Archive

Archive features at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival.

The Girls

This sensitive portrait of women’s status in Sri Lanka is a key work by pioneering filmmaker Sumitra Peries.

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Hotel London

A Bangladeshi family confronts the harsh realities of temporary unstable housing in London, in a newly remastered drama that blends fiction with video activism.

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La Paga

The debut of Ciro Durán, who had suffered injustice and oppression, is an unsettlingly hypnotic snapshot of social disparity in Latin America.

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Mortu Nega

Flora Gomes’ sweeping epic of Guinea-Bissau’s struggle for independence is viewed through the intense, intimate prism of a young couple in love.

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Sholay

Ramesh Sippy’s classic ‘curry western’ combines exhilarating action, moving drama, hilarious comedy and unforgettable song and dance sequences to create one of the most beloved of all Hindi films.

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Wild Style

Straddling the line between fiction and documentary, Charlie Ahearn’s film captures the exuberant spirit of hip hop in New York at the very moment it emerged.

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