Award Winning Independent Cinema

In 1953, several years after their last film and with their celebrity on the wane, Stan and Ollie embark on a tour of British seaside towns and music halls.

Forget everything you think you know about this film. It is, in fact, a classic feminist comedy that was decades ahead of its time.

Everyone knows Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, but where are the women in silent film comedy? The trailblazing Mabel Normand who starred in 167 shorts and 23 features gets her long-overdue moment in the spotlight in the BFI Comedy Genius tour.

Actor Paul Dano makes an impressive directorial debut with this elegant 1960s-set melodrama. Housewife Jeanette and golf assistant Jerry want nothing more than to be a picture-book happy American family.

Palme d'Or at Cannes Festival in 2018. In a corner of Tokyo, a family struggle to get by, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime.

A powerful exploration of faith, sexuality and freedom told through the passionate love story between two women in London's Orthodox Jewish community.

A blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, passion and corruption: the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities.

Mike Leigh's latest film is an epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter's Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in Britis...

Following the death of a child, eight Maori women are confronted by guilt, pride and defeat but will ultimately risk everything for the greater good of their community.

New Town Utopia is a documentary feature about utopian dreams and concrete realities… the challenging, funny, and sometimes tragic story of the British new town of Basildon, Essex.