BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2026
7-18 october | everyone is invited
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The BFI London Film Festival returns to Curzon Soho with the world’s most anticipated new films from celebrated auteurs, debut directors and international filmmakers. This is your chance to delight in the undiscovered, as all features are being shown in the UK for the first (and sometimes the only) time.
Go to the Festival's website to see the full programme.
Tickets on sale from 17 September 10:00.
HIGHLIGHTS
Create
Making Marie Antoinette
Eleanor Coppola’s documentary on the making of Marie Antoinette is a rousing love letter to filmic craft and the joys and complexities of leading an artistic life.
Galas
La Bola Negra
A genre-defying queer epic, rooted in the legacy of beloved writer Federico García Lorca, this is majestic and original filmmaking.
Galas
A Long Winter
Andrew Haigh’s sensitive drama transforms a snowbound landscape into a space where beauty and longing exist in delicate equilibrium.
Galas
Minotaur
Andrey Zvyagintsev transposes Claude Chabrol’s La Femme infidèle to contemporary Russia, delivering a magnificent political allegory that dissects the mechanics of ego, violence and corruption.
Galas
Tender Loving Care
In a world that feels increasingly untethered from human connection, the incomparable Mike Leigh returns with a thought-provoking and compassionate view of urban life.
Create
The Man I Love
Ira Sachs cements his position as one of the great chroniclers of New York life with this tender, earthy portrait of the city’s gay scene in the 1980s.
SCREEN TALKS
Screen Talk
Mahershala Ali
The BAFTA and two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali joins us to discuss his career, as he unveils his existential crime thriller Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother.
Screen Talk
James Gray
With the screening of his riveting crime drama Paper Tiger, James Gray joins us to talk about his critically acclaimed career.
Screen Talk
Naomi Ackie
We welcome Naomi Ackie, who is appearing in I Love Boosters in the festival, to this Screen Talk to discuss her career.
Screen Talk
Brad Bird
With the festival screening the brilliant, noir-inspired Ray Gunn, Brad Bird will join us to discuss his Oscar and BAFTA-winning career.
CURZON FILM RELEASES AT LFF
Thrill
Josephine
Winner of the Grand Jury Dramatic Prize at Sundance, this suspenseful and devastating film follows a child trying to navigate life after witnessing a sexual assault.
Galas
The Beloved
Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s intense psychological study, featuring extraordinary performances by Javier Bardem and Victoria Luengo, explores the limits of power and control.
Debate
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
In Clio Barnard’s poignant drama, five childhood friends from Birmingham find their lifelong bonds tested as adulthood brings fractured relationships, unfulfilled dreams and long-buried secrets to light.
