BFI LFF 2026: Merc (2026)
A young man moves from job to job as he vies to find his true identity and discover his place in the independent drama…
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BFI LFF 2026: Black Church Bay (2026)
★★★★☆
Life in a Welsh fishing village for teacher Barry is disrupted when a student goes missing, leaving him battling to keep his private life secret in writer-director Rhys Marc Jones’ Black Church Bay.
BFI LFF 2026: Tender Loving Care
★★★★☆
Tender Loving Care follows the lives of best friends Rosie and Amy, working in the care system in London, alongside Amy’s elderly parents Birdie and Geoff in celebrated writer-director Mike Leigh’s latest comedy-drama.
BFI LFF 2026: A LONG WINTER (2026)
★★★★☆
In the Colorado mountains, Mike and his family live a simple rustic life. Soon after learning of his mother’s alcohol struggles, she disappears into the snow and Mike’s life is forever changed in writer-director Andrew Haigh’s latest drama A Long Winter.
BFI LFF 2026: Rose (2026)
★★★★☆
Returning from war, an unknown soldier arrives in a small village claiming inheritance to a farm. Secretly the soldier is actually Rose, who has been successfully passing as a man for years, in director Markus Schleinzer’s absorbing drama Rose.
BFI LFF 2026: Coward (2026)
★★★★☆
Serving on the Belgian front in World War I, rookie Pierre meets leader of the troop entertainment Francis and the two begin a secret relationship in director Lukas Dhont’s romantic drama Coward.
BFI LFF 2026: Nightborn (2026) (Yön lapsi)
★★★★☆
;A couple living deep in the Finnish forest welcome their first child, but happiness is short-lived when life with their unique son becomes a living nightmare in director Hanna Bergholm’s folk-horror Nightborn.</strong>
BFI LFF 2026: Elsinore (2026)
★★★★☆
Renowned actor Ian Charleson gets the opportunity to take over the role of Hamlet at the National Theatre he learns of his AIDS diagnosis. Charleson’s health battles, as he attempts to deliver the role of a lifetime, are at the heart of director Simon Stone’s emotional dramaI Elsinore.
The Stranger (2025) (L’Étranger)
★★★★☆
The Stranger by François Ozon is an atmospheric adaptation of Camus’ classic.
BFI FLARE 2026: WASHED UP (2026)
★★★★☆
Isabel Daly’s feature directorial debut Washed Up is a quirky and moving British indie shining a unique light on life and love in Cornwall.
Broken English (2025)
★★★★☆
Marianne Faithfull is a much-misunderstood icon. Broken English, this documentary to set the record straight, made near the end of her life by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, also features myriad stars of music and film.
SIRAT (2025)
★★★★☆
Sirat by Oliver Laxe is a desert survival story — and one of the year’s most gripping films
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)
★★☆☆☆
Amanda Seyfried portrays the founder of the Shaker movement in director Mona Fastvold’s historical drama The Testament of Ann Lee, co-written by Brady Corbet.
Nouvelle Vague (2025)
★★★★☆
Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) and Citizen Kane are generally accepted to be the most influential films ever made: Jean-Luc Godard and Orson Welles, their directors. Breathless was on television recently: it is now part of film history.