Cinema founded itself in documentary, but how did the form develop an alternative visual language to that of the fiction film? Is it, as pioneer Joris Ivens claimed, “a creative no-man’s land”? From ...

Steven Eastwood and Georgia Bradburn of the Neurocultures Collective tell us about their bold experiments with an ’autistic camera’ on The Stimming Pool, and why they resisted explaining autistic ...

Short films provide a vital training ground for filmmakers, meaning funds and programmes supporting short-form cinema must strive to ensure their help has far-reaching impact.

Burke makes a rare screen appearance in Blitz as “lovely and horrible” gang-leader Beryl. She discusses being directed by McQueen, her disinterest in awards, and being drawn to nastiness.

In the late 1940s and 50s, comedy horror was dominated by a series of films bringing Universal’s top-billing comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into corny collision with various old-school ...

Déa Kulumbegashvili follows up her masterpiece Beginning (2020) with an unflinching story of a Georgian obstetrician whose career is threatened by her reputation as an abortionist.

The African Odysseys event series has been a valuable and vitally important part of the BFI programme for 17 years, and it remains so. There is some misleading information around the programme out ...

The new tax reliefs will empower UK filmmakers to create more independent films and co-produce with other countries.

Winner of the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Film Festival, the Spanish auteur’s mesmerising bullfighting documentary shows the beauty and the barbarism of the controversial tradition.

Identifying Features filmmakers Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez tell us about their latest drama Sujo, which follows a boy seeking to escape cycles of violence in rural Mexico.

Catherine Breillat’s Romance confronts sexual taboos and desire, explains Leslie Felperin, while Linda Ruth Williams interviews the director. From our October 1999 issue.

Steve McQueen takes us inside his new film Blitz Inside: Sean Baker on Anora, and sex work at the movies – Pedro Almodóvar on The Room Next Door – No Other Land – The Apprentice – The Wild Robot – Jea ...