Valentine’s Day at BFI Southbank

BFI Southbank is serving up the perfect Valentine’s Day date night selection of films on Saturday, 14 February. Grab some drinks from the bar and settle in with your love to enjoy one of these fantastically romantic features!

Also featuring this year is a special 'Galentine's Day' screening on 13 February.

Friday 13 February

But I'm a Cheerleader
A 1999 teen romantic satire starring Natasha Lyonne as an all-American high school cheerleader with a boyfriend who she doesn't really enjoy kissing all that much... Her conservative parents decide she might be a lesbian and promptly send her off to “sexual redirection” school, where she must, surrounded by other lesbians and gays, learn how to be straight.

Saturday 14 February

Three Coins in the Fountain 
A classic romantic comedy from 1954 set in Rome, where three American women working in the Eternal City dream of finding romance.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) 
Céline Sciamma’s period romantic drama is the perfect combination of sensuality, feminism and restraint. In the late 18th-century, a noted female artist arrives on a remote island to paint a portrait of a soon-to-be-married young woman. As the two spend time together, an intense romance ensues.

Mississippi Masala
A 35th anniversary screening of this underrated 1991 film starring a young Denzel Washington. A love story between a young Indian woman born in Uganda and an African-American carpet-cleaner who has never left Mississippi, the film explores the complexities of inter-racial relationships, identity, colourism, racism, anti-Blackness, classism and xenophobia across races.