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Films of the Year!

As 2014 winds to a close we take a look back at what has been a fantastic year for the Cinema For All Booking Scheme. With several new distributors joining the scheme and loads of new titles it’s been a bumper year for bookings and we’re hugely grateful to all the film societies and community cinemas […]

Back Catalogue: Love Crime

This guest blog was written by Sixth Form student Bethh Oliver who joined us in the Cinema For All Office for work experience.  I spent quite a bit of time looking through a variety of different international film titles that are available in the booking scheme. I came across a French film called “Crime d’Amour” […]

Sci-fi on the Booking Scheme!

With the BFI’s new season Sci-fi: Days of Fear and Wonder kicking off this September we’re taking a look at the Sci-fi films available on the Booking Scheme. Sci-fi can be both a vision into the unknown and a filter through which we can view our own world. It’s an inventive and broad genre and […]

Trouble in Paradise: The Galapagos Affair

Opening in cinemas this Friday, The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden is an engrossing and mysterious documentary about the ill-fated community that was established on the small island of Floreana in the early 1930s. This strange and lurid tale contains at its heart a mystery that has never been solved. The Galapagos Affair will be available from […]

A New Wave of Booking Scheme Titles

We’re very excited to now have 18 new titles available to book now on the Booking Scheme from our new partnership with New Wave Films! We’ll also be adding two more from them in the coming months, An Episode in the Life of an Iron picker will be available to book from the 14 July […]

Back Catalogue: Weekend

Having joined the BFFS team just over a month ago, I thought I’d  pick one of my favourite films out of the BFFS Booking Scheme back catalogue and write about it. I’ve picked the British realist film Weekend, which is one of the Peccadillo Pictures titles available now to book either on DVD or Blu-ray. Weekend | […]

Best of British

On April 1st BFFS is hosting a 35mm screening of This Is England at Film Unit, one of Sheffield’s community cinemas. The  screening will be introduced by Warp Films Head and BFFS Patron Mark Herbert who will also take part in a Q&A after the screening, along with special guests. Before the main feature we will also […]

BFFS at the ICO Screening Days April 2014

This Spring’s ICO Screening Days are once again taking place at the BFI Southbank. Over three days, April 5-7, 25 films will be previewed exclusively to those working or volunteering in film exhibition. As ever BFFS will be there for the weekend with 4 films coming to the BFFS Booking Scheme on show. We will […]

Forest Row Film Society Picks pt 2

Brad Scott from Forest Row Film Society takes a look at six Booking Scheme Titles that are on their shortlist for next season. As part of Forest Row Film Society’s programme planning activity we’ve been checking out more of the intriguing titles lurking on the booking scheme. Fish Story | Yoshihio Nakamura |Japan | 2009 […]

Fireworks Wednesday

Playing out over the course of  one day over the Persian New Year, Asghar Farhadi’s 2006 film has only recently arrived in the UK, courtesy of Axiom Films. A sophisticated drama, Fireworks Wednesday is further proof of the formidable talents of the director of About Elly, A Separation and the forthcoming The Past.