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This year's edition of the festival will run as a hybrid event, featuring in person screenings and online from October 6 to 17. Several of the films will also be simultaneously screened at partner venues elsewhere in the UK. The festival will open with The Harder They Fall and close with Macbeth.
View Films by Strand:
- Create
- Cult
- Dare
- Debate
- Experimenta
- Family
- First Feature Competition
- Galas
- Journey
- Laugh
- Love
- Thrill
- Unnamed Strand
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London Latest Reviews
Just as the Earth is, our inner selves are made up of many layers that make up our identity and tell the story of our existence.
A documentary exploring the use of Monument Valley in film.
Returning to a Vienna they hardly recognise after two years in a Russian PoW camp, a group of Austrian soldiers are hunted by a sadistic serial killer.
Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shutters are always closed. The telephone rings regularly and the Master enquires after Mia’s wellbeing. Until the day Albert is instructed that he must prepare the child to leave...
The tale of an impotent man who tries to assert his masculinity through fighting but cannot come to terms with his past.
Documentary tracking the history of Grime music.
Mismatched buddy cop spoof.
Poland, 1983. The country is shaken by the case of Grzegorz Przemyk - a high school student beaten to death by militia. Based on true events, the film follows the story of Jurek - the only witness of the beating, who overnight became the number one enemy of the state.
Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, goes to live in northern France to research for her new book on the subject of job insecurity. Without revealing her true identity, she gets hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women.
Ahmed’s world is thrown off-balance when he encounters Farah, newly-arrived from Tunis, who challenges everything he thought he knew.
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