Applications open for free BFI Film Academy course in film curation and archiving for young people
Applications are open for a new, free training scheme for ages 18-22, in film curation and archiving, at Showroom Cinema, Sheffield.
Everyone is invited to the 70th edition of the BFI London Film Festival, from 7 to 18 October at Showroom Cinema, Sheffield. Enjoy early previews and discover the world’s best new films.
Showroom Cinema members* can access priority booking for LFF 2026 from 10am on Thu 10 Sep. See more and pay less with a Showroom Cinema membership.
General on-sale starts at 10am on Thu 17 Sep.
During the Festival, make sure to cast your vote for the LFF Audience Awards!

Andrew Scott is a towering presence in this singular account of Ian Charleson’s life, capturing the moment when he faced his own mortality as he prepared to play Hamlet at the Royal National Theatre.

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.

Martin McDonagh continues to mine the absurdities and complexities of male relationships in a film that brims with energy and is sure to delight.

The writer-director behind Sorry to Bother You (LFF 2018) is back with another idiosyncratic, anti-capitalist vision, featuring an all-star cast that includes Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield and Demi Moore.

A genre-defying queer epic, rooted in the legacy of beloved writer Federico García Lorca, this is majestic and original filmmaking.

Brad Bird’s smart animated caper, set in a futuristic world where humans and aliens co-exist, sees a private eye drawn into a murder investigation.

Lee Chang-dong’s masterfully directed follow-up to Burning (LFF 2018) finds four strangers’ lives entwined by hidden desires and repressed emotions.

Danny Boyle brings a seismic moment in Rupert Murdoch’s Fleet Street career blazingly to life, employing the breathtaking style of a story torn from the headlines.

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.

In a masterclass of control and precision, Paweł Pawlikowski explores the fragmented soul of postwar Germany through a father-daughter road trip dominated by personal ghosts.

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.

This searching, Palme d’Or-winning moral dilemma pits preaching conservative Christian parents against a holier-than-thou liberal system.

A jaded New York club promoter finds his messy lifestyle upended by the discovery that he has a son, in Jordan Firstman’s hilarious feature directorial debut.

For LFF 2026’s curtain call, writer-director Jesse Eisenberg delivers a rapturous and raucously funny love letter to community theatre, featuring a luminous lead performance by Julianne Moore.
*Standard, Superior, Flex and Supporter tiers only.
Paternoster Row, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2BX
Bike racks, nearby tram parking, tram and bus access