BFI London Film Festival Announces 2026 Official Competition The 70th BFI London Film Festival has announced the ten films competing for its Best Film Award, with the winner to be revealed...

Knightfall: a promising throwback to the British spy thriller There is something rather appealing about Knightfall. At a time when espionage films increasingly seem determined to become sprawling international spectacles, this...

Dir: Jannis Lenz. Germany/Austria. 2026. 94 mins. With his striking feature debut Oasis, director Jannis Lenz positions himself as a sharp-eyed chronicler of modern societal anxiety. Premiering in Venice’s Orizzonti section,...

Dir: Fritz Lang | US Film Noir 101´ Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street is a masterpiece of American film noir, this is a film where desire, deception and humiliation feed off one another...

Dir: David Bickerstaff | Art Documentary 2026 There is a deceptively simple idea at the heart of Phil Grabsky and David Bickerstaff’s long-running Exhibition on Screen series: if audiences can’t get...

Dir: Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni | Drama 2026 Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni’s Diane in the Loop begins with an arresting contradiction: Diane despises men as much as she desires...

Dir: Sergei Loznitsa | Doc 176’ Sergei Loznitsa’s Imperium is an extraordinary 176-minute archival journey through the Soviet Union — a vast, ironic travelogue assembled entirely from footage shot between 1970...

Dir: Grant Gee |  UK/Ireland 2026 Reviewed by Ian Long “Sometimes the intermission is part of the music,” jazz pianist Bill Evans’ mother tells him in the course of this powerful biographical...

Dir: Alexandre Smia | France, Political thriller 2026 The Button Nobody Wants to Press Alexandre Smia’s Jupiter imprisons us in the most terrifying room in France: the subterranean command centre beneath the...