No Go Backs

Sculptor and filmmaker Adonia Bouchehri’s merging of work-life space shared with a kiwi bird, a turtle and large jelly rats.

A foley artist creates sounds for a film starring a dressage horse, with a thrilling performance from queer artist and performer Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau.

An interplanetary symphony for Sofia.

Artist-filmmaker Gaby Sahhar’s Truth and Kinship follows three young people in their search for social mobility, questioning how cities adapt to serve capitalist male identities to the detriment of others.

Portrait based on the first cinematic representation of Afro-American intimacy in the 1898 film Something Good-Negro Kiss.

Jarman award-nominated artist Mikhail Karikis and young activists explore mutual care in the new meteorological era of 2050.

In this mini video essay, BFI contributor Maha Al-Badrawi explains why Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls is a rhinestoned, stilettoed Western. Contains spoilers!

Filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and curator Matthew Barrington discuss Frederick Wiseman’s High School with Sandra Hebron.

A haunting with words is the lure between life and death for a young Cornish poet.

Rose is desperate to celebrate her 60th birthday in style, but her daughter Genevieve is struggling to ignore some recent tragic news about her mum.

Seagull is a recovering drug addict who is about to have a very strange night on The English Riviera.

Adeel Akhtar portrays a man on a weekly trek to his nearest JobCentre, entering a state of purgatory through barriers put in place by the system.