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This year's edition of the festival will run as a hybrid event, featuring in person screenings and online from October 6 to 17. Several of the films will also be simultaneously screened at partner venues elsewhere in the UK. The festival will open with The Harder They Fall and close with Macbeth.
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- Create
- Cult
- Dare
- Debate
- Experimenta
- Family
- First Feature Competition
- Galas
- Journey
- Laugh
- Love
- Thrill
- Unnamed Strand
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London Latest Reviews

Ahmed’s world is thrown off-balance when he encounters Farah, newly-arrived from Tunis, who challenges everything he thought he knew.

Documentary about the siege at Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, Syria.

Trouble brews at a factory after a boss finds himself in line for an award for excellence.

The shift has hardly begun for head chef Andy and he’s already behind with everything. His restaurant is overbooked, there’s a disgruntled inspector combing the kitchen and, if that weren’t enough, a culinary icon and a respected food critic have turned up for dinner.

A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.

A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk, but is forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a Russian miner.

A teenage Scottish surfing champ prepares to ride a dangerous Irish big wave.

A washed-up ex-porn star tries to get his life back together in his hometown, sparking trouble for those in his orbit.

An American filmmaking couple retreat to the island for the summer to write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the island's wild landscape.

A gravedigger finds himself up against it as he tries to get the cash together to help his gravely ill wife get medical treatment.
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