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### What’s on at BFI Southbank

Four screens open seven days a week for the widest choice of great films.

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### Ne Zha 2 at BFI IMAX

The biggest Chinese animated action saga ever comes to the largest screen in the UK.

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BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival

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Our springtime celebration of queer cinema at BFI Southbank – 19 to 30 March 2025.

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See something different

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Stream great independent films now.

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BFI Replay

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A new free-to-access digital archive exclusively available in UK public lending libraries. Discover thousands of digitised videos and television programmes from the 1960s to the 2010s, offering a glimpse into Britain’s past, its people and places.

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The Greatest Films of All Time issue

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Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.

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Features and reviews

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Reviews

### Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other: elegant portrait of an artist marriage

New York photographer Joel Meyerowitz and artist Maggie Barrett take stock of their 30-year marriage, contemplating mortality, equality and how to move forward together, in this richly artful documentary directed by another artist couple, Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter.

By Nick Bradshaw

[Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other: elegant portrait of an artist marriage](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/two-strangers-trying-not-kill-each-other-elegant-portrait-artist-marriage "Read Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other: elegant portrait of an artist marriage")

Interviews

### James Schamus on a new The Wedding Banquet: “Over the years, I’ve come to the conclusion that what we call civilisation and culture is more or less queer”

By Blake Simons

[James Schamus on a new The Wedding Banquet: “Over the years, I’ve come to the conclusion that what we call civilisation and culture is more or less queer”](https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/james-schamus-wedding-banquet "Read James Schamus on a new The Wedding Banquet: “Over the years, I’ve come to the conclusion that what we call civilisation and culture is more or less queer”")

News

### BFI to celebrate Tom Cruise with a BFI Fellowship

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### 10 great Slovak New Wave films

By Michael Brooke

[10 great Slovak New Wave films](https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-slovak-new-wave-films "Read 10 great Slovak New Wave films")

Reviews

### Santosh: Indian police drama explores the messy intersections of class, gender and caste

By Bedatri D. Choudhury

[Santosh: Indian police drama explores the messy intersections of class, gender and caste](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/santosh-indian-police-drama-explores-messy-intersections-class-gender-caste "Read Santosh: Indian police drama explores the messy intersections of class, gender and caste")

Features

### Sounds of the future: Howard Shore’s scores for the films of David Cronenberg

By Kevin Harley

[Sounds of the future: Howard Shore’s scores for the films of David Cronenberg](https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/sounds-future-howard-shores-scores-films-david-cronenberg "Read Sounds of the future: Howard Shore’s scores for the films of David Cronenberg")

Interviews

### “I had to say something about what it feels like to be a Black queer person in America”: Shatara Michelle Ford on Dreams in Nightmares

By RĂłgan Graham

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Events

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Director Raoul Peck, photographer Misan Harriman and writer Ekow Eshun visit BFI Southbank to talk about Peck‘s documentary on photographer Ernest Cole.

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### Screen Culture 2033

Our new ten-year strategy that sets out how we will transform access to our programmes, screen culture and jobs.

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Watch archive collections

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The BFI National Archive has one of the most important film and TV collections in the world. Choose from a selection of 11,000 titles that cover 120 years of British life, and the history and art of film.

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