Fangs for the Memory

Discover a haunted gem, the earliest film of the Christmas ghost story The Mistletoe Bough. Guaranteed to spook a whole new generation over a hundred years after its creation. With new music by Pete Wiggs of Saint Etienne, commissioned by the BFI.

Christopher Lee in perhaps his earliest supernatural screen role, as a ghost who returns from the grave to seek revenge.

Early film footage of the place where Bram Stoker's Count Dracula legendarily arrived in the UK.

Gothic-tinged animation, presenting the final day of a fox, who is being sentenced to death for murdering his rabbit lover.

A man hallucinates being buried alive after reading an Edgar Alan Poe story.

Is comedian Clive Dunn the Don Draper of the British advertising world? Watch this imaginative Tyne Tees TV marketing film and decide.

A big Geordie welcome to the north east from comrades at NERIAC.

Looking down the line on Durham station as the diesel age gathers pace on British railways.

Fur flies in a delightfully cynical 1950s cine club comedy about marriage and infidelity.

Buckle up for some asphalt angst on a tense 1960s road trip on and off the A19.

‘Soak the Serf’ for 3 groats along with the revellers and laughing nuns at Durham City’s 800th anniversary celebrations.

Charlie Hammersley, a student from Northumbria University, explains how Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film holds up a mirror to society. 

The film-makers behind a haunting tale of love and community within a UK immigration detention centre visited the BFI Southbank to discuss their film.

Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio in Conversation at BFI Southbank, discussing the making of One Battle After Another.

Laura Mulvey in conversation, following her BFI Fellowship Award.

George Clooney visited BFI Southbank to look back on his life and career.

The Oscar®- winning director of Nomadland discusses her unique approach to filmmaking and the inspiration behind the adaptation of Hamnet.