London Film Festival 2025

View other London Film Festival Films by strand: Create , Cult , Dare , Debate , Documentary Competition , Experimenta , Family , First Feature Competition , Journey , Laugh , Love , Official Competition , Shorts , Special Presentations , Thrill

Nouvelle Vague Nouvelle Vague
Nouvelle Vague and Frankenstein
100 Nights Of Hero (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Julia Jackman; Writer: Julia Jackman; Stars: Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, Maika Monroe, Amir El-Masry, Charli XCX, Richard E. Grant and Felicity Jones)
Fairy tale about a maid who concocts a plan to help her mistress.
After The Hunt (Country: US, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Luca Guadagnino; Writer: Nora Garrett; Stars: Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Stuhlbarg)
A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.
Ballad Of A Small Player (Country: Germany, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Edward Berger; Writer: Rowan Joffe, based on the book by Lawrence Osborne; Stars: Colin Farrell, Fala Chen, Tilda Swinton, Alex Jennings, Adrienne Tau, Jason Tobin)
When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.
Blue Moon (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Richard Linklater; Writer: Robert Kaplow; Stars: Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott, Ethan Hawke, Bobby Cannavale, Patrick Kennedy, Simon Delaney, John Doran, Elaine O'Dwyer, Cillian Sullivan, Ian Dillon)
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his groundbreaking hit musical Oklahoma!.
Bugonia (Country: Ireland, South Korea, Canada, United States; Year: 2025; Director: Yorgos Lanthimos; Writer: Jang Joon-hwan, Will Tracy; Stars: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Alicia Silverstone, Stavros Halkios)
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Sentimental Value Sentimental Value
Sentimental Value and It Was Just an Accident
The Choral (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Nicholas Hytner; Writer: Alan Bennett; Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Roger Allam, Mark Addy, Alun Armstrong, Simon Russell Beale)
A Yorkshire village’s choral society finds its ranks depleted as men head off to war... leaving it forced to change its rules.
Christy (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: David Michôd; Writer: Mirrah Foulkes, David Michôd; Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Merritt Wever, Ben Foster, Ethan Embry, Katy O'Brian, Tony Cavalero)
The story of Christy Martin, the most successful female boxer of the Nineties.
Die, My Love (Country: UK, US; Year: 2025; Director: Lynne Ramsay; Writer: Ariana Harwicz, Lynne Ramsay, Enda Walsh; Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, LaKeith Stanfield, Sarah Lind, Gabrielle Rose, Victor Zinck Jr., Phillip Forest Lewitski, Debs Howard, Luke Camilleri, Marcus Della Rosa, Tom Carey, Saylor McPherson, Lori Bachynski)
A woman battles her demons.
Frankenstein (Country: Mexico, US; Year: 2025; Director: Guillermo Del Toro; Writer: Guillermo Del Toro, based on the book by Mary Shelley; Stars: Ralph Ineson, Mia Goth, Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Oscar Isaac, Charles Dance, Christian Convery, David Bradley)
A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation
Hamnet (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Chloé Zhao; Writer: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell; Stars: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, Jacobi Jupe)
William and Agnes Shakespeare struggle to come to terms with the loss of their son.
Jay Kelly Jay Kelly
Jay Kelly and Die, My Love
The History Of Sound (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Oliver Hermanus; Writer: Ben Shattuck; Stars: Paul Mescal, Peter Mark Kendall, Josh O'Connor, Chris Cooper, Molly Price, Raphael Sbarge, Hadley Robinson, Emma Canning, Briana Middleton, Alessandro Bedetti, Will Fitz, Gary Raymond, Alison Bartlett, Michael D. Xavier, Dan Bittner)
Two young men in 1920 set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen.
H Is For Hawk (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Philippa Lowthorpe; Writer: Emma Donoghue, Philippa Lowthorpe; Stars: Claire Foy, Brendan Gleeson, Denise Gough, Lindsay Duncan, Sam Spruell)
After a woman's father dies, she takes solace in training a goshawk.
Is This Thing On (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Bradley Cooper; Writer: Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett, Mark Chappell; Stars: Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Andra Day, Bradley Cooper)
After decades together, Alex and Tess decide it’s time to split.
It Was Just an Accident (Un Simple Accident) (Country: Iran, France, Luxembourg; Year: 2025; Director: Jafar Panahi; Writer: Jafar Panahi; Stars: Madjid Panahi, Ebrahim Azizi, Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari)
What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.
Jay Kelly (Country: US, UK, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Noah Baumbach; Writer: Noah Baumbach, Emily Mortimer; Stars: George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Greta Gerwig, Patrick Wilson, Riley Keough, Emily Mortimer)
Famous movie actor Jay Kelly and his devoted manager Ron embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey. Both are forced to confront choices they've made, their relationships with loved ones and the legacies they'll leave behind.
Ballad Of A Small Player Ballad Of A Small Player
Ballad Of A Small Player and The History Of Sound
The Mastermind (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kelly Reichardt; Writer: Kelly Reichardt; Stars: Josh O'Connor, Gaby Hoffmann, John Magaro, Alana Haim, Bill Camp, Hope Davis, Rhenzy Feliz, Matthew Maher, Cole Doman, Margot Anderson-Song, Eli Gelb, Juan Carlos Hernández, Jean Zarzour, Ryan Homchick, Wilson Conkwright)
In a quiet corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plots his first major heist. But when things go south, his life is turned upside down.
Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) (Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Richard Linklater; Writer: Holly Gent, Laetitia Masson, Vincent Palmo Jr, Michèle Pétin; Stars: Zoey Deutch, Alix Bénézech, Paolo Luka Noé, Nicolas Dozol, Guillaume Marbeck, Tom Novembre, Jade Phan-Gia, Aubry Dullin, Côme Thieulin, Blaise Pettebone, Adrien Rouyard, Matthieu Penchinat, Jodie Ruth-Forest, Roxane Rivière, Jean-Jacques Le Vessier)
This is the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless.
No Other Choice (Eojjeol suga eopda) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Park Chan-wook; Writer: Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Jahye Lee; Stars: Lee Byung-hun, Son Yej-in, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, Cha Seung-won)
When man loses his job he finds himself drifting before deciding to take things into his own hands...
Pillion (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Harry Lighton; Writer: Harry Lighton, Adam Mars-Jones; Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Harry Melling, Georgina Hellier, Brian Martin, Zamir Mesiti)
A man is taken on as a motorbike club's leader's submissive but begins to question that role.
Rental Family (Country: Japan, US; Year: 2025; Director: Hikari; Writer: Hikari, Stephen Blahut; Stars: Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Gorman, Nihi, Akira Emoto)
A lonely American actor living in Tokyo starts working for a Japanese 'rental family' company to play stand-in roles in other people's lives. Along the way, he finds surprising connections and unexpected joys within his built-in family.
The Mastermind The Mastermind
The Mastermind and The Choral
Roofman (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Derek Cianfrance; Writer: Derek Cianfrance, Kirt Gunn; Stars: Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, LaKeith Stanfield, Juno Temple, Peter Dinklage)
A fugitive evades the law by living in Toys R Us.
Sentimental Value (Affeksjonsverdi) (Country: Norway, Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden; Year: 2025; Director: Joachim Trier; Writer: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt; Stars: Elle Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Cory Michael Smith, Jesper Christensen, Catherine Cohen, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Bjørn Alexander, Jonas Jacobsen, Pia Borgli)
In the wake of their mother's death, two sisters grapple with their relationship with their filmmaker father as he tries to involve one of them in his latest project.
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Scott Cooper; Writer: Scott Cooper; Stars: Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, Odessa Young)
Boss biopic.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Rian Johnson; Writer: Rian Johnson; Stars: Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church)
Benoit Blanc returns for his most dangerous case yet.
News

59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground

More news and features

Eye For Film continues to support festivals both locally and across the world. At the moment, we're covering:

DOC NYC
New York's celebration of factual film

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Baltic film festival

French Film Festival
The UK's longest running celebration of Francophone cinema

Leeds International Film Festival

Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Celebration of world cinema

In the Archive


Archive of festival coverage.

Daily diary and reviews from 2005-2018.

Coverage of the lynchpin German festival.