London Film Festival 2022

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All That Breathes All That Breathes
All That Breathes and Casa Susanna
All That Breathes (Country: UK, India; Year: 2022; Director: Shaunak Sen; Stars: Mohammad Saud, Nadeem Shehzad)
Against the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite.
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Laura Poitras; Stars: Nan Goldin)
The story of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty often blamed for the US opioid epidemic.
Casa Susanna (Casa Susana) (Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Sébastien Lifshitz; Writer: Sébastien Lifshitz)
In the Fifties and Sixties, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers.
The Future Tense (Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy)
A meditation on being Irish in England.
Kanaval: A People’s History Of Haiti in Six Chapters (Country: Haiti, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Leah Gordon, Eddie Hutton Mills)
Portraits of the country as it prepares for its carnival.
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed and Kanaval: A People’s History Of Haiti in Six Chapters
Lynch/Oz (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Alexandre O Philippe; Writer: Alexandre O Philippe)
Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.
Name Me Lawand (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Edward Lovelace)
Portrait of a young Deaf Kurdish boy.
What About China? (Country: China, US; Year: 2022; Director: Trinh Minh-ha Trinh; Writer: Trinh Minh-ha Trinh)
A cultural critique of China that resists the idea of a single historical narrative.
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