BFI Funded Productions

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Palestine 36

Acclaimed Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir’s most ambitious work is a powerful exploration of the events leading up to the Arab Revolt of 1936.

Period drama
2025
120 mins
Annemarie Jacir

Young Soul Rebels

The Queen's Silver Jubilee beats to the sounds of Funkadelic, Sylvester and the O'Jays in Isaac Julien’s feature debut.

Drama
1991
105 mins
Isaac Julien

Santosh

A housewife-turned-cop is sucked into a high-profile case that has polarised the local community in this taut, north India-set thriller.

Drama
2023
128 mins
Sandhya Suri

D is for Distance

A heartbreaking but powerful account of Louis Petit's epilepsy as documented by his parents, filmmakers Christopher Petit and Emma Matthews.

Documentary
2026
90 mins
Chris Petit and Emma Matthews

The Duke of Burgundy

Peter Strickland’s visually and aurally intoxicating tale of sadomasochistic power-play is a daringly erotic sensory feast.

Drama
2015
104 mins
Peter Strickland

The Thing with Feathers

Benedict Cumberbatch gives a powerful performance in this visually striking fantasy drama about grief, family, and healing.

Drama
2025
98 mins
Dylan Southern

The Chronology of Water

A woman battles addiction and abuse in Kristen Stewart’s uncompromising depiction of love, trauma and artistic self-expression.

Drama
2025
128 mins
Kristen Stewart

Edge of Summer

A summer holiday and an old folk tale bring two 11-year-olds together as they explore what, or who, is calling to them, from within an abandoned mine.

Drama
2024
90 mins
Lucy Cohen

Urchin

The debut feature from actor Harris Dickinson sees a homeless addict get a shot at recovery and redemption.

Drama
Crime
2025
99 mins
Harris Dickinson

Name Me Lawand

Edward Lovelace explores the power of communication and community with this rapturous portrait of a young deaf Kurdish boy.

Documentary
2022
90 mins
Edward Lovelace

Sky Peals

A coming-of-age tale about a father-son relationship that might just be out of this world.

Science Fiction
2023
91 mins
Moin Hussain

Red Road

Andrea Arnold’s highly acclaimed film, winner of top prizes at Cannes and the BFI London Film Festival, is a haunting drama about a woman confronting past demons.

Thriller
2006
110 mins
Andrea Arnold

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Pressure

Hailed as Britain's first black feature film, Pressure is a hard-hitting, honest document of the plight of disenchanted black youths in 1970s London.

Drama
1978
121 mins
Horace Ové

Brides

Two British teenagers attempt to travel to Syria in this compassionate and thought-provoking road film, inspired by a true story.

Drama
2024
92 mins
Nadia Fall

SCALA!!!

Engrossing tribute to London’s legendary Scala cinema, aptly subtitled.

Documentary
2023
96 mins
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall

Beast

The hunt for a Jersey serial killer sparks a dangerous awakening in a young woman in this astonishing psycho-sexual thriller starring Jessie Buckley.

Drama
Thriller
2017
106 mins
Michael Pearce

The Arbor

Clio Barnard's film about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar mixes reconstruction, interviews (performed by actors) and scenes from the plays.

Biopic
2010
90 mins
Clio Barnard

Sister Midnight

A genre-bending comedy about a frustrated and misanthropic newlywed who discovers certain feral impulses that land her in unlikely situations.

Comedy
2024
107 mins
Karan Kandhari

Burning an Illusion

Menelik Shabazz’s pioneering first feature traces the emotional and political growth of a young black couple in Thatcher’s London.

Drama
1982
102 mins
Menelik Shabazz

Postcards from London

A stylish, sensuous film about a young man’s journey into an unusual form of escort work.

Drama
2018
89 mins
Steve McLean

London

The first in Patrick Keiller’s highly imaginative trilogy of films is a photographic trip through London, recounted by our unseen narrator.

Animation & Artists Moving Image
1994
85 mins
Patrick Keiller

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