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.
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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: 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 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.
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.
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.
Blue Moon (2025)
★★★★☆
After the opening of Oklahoma! renowned lyricist Lorenz Hart has to deal with the success of his former partner Richard Rodgers and his own insecurities in Richard Linklater’s period drama Blue Moon.
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: Blue Moon (2025)
★★★𗰶☆
After the opening of Oklahoma! renowned lyricist Lorenz Hart has to deal with the success of his former partner Richard Rodgers and his own insecurities in Richard Linklater’s period drama Blue Moon.