London Film Festival 2019

View other London Film Festival Films by strand: Cult, Dare, Debate, Documentary Competition, Experimenta, Family, Headline Galas, Journey, Laugh, Love, Official Competition, Special Presentations, Thrill, Treasures

Babyteeth Babyteeth
Babyteeth and Atlantics
Atlantics (Atlantique, Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story) (Country: Senegal; Year: 2019; Director: Mati Diop; Writer: Mati Diop, Olivier Demangel; Stars: Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow, Traore, Nicole Sougou, Aminata Kane, Coumba Dieng, Ibrahima Mbaye, Diankou Sembene, Abdou Balde, Babacar Sylla, Arame Fall Faye, Ya Arame Mousse Sene, Babacar Samba, Astou N'Diaye, Khouda Fall)
Love and loss in Dakar are given a supernatural twist.
Babyteeth (Country: Australia; Year: 2019; Director: Shannon Murphy; Writer: Based on the play by Rita Kalnejais; Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Essie Davis, Eliza Scanlen, Toby Wallace, Andrea Demetriades, Emily Barclay, Charles Grounds, Justin Smith, Arka Das, Priscilla Doueihy, Georgina Symes, Zack Grech, Eugene Gilfedder, Quentin Yung, Jack Yabsley)
Comedy, sees a family whose seriously ill daughter falls for a drug dealer discover that it might not be such a terrible thing after all.
Calm With Horses (Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Nick Rowland; Writer: Joe Murtagh; Stars: Barry Keoghan, Ned Dennehy, Niamh Algar, Anthony Welsh, David Wilmot, Cosmo Jarvis, Simone Kirby, Toni O'Rourke, Ryan McParland, Hazel Doupe, Roisin O'Neill, Lee Byford, John Paul O'Driscoll, Matt Tyzack, Stephen McGowan)
Thriller about a crime enforcer for a clan of drug dealers, while also trying to be a good father to his autistic son.
House Of Hummingbird (Country: South Korea; Year: 2018; Director: Bora Kim; Writer: Bora Kim; Stars: Jeong In-gi, Kim Sae-byeok, ParkJi-hu, Lee Seung-Yeon)
She roams the neighbourhood with her best friend, attempts to fall in love, is sent to the hospital with an unclear diagnosis. Untethered from the wider world, 14-year-old Eun-hee floats through Seoul.
Instinct (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2019; Director: Halina Reijn; Writer: Esther Gerritsen, Halina Reijn; Stars: Carice van Houten, Marwan Kenzari, Marie-Mae van Zuilen, Pieter Embrechts, Ariane Schluter, Betty Schuurman, Abdelkarim El Baz, Tamar van den Dop, Robert de Hoog, Kuno Bakker, Juda Goslinga, Barry Emond, Akwasi Owusu-Ansah, Maria Kraakman, Matijs Jansen)
A prison psychologist finds herself in a game of powerplay with a narcissistic inmate.
Calm With Horses Calm With Horses
Calm With Horses and House Of Hummingbird
The Last Black Man In San Francisco (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Joe Talbot; Writer: Jimmie Fails, Joe Talbot; Stars: Thora Birch, Finn Wittrock, Danny Glover, Tichina Arnold, Mike Epps, Tonya Glanz, Rob Morgan, Jonathan Majors, John Ozuna, Cassie Hendry, Leah Shesky, Michael J Gwynn, Javier Chavarin, Mari Kearney, Jimmie Fails)
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind.
Relativity (Mein Ende. Dein Anfang.) (Country: Germany; Year: 2019; Director: Mariko Minoguchi; Writer: Mariko Minoguchi; Stars: Saskia Rosendahl, Jeanette Hain, Edin Hasanovic, Julius Feldmeier, Nathalie J. Cerny, David Baalcke, Leonard Hohm, Lilly Forgach, Andrea Sihler, Sebastian Griegel, Thomas Kress, Claudia Helene Hinterecker, Emanuela von Frankenberg, Isabell Stern, Stefan Pfau)
Thriller about a romance plays with the idea of chance.
News

59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground

More news and features

Playing Now

Eye For Film continues to support festivals both locally and across the world. At the moment, we're covering:

Sands Film Festival
Weekend film event in St Andrews

Queer East

Visions du RĂ©el
Swiss documentary showcase

Overlook Film Festival

New Directors/New Films
New York's celebration of new voices

In the Archive


Archive of festival coverage.

Daily diary and reviews from 2005-2018.

Coverage of the lynchpin German festival.