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Returning for its 63rd edition from October 2 to 13, the London Film Festival opened with Armando Iannucci's The Personal History of David Copperfield and closes with Martin Scorcese's The Irishman. The full programme will be announced on August 29.
View Films by Strand:
- 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
Dramatisation of a friendship that shaped motor racing in the Sixties.
A genetically engineered plant scatters its seeds and seems to cause uncanny changes on living creatures. The afflicted appear strange, as if they were replaced - especially for those, who are close to them. Or is it all just imagination?
In 1862, daredevil pilot joins up with a meteorologist in a bid to fly higher than any human in history and they find themselves on an adventure.
Daniel who experiences a spiritual transformation in a Youth Detention Centre. The crime he commits prevents him from applying to the seminary... but Daniel has no intention of giving up his dream.
When Alexandre learns that the priest who abused him as a boy is still working with children, he and other victims take action against the perpetrator.
A documentary about the lives lost to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
A young girl begins to question her place in the religious community she was born into.
A young girl is determined to keep the fact that there mother has left her and her younger brother alone from the authorities, through fear of being separated from him.
When a woman's father reappears on the scene after a spell in prison, she has a difficult choice to make.
Lynn and Lucy are life-long best friends but after the birth of Lucy's first child, their relationship comes under strain.
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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