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The 67th edition of the London Film Festival will run from October 4 to 15. It will open with Emerald Fennell's Saltburn, feature a gala screening of One Life, starring Anthony Hopkins and close with Daniel Kaluuya's The Kitchen.
View Films by Strand:
- Create
- Cult
- Dare
- Debate
- Documentary Competition
- Experimenta
- Family
- First Feature Competition
- Galas
- Journey
- Laugh
- Love
- Official Competition
- Special Presentations
- Thrill
- Treasures
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London Latest Reviews
Paradise Is Burning
Three sisters try to cope in the absence of parents, afraid that social services will split them up if they find out about their situation.
Three sisters try to cope in the absence of parents, afraid that social services will split them up if they find out about their situation.
Only The River Flows
A detective on the trail of a serial killer begins to lose his mind.
A detective on the trail of a serial killer begins to lose his mind.
Poolman
A hapless dreamer and would-be philosopher spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block in sunny LA. When he uncovers a water heist, he does what he can to protect the city.
A hapless dreamer and would-be philosopher spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block in sunny LA. When he uncovers a water heist, he does what he can to protect the city.
Animalia
A young, pregnant woman finds emancipation as aliens land in Morocco.
A young, pregnant woman finds emancipation as aliens land in Morocco.
Àma Gloria
Six-year-old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, the two must make the most of their last summer together.
Six-year-old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, the two must make the most of their last summer together.
Goodbye Julia
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
Sky Peals
A lonely man starts to piece together the story of his estranged father after his death and discovers the older man didn't believe he was human.
A lonely man starts to piece together the story of his estranged father after his death and discovers the older man didn't believe he was human.
Hoard
1984, London: Seven-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother.
1984, London: Seven-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother.
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
A young woman unwittingly sets off a gruesome chain of revenge.
A young woman unwittingly sets off a gruesome chain of revenge.
The End We Start From
A woman who along with her newborn try to find their way home as environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees a young family torn apart in the chaos.
A woman who along with her newborn try to find their way home as environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees a young family torn apart in the chaos.
London Film Festival Features
Life in full colour
Fawzia Mirza on intergenerational connection, Bollywood, queerness and The Queen Of My Dreams
A new vision
Sofia Alaoui on deconstruction, interconnectedness and Animalia
'I only wanted to make another film if it was really close to my heart'
Àma Gloria director Marie Amachoukeli on her child's eye view of the world
Bonello, the time traveller
France’s maverick on sci-fi, loneliness, music and working with Léa Seydoux
Entering the dream
Bertrand Bonello discusses Coma and The Beast
On reflection
Sav Rodgers on Ben Affleck, Kevin Smith, coming of age on camera and Chasing Chasing Amy
Seeing through his eyes
Iggy London on leading with emotion in Area Boy
In search of liberty
Rodrigo Moreno on freedom and character development in The Delinquents
A film that sticks in your throat
Robert Morgan on puppets, obsession, inevitability and Stopmotion
Bitter taste of an awards season row
Director of The Taste of Things on Binoche, Magimel and an Oscar polemic
Binoche’s recipe for a reunion
The Taste Of Things brings France’s celebrity couple together again
Into the labyrinth
Linus Sandgren, Suzie Davies, Siân Miller and Sophie Canale on creating the world of Saltburn
Now is now
Wim Wenders on Yasujirō Ozu, Anselm Kiefer, Ingeborg Bachmann and Perfect Days
Warwick Thornton's practical magic
The New Boy director on working with children, animals and just one camera
Command performance
Naqqash Khalid on modern masculinity, blank slates and 'anti-acting' in his debut In Camera
Always within her
Elene Naveriani on the recognition of beauty and Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
London Film Festival highlights
Six of the best at this year's fest
Cinema as a means of resurrection
Maite Alberdi on Pablo Larrain, Raul Ruiz and The Eternal Memory
Prometheus in practice
Laura Moss on raising the dead in Birth/Rebirth
Scrutinising a killer obsession
Red Rooms director on cyber-security, new media, and the Fincher influence
Rights and wrongs
Amjad Al Rasheed on patriarchal structures and female empowerment in Inshallah A Boy
Scorsese still up for a challenge
Cannes praise for the master from De Niro and DiCaprio
Director with crime on his mind
Cédric Kahn on innocence and guilt, racism, and the power of words
Making Girl good looking
Adura Onashile on colour, light and costume in her debut feature
'We made magic'
Lila Avilés on the meeting between the worlds of adults and children in Tótem
Close focus
Adura Onashile on the genesis, casting and themes of her debut Girl
London Film Festival News
LFF announces awards
Winners include Evil Does Not Exist and Paradise Is Burning
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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