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Frost/Nixon received its world premiere at the 2008 festival.
Frost/Nixon received its world premiere at the 2008 festival.
The 52nd London Film Festival will run from October 15 to 30. This year's Festival will open with the world premiere of Frost/Nixon and close with Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire.

Alongside a public screening programme which presents 180 feature films and 130 short films each year, the Festival hosts panel discussions, masterclasses, screen talks and live events, as well as a comprehensive education programme and a slate of industry events and screenings.

Got a feature or short film screening at LFF 2008 and want us to review it? If you have a screener, please feel free to send it to .
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London Film Festival Latest Reviews

Revanche
An accidental shooting leads to a search for revenge.
Lion's Den
Waking covered in blood in an apartment where one man is dead and another badly injured, with little memory and no alibi, a pregnant woman must learn to deal with imprisonment.
Adoration
An orphaned boy reimagines the mysterious death of his parents as a terrorist atrocity.
Momma's Man
A man in mid-life crisis retreats to his parents' loft.
Tokyo!
Three off-beat visions of the famous city.
Frozen River
Two women enter an uneasy partnership to smuggle illegal immigrants from Canada to the US.
Firaaq
The story of how the Hindu-Muslim riots that ravaged Gujarat in 2002 altered the lives of a number of different characters.
The Last Thakur
As a Muslim politician and a Hindu landlord compete for power in an isolated Bangladeshi village, a stranger with a rifle pursues his own deadly agenda.
This Way Up
Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.
Blind Loves
The complexities of love and relationships as experienced by various visually impaired people.

London Film Festival Festival Features

London Film Festival: Episode Two
Film is all about a point of view...

All fired up
Director Sharon Maguire on the impact of terrorism in the modern world - envisioned in her latest film Incendiary.

London Film Festival: Episode One
Soaking up the best of British.

Ten of the best
Films to look out for at London Film Festival

Revolutionary life
Director Steven Soderbergh on making his two-part epic about Che Guevara.

City of memories
Director Jia Zhang-Ke talks about the inspiration behind his fact meets fiction look at the lives of factory workers.

Appetites of Hunger
Director Steve McQueen talks about what drove him to make his Camera d'Or winning film about Bobby Sands' hunger strike.

In search of Better Things
Duane Hopkins talks about his startling new film.

London Film Festival News

London Film Festival awarded £1.8 million
Capital arts event gets UK Film Council funding boost.

London Film Festival line-up announced
52nd edition to feature record number of premieres, plus first public screening of Quantum Of Solace.

Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire to close London Film Festival
Sunshine director 'delighted' by invitation.

Frost/Nixon to get world premiere in London
Film Festival to open on October 15 with Ron Howard's drama.

News & Features Repo

Buried, Winter's Bone, Bran Nue Day, Contracorriente and a late-night podcast.

Stalking Four Lions, Smash His Camera, Exit Through The Gift Shop and Night Catches Us.

Mohammad Bakri talks about his film Zahara, celebrating his Palestinian aunt.

4th annual event brings independent film to the islands.

Artistic director moves on after four editions at the helm.
Playing Now! Italian Film Festival - Giovanna's Father


Cinema with a Latin flavour.
Running in London from May 1.

Running from April 29.

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Highlights of 2007-2008.

Running until March 18.

Highlights of 2007-2008.

Highlights of 2006-2008.

Archive of festival coverage.

Reviews from 2007-2008.

Coverage of the 2008-2009 festival.
Daily diary and reviews from 2005-2008.

Coverage of the international festival.
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