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BFI London Film Festival adds four to lineup including world premiere of Samuel Abrahams’ ‘Lady’
Paolo Sorrentino’s ’La Grazia’ has also joined the LFF line-up.
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BFI London Film Festival unveils 2025 line-up
A total of 162 feature films make up the line-up, with six world premieres.
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UK debut feature ’The Incomer’ starring Domhnall Gleeson and Gayle Rankin wraps in Scotland
EXCLUSIVE: The BFI and Screen Scotland-backed feature is the debut from Louis Paxton.
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Julia Jackman’s ‘100 Nights Of Hero’ to close BFI London Film Festival 2025
Emma Corrin, Charli XCX, Nicholas Galitzine and Maika Monroe star in the Venice Critics’ Week closing night film.
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‘Jay Kelly’ starring George Clooney to have UK premiere at BFI London Film Festival
Director Noah Baumbach and members of the cast expected to attend.
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BFI, Film4’s high-budget shorts programme Future Takes greenlit for second iteration
EXCLUSIVE: Six films will be award between £60,000 and £90,000.
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UK scholar and filmmaker Laura Mulvey awarded BFI Fellowship
Mulvey wrote the seminal feminist essay ‘Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema’.
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‘Rental Family’ starring Brendan Fraser added to BFI London Film Festival
Director Hikari and Fraser expected to attend premiere.
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‘We Live In Time’, ‘The Salt Path’ lead UK independent titles at local box office 2025 halfway point
The overall market share for UK independent titles was down compared to January-June of 2024.
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UK feature film production spend takes small dip in first half of 2025
High-end TV production spend, however, was up by 18%.
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Steep rise in under-£20m UK films submitted to BFI after indie tax credit greenlight
There has been a 27% year-on-year increase across the first six months of 2025 in applications for BFI certification.
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How two UK distributors are wooing arthouse audiences to rereleases
BFI’s ’Battleship Potemkin’ has Gen X appeal; Curzon is teaming with Letterboxd to reach young cineastes.
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BFI London Film Festival selects opening film for 2025
Third time the festival has opened with a Netflix title.
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UK creative industries minister calls for a shift away from the screen sector’s freelance model
“I’m not sure if it’s really good for industry in the end if so many people are freelancers,” Chris Bryant told a parliamentary committee today/.
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“We’re an antidote to the algorithm,” says BFI Player director as platform goes international
BFI Player director Paul Lewis on growing the service’s international footprint and addressing tech issues to make it more accessible.
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UK Global Screen Fund, LFF, NFTS receive big funding boosts from UK government
The package will also include support for British Film Commission, BFI Film Academy, and CoSTAR programme.
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BFI outlines nine recommendations for UK screen sector in era of AI
Robust licensing framework to address copyright concerns, more formal AI training for creative workforce among suggestions.
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British Urban Film Festival unveils Africa season
The BFI confirmed it had paused the long-running African Odysseys strand in March.
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Tax credits and ‘Urchin’ talent talk among highlights of first day of Cannes UK pavilion 2025
There will also be talks about international co-production and working with UK festivals.
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Louise Stern’s ‘A Hand Rises’ set in deaf community wraps UK shoot
EXCLUSIVE: The BFI and BBC Film-backed debut features a predominantly deaf cast.