London Film Festival 2022

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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power and Next Sohee
Blaze (Country: Australia; Year: 2022; Director: Del Kathryn Barton; Writer: Huna Amweero, Del Kathryn Barton; Stars: Simon Baker, Yael Stone, Remy Hii, Josh Lawson, John Waters, Heather Mitchell, Morgan Davies, Julia Savage, Will McDonald, Rebecca Massey, Stephen James King, Bernie Van Tiel, Ryan Hedges, Kristy Wordsworth, Neal Horton)
After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood.
Blue Island (Country: Hong Kong; Year: 2022; Director: Tze Woon Chan; Writer: Tze Woon Chan)
Mixes documentary footage and fictional recreations of the past starring contemporary student protestors.
Bobi Wine: The People’s President (Country: UK, Uganda, US; Year: 2022; Director: Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp; Stars: Bobi Wine, Barbie Kyagulanyi)
A documentary about how Ugandan opposition leader, activist and musical star Bobi Wine took on the regime led by Yoweri Museveni, the person who led the country for 35 years.
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Nina Menkes; Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Penelope Spheeris, Charlyne Yi, Catherine Hardwicke, Joey Soloway, Eliza Hittman, Julie Dash, Ita O'Brien, Maria Giese, Nina Menkes, Nancy Schreiber, Amy Ziering, Lara Dale, Freddy D. Ramsey Jr., Sandra de Castro Buffington)
Based on Nina Menkes' acclaimed talk "Sex & Power: The Visual Language of Cinema", a mesmerising journey into how shot design intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women.
Call Jane (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Phyllis Nagy; Writer: Hayley Schore, Roshan Sethi; Stars: Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Mara, Chris Messina, John Magaro, Aida Turturro, Wunmi Mosaku, Cory Michael Smith, Alison Jaye, Rebecca Henderson, Geoffrey Cantor, Rachel Rosenbloom, Gina Jun, Bianca D'Ambrosio, Grace Edwards)
Chicago, 1968: after having a life-saving secret abortion, a suburban housewife seeks to give women access to healthy and safe abortions through an underground collective of women known as "Jane".
Call Jane Call Jane
Call Jane and Hidden Letters
Declaration (Country: India; Year: 2022; Director: Mahesh Narayanan; Writer: Mahesh Narayanan; Stars: Kunchacko Boban, Faisal Malik, Danish Husain, Sidharth Bhardwaj, Dimpy Mishra, Loveleen Mishra, Kannan Arunachalam, Divya Prabha, Gaurhav Nagar, Kiran Peethambaran, Saifudheen E., Faizal Malik)
A couple who work in a factory face their plans for moving abroad being scuppered after an old video resurfaces of them.
Exterior Night (Country: Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Marco Bellocchio)
Six-part series about a shocking event that rocked Italy in the late seventies: the kidnapping and eventual murder of the country’s influential statesman and former prime minister Aldo Moro by the leftist Red Brigades.
Hidden Letters (Country: China; Year: 2022; Director: Violet Du Feng, Qing Zhao; Writer: Violet Du Feng, John Farbrother; Stars: Simu Wu, He Yanxin, Xin Hu)
In modern-day China, two women strive to preserve Nushu, an ancient secret language that bonded generations of Chinese women together through centuries of oppression in a clandestine support system of sisterhood and survival.
If The Streets Were On Fire (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Alice Russell)
Documentary about BikeStormz, which offers kids in London an opportunity to express themselves through cycling.
Klondike (Country: Ukraine, Turkey; Year: 2022; Director: Maryna Er Gorbach; Writer: Maryna Er Gorbach; Stars: Evgeniy Efremov, Oleg Shcherbina, Oksana Cherkashyna, Oleg Shevchuk, Artur Aramyan)
The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia - Ukraine during the start of war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after, they find themselves at the center of an air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014.
Klondike Klondike
Klondike and Palm Trees And Power Lines
Next Sohee (Da-eum-so-hee) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: July Jung; Writer: July Jung; Stars: Kim Si-Eun, Bae Doona)
High school student Sohee starts job training at a call centre, but she faces pressure of greedy company which leads to her death. Detective Oh Yu-jin, who has something in common with Sohee, starts to follow traces to reveal the truth.
Palm Trees And Power Lines (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Jamie Dack; Writer: Jamie Dack, Audrey Findlay; Stars: Gretchen Mol, Jonathan Tucker, Auden Thornton, Armani Jackson, Kenny Johnston, Lily McInerny, Yvette Tucker, Michael Petrone, John Minch, Yolanda Corrales, Quinn Frankel, Timothy Taratchila, Rhied De Castro, Conn Bodkin, Angel Grey Cooper)
A bored 17-year-old falls for a man twice her age.
Stonewalling (Country: China; Year: 2022; Director: Huang Ji, Ryûji Otsuka; Stars: Honggui Yao)
A young flight-attendant-in-training’s plans to finish college are thrown into doubt when she discovers she’s pregnant.
The Store (Country: Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Ami-Ro Sköld; Writer: Ami-Ro Sköld; Stars: Isabelle Grill, Sarah Viktoria Engman, Kristina Brändén Whitaker, Victor Iván, Fredrik Evers, Arbi Alviati, Eleftheria Gerofoka, Eliza Sica, Linda Hellström, Marcus Standoft, Lana Chahto, Daysury Valencia, Alisa Sofia Paulsen, Sabrin Jaja, Joshua Nicolas Sjöö)
Hybrid film set in a near-future dystopian Sweden.
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