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Giant starring Amir El-Masry and Pierce Brosnan
The 69th BFI London Film Festival opened with Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and closed with Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights Of Hero. There will be five feature film world premieres, including Giant and Moss & Freud. A selection of the features were shown at 11 partner venues in cities including Glasgow, Nottingham, Edinburgh and Birmingham.
We are busy inputting this year's titles, so the line-up below is a work in progress.
View Films by Strand:
- Create
- Cult
- Dare
- Debate
- Documentary Competition
- Experimenta
- Family
- First Feature Competition
- Galas
- Journey
- Laugh
- Love
- Official Competition
- Shorts
- Special Presentations
- Thrill
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Robert Grainier is a day laborer building America’s railroads at the start of the 20th century as he experiences profound love, shocking defeat, and a world irrevocably transforming before his very eyes.
A lonely American actor living in Tokyo starts working for a Japanese 'rental family' company to play stand-in roles in other people's lives. Along the way, he finds surprising connections and unexpected joys within his built-in family.
Delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece… Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, the omnipresent spectre of Big Brother… disturbing socio-political truths which resonate ever-more powerfully today.
A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.
An epic fable inspired by the life of Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers, a radical religious movement that began in the late 1700s.
Three women striving for freedom in different ways collide at a party in a contemporary reworking of Henrik Ibsen's classic play.
A single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei to open a night market stand. Three generations of family secrets begin to unravel after the youngest daughter who’s left-handed is told by her traditional grandfather to never use her "devil hand”.
Amélie is a little Belgian girl born in Japan. Thanks to her friend Nishio-san, the world is full of adventure and discovery. But on her third birthday, an event changes the course of her life. For Amélie, everything is at stake at that age, happiness as well as tragedy.
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A six-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.
Exploring the complex bond between two half brothers - one Indigenous, one white - traveling from the present in isolated Shamattawa to bustling 1980s Toronto.
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