Fernando Mereilles' latest film 360 opens the 2011 London Film Festival Fernando Mereilles' latest film 360 opens the 2011 London Film Festival

The 55th London Film Festival will run from October 12 to 27. The Opening Night film is the latest from Fernando Merilles (City Of God, The Constant Gardener) 360, and Terrence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea closes the festival.

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Hara-Kiri: Death Of A Samurai
Hara-Kiri: Death Of A Samurai
Takashi Miike follows 13 Assassins with a neo-classical remake of the Yasuhiko Takiguchi story about desperate, impoverished ronin and implacably cruel feudal lords.
Hunky Dory
Hunky Dory
Marc Evans' latest feature is a sweet and sincere paean to the pre-punk 1970s.
Mitsuko Delivers
Mitsuko Delivers
Mitsuko is in her ninth month of pregnancy, but that doesn't stop her taking the lead when all around her are floundering. Yuya Ishii's breathless comic drama has satire, brio and originality to burn.
Where Do We Go Now?
Where Do We Go Now?
A group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.
Wild Bill
Wild Bill
A fresh-out-of-jail ex-con, finds himself landed with taking care of his kids... whether they like it or not.
We Need To Talk About Kevin
We Need To Talk About Kevin
The much-anticipated film based on Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize-winning novel about a mother at odds with her dangerous son.
Michael
Michael
A look at the day to day life of an unremarkable man who is keeping a ten year old boy prisoner in his basement.
Trishna
Trishna
A young woman falls prey to a fatal attraction in this reworking of Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, transposed to modern day India.
Stopped On Track
Stopped On Track
A raw, compelling study what happens to a ordinary family when a husband and father becomes terminally ill.
Sleeping Sickness
Sleeping Sickness
Absorbing and boldly original drama revolving around a German doctor in present-day Cameroon.
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London Film Festival Features

Beauty and the bullet
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The director and star talk pants... and Hawaiian shirts.
All about Kevin
Lynne Ramsay and Ezra Miller on the film everybody's talking about.

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London Film Festival line-up announced
55th edition to feature 13 world premieres.
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