An excerpt from The Legend of the Willow Patterned Plate (1926), newly restored by the BFI National Archive, was screened yesterday at the opening night gala of The Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF). Carol Morley’s The Falling, supported by the BFI, is also screening In Competition at the festival on Saturday 18th April with rising star Florence Pugh, who plays Abbie […]
Teenager Xiao Jing lives in a fishing village in Hunan Province, isolated by both geography and her hearing impairment. Her only real emotional connection is with her uncle, an artist that she occasionally poses for. That slightly awkward hobby gives rise to a minor scandal involving the uncle, which results in Jing being sent off […]
Culture Secretary Sajid Javid has announced the ratification of a landmark film co-production treaty between the UK and China at the GREAT Festival of Creativity. The deal, which was negotiated for the UK by the British Film Institute (BFI) and China’s Film Bureau and China Film Co-production Corporation, with support from the Department for Culture, […]
Nankin Road, Shanghai (1901) The BFI returns to China in March 2015 to continue its mission towards deeper cultural exchange and understanding, collaboration and business growth between China and the UK on behalf of the UK film industry. The BFI will join the GREAT Festival of Creativity Shanghai from 2-4th March, organised by the GREAT Britain […]
The Movie Hub and Weston Favell Shopping Centre celebrate Chinese New Year in collaboration with Northampton feature film Fortune Cookies On Thursday 19th February, The Movie Hub and Weston Favell Shopping Centre will be running free animation workshops for young people with national charity Into Film. Young people and families can drop in between 11am and […]
To celebrate the release of Wong Kar Wai’s THE GRANDMASTER on 5 December we’ve got tickets to give away see some of the greatest martial arts films of all time at the Odeon Panton Street just of Leicester Square. Witness Enter The Dragon, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and House of Flying Daggers on the big screen […]
British Chinese actor, Lucy Sheen East Asian Cinematic Highlights (E.A.C.H.) is an evening of films which aims to promote and celebrate the work of a diverse group of UK-based East Asian film-makers in a packed programme including one feature and several eclectic shorts, boldly challenging cliched perceptions of Britain’s third largest ethnic minority group.Saturday, 1st […]
The festival will bring an unmissable array of over 50 top British features and short films to netizens across China. Film fans across Mainland China have cause to celebrate as the British Embassy Beijing, VisitBritain and Virgin Atlantic Airways have teamed up to launch the inaugural GREAT British Online Film Festival. The festival will bring […]
THE GRANDMASTER, the highly-anticipated film by acclaimed director Wong Kar Wai, will open through Metrodome on 5 December. Six years in the planning and three years in the making, THE GRANDMASTER is an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary kung fu master, Ip Man. The story spans the tumultuous […]
The KT Wong Foundation, in association with the BFI and China Film Archive (CFA), will screen a remastered version of classic Chinese silent film The Goddess this autumn at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank. This exclusive UK premiere will take place on 14th October 2014 as part of the prestigious BFI London Film Festival – one […]