Three Black queer femmes hit the open road in the special presentation film at this year’s BFI Flare. Filmmaker Shatara Michelle Ford tells us about the influence of Paris, Texas, and how they created ...

As the prestigious talent programme celebrates its 10th year with BAFTA, several alumni have films in BFI Flare’s Official Selection this year.

Psycho shocked and terrified its early audiences, reinventing a kind of cinema with the qualities of a rollercoaster ride. But how did Hitchcock school and discipline his viewers? From our December ...

From erotic thrillers to queer coming-of-age dramas, François Ozon has proven to be one of modern French cinema’s most prolific and shape-shifting auteurs. As his latest drama When Autumn Falls comes ...

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At this year’s Oscars, films from Pixar and Aardman were beaten as best animated feature by a Latvian film called Flow. As Gints Zilbalodis’s heartbreaker goes on release, we track the contemporary ...

Karan Kandhari’s wild debut feature about a newly married Mumbai woman whose life takes a surreal turn when she is bitten by a mosquito is bursting with cinephilic enthusiasm, but at times puts the ...

The Brazilian writer-director duo discuss their new erotic thriller, the influence of Brian De Palma and Paul Verhoeven, and filming in real cruising grounds.

A talented teenager causes a stir with a provocative memoir about her relationship with her teacher in Dag Johan Haugerud’s literary Golden Bear winner.

Based on an avant-garde wartime play, The Lost People was scripted by the pioneering filmmaker Muriel Box (who also directed some sequences) and presents an unusual depiction of the turmoil of ...

The Emmy-nominated comedian, actor and writer will discuss his career, including his latest role in Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet.

In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed.