Elhum Shakerifar

Jul 9, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Georgia Korossi |Lou Thomas |Elhum Shakerifar |Kevin Le Gendre

On the morning of 18 June 1984 striking miners started to arrive at the picket line at the Orgreave coking plant in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, to try to revert the closing of British collieries and to maintain their jobs and livelihoods. Forty years on, BAFTA-winning director Daniel Gordon, who was 12 at the time, has complemented his 2014 account of the Hillsborough disaster by revisiting another traumatic chapter of modern Yorkshire history for his new documentary, Strike: An Uncivil War.

Jul 5, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Lou Thomas |Elhum Shakerifar |Kevin Le Gendre |Geoffrey Macnab

MaXXXine concludes Ti West’s horror trilogy with a thrilling Hollywood-set romp in which the eponymous porn star attempts to enter mainstream moviemaking with a lead role in slasher sequel The Puritan II. Around her, friends and others are being murdered, but is this the ‘night stalker’ spreading fear across the city or someone she knows already?

Jun 28, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Elhum Shakerifar |Kevin Le Gendre |Geoffrey Macnab |Lou Thomas

As a child, Lina Soualem’s mother took her to spend her summers with her family in Deir Hanna, to swim in Lake Tiberias, “as if to bathe me in her story.” These waters, near the borders of Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan, and also known as the Sea of Galilee, are at the heart of Soualem’s second documentary Bye Bye Tiberias. Winner of the Grierson Award for Best Documentary at the 2023 London Film Festival, it recollects the stories of four generations of women in her family.

May 10, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Leigh Singer |Rachel Pronger |Elhum Shakerifar |Georgia Korossi

In 1975, Billy Connolly broke out as a British comedy star. The ‘Big Yin’, a former Glaswegian welder-turned-folk-singer-turned-comedian, had already garnered attention thanks to live albums and stand-up performances, but an uproarious appearance on the Parkinson TV talk show, and, in November, a number one hit with his Tammy Wynette parody song ‘D.I.V.O.R.C.E.’ took him to another level.

May 9, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Jonathan Romney |Leigh Singer |Rachel Pronger |Elhum Shakerifar

It is more than a little ironic that it took a highly commercial feminist film to outdo Barbie. Paola Cortellesi’s There’s Still Tomorrow was the No. 1 attraction in Italian cinemas last year, grossing more than €36 million (£30 million) at the domestic box office following its release in October and chalking up 5.4 million admissions – which is especially impressive for a film in black and white that imitates the style of post-World War II Italian neorealism.