Can’t decide what to make time for at BFI London Film Festival 2024? Discover some of the most intriguing films on the programme, reviewed and recommended by Sight and Sound critics.

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A stray bull forces grape pickers into the trees in Marta Mateus’s poetic debut feature Fire of Wind. We caught up with the director ahead of its screening at the BFI London Film Festival.

Young Frankenstein is alive again, while a jet-black 1990s satire and a medieval epic arrive on Blu-ray. What are you watching this weekend?

Swinton was joined on the 2024 BFI & CHANEL Filmmaker Awards jury by Edward Enninful OBE, Editorial Advisor, British Vogue and Global Creative and Cultural Advisor, Vogue, Marie-Louise Khondji, ...

Kieron Webb, Head of Conservation at the BFI National Archive, introduces our plan for a state-of-the-art heritage science laboratory – part of a major £80 million research and innovation investment ...

The events surrounding the Democratic Republic of Congo’s declaration of independence and the subsequent assassination of prime minister Patrice Lumumba are laid out with cool precision to a ...