Film Forever

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

The BFI maintains the world’s largest film archive, the BFI National Archive, previously called National Film Library (1935–1955), National Film Archive (1955–1992) and National Film and Television Archive (1993–2006). The archive contains more than 50,000 fiction films, over 100,000 non-fiction titles and around 625,000 television programmes.

The majority of the collection is British material but it also features internationally significant holdings from around the world. The Archive also collects films which feature key British actors and the work of British directors.

Manifesto

Cate Blanchet gives a tour-de-force performance in this kaleidoscopic trip through the art manifestos of the 20th Century.

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Sight & Sound: May 2018

120 BPM salutes the courageous Aids activists of the early 90s, we ask why our finest filmmakers are heading to America, Andrew Haigh talks Lean on Pete, we remember how Woodfall Films broke new grownd, while Ken Burns and Lynn Novick discuss their epic documentary The Vietnam War.

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#FiveFilms4Freedom 2018: watch this year's LGBTQ+ shorts

Five short LGBTQ+ films, co-produced by the British Council and the BFI, made by directors from all over the world to support the message 'Love is a human right.'

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