This year’s BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival is divided into three strands: Hearts, Bodies and Minds, with 34 world premieres, 56 features and 81 shorts from 41 countries.

Two Palestinians scrabble for survival in a run-down area of Athens, desperately trying to earn enough to pay for the rest of their journey to Germany, where they plan to open a cafe and re-start their lives.

Elon Musk making himself First Buddy to President Trump and Mark Zuckerberg’s 180-degree policy turn on fact-checking and moderation make Antigone [on strike] highly topical.

A spectacular open-air installation will explore the histories and myths around Britain’s imperial salt monopoly at Somerset House, once home of the offices that administered Britain’s colonial-era salt taxes.

After saying "no" on her wedding day, Aya leaves the Ivory Coast to start a new life in Guangzhou, China: 'Black Tea is one of the films at the forthcoming London Migration Film Festival.

A book, Slave, changed Caroline Clegg’s life 20 years ago. She’s still hoping the play of the book of the real story of the 12-year-old girl captured by raiding Mujahidin in the Nuba mountains of Sudan will open more eyes.

A British Museum exhibition, Silk Roads, will challenge the idea of the ‘Silk Road’ as a simple history of trade between ‘East’ and ‘West’.

A new exhibition highlights how migration has shaped who we are in Britain – as individuals, as communities and as a nation.

This year's Film Africa opens with a documentary, Dahomey, and closes with Black Tea, a romantic drama by award-winning Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako..

Tickets for the London Film Festival, 9-20 October, start from £10. If you're aged 16 to 25, you can sign up for a 25 & Under account to get £5 tickets.

Bodies of Water is a site-specific show to be staged on the banks of the Thames in Greenwich, exploring the moving stories of  people travelling across land and water to seek refuge.

South Asian Heritage Month films and events: from Bhutan to Bangladesh, tales of resilience, identity, and personal freedom with a focus on music, female voices and queer stories. 

British people of East and Southeast Asian heritage are still regarded as “niche exotica”, says writer/ actor/ filmmaker/ musician Daniel York Loh.

Beyond the Bassline at the British Library is the voice of community, resistance, culture and joy, a celebration of the trailblazers that brought new music to the UK, and the layered Black experiences that have birthed a thriving musical culture and history.

Challenging negative Muslim stereotypes, story-telling and faith are three key issues for Sajid Varda, creator of the inaugural Muslim International Film Festival.

The inaugural Muslim International Film Festival in London (30 May – 2 June) champions the narratives of Muslim filmmakers and spotlights their compelling stories.

Indigo Giant revisits a forgotten moment in British history and a moment in Bengali history that will never be forgotten

Ten films will be featured at at this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival (14-24 March).

In a decade of neon and noise, one moment made the world stand still and brought 1.5 billion people together – and they all have a story to tell about ‘the day rock ‘n’ roll changed the world’. 

The Royal Court presents six new plays by writers from five different countries.