BFI LFF 2026: Audience Award
★★★★☆
BFI LFF 2026: Audience Award
★★★★
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)
★★★★☆
Unfulfilled 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: 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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
Bugonia (2025)
★★★★☆
A factory worker and his cousin abduct a female CEO believing her to be an alien in Yorgos Lanthimos’ surreal comedy-drama remake Bugonia