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: Club Kid (2026)
★★★★☆
The wild life of a New York party promoter is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of the young son he never know of in writer-director Jordan Firstman’s comedy-drama Club Kid.
BFI LFF 2026: The Debut (2026)
★★★★☆
Unfilled housewife Mona auditions for a community theatre show on a whim and powered by powerhouse director Jerry, finds herself in creative places she could never imagined in writer-director Jesse Eisenberg’s musical comedy-drama
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: 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>
Agatha’s Almanac (2025)
★★★★☆
A slow and quietly empathetic film about an amazing old lady hanging on in Canada’s mid-west, directed by artist Amalie Atkins.
Cactus Pears (2025) (Sabar Bonda)
★★★★☆
Anand, a gay man in his early 30s, is drawn back from Mumbai for the 10 days of mourning for his father in the countryside of his youth. There he reconnects with a young farmer in writer-director Rohan Kanawade’s beautiful and groundbreaking Cactus Pears (Sabar Bonda).
BFI Flare 2026: Drunken Noodles (2025)
★★★★☆
With artistic and poetic inspirations, Lucio Castro’s Drunken Noodles unfolds across four chapters following Adnam, and the people he encounters, across two summers in and around New York.
BFI Flare 2025: Night Stage (2025) (Ato Noturno)
★★★★☆
The affair between a young actor and a politician comes under increasing threat as their public profiles grow and the stakes rise in erotic thriller Night Stage from writer/directors Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon.
BFI Flare 2026: Lunar Sway (2026)
★★★★☆
Cliff’s small-town existence is disrupted by the arrival of Marg who claims to be his birth mother. Soon he is swept into her unorthodox adventures, while trying to learn about himself, in Nick Butler’s delightfully offbeat Lunar Sway.
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.