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The BFI celebrated Director, Writer, Actor, Producer, Author, and NYU Grad Film Tenured Professor Spike Lee with a BFI Fellowship, the highest honour bestowed by the BFI.

Editor February 14, 2023February 14, 2023 BFI, BFI Fellowship, Spike Lee

Spike Lee honoured with BFI Fellowship

The BFI celebrated Director, Writer, Actor, Producer, Author, and NYU Grad Film Tenured Professor Spike Lee with a BFI Fellowship, the highest honour bestowed by the BFI.

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Editor May 17, 2023May 17, 2023 BFI, Cannes Film Festival, Diversity, Kelley Robin-Hicks, Nadine Marsh-Edwards, Shantelle Rochester, Yvonne Ibazebo

BFI, Diversity in Cannes Team to Celebrate Black Women Filmmakers

The BFI is partnering with Diversity in Cannes to present Celebrating Black Women in International Film, a curated programme of events and networking opportunities to build meaningful creative and financial partnerships.

Some Reflections on the BFI London Film Festival 2022; PART 1

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Carlie Newman November 22, 2022November 28, 2022 BFI, BFI London Film Festival 2022

Some Reflections on the BFI London Film Festival 2022; PART 1

An especially good festival, there were some terrific films. Too many films to cover all here. Some have now been released but others will come out before the end of this year.

Powell and Pressburger’s visually ravishing masterpiece, THE RED SHOES (1948) celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale, it tells the story of a young woman whose desire is to become a leading dancer and for whom art is more important than life itself.

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Editor November 9, 2023November 9, 2023 BFI, BFI Southbank, Powell and Pressburger, The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes: Beyond The Mirror Exhibition

Encompassing hand-illustrated sketches and designs, photography, poster art, ephemera, costumes and video installations, the exhibition draws on a wealth of material preserved by the BFI National Archive.

BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival is the UK’s longest running queer film event. It began in 1986 as Gay’s Own Pictures. By its 3rd edition it was tagged the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and since then has grown to become the largest LGBTQIA+ film event in the UK, and its most anticipated. The festival changed its name to BFI Flare in 2014 to reflect the increasing diversity of its films, filmmakers and audience.

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Editor February 15, 2023February 15, 2023 BFI, BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, BFI Southbank

BFI FLARE: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2023 – Full Programme Announced

The 37th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, one of the world’s most significant and long-standing queer film events in the LGBTQIA+ calendar, today reveals its full programme.

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Carlie Newman December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 Ammonite, BFI, BFI London Film Festival 2020, Honeymood, LFF, Mangrove, The Painter and the Thief

Some Reflections on the BFI London Film Festival 2020

A London Film Festival like no other. 2020 will be remembered for the vast amount of screenings that were on-line. This festival I saw almost 50 films.

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Editor May 31, 2023May 31, 2023 BFI, BFI Southbank, Youssef Chahine

BFI celebrate Egyptian master filmmaker Youssef Chahine

DRAMA AND DESIRE: THE FILMS OF YOUSSEF CHAHINE, a major season celebrating the work of Egyptian master filmmaker Youssef Chahine, whose cinema is an audacious swirl of exuberance and energy, brimming with idiosyncratic characters and sweeping storylines.

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Editor December 1, 2022December 4, 2022 BFI, Sight and Sound

Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022

The BFI’s Sight and Sound magazine today announced that the winner of its hugely anticipated and world-renowned Greatest Films of All Time Critics’ poll 2022