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.
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BAFTA 2026 winners
★★★★☆
BAFTA 2026 winners
The President’s Cake (2025) (Mamlaket al-qasab)
★★★★☆
Despite her attempts to avoid it, a nine-year-old rural schoolgirl in Iraq wins the dubious prize of being the one chosen in her class to make a birthday cake to celebrate the dictator’s birthday in The President’s Cake, directed by Hasan Hadi.
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.
The History of Sound (2025)
★★★★☆
In early-20th-century America, two young men bond over a shared love of music. forming a deep connection which will have a lasting impact on their lives in Oliver Hermanus’ period drama The History of Sound.
H is for Hawk (2025)
★★★☆☆
Claire Foy plays an academic devastated by bereavement who finds solace in a connection with a goshawk in Philippa Lowthorpe’s true-story drama H is for Hawk.
Hamnet (2025)
★★★★☆
The story of the marriage between Agnes and William Shakespeare and how unthinkable tragedy helped the playwright create Hamlet is told in Chloe Zhao’s emotional adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet.
it was just an accident (2025) (Yek tasadef sadeh)
★★★★☆
It Was Just An Accident directed by Jafar Panahi is a moral examination of what happens when former political prisoners think they have seen a former torturer.
Pillion (2025)
★★★★☆
Pillion is a sensational feature debut by Harry Lighton with graphic images of sub-dom gay sex.
The Choral (2025)
★★★☆☆
The story of a wartime community told through the local choral group as they battle to recruit for an upcoming performance in Nicholas Hytner’s historical comedy-drama The Choral, by Alan Bennett.
BFI LFF 2025: Hamnet (2025)
★★★★☆
The story of the marriage between Agnes and William Shakespeare and how unthinkable tragedy helped the playwright create Hamlet is told in Chloe Zhao’s emotional adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet.
BFI LFF 2025: H is for Hawk (2025)
★★★☆☆
Claire Foy plays an academic devastated by bereavement who finds solace in a connection with a goshawk in Philippa Lowthorpe’s true-story drama H is for Hawk.
BFI LFF 2025: Sound of Falling (2025): (In die Sonne schauen)
★★★★☆
Mascha Schilinsky’s superb Sound of Falling is an immersive, fractured reflection on childhood, telling the story of four young girls from different eras.
BFI LFF 2025: 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.