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VISIONS OF QUEERNESS
Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane and Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters were screened this summer by the BFI in two distinct strands, yet together they form a powerful meditation on queer identity, masculinity, and artistic resistance. Created in eras of censorship and constraint, both films remain landmark works that continue to inspire.
The World through Egyptian Eyes
For too long, Western cinephilia has drawn its borders tightly around Hollywood and a handful of European auteurs. But with its richly curated retrospective, the BFI Southbank opens a long-overdue window onto the visionary world of Youssef Chahine — a filmmaker whose work is as politically fearless as it is emotionally resonant, as grounded in Egyptian reality as it is steeped in cinematic fantasy.
BFI London Film Festival 2021
BFI London Film Festival focuses not just on industry insiders, but also those who genuinely love cinema.
Marco Bellocchio
Marco Bellocchio’s work is both deeply personal as well as being that of a social commentator, documenting the many social and political changes which have taken place in Italy over the years. There are few film directors whose canon of work is as diverse as Bellocchio’s and few whose work so late in their careers is as urgent and vital as ever.