BFI London Film Festival on Tour 2026

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.

Director 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 is back with another idiosyncratic, anti-capitalist vision, featuring an all-star cast that includes Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield and Demi Moore.

Brad Bird’s smart animated caper, set in 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 finds four strangers’ lives entwined by hidden desires and repressed emotions.

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

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.