This year’s winners – Harry Pillion for Pillion; Sandhya Suri for Santosh; and The Neurocultures Collective and Steven Eastwood for The Stimming Pool – tell Dazed about their projects and what’s next for them
Oct 17, 2025
A BDSM romcom, a Japanese horror video game adaptation, and a medieval fantasy featuring Charli xcx: here are our top picks from this year’s festival
Sep 15, 2025
We speak to the acclaimed director to mark the launch a brand new season at the BFI which honours his decades-spanning career
Sep 01, 2025
India Donaldson’s debut feature follows 17-year-old Sam as she heads out to the Catskills for a camping trip with her father, Chris, and his newly divorced best friend Matt
May 21, 2025
People everywhere are rejecting mainstream Hollywood and turning to the world of foreign-language art-house cinema. But why?
Jul 02, 2024
As the BFI’s ‘Dario Argento: Doors into Darkness’ season begins, the reigning king of Italian horror discusses the ideas behind his most iconic films, the new generation discovering his oeuvre, and Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 remake of Suspiria
May 16, 2023
That babe with the (fashion) power
Jan 31, 2022
A guide to working your way around the festival this October – and remember that if you’re under 25 tickets for select screenings are only a fiver
Sep 10, 2019
Your guide to this year’s BFI Flare, Europe’s most significant LGBTQ film festival
Mar 13, 2018
Experimental documentaries, hardcore Asian crime-thrillers and everything in between
Sep 12, 2017
As the season draws closer to completion, we round-up the most thought-provoking screening and events left
Dec 07, 2016
Following 2015's blockbuster year for queer cinema, we round up the best of the bunch at 2016's BFI London Film Festival
Oct 10, 2016
We spotlight the trans prostitutes, tortured porn stars, and lesbian punks that populate the director’s unique universe
Jul 07, 2016
We checked out the best in show at BFI Flare, stories about being impregnated with rats, sexual tension in swimming pools and forbidden love
Mar 30, 2016
Treat murder as an occasion to dress up: as the BFI prepare for their new John Waters season, we look at back at the inimitable style of its lead
Aug 26, 2015
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