At his LFF Screen Talk, the Dune director spoke of the formative influence of Steven Spielberg, the female characters at the centre of the Dune franchise, and the scar that reminds him not to act.

Director Gary Dauberman’s long-gestating adaptation of Stephen King’s small town vampire story plays with vampire conventions to create suspense rather than surprise.

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.

The grotesque pantomime killings of Art the Clown reach new extremes with this gory Christmas addition to the Terrifier franchise.

An amnesiac pieces together fragments of his life and lost love in Weightless. Italian director Sara Fgaier tells us about her ambitious use of archive footage to evoke a passing era.

Rising star Madison electrifies as sex worker Ani in Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning screwball romance. She explains what went into the role, which she crafted alongside Baker.

Lovestruck Agnes is relentlessly reincarnated as Georgian aristocrat, Victorian teacher and fan of an 80s pop star as she pursues her ‘true love’ through time in Alice Lowe’s macabre comedy subversion ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...