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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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London Latest Reviews
A Pale View Of Hills
UK 1982. An young aspiring Japanese-British writer plans to write a book based on her mother Etsuko’s post-war experiences in Nagasaki. Haunted by the suicide of her older daughter, Etsuko begins to recount her memories from 1952 as a young mother-to-be. The writer begins to find troubling inconsistencies in the recollections.
UK 1982. An young aspiring Japanese-British writer plans to write a book based on her mother Etsuko’s post-war experiences in Nagasaki. Haunted by the suicide of her older daughter, Etsuko begins to recount her memories from 1952 as a young mother-to-be. The writer begins to find troubling inconsistencies in the recollections.
Pillion
A man is taken on as a motorbike club's leader's submissive but begins to question that role.
A man is taken on as a motorbike club's leader's submissive but begins to question that role.
100 Nights Of Hero
A fairy tale about a maid who concocts a plan to help her mistress.
A fairy tale about a maid who concocts a plan to help her mistress.
Train Dreams
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.
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.
Rental Family
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.
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.
Orwell: 2+2=5
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.
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.
After The Hunt
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.
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.
The Testament Of Ann Lee
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.
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.
Hedda
Three women striving for freedom in different ways collide at a party in a contemporary reworking of Henrik Ibsen's classic play.
Three women striving for freedom in different ways collide at a party in a contemporary reworking of Henrik Ibsen's classic play.
Left-Handed Girl
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”.
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”.
London Film Festival Features
Looking back
Kei Ishikawa on memory, ambiguity and A Pale View Of Hills
'Children can understand a lot more than we think..'
The makers of Little Amélie on why perceptions about animation are changing
'I don't like that feeling of things that look alike'
The Love That Remains director Hlynur Pálmason on the idiosyncratic and personal
The physicality of grief
Claire Foy on truth, space, silence and H Is For Hawk
'I like putting incompatible stuff together and seeing how it works'
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke on mixing fantasy and reality in A Useful Ghost
'The important thing is to make films you believe in'
Ben Rivers on myth adaptation and world creation in Mare's Nest
Song of the desert
Kangding Ray on changing attitudes to music in cinema, and scoring Sirât
'I think it completely changed my life'
Aleksandre Koberidze on his love for the Sony Ericsson and using it to shoot Dry Leaf
Ice cool
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani talk Reflection In A Dead Diamond
The beauty of doubt
Toni Servillo on costumes by Carlo Poggioli and working with Paolo Sorrentino on La Grazia
It’s about re-enchantment
Christian Petzold on cinema history, lullabies, Laura, Rebecca and Miroirs No. 3
Existence and resistance
Annemarie Jacir on history, poetic freedom and Palestine 36
Images in conflict
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Lynsey Addario on Love+War
'I’m very happy to be trusted with characters of this calibre'
Denis Lavant on the art of constructing personas in Redoubt and The Stranger
'Even though I'm 36, I still feel connected to the girl I was'
Emilie Thalund on teen desire, body positivity and crossing boundaries in Weightless
The man who prepared for war
John Skoog on Karl-Göran Persson and Redoubt
A new woman
Majid Al Ansari on tradition, bad marital choices and The Vile
Teen in a trap
Paolo Strippoli on his coming-of-age horror The Holy Boy
'I didn't make this film myself. The Islamic Republic made it by putting me in prison'
Jafar Panahi on the inspiration for It Was Just An Accident
The Fool's journey
Annapurna Sriram on psychic predictions, resisting censorship and making Fucktoys
The double games
Frédéric Hambalek on discovering hidden things and What Marielle Knows
Warring parents sparked Ramsay’s Cannes entry
Die, My Love stars Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence in fighting form
Slice of life... and fable
The President's Cake director Hasan Hadi on the challenges and craft behind his debut
A test of love
Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer on Honey Bunch
Time for trans joy
Siobhan McCarthy on reinventing the high school movie in She’s The He
London Film Festival News
Martel's Landmarks takes top prize at LFF
One Woman One Bra and The Travelers also among winners
London Film Festival announces programme
Films include six world premieres plus lates from Chloé Zhao and Bradley Cooper
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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