Dance Festival

Glastonbury ley lines for iconic pyramid stage to heighten a festival-goer’s experience

International folk bands and troupes put on an act at Sidmouth

Fly your freak flag high with this far-out film shot at the Great Western Express Festival in muddy May 1972.

Partying like it's 1997. We follow a rave DJ instigator rigging up decks in abandoned warehouses, a nosebleed 'techno tourist' who chases the hardcore around Europe and a girl addicted to... partying.

Sunday in the park with Frank Sidebottom and the Manchester music mob.

Music, dancing and community characterise this short film from Notting Hill Carnival, 1976.

An observational study of the activity around the arrival and departures at King’s Cross station

The punks go shopping in this evocatively dingy entry in Captain Zip's seminal Video Trip.

Explore London Zoo with one of its greediest residents, Sally the sparrow.

Humphrey Jennings and Harry Watt’s famous GPO film is an enduring example of British self-mythology; a hymn to London’s resilience that helped persuade America to join the war.

Part of Wonderful London, the BFI National Archive’s programme of restored London travelogues, filmed in the capital in the 1920s.

Charlie Hammersley, a student from Northumbria University, explains how Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film holds up a mirror to society. 

The film-makers behind a haunting tale of love and community within a UK immigration detention centre visited the BFI Southbank to discuss their film.

Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio in Conversation at BFI Southbank, discussing the making of One Battle After Another.

Laura Mulvey in conversation, following her BFI Fellowship Award.

George Clooney visited BFI Southbank to look back on his life and career.

The Oscar®- winning director of Nomadland discusses her unique approach to filmmaking and the inspiration behind the adaptation of Hamnet.