The idea that New Zealand films could attract global success was on the ascendant in the 80s and 90s, after the New Zealand Film Commission had been established and highly distinctive films such as ...
Director Gints Zilbalodis’s wordless environmental fable finds comedy in animal behaviours as an unlikely gang of castaway creatures fights to survive a flood.
The makers of DreamWorks Animation’s wild escapade talk about bringing nature and technology together. The Wild Robot screened in the BFI London Film Festival as a special presentation on 13 October ...
It may not have the focus and flair of How to Train Your Dragon, but Chris Sanders’ quirky tale of an unlikely bond between an upbeat android and an orphaned gosling has a lot of heart.
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things arrives in UK cinemas 18 October.
Don Hertzfeldt turns an unrealised musical collaboration into a wordless animated dystopia that blends inter-dimensional compositions with the broken-puzzle poetry of Mulholland Dr. (2001).
WorkWise for Screen is a pilot to support screen businesses and employers to prioritise equality, dignity and respect in the workplace and sector specific guidance on the government’s incoming ...
Sean Baker, director of the Palme d’Or winning Anora, spoke to the LFF audience about wildly differing reactions to his films, and why ‘non-professional actor’ is a damaging term.
At his LFF Screen Talk, the Dune director spoke of the formative influence of Steven Spielberg, the female characters at the centre of the Dune franchise, and the scar that reminds him not to act.
Director Gary Dauberman’s long-gestating adaptation of Stephen King’s small town vampire story plays with vampire conventions to create suspense rather than surprise.
Our collection of more than 20,000 silent films is one of the most extensive archives of early cinema in the world. As well as actively collecting all British film from this era, we hold a wide range ...
John is at the heart of the BFI National Archive’s transition to digital technology, designing and implementing file-based workflows for film and video. His latest project is to integrate the digital ...