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BFI Southbank

Tuner

Leo Woodall impresses as a shy piano tuner whose perfect pitch and hearing prove invaluable to a group of thieves. Niki (another superb turn by White Lotus and One Day star Woodall), a piano tuner,...

June 3, 2026 | Seniors’ Matinee

Reason, Debate and a Story

Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (Reason, Debate and a Story) was officially dated a year later than A River Called Titas (1973) but in fact started before that project. It was specifically the story of a gro...

June 3, 2026 | Revolutionary Cinema
The Passion of Ritwik Ghatak

Incomplete Works

Bagala’s Discovery of Bengal A comedy on mistaken identity, this film remained incomplete a week after filming. The Knave of Trumps A compassionate portrait of the trials and tribulations of women...

June 3, 2026 | Revolutionary Cinema
The Passion of Ritwik Ghatak

The Pathetic Fallacy

Ritwik Ghatak on ‘The Pathetic Fallacy (Ajantrik)’ For 12 long years, I had thought about this story before I made it into a film. When it first came my way, accidentally, I was a green boy, newly ...

June 2, 2026 | Revolutionary Cinema
The Passion of Ritwik Ghatak

Barren Lives

Walter Salles on ‘Barren Lives’ ‘This film singlehandedly founds and justifies a Nation. Brazil has, at last, been discovered. It is a masterpiece.’ These were the words of the writer Otto Lara Res...

June 2, 2026 | Brazil on Film

Nightmare Alley

It was 1993 when Guillermo del Toro first discovered Nightmare Alley. The 29-year-old Mexican director had just finished post-production on his debut film, the baroque vampire tale Cronos, and was ...

May 23, 2026 | Guillermo del Toro