Audience responses
We evaluate our audience’s responses to each screening and the latest figures are added to the table below soon after each film has been shown. You can also see our audience’s reactions to recent film seasons, giving an indication of BFS’s track record.
| 2025 Season Titles | Excellent | Good | Fair | Poor | Total Votes | Positive Response |
| Rosalie (2023) | 81 | 41 | 14 | 3 | 139 | 86% |
| Heart of an Oak / Le Chêne (2022) | 105 | 29 | 7 | 1 | 142 | 92% |
| Comandante (2023) | 73 | 55 | 13 | 1 | 142 | 85% |
| All We Imagine as Light (2024) | 24 | 52 | 40 | 5 | 121 | 70% |
| The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) | 67 | 23 | 5 | 3 | 98 | 89% |
| Radical (2023) | 118 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 130 | 97% |
| Satu – Year of the Rabbit (2024) | 63 | 36 | 10 | 0 | 109 | 87% |
| I’m Still Here / Ainda estou aqui (2024) | 77 | 32 | 6 | 0 | 115 | 90% |
| A New Kind of Wilderness (2024) | 38 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 56 | 90% |
| Santosh (2024) | 19 | 19 | 10 | 3 | 51 | 76% |
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| 2024 Season Titles | Excellent | Good | Fair | Poor | Total Votes | Positive Response |
| One Fine Morning / Un beau matin (2022) | 52 | 57 | 35 | 5 | 149 | 76% |
| 1976 (2022) | 46 | 56 | 18 | 3 | 123 | 79% |
| Past Lives (2023) | 69 | 40 | 4 | 1 | 114 | 89% |
| The Innocent / L’Innocent (2022) | 60 | 56 | 10 | 0 | 126 | 85% |
| The Quiet Girl / An Cailín Ciúin (2022) | 91 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 113 | 93% |
| Anatomy of a Fall / Anatomie d’une chute (2023) | 67 | 32 | 13 | 2 | 114 | 85% |
| The Taste of Things / La Passion de Dodin Bouffant (2023) | 68 | 43 | 20 | 5 | 136 | 82% |
| Nezouh (2022) | 50 | 53 | 12 | 1 | 116 | 83% |
| Evil Does Not Exist / Aku wa sonzai shinai (2023) | 10 | 41 | 46 | 20 | 117 | 59% |
| The Teachers’ Lounge / Das Lehrerzimmer (2023) | 49 | 64 | 15 | 5 | 133 | 80% |
| If Only I Could Hibernate / Baavgal Bolohson (2023) | 52 | 42 | 18 | 2 | 114 | 82% |
| Rose (2022) | 100 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 121 | 94% |
Click the image for the Season brochure January – May 2024 (PDF):
Click the image for the Season brochure September-November 2024:
| 2023 Season Titles | Excellent | Good | Fair | Poor | Total Votes | Positive Response |
| Undine (2020) | 23 | 46 | 21 | 5 | 95 | 73% |
| Playground / Un monde (2021) | 25 | 31 | 20 | 9 | 85 | 71% |
| The Good Boss / El buen patrón (2021) | 65 | 41 | 4 | 1 | 111 | 88% |
| Lingui, the sacred bonds (2021) | 38 | 39 | 4 | 0 | 81 | 85% |
| Lunana: a yak in the classroom (2019) | 90 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 108 | 95% |
| The Big Hit / Un triomphe (2020) | 70 | 31 | 4 | 1 | 106 | 90% |
| Official Competition / Competencia oficial (2022) | 39 | 36 | 12 | 4 | 91 | 80% |
| Decision to Leave / Heojil kyolshim (2022) | 14 | 26 | 20 | 20 | 80 | 61% |
| Love according to Dalva (2022) | 42 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 71 | 87% |
| The Eight Mountains / Le otto montagne (2022) | 54 | 38 | 3 | 1 | 96 | 88% |
| Broker / Beurokeo (2022) | 35 | 38 | 17 | 4 | 94 | 78% |
| Perfumes / Les Parfums (2019) | 85 | 24 | 4 | 2 | 115 | 92% |
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Click the image for the Season brochure September – November 2023 (PDF):
| 2022 Season Titles | Excellent | Good | Fair | Poor | Total Votes | Positive Response |
| I’m Your Man / Ich bin dein Mensch (2021) | 61 | 27 | 6 | 1 | 95 | 89% |
| After Love (2020) | 45 | 40 | 13 | 1 | 99 | 83% |
| You Will Die at 20 (2019) | 15 | 34 | 13 | 3 | 65 | 73% |
| Gagarine (2020) | 21 | 28 | 13 | 4 | 66 | 75% |
| C’est la vie / Le Sens de la fête (2017) | 61 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 82 | 93% |
| The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao / A vida invisivel (2019) | 29 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 62 | 84% |
| The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021) | 22 | 33 | 11 | 1 | 66 | 79% |
| Luzzu (2021) | 27 | 40 | 8 | 3 | 78 | 79% |
| Benediction (2021) | 48 | 27 | 12 | 1 | 88 | 85% |
| Parallel Mothers / Madres paralelas (2021) | 52 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 86 | 88% |
| Everything Went Fine / Tout s’est bien passé (2021) | 28 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 48 | 86% |
| Wild Men / Vildmænd (2021) | 42 | 31 | 13 | 4 | 90 | 81% |
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| 2019/20 [2021] Season Titles | Excellent | Good | Fair | Poor | Total Votes | Positive Response |
| Everybody Knows / Todos lo saben (2018) | 89 | 78 | 17 | 2 | 186 | 84% |
| Cold War / Zimna wojna (2018) | 84 | 78 | 27 | 2 | 191 | 82% |
| Capernaum / Capharnaüm (2018) | 120 | 37 | 3 | 1 | 161 | 93% |
| Woman at War / Kona fer í stríð (2018) | 114 | 58 | 17 | 1 | 190 | 88% |
| Yuli (2018) | 123 | 39 | 6 | 3 | 171 | 91% |
| The Guilty / Den skyldige (2018) | 134 | 55 | 9 | 2 | 200 | 90% |
| The Beaches of Agnes / Les Plages d’Agnès (2008) | 32 | 39 | 23 | 4 | 98 | 75% |
| Styx (2018) | 63 | 72 | 32 | 7 | 174 | 77% |
| + Autumn 2021 | ||||||
| Minari (2020) | 33 | 36 | 4 | 1 | 74 | 84% |
| 3 Faces / Se rokh (2018) | 24 | 41 | 26 | 3 | 94 | 73% |
| Limbo (2020) | 35 | 35 | 17 | 1 | 88 | 80% |
| The Truffle Hunters (2020) | 26 | 36 | 14 | 0 | 76 | 79% |
Click here to see the season brochure (PDF). The season was disrupted by the Covid-19 lockdown and some programme changes were made when screenings resumed in Autumn 2021: details here.
| 2018/2019 Season Titles | Excellent | Good | Fair | Poor | Total Votes | Positive Response |
| A Fantastic Woman / Una mujer fantástica (2016) | 72 | 82 | 31 | 7 | 192 | 79% |
| Jîn (Turkey, 2013) BFMAF screening | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Custody / Jusqu’à la garde (2017) | 97 | 49 | 4 | 2 | 152 | 90% |
| Lost in Paris / Paris pieds nus (2016) | 71 | 67 | 22 | 7 | 167 | 80% |
| In Between / Bar Bahar (2016) | 66 | 76 | 24 | 3 | 169 | 80% |
| Scribe / La Mécanique de l’ombre (2016) | 73 | 70 | 44 | 6 | 193 | 77% |
| The Square (2017) | 40 | 66 | 45 | 11 | 162 | 71% |
| Faces Places / Visages Villages (2017) | 111 | 46 | 5 | 0 | 162 | 91% |
| In the Fade / Aus dem Nichts (2017) | 110 | 47 | 4 | 0 | 161 | 91% |
| The Rider (2017) | 77 | 72 | 17 | 6 | 172 | 82% |
| The Wife (2017) | 133 | 59 | 19 | 7 | 218 | 86% |
| The Eagle Huntress (2016) | 130 | 44 | 10 | 4 | 188 | 90% |
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| 2017/2018 Season Titles | Excellent | Good | Fair | Poor | Total Votes | Positive Response |
| The Olive Tree / El olivo (2016) | 130 | 41 | 2 | 2 | 175 | 93% |
| Man Follows Birds (USSR, 1975) BFMAF screening | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Sunrise (1927) (with live music accompaniment) | 113 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 143 | 94% |
| The Salesman / Forušhande (2016) | 58 | 65 | 35 | 1 | 159 | 78% |
| Sweet Bean / An (2015) | 106 | 54 | 12 | 1 | 173 | 88% |
| Lady Macbeth (2017) | 52 | 56 | 22 | 22 | 152 | 73% |
| It’s Only the End of the World / Juste la fin du monde (2016) | 41 | 42 | 55 | 23 | 161 | 66% |
| A Man Called Ove / En man som heter Ove (2015) | 154 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 177 | 96% |
| Les Cowboys (2015) | 25 | 56 | 19 | 3 | 103 | 75% |
| The Black Hen / Kalo Pothi (2015) | 30 | 78 | 58 | 9 | 175 | 68% |
| Frantz (2016) | 132 | 50 | 7 | 0 | 189 | 92% |
| The Other Side of Hope / Toivan tuolla puolen (2017) | 48 | 66 | 17 | 3 | 134 | 80% |
| The Shape of Water (2017) | 59 | 26 | 13 | 7 | 105 | 83% |
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| 2016/2017 Season Titles | Excellent | Good | Fair | Poor | Number Voting | Positive Response |
| Trumbo (2015) | 90 | 28 | 4 | 1 | 123 | 92% |
| April and the Extraordinary World / Avril et le monde truqué (2015) BFMAF screening | 34 | 32 | 3 | 2 | 71 | 85% |
| Youth (2015) | 76 | 49 | 30 | 9 | 164 | 79% |
| The Second Mother /Que horas ela volta? (2015) | 44 | 74 | 30 | 3 | 151 | 76% |
| Hector (2015) | 71 | 64 | 10 | 1 | 146 | 85% |
| Knife in the Water / Nóz w wodzie (1962) | 23 | 50 | 44 | 11 | 128 | 67% |
| The Music of Strangers (2015) | 90 | 23 | 7 | 0 | 120 | 92% |
| Marguerite (2015) | 51 | 47 | 21 | 5 | 124 | 79% |
| Embrace of the Serpent /El abrazo de la serpiente (2015) | 49 | 46 | 30 | 8 | 133 | 76% |
| Mustang (2015) | 96 | 32 | 8 | 1 | 137 | 91% |
| The Brand New Testament / Le Tout Nouveau Testament (2015) | 70 | 29 | 13 | 3 | 115 | 86% |
| Julieta (2016) | 58 | 58 | 16 | 1 | 133 | 83% |
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