London Film Festival 2022

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Rimini Rimini
Rimini and I Love My Dad
Chee$e (Country: Trinidad and Tobago, US; Year: 2022; Director: Damian Marcano; Writer: Damian Marcano; Stars: Akil Gerard Williams, Yidah Leonard, Lou Lyons)
Rags-to-riches tale of a young Trinidadian cheesemaker-turned-drug dealer.
The Estate (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Dean Craig; Writer: Dean Craig; Stars: Toni Collette, Anna Faris, Kathleen Turner, David Duchovny, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ron Livingston, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Patricia French, Billy Slaughter, Danny Vinson, Gichi Gamba, Eric Esteban, Kim Baptiste, Ronald Chavis)
Sisters plot to win the inheritance of a terminally ill aunt, but face competition from other relatives.
Fast & Feel Love (Country: Thailand; Year: 2022; Director: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; Writer: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; Stars: Nat Kitcharit, Urassaya Sperbund, Anusara Korsamphan)
When a world champion of sport stacking is dumped by his long-time girlfriend, he has to learn basic adulting skills in order to live alone and take care of himself.
I Love My Dad (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: James Morosini; Writer: James Morosini; Stars: Patton Oswalt, James Morosini, Claudia Sulewski, Rachel Dratch, Ricky Velez, Lil Rel Howery, Amy Landecker)
Blocked on social media and concerned for his son’s life, a father impersonates a waitress online and starts checking in with the boy. But things begin to spiral when his son falls for this imaginary girl.
Klokkenluider (Country: US, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Neil Maskell; Writer: Neil Maskell; Stars: Amit Shah, Tom Burke, Jenna Coleman)
A hapless government whistleblower and his partner hide out in a remote Belgian cottage, accompanied by two eccentric bodyguards.
Sick Of Myself Sick Of Myself
Sick Of Myself and Klokkenluider
The Middle Ages (Country: Argentina; Year: 2022; Director: Luciana Acuña, Alejo Moguillansky; Writer: Luciana Acuña, Alejo Moguillansky; Stars: Luciana Acuña, Luis Biasotto, Walter Jakob, Alejo Moguillansky, Cleo Moguillansky, Lisandro Rodríguez, Lalo Rotavería, Oscar Strasnoy)
A well-to-do yet dysfunctional Argentinian family try to maintain their creativity and sanity while living under the constraints of lockdown.
Rimini (Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Ulrich Seidl; Writer: Veronika Franz, Ulrich Seidl; Stars: Michael Thomas, Tessa Göttlicher, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Inge Maux, Claudia Martini, Georg Friedrich, Silvana Sansoni, Natalya Baranova, Rosa Schmidl)
Rimini in winter. A group of older hotel guests is blissfully enjoying Richie Bravo singing about tears that hurt. But when his daughter holds up a mirror to his pathos, the past catches up with this star of schmaltz.
Sick Of Myself (Syk Pike) (Country: Norway, Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Kristoffer Borgli; Writer: Kristoffer Borgli; Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Eirik Sæther, Kristine Kujath Thorp)
Signe and Thomas are in an unhealthy, competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn when Thomas suddenly breaks through as a contemporary artist.
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