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The 62nd edition of the festival will run from October 10 to 21. It will open with the international premiere of Steve McQueen's Widows and close with the world premiere of Stan And Ollie. There will also be gala screenings of Mike Leigh's Peterloo and The Favourite, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.
View Films by Strand:
- Create
- Cult
- Dare
- Debate
- Documentary Competition
- Experimenta
- Family
- First Feature Competition
- Headline Galas
- Journey
- Laugh
- Love
- Official Competition
- Special Presentations
- Thrill
- Treasures
View previous years coverage of the London Film Festival festival:
London Latest Reviews
A dancer faces trouble on the home front.
The life of an emotionally unstable cop begins to unravel when his mum dies.
Story of a family who become involved with the drugs trade.
Paris, Summer 1979. Anne produces third-rate gay porn. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flaming sidekick Archibald... then one of her actors is brutally murdered.
A storm in the middle of the ocean, a boat full of refugees that is about to sink and a woman all by herself...
A teenager is forced to choose between a charismatic young man he meets in a detention centre and his own sense of moral integrity.
Shy girl Miriam is waiting to celebrate her 15th birthday and she wants to invite her guy. So far they’ve only chatted online, and the anticipated blind date only complicates things.
Detective thriller based on Martin Amis' Night Train.
A young wannabe milliner in Budapest meets a man connected to her past and begins to uncover family secrets.
Documentary spanning six years in the life of Libya’s nascent women’s football scene.
London Film Festival Features
London Film Festival News
Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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