BFI London Film Festival

Catch up with some of the best recent BFI London Film Festival films.

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Rose Byrne gives a mesmerising, Oscar-nominated performance as an overwhelmed mother, in Mary Bronstein’s nerve-shredding comedy-thriller-horror.

Drama
2025
113 mins
Mary Bronstein

The Girls (Gehenu Lamai)

A young girl finds herself torn between duty and desire in this stunning Sri Lankan coming-of-age drama by pioneering filmmaker Sumitra Peries.

Drama
1978
113 mins
Sumitra Peries

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

BFI Restoration

The Draughtsman's Contract

Peter Greenaway became a director of international status with this witty, stylised, erotic country house murder mystery.

Period drama
1982
107 mins
Peter Greenaway

Last Swim

A day in the life of an ambitious 18-year-old Iranian-British girl transforms into a universal portrait of youth, hope and fears over the future.

Drama
2024
96 mins
Sasha Nathwani

I'm Still Here

Fernanda Torres ignites this Oscar-winning drama from Walter Salles, a triumph of hope over tyranny.

Drama
Biopic
2024
138 mins
Walter Salles

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Ultras

Forget the dramatic headlines and take a joyful deep dive into 'the world’s most popular subculture’: football’s infamous ultras.

Documentary
2025
88 mins
Ragnhild Ekner

Four Mothers

Hilarious, uplifting tale of an Irish son juggling four very different mothers over one chaotic weekend in Dublin.

Comedy
Drama
2023
89 mins
Darren Thornton

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

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Watership Down

An apocalyptic vision pushes a group of rabbits to abandon their warren in search of a new home, in this landmark British animation.

Animation & Artists Moving Image
1978
92 mins
Martin Rosen

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

Architecton

Victor Kossakovsky’s film essay looks at the way we have constructed our built world through a series of breathtaking sequences.

Documentary
2024
98 mins
Viktor Kossakovsky

The Eternal Daughter

Joanna Hogg's enthralling ghost story, featuring an astonishing performance by her regular collaborator Tilda Swinton.

Drama
Horror
2021
96 mins
Joanna Hogg

April

A doctor in rural Georgia faces scrutiny after a baby dies during childbirth in this affecting and atmospheric abortion drama.

Drama
2024
134 mins
Dea Kulumbegashvili

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Bi Gan's ‘destroyed film noir' is a dazzling dive into an immersive dreamscape.

Drama
2018
138 mins
Bi Gan

The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao

A moving, sumptuous tale of two sisters cruelly separated by family and fate in 1950s Rio.

Drama
2019
140 mins
Karim Aïnouz

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Julie Keeps Quiet

Psychological drama in which a talented young tennis player comes under pressure to talk when her coach is investigated for abusing his position.

Drama
2024
100 mins
Leonardo van Dijl

Layla

A British-Palestinian drag performer catches the eye of a strait-laced white man in Amrou Al-Kadhi’s stunning, semi-autobiographical debut.

Drama
2024
100 mins
Amrou Al-Kadhi

SCALA!!!

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

Documentary
2023
96 mins
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall

Àma Gloria

Six-year-old Cléo spends a final summer with her beloved nanny Gloria, in this profoundly moving story of chosen family, duty and innocence lost.

Drama
2023
84 mins
Marie Amachoukeli

2073

Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia's unsettling drama-documentary delivers a powerful commentary on the state of the world today… and tomorrow.

Documentary
Drama-documentary
2024
83 mins
Asif Kapadia

Memories of Murder

A pair of detectives clash trying to solve the brutal murders of two women, in Bong Joon Ho’s masterful blend of true crime and dark social satire.

Detective drama
Thriller
2003
131 mins
Bong Joon-ho

Enys Men

Mark Jenkin follows Bait with this chilling, endlessly mysterious folk horror tale, beautifully shot on grainy 16mm.

Horror
2022
91 mins
Mark Jenkin

Love Life

A couple find their relationship in a precarious state following a tragedy, in Kōji Fukada’s subtle portrait of the frailty of human relationships.

Drama
2022
123 mins
Koji Fukada

EO

The joint winner of the Cannes Jury Prize, EO is a strangely wonderful tale where the dark and light of humanity is laid bare.

Drama
2022
86 mins
Jerzy Skolimowski

Inland

This strange, enigmatic and engrossing thriller finds a troubled young man returning to his hometown in the wake of his mother’s disappearance.

Drama
2022
82 mins
Fridtjof Ryder

After Love

In this knockout feature debut from Aleem Khan, Bafta-winner Joanna Scanlan is the woman who discovers her late husband’s secrets.

Drama
2021
90 mins
Aleem Khan

Silver Haze

Sacha Polak and Vicky Knight reunite for this daring drama about love, family and forgiveness, loosely inspired by Knight’s life.

Drama
2023
103 mins
Sacha Polak

Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande

The incredible story of a band you may never have heard of but whose sound has influenced generations with their irresistible rhythms and message of peace.

Documentary
2022
90 mins
Tim MacKenzie-Smith

The Handmaiden

Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker) channels Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, to create a sumptuous twisty psychological thriller full of erotic intrigue.

Period drama
Crime
2016
146 mins
Park Chan-wook

Little Joe

Jessica Hausner’s cool, witty and unsettling sci-fi starring Emily Beecham and Ben Whishaw.

Science Fiction
Horror
2019
105 mins
Jessica Hausner

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Lady Macbeth

Florence Pugh shines in this exceptional British debut of a young wife's need for freedom, whatever the cost.

Period drama
2017
89 mins
William Oldroyd

The Assistant

Kitty Green's #MeToo drama is a sobering take on life as a film company assistant.

Thriller
2019
87 mins
Kitty Green

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

Kelly + Victor

In modern Liverpool, a couple meet and begin a transgressive, sexually charged affair set against a background of crime and encroaching danger.

Drama
2013
90 mins
Kieran Evans

County Lines

Blistering thriller of a teen groomed to work for a brutal, organised drugs network.

Drama
Crime
2019
90 mins
Henry Blake

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Aguirre, Wrath of God

This early masterpiece from Werner Herzog stars Klaus Kinski as a power-crazed explorer in sixteenth-century South America who leads a band of conquistadors through the Amazon in search of El Dorado.

Historical drama
1972
94 mins
Werner Herzog

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

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

Trans-Europ-Express

This stylish, cult 1966 erotic thriller stars French New Wave icons Jean-Louis Trintigant and Marie-France Pisier.

Thriller
1966
95 mins
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Air Doll

A blow-up doll comes to life and falls in love with a video store clerk in Kore-eda Hirokazu’s haunting meditation on urban alienation.

Drama
Romance
2009
116 mins
Hirokazu Koreeda

The Dreamers

Paris in 1968 forms the backdrop for this romantic drama about an American student who bonds with a brother and sister over their love of cinema.

Drama
2004
115 mins
Bernardo Bertolucci

BFI Restoration

Nil by Mouth

Twenty-five years old and newly restored, Gary Oldman’s BAFTA-winning debut as writer-director remains a magnificent achievement.

Drama
1997
129 mins
Gary Oldman

A Zed and Two Noughts

Following a fatal car crash involving a swan outside a zoo, twin-brother zoologists Oliver and Oswald become fascinated by the processes of decay.

Animation & Artists Moving Image
1985
117 mins
Peter Greenaway

Kamikaze Hearts

Juliet Bashore’s queer docufiction, starring Tigr and real-life girlfriend Sharon Mitchell, celebrates the the San Francisco underground in the 1980s.

Drama
1986
87 mins
Juliet Bashore

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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

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Mohammad Rasoulof's powerful, vital, Oscar and BAFTA-nominated thriller about a bureaucrat torn between loyalty to his family and the Iranian regime.

Thriller
2024
167 mins
Mohammad Rasoulof

Sebastian

A young London-based writer begins a double life as a sex worker to research his debut novel, in this gripping psychological drama.

Drama
2024
110 mins
Mikko Mäkelä

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

Consequences

A teenage tearaway is forced to face up to his actions and confront his burgeoning sexuality, in this provocative Slovenian coming-of-age tale.

Drama
2018
95 mins
Darko Štante

Lynn + Lucy

A lifelong friendship is tested by tragedy in this atmospheric and intense first feature from acclaimed British shorts director Fyzal Boulifa.

Drama
2019
88 mins
Fyzal Boulifa

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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

The Girls (Gehenu Lamai)

Palestine 36

The Draughtsman's Contract

Last Swim

I'm Still Here

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Unique and trusted film picks

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Ultras

Four Mothers

Sister Midnight

Watership Down

The Chronology of Water

Architecton

The Eternal Daughter

April

Long Day's Journey Into Night

The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao

Julie Keeps Quiet

Layla

SCALA!!!

Àma Gloria

2073

Memories of Murder

Enys Men

Love Life

EO

Inland

After Love

Silver Haze

Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande

The Handmaiden

Little Joe

Lady Macbeth

The Assistant

Sky Peals

Kelly + Victor

County Lines

Aguirre, Wrath of God

The Arbor

Red Road

Trans-Europ-Express

Air Doll

The Dreamers

Nil by Mouth

A Zed and Two Noughts

Kamikaze Hearts

Santosh

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Sebastian

The Duke of Burgundy

Consequences

Lynn + Lucy

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