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London Film Festival · 2026

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Carl Sagan: We Are Made Of Star Stuff

Documentary portrait of the astronomer and astrophysicist.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Nanette Burstein)

Congo Boy

Tale of a teenage refugee, whose musical dreams face challenges in the Central African Republic.

(Year: 2026; Director: Rafiki Fariala)

Easter

Documentary about Korean trans burlesque star Sekja.

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2026; Director: Mokya Shin; Writer: Mokya Shin)

The Echo Chamber

Drama focused on a co-dependent couple who cannot let go or break free.

(Country: Italy, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Andrea Pallaoro; Writer: Ludovica Rampoldi, Ilaria Bernardini; Stars: Luca Marinelli, Alicia Vikander, Susan Sarandon)

The Friend's House Is Here

In Tehran’s underground art scene, two young women build a blissful world of freedom and sisterhood. But when their creative circle is exposed, they must fight to save each other.

(Country: US, Iran; Year: 2026; Director: Hossein Keshavarz, Maryam Ataei; Stars: Mahshad Bahram, Hana Mana, Farzad Karen, Zohreh Pirnia)

Making Marie Antoinette

Review preview for Making Marie Antoinette

An in-depth portrait of the production, a rare opportunity to see how a film on that scale is put together.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A behind-the-scenes look at the 2006 film.

(Country: US, Italy, France; Year: 2026; Director: Eleanor Coppola; Stars: Diane Lane, Sofia Coppola, Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman)

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The Man I Love

Musical fantasy set against the backdrop of New York's AIDs epidemic in the 1980s.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Ira Sachs; Writer: Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias; Stars: Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall)

The Story Of Documentary Film

This new 16-hour epic tracks the journey of non-fiction cinema from the end of the 19th century to modern day. Told in 16 chapters and covering 13 decades, it showcases documentaries from all corners of the world in a quest to uncover how our world is moulded by and reflected in documentary film.

(Year: 2025; Director: Mark Cousins)

Supporting Role

A retired successful Georgian film star finds himself offered a supporting role setting in train a tragicomic journey.

(Country: Estonia, Georgia, Turkey, US, Switzerland; Year: 2026; Director: Ana Urushadze; Writer: Ana Urushadze; Stars: Dato Bakhtadze, Nato Murvanidze, Lasha Mebuke, Elene Maisuradze, Nino Kasradze, Eka Demetradze, Sandro Samkharadze, Irakli Kvirikadze, Zura Sturua, Davit Dvalishvili, Dimitri Tatishvili, Artur Grigoryan, Ernest Arutyunyan, Elizbar Chkheidze, Keti Gegeshidze)

Zero Intention Of Living Quietly

Chronicles Adam Pearson’s journey to transform his love of movies into a career on screen while living with neurofibromatosis.

(Year: 2026; Director: Edward Lovelace; Stars: Adam Pearson)