9ᵗʰ London Bengali Film Festival
When: Wednesday, April 22, 2026 - Sunday, April 26, 2026, 8:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Where: BLOC Cinema, Mile End
For its 9th edition, the London Bengali Film Festival turns its lens on identity — what it means to be Bengali today, in London, in Dhaka, in Kolkata, and everywhere in between.
This year's programme spans five days of cinema drawn from Bangladesh, India, the UK, and beyond with films about women under pressure, queer lives, folk horror, diaspora masculinity, animated utopias, and a bandit queen who refused to be erased. Together they make the case that Bengali storytelling has never been more alive, more varied, or more urgent.
Events at BLOC
Thursday 23 April 2026
- 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM: Jasmine That Blooms in Autumn
- 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM: Crossing The Desert
- 3:00 PM - 4:25 PM: Nirvana
- 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM: Feature: PINJAR (The Cage)
Friday 24 April 2026
- 12:00 PM – 1:43 PM (with speaker event): Silence of the Womb (No'mas No'din Ontahin)
- 3:00 PM - 4:21 PM: The Exile
Saturday 25 April 2026
- 12:00 PM – 12:11 PM: 7th Cycle
- 12:11 PM – 2:45 PM: What Will People Say? (Log Kya Kahenge)
- 2:45 PM - 4:05 PM: Sultana's Dream
- 5:00 PM – 6:50 PM: Utshob (উৎসব / Festival)
Sunday 26 April 2026
- 11:00 AM - 12:22 PM: London Boys
- 3:00 PM - 5:14 PM: Devi Chowdhurani