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London Film Festival

2008

Frost/Nixon received its world premiere at the 2008 festival.
Frost/Nixon received its world premiere at the 2008 festival.

The 52nd London Film Festival will run from October 15 to 30. This year's Festival will open with the world premiere of Frost/Nixon and close with Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire.

Alongside a public screening programme which presents 180 feature films and 130 short films each year, the Festival hosts panel discussions, masterclasses, screen talks and live events, as well as a comprehensive education programme and a slate of industry events and screenings.

Got a feature or short film screening at LFF 2008 and want us to review it? If you have a screener, please feel free to send it to us.

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  • Protect You + Me
    Review preview for Protect You + Me

    The intensity of director Brady Corbet's debut feature The Childhood Of A Leader is present in this short film

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A meal with mum turns sour.
  • All Around Us
    Review preview for All Around Us

    While the pace may seem slow at times, the deliberate and considered consumption of all the little details that make up the couple’s life results in a more than satisfying pay-off towards the end.

    Robert Munro · 4 out of 5
    Witty drama about eight years in a marriage.
  • Ballast
    Review preview for Ballast

    Ballast is absorbing because it bravely avoids dramatic cliches to deliver a more positive experience than might be expected.

    David Graham · 4 out of 5
    An emotionally frayed family find their lives torn apart in a small Mississippi Delta town.
  • Involuntary
    Review preview for Involuntary

    With wit dry as bone and satire that cuts down to it Östlund builds a picture of morality in shades of grey.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Offbeat drama exploring the compelling nature of peer pressure.
  • Revanche
    Review preview for Revanche

    Here justice moves slowly, and in mysterious ways.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    An accidental shooting leads to a search for revenge.
  • Lion's Den
    Review preview for Lion's Den

    The strength of Pablo Trapero's sumptuous film, Argentina's Palme D'Or nominee, is the depth and breadth of its considerations.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Waking covered in blood in an apartment where one man is dead and another badly injured, with little memory and no alibi, a pregnant woman must learn to deal with imprisonment.
  • Adoration
    Review preview for Adoration

    Like vintage Egoyan, and the better for it.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    An orphaned boy reimagines the mysterious death of his parents as a terrorist atrocity.
  • Momma's Man
    Review preview for Momma's Man

    My patience with the central character expired long before the film eventually dragged itself towards the end of its running time.

    Adam Micklethwaite · 2 out of 5
    A man in mid-life crisis retreats to his parents' loft.
  • Tokyo!
    Review preview for Tokyo!

    There's much that’s enjoyable and enchanting.

    Emma Slawinski · 4 out of 5
    Three off-beat visions of the famous city.
  • Frozen River
    Review preview for Frozen River

    Although it is an actual river which divides the two countries, Hunt aims to explore societal divisions that run much deeper than that.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Two women enter an uneasy partnership to smuggle illegal immigrants from Canada to the US.

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