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Frost/Nixon received its world premiere at the 2008 festival.
The 52nd London Film Festival will run from October 15 to 30. This year's Festival will open with the world premiere of Frost/Nixon and close with Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire.
Alongside a public screening programme which presents 180 feature films and 130 short films each year, the Festival hosts panel discussions, masterclasses, screen talks and live events, as well as a comprehensive education programme and a slate of industry events and screenings.
Got a feature or short film screening at LFF 2008 and want us to review it? If you have a screener, please feel free to send it to us.
View Films by Strand:
- Cinema Europa
- Experimenta
- Film On The Square
- French Revolutions
- Galas And Special Screenings
- New British Cinema
- Short Cuts And Animation
- Treasures from the Archives
- World Cinema
View previous years coverage of the London Film Festival festival:
London Latest Reviews
A meal with mum turns sour.
Witty drama about eight years in a marriage.
An emotionally frayed family find their lives torn apart in a small Mississippi Delta town.
Offbeat drama exploring the compelling nature of peer pressure.
An accidental shooting leads to a search for revenge.
Waking covered in blood in an apartment where one man is dead and another badly injured, with little memory and no alibi, a pregnant woman must learn to deal with imprisonment.
An orphaned boy reimagines the mysterious death of his parents as a terrorist atrocity.
A man in mid-life crisis retreats to his parents' loft.
Three off-beat visions of the famous city.
Two women enter an uneasy partnership to smuggle illegal immigrants from Canada to the US.
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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