Immerse yourself as a dark-web hacker in LILI, a neo-noir interactive adaptation of Macbeth set in contemporary Iran. As Lili plots a murder to secure her husband's rise in the militia, your covert actions expose the machinery of surveillance, power, and violence in a regime where nothing stays hidden.
Go-wing, 19, is going to be the first university graduate in the Au family - or so her father thinks. In between school breaks, she even works in his takeaway to help keep costs down. But Go-wing’s hectic yet mundane and isolated life is about to change when she arrives at a visiting circus on a delivery trip. There, not only her hidden rollerblading talent is celebrated, but she also discovers a bigger ambition - High Wire.
To keep pursuing this new-found, death-defying aspiration and still be the good daughter her father wants - she lies. Go-wing is going to play a balancing act not just on the wire, but also in real life.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
Feifei, a Chinese girl living in Wales, searches for a fish that will bring good fortune to her family’s restaurant.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025
Paris explores and her relationship with her crusts, her best friend, and her hair.
A coming-of-age story about the first time you act against your true nature. Inspired by the old wives tale - eating the bread crusts makes your hair go curly .
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025
In this South Asian team sport, players repeating ‘kabaddi’ frantically cross boundaries on the court, tagging their opponents before returning.
Ka ba Ddi is a high-energy team sport originating in South Asia played between two teams of seven players on a divided court. Players respond to boundaries, bodies think in relation to each other: lines of the court, focal points for players movements. Stretching back into their own territory; a vocabulary of movement that make connections with what is happening in the wider world, in domestic UK politics but also internationally. Territory has never felt so terrifying or so contested. The rules based order of Kabaddi stipulates that one team sends a single "raider" into the opposing team's territory, the aim is to tag/touch as many players as possible from the opposing side before retreating back into your own territory. Rules govern our bodies, we live in a series of ever increasing courts both materially and ideologically.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Short Film Competition
A Jamaican mother in London uses a traditional meal to reconnect with her sons before their Caribbean roots are lost to their new English life.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
Jennifer, a controlling mother, interferes in her nine-year-old daughter's audition in order to live out her own dreams.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
A wave of regeneration is hitting London’s working-class neighbourhoods. South of the river, the demolition of Elephant & Castle’s shopping centre has uprooted the community who made it their own. As they navigate an uncertain future, they carry with them the legacy of a place that once felt like home.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Short Film Competition - World premiere
A vampiric trio move through sacred ruins, where bodies blur, relics stir, and both life and death appear in shadow.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
“Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it’s not real.”
Mags summons the powers of the sky in an attempt to seek justice for her late sister.
A haunting exploration of grief, revenge and the unseen forces we overlook.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
On the cusp of adolescence, Celia’s world begins to unravel after she discovers her mother’s affair. Alienated at home and struggling with a mind where reality and imagination intertwine, she retreats into long summer days with her cousins, Kerry and Hannah. Things take a dark turn when she and Kerry stumble upon a body deep in the woods. They urgently summon the adults for help, but the body inexplicably vanishes - and no one believes them. As Celia becomes consumed with uncovering the truth, her grip on reality fractures further, pulling her into a dangerous mystery where the line between witness and suspect blurs, and the greatest threat may lie within her own mind. This coming of age film explores maladaptive daydreaming, a mental condition that children can develop using fantasy to cope with a psychological trauma.
Ina Lüders is a German director based in London. With over 40 years of experience in the film industry, she is 63 years old and making her feature film directorial debut.
Chronicling Pulitzer Prize-winning Lynsey Addario’s ascent in the male-dominated world of conflict photography. Her work is dangerous. She’s been kidnapped twice while on assignment in war zones - a cost she must wrestle with each time she leaves her husband and two sons to go on assignment. Behind the camera, Addario is torn between her unwavering commitment to the essential work of journalism and the powerful, competing demands of motherhood, grappling with what it truly means to follow your calling when it threatens everything you love.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - European premiere
