Screening dates and booking

Credits

  • Total running time

    79min

  • Programmed by

    Hyun Jin Cho, Qila Gill, Erik Martinson

Border as Interface

  • Director-screenwriter

    Petra Szemán

  • UK-Japan 2024. 18min

  • Language

    English
    With English subtitles

An animated avatar reflects on existence in-between various boundaries, while traversing a hybrid reality where floating frames of streaming images populate the sky.

Nsala

  • Director-screenwriter

    Mickael-sltan Mbanza

  • Congo 2025. 10min

  • Language

    Dialogue-free

Through colonial-era archival footage, images are extracted alongside minerals and labour. Re-enactments extrapolate lives lived – agency for the depicted.

The Conjured Ones

Los Conjurados

  • Director-screenwriter

    Humberto González Bustillo

  • Venezuela-Argentina 2025. 9min

  • Languages

    English, Spanish
    With English subtitles

Dragging and dropping into Google Maps locations, an anonymous presence incessantly searches, intersecting hollowed out images of restless migrants in procession.

Terror Element

  • Directors

    Anna Engelhardt, Mark Cinkevich

  • Screenwriters

    Anna Engelhardt, Mark Cinkevich, Alex Quicho

  • UK-Netherlands 2025. 24min

  • Languages

    Russian, English
    With English subtitles

Forensic science is scrutinised when a fictional investigator questions procedures and motivations in the politicised 1999 bombings of flats in Russia.

happiness

Watch for free on BFI Player until 26 October

  • Director

    Firat Yücel

  • Screenwriters

    Fırat Yücel, Aylin Kuryel

  • Netherlands-Turkey 2025. 18min

  • Languages

    English, Turkish, Dutch, Arabic, Serbian
    With English subtitles

From solidarity protests for Palestine to sleepless nights wrestling with the horrific realities – a rabbit-hole inquiry into alleviating insomnia.

How to book

Tickets start from £10 for all screenings and events in London, with concessions available for many screenings. Booking information and ticket prices.

If you’re aged 16 to 25, sign up for free to BFI 25 and Under for a chance to get £6 tickets to all screenings and events (subject to availability).

Missed out?

More tickets may become available for these screenings before and during the festival. Find out about extra ticket releases and standby queues.

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