The BFI has announced its complete programme for BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX for late October and November, beginning with TOO MUCH: Melodrama on Film.
The UK-wide season celebrating “the vivid visual language, heightened dramatics and emotional pathos at the heart of film melodrama” will also run at cinemas and venues across the UK from October to December, as well as online via a curated collection of films available to stream on demand on BFI Player.
Meanwhile, on 4 November, Laura Mulvey in Conversation will see the filmmaker and theorist discuss her influential work over the last 50 years, as well as receiving her recently announced BFI Fellowship, at BFI Southbank.
A Laura Mulvey: Thinking Through Film season will also celebrate her scholarship, teaching and programming.
Other seasons will focus on legendary filmmaker Terence Davies and influential documentarian Frederick Wiseman, as well as African cinema and Halloween.
All major seasons in the upcoming programme are available below, provided by the BFI.
TOO MUCH: Melodrama on Film
Vivid visual language and heightened dramatics invite you to leave your cynicism at the door and feel something.
Laura Mulvey: Thinking Through Film
Over the last 50 years, Laura Mulvey has made numerous significant interventions into the development of film culture, theory and visual language through her groundbreaking writing and filmmaking.
Love. Sex. Religion. Death. The Complete Films of Terence Davies
Terence Davies’ cinema is one of memory, longing and tragedy; at once profoundly personal but universal in its themes–the suffocation of love, the cruelty of faith, the temptations of the flesh, and the shadow of death–all while remaining alive with the songs and cinema that he adored.
Frederick Wiseman
With a groundbreaking career spanning seven decades, Frederick Wiseman is one of the great American storytellers.
London Korean Film Festival 2025
The London Korean Film Festival, the biggest international showcase of Korean films, offers a diverse range of films from the latest releases to specially curated strands. Returning for its 20th edition from 5-18 November, the festival unfolds across London.
Film Africa 2025
London’s biggest festival celebrating the best African cinema from across the continent and diaspora, brought to you by the Royal African Society, returns from 14-23 November.
Doc’n Roll Film Festival 2025
The 12th edition of Doc’n Roll Film Festival at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX from 23 October-9 November features four electrifying premieres celebrating music’s rebels, innovators and rule-breakers.
Halloween
Celebrate Halloween in schlock and style with cult classics like Office Killer or new releases like Frankenstein.
More information is available on the BFI website.
