s Fortune
• County Lines
• Preview: The Croods: A New Age
• Culture Shock: Short Film Programme + Q&A with UNDR LNDN
• Diary for My Children
• Diary for My Children + pre-recorded extended intro by Márta Mészáros
• Diary for My Father and Mother
• Diary for My Loves
• David Byrne’s American Utopia
• David Byrne’s American Utopia + intro by Tricia Tuttle, BFI Festivals Director
• Days of Being Wild
• Days of Being Wild + pre-recorded intro by season programmer Ann Lee
• Deerskin
• Distant Voices, Still Lives
• Distant Voices, Still Lives + pre-recorded intro by film critic Thirza Wakefield
• Doctor Who: Dragonfire
• Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls!
• Dreamgirls
• Opening Night: UK Premiere: Drifting + intro
• Dr T & The Women
• The Elephant Man + pre-recorded intro by director Prano Bailey-Bond
• Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things
• Eraserhead
• Eyimofe
• Fallen Angels
• Fargo
• Fear Eats the Soul
• Fear Eats the Soul + intro by Heather Stewart, BFI Creative Director
• First Cow
• Fool for Love
• Footloose + pre-recorded intro by director Francis Lee
• The General + intro by Stuart Brown, BFI Head of Programme and Acquisitions
• The Gingerbread Man
• The Girl
• Girlfriends
• Woman With a Movie Camera Preview: Girlfriends
• The Gleaners & I + pre-recorded intro by director Zhu Shengze
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn + intro by director Peter Strickland
• Gosford Park
• The Gospel According to Matthew
• The Grandmaster
• Gunda
• Hair + pre-recorded intro by director Kleber Mendonça Filho
• The Hand (Extended Cut)
• Happy Together
• Head-On
• HealtH
• The Heiresses
• Hope and Glory
• How Green Was My Valley
• Black Lens Festival Opening Night: UK Premiere: How to Stop a Recurring Dream + Q&A with director Ed Morris and actor Ruby Barker
• The Human Voice + pre-recorded Q&A with Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swinton
• Images
• In Conversation with Nikesh Shukla
• In the Mood for Love
• In The Earth
• Introducing Márta Mészáros
• The James Dean Story
• Jumbo
• Kansas City
• The Killers
• The Killers + intro
• L’eclisse
• La Haine
• The Last Picture Show
• Le Doulos
• Le Doulos + intro
• LIFF Opening Night: WOMB (Women of My Billion) + on stage Q&A with Srishti Bakshi and film critic Anna Smith
• Lilting
• The Long Goodbye
• UK Premiere: Love Poem + intro
• LSFF: UK Competition 1: I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know
• LSFF: UK Competition 2: The Double Life Of...
• LSFF: UK Competition 3: Close Quarters
• LSFF: UK Competition 4: Lessons In Survival
• LSFF: UK Competition 5: The Devil’s in the Details
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• The Magnificent Ambersons + pre-recorded intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-Large
• Magnificent Obsession
• Magnificent Obsession + intro by Heather Stewart, BFI Creative Director
• Man About Town
• Man Hunt
• The Man Who Wasn’t There
• Mandabi
• Mandabi + pre-recorded Q&A
• Seniors’ matinee: Mandabi + intro
• Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI
• M*A*S*H
• Mavis!
• McCabe & Mrs Miller
• African Odysseys Present: European Premiere: The Milkmaid + Q&A with writer-director Desmond Ovbiagele and producer Oluseun Sowemimo
• Mirror + pre-recorded intro by director Małgorzata Szumowska
• My Beautiful Laundrette + on-stage interview with writer Hanif Kureishi
• My Blueberry Nights
• The Namesake
• The Namesake + live spoken-word performance
• Nashville
• Seniors’ matinee: Nashville + intro
• Nazarband + pre-recorded Q&A
• Nell Gwyn + intro by BFI Curator Bryony Dixon
• The Night of the Hunter
• The Night of the Hunter + intro
• Nine Months
• Nomadland
• OC & Stiggs
• Persona
• Persona + intro
• A Perfect Couple
• Pinky
• Pinocchio
• The Player
• Popeye
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• A Prairie Home Companion
• Prêt-à-porter
• Quintet
• Opening Night: Raahgir + pre-recorded Q&A with director Goutam Ghose
• Rare Beasts + Q&A with writer-director Billie Piper
• Raya and the Last Dragon
• Rear Window
• The Reason I Jump
• The Reason I Jump + intro by Grierson award-winning director Jerry Rothwell
• Relaxed screening: The Reason I Jump
• Woman With a Movie Camera Presents: the World Restoration Premiere of Riddance + pre-recorded extended intro by Márta Mészáros
• Riddance
• Robert Altman, Outsider and Innovator: An Illustrated Online Talk
• The Salt in Our Waters + pre-recorded Q&A
• Searching for Happiness... + pre-recorded Q&A
• Secret Honor
• The Seventh Seal
• The Seventh Seal + intro by Mike Williams, Editor Sight & Sound
• Closing Night: UK Premiere: Shadows + intro
• Sheffield Doc/Fest: UK Premiere: The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual For Military Occupation
• Sheffield Doc/Fest: UK Premiere: Lift Like a Girl
• Sheffield Doc/Fest: International Premiere: My Name Is Pauli Murray
• Sheffield Doc/Fest Closing Night: World Premiere: The Story of Looking
• Sheffield Doc/Fest Opening Night: European Premiere: Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) + pre-recorded Q&A
• Short Cuts
• Shoot the Messenger + Q&A
• The Shout + pre-recorded intro by director Mark Jenkin
• Siren of the Tropics
• The Sound of Metal
• The Sound of Metal + Q&A with director Darius Marder
• Sparkle
• Steamboat Bill, Jr.
• Stormy Weather
• Streamers
• Supernova
• Surge
• Sweet Smell of Success
• Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue + intro
• Syndromes and a Century + pre-recorded intro by director Chaitanya Tamhane
• The Tango Lesson
• The Tango Lesson + intro
• That Cold Day in the Park
• Thieves Like Us
• Touch of Evil
• Trottie True (aka The Gay Lady) + intro by BFI Curator Josephine Botting
• Twenty Feet from Stardom
• The Two of Them/Two Women
• Ultraviolence
• African Odysseys: Ultraviolence + Q&A
• Vincent and Theo
• The Warrior + on-stage interview with writer-director Asif Kapadia
• The Warriors
• The Warriors + intro by director Asif Kapadia
• A Wedding
• What’s Love Got to Do With It
• What Will People Say
• While We Live
• The White Ribbon
• Whitney: Can I Be Me
• Wildfire + Q&A with Director Cathy Brady
• Wild Strawberries
• Wild Strawberries + pre-recorded intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-Large
• The Wiz
• Wolfwalkers + pre-recorded Q&A with directors
• Work: Life. A Photography Exhibition by Udall Evans
• Woman with a Movie Camera Summit
• Women in the Films of Robert Altman: An Online Panel Discussion
• The Wonders + pre-recorded intro by director Mark Cousins