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This year's London Film Festival ran from October 7 to 18. Due to the pandemic, it was a hybrid edition, which, for the first time, will screen a number of films widely across the UK. It opened with Steve McQueen's Mangrove and closed with Francis Lee's Ammonite.
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![Herself](/images/stills/h/herself_2020.jpg)
A domestic abuse survivor tries to build a new life - and home - for her kids.
![Supernova](/images/stills/s/supernova_2020.jpg)
Old friends Sam and Tusker go on a road trip to make the most of their time together two years after Tusker was diagnosed with early-onset dementia.
![Zanka Contact](/images/stills/z/zanka_contact_2020.jpg)
In hellish Casablanca, a car-crash sets ablaze a burning, passionate love story between has-been rocker Larsen and the streetwise Rajae.
![Soul](/images/stills/s/soul_2020.jpg)
A music teacher finds himself in The Great Before, an incredible place where new souls are born.
![Farewell Amor](/images/stills/f/farewell_amor_2020.jpg)
Reunited after a 17-year separation, Walter, an Angolan immigrant, is joined in the US by his wife and teenage daughter. Now absolute strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help overcome the emotional distance between them.
![Time](/images/stills/t/time_2020_9uPCmq8.jpg)
Fox Rich fights for her husband’s release from jail, after he is sentenced to 60 years of incarceration for a bank robbery, a crime she also served time for in the Nineties.
![Wolfwalkers](/images/stills/w/wolfwalkers_2020.jpg)
Animation set in the Ireland of the Cromwell period, when a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland to wipe out the last pack... only to discover the magical world of the wolfwalkers.
![The Reason I Jump](/images/stills/r/reason_i_jump_2020.jpg)
Based on the book by Naoki Higashida this immersive film explores the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people around the world.
![Another Round](/images/stills/a/another_round_2020.jpg)
Martin and three of his friends, all weary high school teachers, embark on an experiment to maintain a constant level of intoxication throughout the workday.
![David Byrne’s American Utopia](/images/stills/d/david_byrnes_american_utopia_2020.jpg)
A film of Byrne's acclaimed Broadway show.
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