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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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Two young men in 1920 set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen.
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old, lives with her single mother. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
Estranged brothers reunite in a remote cabin and are forced to confront their painful past.
When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.
A Yorkshire village’s choral society finds its ranks depleted as men head off to war... leaving it forced to change its rules.
The story of Christy Martin, the most successful female boxer of the Nineties.
A child's adventures in an adult-free world.
Famous movie actor Jay Kelly and his devoted manager Ron embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey. Both are forced to confront choices they've made, their relationships with loved ones and the legacies they'll leave behind.
A troubled young woman escapes an abusive childhood, family tragedy and addiction issues by slowly finding her creative voice as a writer.
March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing the vacuum cleaner. But to become a useful ghost, she first needs to get rid of the useless ones.
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