This June, it’s time for the big beasts, led by an elephant you’ll never forget, with some of the best new releases to celebrate Pride Month and unmissable world cinema – all coming to BFI Player.
The film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 25 years ago, on 20 May 2000, was not the one that Wong Kar Wai had envisaged when he set out on the project sometime around 1997. Far from it. In the Mood for Love emerged from a succession of rapidly evolving projects. One was called Summer in Beijing – it was a comedy. And there was a triptych movie about food. Wong particularly wanted to make a segment about the 1960s Hong…
Winner of the BFI London Film Festival’s Audience Award, Four Mothers is Irish director Darren Thornton’s long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed ex-con drama A Date for Mad Mary (2016). Co-written with brother Colin Thornton, it’s a loose adaptation of Mid-August Lunch (2008), Gianni Di Gregorio’s comedy about a man living with his mother in a small apartment, only to get saddled with three additional old women – all of them strangers – during an Italian holiday.
Everyone is invited to discover the world's best new films, series and immersive storytelling at the 68th BFI London Film Festival 9-20 October in London and around the UK.
BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival is thrilled to announce a Screen Talk with the award-winning actor, writer, director, and producer Elliot Page, alongside a Special Presentation feature of Close to You, written and directed by BAFTA-winning Dominic Savage and starring, produced and co-written by Page.
The pioneers. The iconoclasts. The brave. From landmark LGBTQIA+ portraits to the next generation of queer classics.
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From restored film classics to new releases, we've released the following films in the UK and Ireland since 2018. How…
Many great directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age, from the 1930 to ’50s, radically changed course in the later years of…
A celebration of work by female directors past & present. Start watching today on BFI Player.
BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival showcases the best new queer cinema from around the globe.
The 39th edition of…
A love story for every mood - from sweeping love affairs, to quirky rom-coms and tales of obsessive desire.
Best cinema experience of my life.
Well done Jess.
Respects for been part of this and getting onto the BFI Flare Festival and BFI Player.
To see the years of TRUK United FC is inspiring Sports and Trans History.
BFI Flare 2025 Opening Night Gala
Very enjoyable, very good central performances, solid comedic film (I laughed, a lot). Well worth watching.
+ Intro with Andrew Ahn (Director, co-writer), Bowen Yang (Cast), Lily Gladstone (Cast), Kelly Marie Tran (Cast), Han Gi-Chan (Cast), Joan Chen (Cast), Bobo Le (Cast) & James Schamus (co-writer)
A really beautiful and heartwarming start to the BFI flare this year!! Really glad I came and saw this early with a packed crowd because there was so many hilarious moments throughout this film that had the whole crowd roaring with laughter like this one is defo a crowd pleaser. The whole cast was chefs kiss like it was so amazing to be in the same room as this cast because this is without a doubt one of my fav…
Does exactly what it says on the tin.
BFI Flare 2025; UK Premiere; Intro with the director and star
Im butchering this but in the intro the director said something about how this was about “the privacy of our audio lives” … ( she said it more eloquently) and Wow! What a masterclass of sonic storytelling. Not to be a film studies wank but oh my the corporeal involvement !!! gasp. I loved this. And fuck yeah steph film credit weeeeee the whole reason we came to the shorts in the first place and what a beautiful experience it was! Stephanie Fucking Chao!!!!!!!!!
Screened as part of BFI Flare 2025. #2.
This was really funny and I’m glad the whole screening thought so too. We had some dropped frames so props to the BFI team for quickly restarting the film again!
Chaotic horny bottom and a bisexual bff duo on a social experiment / going nearly homeless and running commentary on the escalating rent prices in the city. Plus points for hating on LAX. I think everyone can relate to this film regardless…
The pioneers. The iconoclasts. The brave. From landmark LGBTQIA+ portraits to the next generation of queer classics.
Start streaming LGBTQIA+ cinema on BFI Player today.