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Highlighting some of the astonishing and engaging work that has been supported by the UK public, including the National Lottery funding through the BFI, over the last 60 years.

The BFI invests National Lottery funding into developing and supporting filmmakers with diverse, bold and distinctive projects, that have a cultural relevance or progressive ideas and which reflect people from different backgrounds. We support filmmakers who are early in their career, taking risks and offering a fresh take or new perspective.
 
We support the development of more than 100 feature films each year, and the production of a further 30 including documentaries through our partnership with Doc Society.

This collection also includes films supported through the BFI Production Board which predated the introduction of the National Lottery.

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Triangle of Sadness Triangle of Sadness

Comedy 2022 148 mins Director: Ruben Östlund

Riotously funny with a barbed wire-sharp wit, Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated Triangle of Sadness garnered Ruben Östlund (The Square, Force Majeure) his second Cannes Palme d’Or award.

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Perfect 10 Perfect 10

Drama 2019 84 mins Director: Eva Riley

An aspiring teen gymnast’s world is turned upside down with the arrival of the half-brother she never knew she had.

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The Taste of Mango The Taste of Mango

Documentary 2023 75 mins Director: Chloe Abrahams

Sleepwalking into submerged depths of memory, a mother’s dream and a daughter’s beckoning, this fascinating film tenderly untangles the knots of the past.

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XY Chelsea XY Chelsea

Documentary 2019 94 mins Director: Tim Travers Hawkins

Telling the historic story of whistleblower Chelsea Manning; the journey of her fight for survival and dignity, and her transition from prisoner to a free woman.

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Summerland Summerland

Drama 2020 100 mins Director: Jessica Swale

Gemma Arterton stars in acclaimed theatre director Jessica Swale’s moving Second World War drama, as a woman rediscovering her ability to love.

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Out of Darkness Out of Darkness

Horror 2024 87 mins Director: Andrew Cumming

Bringing a whole new meaning to the term ‘period film’, Andrew Cumming’s Palaeolithic horror movie is a true original.

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Red Herring Red Herring

Documentary 2024 94 mins Director: Kitson Vincent

Following his terminal diagnosis, young filmmaker Kit Vincent sets out to document an intimate and darkly humorous journey in this BIFA nominated documentary.

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Leaving to Remain Leaving to Remain

Documentary 2022 92 mins Director: Mira Erdevicki

Compelling documentary which follows the lives of three Roma forced to navigate the complex post-Brexit EU settlement scheme as the country goes into lockdown.

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Censor Censor

Horror 2021 84 mins Director: Prano Bailey-Bond

A video nasties film censor becomes absorbed in her work in Prano Bailey-Bond's brilliantly adventurous first feature.

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In Camera In Camera

Drama 2024 95 mins Director: Naqqash Khalid

A struggling actor faces relentless knockbacks in Naqqash Khalid’s sharp-witted comment on race and identity in the film industry.

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Ali & Ava Ali & Ava

Drama 2020 94 mins Director: Clio Barnard

Clio Barnard’s latest film is a tremendously warm and tenderly written love story.

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Mothering Sunday Mothering Sunday

Drama 2021 104 mins Director: Eva Husson

In this beautiful adaptation of Graham Swift’s novel, starring Josh O’Connor and Odessa Young, a writer has a creative awakening steeped in books, love and loss.

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Benediction Benediction

Drama 2020 137 mins Director: Terence Davies

Terence Davies’ moving and lyrical portrait of the life of celebrated war poet Siegfried Sassoon.

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Ballywalter Ballywalter

Comedy 2020 90 mins Director: Prasanna Puwanarajah

Seána Kerslake is superb as caustic cab driver, Eileen, who makes an unlikely connection with regular passenger and local comedian, Shane (Patrick Kielty), in Prasanna Puwanarajah’s charming debut.

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Wildfire Wildfire

Drama 2020 84 mins Director: Cathy Brady

Sisterly bonds are pushed to breaking point in this simmering drama set on the Irish border, the debut feature from acclaimed shorts director Cathy Brady.

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The Souvenir Part II The Souvenir Part II

Drama 2020 107 mins Director: Joanna Hogg

The second chapter of Joanna Hogg’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece and winner of Sight and Sound's 'Best Films of 2021' poll.

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Tell It to the Bees Tell It to the Bees

Drama 2017 108 mins Director: Annabel Jankel

Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger star as two very different women who fall in love in this 1950s-set romantic drama.

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Funny Cow Funny Cow

Comedy 2018 102 mins Director: Adrian Shergold

Maxine Peake plays a woman who rises above abusive relationships and crass sexist audiences of the 1970s to become a female stand-up comedian.

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Homebound Homebound

Horror 2021 71 mins Director: Sebastian Godwin

Nothing is as it seems when a woman visits her new husband’s family with chilling results.

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Fanny Lye Deliver'd Fanny Lye Deliver'd

Drama 2020 112 mins Director: Thomas Clay

The wife of a puritanical farmer seems resigned to her lot, until she has her head turned by the arrival of a young couple in Thomas Clay’s provocative period drama.

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Under the Skin Under the Skin

Horror 2014 108 mins Director: Jonathan Glazer

An alien Scarlett Johansson prowls the streets of Glasgow in Jonathan Glazer’s astonishing, mind-bending mixture of existential sci-fi and inner-city realism.

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Saint Maud Saint Maud

Drama 2019 81 mins Director: Rose Glass

A mysterious nurse becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient in director Rose Glass’ divine debut.

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Seven Psychopaths Seven Psychopaths

Comedy 2012 110 mins Director: Martin McDonagh

Three Billboards' director Martin McDonagh spins an epic and twisted tale of pets and gangsters, with an all-star cast.

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Yardie Yardie

Crime 2018 102 mins Director: Idris Elba

In his thrilling directorial debut, Idris Elba brings to life Victor Headley’s cult crime novel.

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Undergods Undergods

Fantasy 2020 92 mins Director: Chino Moya

A series of intense and increasingly disturbing allegories about humanity's darker instincts culminates in a grotesque and compelling debut feature from Chino Moya.

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The Angels' Share The Angels' Share

Comedy 2012 97 mins Director: Ken Loach

A young Glaswegian father-to-be discovers his nose for whisky and spots a chance to help his friends. Directed by Ken Loach.

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Colette Colette

Biopic 2019 112 mins Director: Wash Westmoreland

This witty, Belle Époque-era biopic stars Keira Knightley and Dominic West as literary couple Colette and Willy, whose relationship rewrote social and gender rules.

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Jimmy's Hall Jimmy's Hall

Drama 2014 109 mins Director: Ken Loach

Ken Loach’s final fiction film is a spirited account of a 1930s Irish social club that becomes a bastion of jazz and free-thinking, angering the Church.

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Sorry We Missed You Sorry We Missed You

Drama 2018 102 mins Director: Ken Loach

Ken Loach’s look at working life in today’s gig economy is a fine and powerful successor to I, Daniel Blake.

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True Things True Things

Drama 2021 102 mins Director: Harry Wootliff

Ruth Wilson is at her best in this compelling drama about a lonely woman whose life is changed by Tom Burke, the dangerous stranger who offers something different.

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Kensuke's Kingdom Kensuke's Kingdom

Animation & Artists Moving Image 2023 84 mins Director: Neil Boyle and Kirk Hendry

Michael Morpurgo’s beloved novel is brought to life in this delightful, animated tale of a young castaway who discovers he’s not alone.

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Surge Surge

Drama 2019 100 mins Director: Aneil Karia

Ben Whishaw is superb as a man on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation in this highly strung, stripped-back thriller.

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45 Years 45 Years

Drama 2015 95 mins Director: Andrew Haigh

One of the most acclaimed British features of recent years, starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay as a couple rocked by news from the past.

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Wild Rose Wild Rose

Drama 2019 101 mins Director: Tom Harper

This delightful and infectiously joyous film finds a young woman balancing her dreams of being a country music star with the responsibilities of motherhood.

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The Day Shall Come The Day Shall Come

Comedy 2019 88 mins Director: Christopher Morris

An impoverished Miami preacher is lured into terrorism by the FBI, in the latest explosive satire from comedy genius Chris Morris.

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The End We Start From The End We Start From

Drama 2023 102 mins Director: Mahalia Belo

A stunning post-apocalyptic British drama navigating the anxieties of parenthood and the future of the world.

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You Were Never Really Here You Were Never Really Here

Thriller 2017 90 mins Director: Lynne Ramsay

Lynne Ramsay journeys with Joaquin Phoenix into the mind of an ex-soldier gun-for-hire whose own demons are as brutal as the actions of his adversaries.

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Peterloo Peterloo

Drama 2018 154 mins Director: Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh orchestrates a superb ensemble cast in this rousing tale of working class uprising and its violent suppression in Manchester in 1819.

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Mr. Turner Mr. Turner

Biopic 2014 150 mins Director: Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh’s Cannes-winning account of the later years of J. M. W. Turner, brilliantly played by Timothy Spall.

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Calvary Calvary

Drama 2013 101 mins Director: John Michael McDonagh

Brendan Gleeson and writer-director John Michael McDonagh combine again for a powerful story of a rural priest threatened with death in seven days.

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Tamara Drewe Tamara Drewe

Comedy 2010 111 mins Director: Stephen Frears

The return of beautiful journalist Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arterton) awakens destructive passions in a Dorset village.

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Fresh perspectives on familiar themes give a new relevance, as proven by our choice of the best in modern documentaries.