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The 60th edition of the festival ran from October 5 to 16. It will open with A United Kingdom and close with Free Fire.
Additional headline galas include, A Monster Calls, La La Land and Snowden.
Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women was named Best Film and Julia Ducournau won the Sutherland Prize for her debut Raw. Mehrdad Oskouei's Starless Dreams was named Best Documentary. Read about all the winners here.
View Films by Strand:
- Cult
- Dare
- Debate
- Documentary Competition
- Experimenta
- Family
- First Feature Competition
- Headline Galas
- Journey
- Laugh
- Love
- Official Competition
- Short Film Competition
- Sonic
- Special Presentations
- Thrill
- Treasures
View previous years coverage of the London Film Festival festival:
London Latest Reviews

An ex-con trucker tries to expose his boss's rackets.

Three children decide to leave their homes looking a better life.

After they split, a couple continue to share a house because of financial constraints.

Conjoined twin sisters make a living as singers but the news that they could be safely separated changes everything.

The life of a castaway on a desert island.

Two disabled lads get together with an ex-fireman and form a gang of hired assassins.

Revenge tale about a mute midwife in the American West.

A documentary about selection procedures at cinema school La Fémis in Paris.

A handmaiden sets out to swindle an heiress but things don't go to plan.

A grieving mother sets out to contact her dead chiild.
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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