Programme Notes

BFI Southbank

Seeing the Unseen

Before the film, series curator Benjamin Brown will introduce the programme and a short pre-recorded interview with co-director Bjarney Lúðvíksdóttir. The Kristy Forbes poem ‘We Are Proud Autistic...

September 28, 2021 | RELAXED SCREENING

Old Pals

BAFTA-recognised festival LOCO aka The London Comedy Film Festival is back to share the best comedy short films rescued from the madness of 2020 in this Comedy Shorts Weekender, in partnership with...

September 26, 2021 | LOCO SHORTS WEEKENDER
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MINDSEYE

BAFTA-recognised Best of 2020

BAFTA-recognised festival LOCO aka The London Comedy Film Festival is back to share the best comedy short films rescued from the madness of 2020 in this Comedy Shorts Weekender, in partnership with...

September 26, 2021 | LOCO SHORTS WEEKENDER
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MINDSEYE

Abou Leila

Algeria, 1994. S. and Lotfi, two childhood friends, cross the desert in search of Abou Leila, a dangerous terrorist. The quest seems absurd in the immensity of the Sahara. But S., whose mental heal...

September 26, 2021 | THE TIME IS NEW

Intimate Details

BAFTA-recognised festival LOCO aka The London Comedy Film Festival is back to share the best comedy short films rescued from the madness of 2020 in this Comedy Shorts Weekender, in partnership with...

September 25, 2021 | LOCO SHORTS WEEKENDER
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MINDSEYE

Dark Turns

BAFTA-recognised festival LOCO aka The London Comedy Film Festival is back to share the best comedy short films rescued from the madness of 2020 in this Comedy Shorts Weekender, in partnership with...

September 25, 2021 | LOCO SHORTS WEEKENDER
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MINDSEYE

Chicken Run

What’s it about? A group of chickens living on an egg farm find themselves in hot water when the farmer decides that a new line of chicken pies might be good for business. Before long, an escape pl...

September 25, 2021 | BFI FAMILIES

Adam

Director’s Statement Adam is the story of two lonely souls who come to appreciate one another through confrontation, then understanding and support; two women each trapped by their own destiny, who...

September 25, 2021 | THE TIME IS NEW

Narrative Encounters Shorts Programme

This programme highlights the work of a diverse group of filmmakers at different stages in their careers, who all have a singular approach to questions that are at once political, intimate and form...

September 24, 2021 | THE TIME IS NEW

Awkward Encounters

BAFTA-recognised festival LOCO aka The London Comedy Film Festival is back to share the best comedy short films rescued from the madness of 2020 in this Comedy Shorts Weekender, in partnership with...

September 24, 2021 | LOCO SHORTS WEEKENDER
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MINDSEYE

Sweetheart

‘Is this what we’re doing? Sunbathing?’ marvels AJ (Nell Barlow) as she settles into a new friendship with Isla (Ella RaeSmith), a lifeguard at the holiday park she is visiting with her family. Thi...

September 24, 2021 | NEW RELEASES

You Will Die at Twenty

+ pre-recorded Q&A with director Amjad Abu Alala Amjad Abu Alala on ‘You Will Die at Twenty’ What drew you to filmmaking? I am 37, I am Sudanese with Sudanese nationality, but I was born and...

September 23, 2021 | THE TIME IS NEW

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

+ Q&A with director Beeban Kidron Jeanette Winterson adapted her own novel for TV – a story of personal growth and escape from oppressive religious obsession and patriarchy in a small mining v...

September 23, 2021 | NFTS AT 50

Cinema Architecture and Atmosphere

In this special edition of our new strand ‘Art in the Making’, we sing the praises of cinema theatres, their design and their histories, focusing on the architectural visions that have shaped movie...

September 23, 2021 | ART IN THE MAKING

Richard Pryor
Live on the Sunset Strip

In his return to the stage after a highly publicised, drugged-fuelled accident, Pryor somehow outdoes himself, oscillating between some of his best-loved riffs and characters and a confessional mod...

September 21, 2021 | A PRYOR ENGAGEMENT

Flesh and Blood

Introduced by Jason Morell, actor and son of Joan Greenwood In a denouement befitting these times, the last act of Flesh and Blood sees Charles Cameron (Todd) fight a deadly epidemic. Based on a s...

September 21, 2021 | PROJECTING THE ARCHIVE

Talking about Trees

Current moving-image culture is frequently characterised in terms of abundance: an excess of films being made, a cacophony of other competing forms, an embarrassment of ways of watching. But, of co...

September 20, 2021 | THE TIME IS NEW

The Selfish Giant

+ Q&A with director Clio Barnard SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away some of the plot. Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant bears a tenuous relation to the Oscar Wilde children’s story ...

September 20, 2021 | NFTS AT 50

Prime Suspect
30th Anniversary

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first transmission of Prime Suspect, created by Lynda La Plante and starring Helen Mirren as the tenacious DCI Jane Tennison. Winning both Emmy and BAFTA...

September 19, 2021 | IN PERSON & PREVIEWS

Short Films by Eden and Andrew Kötting

Working across features, animations, VR, performance and music, Andrew Kötting has been creating in an open, exploratory way with friends and family members for years. In part two of this focus we ...

September 18, 2021 | EXPERIMENTA

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