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BFI Southbank reopening programme and new health and safety measures

Find out what’s coming to the big screen when BFI Southbank reopens on 1 September and what we’re doing to protect audiences and staff in the venue.

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Sight & Sound: the September 2020 issue

Michaela Coel, the face of British television today, talks about her game-changing series I May Destroy You. Plus Ashley Clark on protest and activism in Black British Cinema; an oral history of the pioneering Black Film Bulletin, and much more.

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Working in the screen industry during COVID-19

Now open – Culture Recovery Fund for Independent Cinemas in England
£500m production restart scheme insurance
Guidance for film, high-end TV, VFX and post-production and for cinema exhibition
Ben Roberts updates on the Screen Sector Task Force
Advice and support addressing the COVID-19 crisis
Ben Roberts outlines package to support UK industry
BFI London Film Festival announces new format for 2020

The 2020 edition of the BFI London Film Festival will be the first ever edition of the Festival to be widely accessible across the UK, with 50 Virtual Festival Premieres to be enjoyed at home.

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Last and First Men

Two billion years ahead of us, a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction. Tilda Swinton narrates this visually stunning lament for humanity by acclaimed composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario, Arrival).

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Perfect 10

Spirited coming-of-age drama.

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Josephine Mackerras’ bitterly funny and brutally honest debut feature.

Papicha

A fashion student tackles life amid the Algerian Civil War.

The Traitor

Italian maestro Marco Bellocchio’s bravura gangster odyssey.

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Richard Burton and Peter Firth star in Sidney Lumet’s 1977 adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s landmark, Tony-winning play.

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BFI Southbank

We are very pleased to welcome you back to BFI Southbank from 1 September 2020.
Tenet at BFI IMAX

Experience Tenet the way director Christopher Nolan intended, in IMAX 15/70mm — the world’s most immersive format.

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Clemency review: death row walls in Alfre Woodard’s warden

Chinonye Chukwu’s spare, unsparing prison drama cuts to the heart of the injustice and inhumanity of America’s death penalty, writes Nikki Baughan.
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