The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom.
The BFI runs the annual London Film Festival along with the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and the youth-orientated Future Film Festival.
The institute was founded in 1933. At that time the institute was a private company. In 1988, the BFI opened the London Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) on the South Bank.
