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Britain’s festival of festivalsRun annually by the British Film Institute Rich Cline has covered the festival every year since 1996 | |||
 65th London Film Festival 6-17 OCTOBER 2021
| 2 0 2 1 G A L A S & A W A R D S | ||
Opening film: THE HARDER THEY FALLClosing film: THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH Surprise film: C'MON C'MON Gala screenings: BELFAST BENEDETTA THE FRENCH DISPATCH KING RICHARD LAST NIGHT IN SOHO THE LOST DAUGHTER MOTHERING SUNDAY THE POWER OF THE DOG RON'S GONE WRONG THE SOUVENIR: PART II SPENCER Special Presentations: ALI & AVA BENEDICTION DRIVE MY CAR FLEE GREAT FREEDOM MEMORIA NEPTUNE FROST PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN SUCCESSION TITANE THE VELVET UNDERGROUND |
2 0 2 1 A W A R D S :Best Film: HIT THE ROAD Audience Award: COSTA BRAVA, LEBANON Documentary: BECOMING COUSTEAU First Feature: Laura Wandel (PLAYGROUND) Immersive: EXPANSION BFI Bursary: Harry Wootliff (TRUE THINGS) RICH'S BEST OF THE FEST 2021:
ALI & AVA. MOTHERING SUNDAY. LUZZU. BELLE. THE SOUVENIR: PART II. DASHCAM. COP SECRET. THE FEAST. BELFAST. | ||
| 2 0 2 1 F I L M S | |||
4 FEET HIGH (Masjoan/Poncio)
7 DAYS (Sethi, US)8 BAR: THE EVOLUTION OF GRIME (Spencer, UK) LA ABUELA (Plaza) THE AFTERLIGHT (Shackleton, UK) AHED'S KNEE (Lapid)
ALI & AVA (Barnard, UK)ALL ABOUT MY SISTERS (Wang) ALL IS VANITY (Mereles)
ALL MY FRIENDS HATE ME (Gaynord, UK)ALL THESE SONS (Liu/Altman) THE ALLEYS (Ghandour) ANACHRONIC CHRONICLES (Araki/Pan) AS IN HEAVEN (Lindeburg)
AZOR (Fontana, Arg)BABI YAR. CONTEXT (Loznitsa)
BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (Jude, Rom)A BANQUET (Paxton) BANTU MAMA (Herrera) BECOMING COUSTEAU (Garbus)
BELFAST (Branagh, UK)
BELLE (Hosoda, Jpn)
BENEDETTA (Verhoeven, Fr)
BENEDICTION (Davies, UK)
BERGMAN ISLAND (Hansen-Love, Swe)
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS (Carrere, Fr)
BOILING POINT (Barantini, UK)THE BOX (Vigas) BROTHER'S KEEPER (Karahan)
IL BUCO (Frammartino, It)
BULL (Williams, UK)BURN IT DOWN! (Hawkins/Aniskovich) CANNON ARM AND THE ARCADE QUEST(Hedegaard) CITIZEN ASHE (Miller/Pollard) CLARA SOLA (Mesen)
C'MON C'MON (Mills, US)
COMPARTMENT NO 6 (Kuosmanen, Fin)
A COP MOVIE (Ruizpalacios, Mex)
COP SECRET (Halldorsson, Ice)
COSTA BRAVA, LEBANON (Akl, Leb)
COW (Arnold, UK)THE CROSSING (Miailhe) CURSE OF THE CHIPPENDALES (Vile) THE DANCE (Collins)
DASHCAM (Savage, UK)
THE DIVIDE (Corsini, Fr)DOPESICK (Levinson)
DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi, Jpn)EAR FOR EYE (Green) EARWIG (Hadzihalilovic)
ENCOUNTER (Pearce, US)LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (Cupur) EYE CUT (Pucill)
THE FAM (Baillif, Swi)FAYA DAYI (Beshir)
THE FEAST (Jones, UK)FIRES (Aus) THE FIRST WAVE (Heineman)
FLEE (Rasmussen, Den)FREDA (Geneus)
THE FRENCH DISPATCH (Anderson, US)
THE GOOD BOSS (de Aranoa, Sp)THE GRAVEDIGGER'S WIFE (Ahmed)
GREAT FREEDOM (Meise, Aut)
THE HAND OF GOD (Sorrentino, It)
THE HARDER THEY FALL (Samuel, US)HELLBOUND (Yeon)
A HERO (Farhadi, Irn)HIDE AND SEEK (Fiore) HINTERLAND (Ruzowitzky) HISTORYA NI HA (Diaz)
HIT THE ROAD (Panahi, Irn)THE HOLE IN THE FENCE (del Paso) HOLGUT (De Ceulaer) HUMIDITY ALERT (Ko)
INEXORABLE (du Welz, Bel)INVISIBLE DEMONS (Jain) JUJU STORIES (Makama/Obasi/Omonua)
KING RICHARD (Green, US)LAGO GATUN (Everson)
LAMB (Johansson, Ice) |
LANDSCAPES OF RESISTANCE (Popivoda)LANGUAGE LESSONS (Morales)
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO (Wright, UK)LEAVE NO TRACES (Matuszynski) LINGUI, THE SACRED BONDS (Haroun, Chd) LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE (Al-Khatib)
THE LOST DAUGHTER (Gyllenhaal, US)
LUZZU (Camilleri, Mlt)MARX CAN WAIT (Bellocchio)
MASS (Kranz, US)THE MEDIUM (Na)
MEMORIA (Weerasethakul, Col)MEMORY BOX (Hadjithomas/Joreige) MONA LISA AND THE BLOOD MOON (Amirpour)
MONEY HAS FOUR LEGS (Sun, Mya)
MOTHERING SUNDAY (Husson, UK)MOTHERS OF THE REVOLUTION (March) MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS (Speth)
MUNICH: THE EDGE OF WAR (Schwochow, UK)
NATURAL LIGHT (Nagy, Hun)
NEPTUNE FROST (Williams/Uzeyman, Rw)THE NEUTRAL GROUND (Hunt)
NITRAM (Kurzel, Aus)NUDO MIXTECO (Cruz) THE ODD-JOB MEN (Ballus) OMAR AMIRALAY: SORROW, TIME, SILENCE (Alabdalla) OUR MEN (Lang) THE OUTLAWS (Dahlsbakken)
PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT (Audiard, Fr)
PASSING (Hall, US)PEDRO (Hegde)
PETITE MAMAN (Sciamma, Fr)
PETROV'S FLU (Serebrennikov, Rus)
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN (Roberts, UK)
PLAYGROUND (Wandel, Bel)
THE POWER OF THE DOG (Campion, NZ)PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN (Huezo) QUANT (Frost) QUEEN OF GLORY (Mensah)
THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN (Middleton/Spinney, UK)
RED ROCKET (Baker, US)REHANA (Saad) RIDE THE WAVE (Robertson) RIPPLES OF LIFE (Wei) A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES (Zhu)
RON'S GONE WRONG (Smith/Vine)THE ROPE (Rocher/Forestier) THE SEA AHEAD (Dagher) SEDIMENTS (Silvestre) SEE FOR ME (Okita) SHE WILL (Colbert)
SHEPHERD (Owen, UK)
SMALL BODY (Samani, It)
THE SOUVENIR: PART II (Hogg, UK)
SPENCER (Larrain, Ger)THE STORMS OF JEREMY THOMAS (Cousins, UK) THE STORY OF FILM: A NEW GENERATION (Cousins, UK)
SUCCESSION (Armstrong, US)SUNDOWN (Franco, Mex) THE TAKING (Philippe) A TALE OF LOVE AND DESIRE (Bouzid)
THE TENDER BAR (Clooney, US)
TITANE (Ducournau, Fr)
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (Coen, US)
TRUE THINGS (Wootliff, UK)THE TSUGUA DIARIES (Gomes/Fazendeiro) TWO FRIENDS(Chatterjee) USERS (Almada)
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (Haynes, US)WE (Diop) WELCOME TO SPAIN (Moreno) WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Koberidze) WHAT WE SHARED (Kuc)
WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY (Hamaguchi, Jpn)WHEN A FARM GOES AFLAME (Akinleminu) WHITE BUILDING (Neang)
WILD INDIAN (Corbine, US)THE WOLF SUIT (Firth) WOOD AND WATER (Bak)
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Trier, Nor) | ||
64th London Film Festival7-18 OCTOBER 2020 Opening film: MANGROVE Closing film: AMMONITE 2 0 2 0 A W A R D S : Audience Award: ANOTHER ROUND Audience Award - Doc: THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF BFI Bursary: Cathy Brady (WILDFIRE) RICH'S BEST OF THE FEST 2020: | 2 0 2 0 F I L M S | ||
180° RULE (Samadi, Irn)
200 METERS (Nayfeh, Pal)
A COMMON CRIME (Marquez, Arg)A DAY-OFF OF KASUMI ARIMURA (Kore-eda, Jpn)
AFRICAN APOCALYPSE (Lemkin, UK)
AFTER LOVE (Khan, UK)
AMMONITE (Lee, UK)
ANOTHER ROUND (Vinterberg, Den)BAD TALES (D'Innocenzo/D'Innocenzo, It)
BLOODY NOSE EMPTY POCKETS (Ross/Ross, US)
CICADA (Fifer/Mulcare, US)
DAYS (Tsai, Tai)
DAVID BYRNE'S AMERICAN UTOPIA (Lee, US)DELIA DERBYSHIRE: THE MYTHS AND LEGENDARY TAPES (Catz, UK) THE DISCIPLE (Tamhane, Ind)
FAREWELL AMOR (Msangi, US)
GENUS, PAN (Diaz, Ph)
GIMME ONE (FitzGerald, UK)GOLD FOR DOGS (Cambet, Fr)
HERSELF (Lloyd, Ire)
HONEYMOOD (Lavie, Isr)
THE HUMAN VOICE (Almodovar, Sp)
I AM SAMUEL (Murimi, Ken)
IDENTIFYING FEATURES (Valadez, Mex)
IF IT WERE LOVE (Chiha, Fr)INDUSTRY (Dunham/Krishnan/Lilly, UK)
THE INTRUDER (Meta, Arg)
KAJILLIONAIRE (July, US)KING OF SANWI (Owusu, Ghn) LEAVE THE EDGES (Akoto, UK)
LIMBO (Sharrock, UK) |
LOVERS ROCK (McQueen, UK)
MANGROVE (McQueen, UK)
MOGUL MOWGLI (Tariq, UK)
NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN (Szumowska, Pol)
NEW ORDER (Franco, Mex)NO GO BACKS (Kahn, US)
NOMADLAND (Zhao, US)
NOTTURNO (Rosi, It)ONE MAN AND HIS SHOES (Bamiro, UK)
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI... (King, US)
THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF (Ree, Nor)
POSSESSOR (Cronenberg, Can)
THE REASON I JUMP (Rothwell, UK)
RELIC (James, Aus)
ROSE: A LOVE STORY (Sheridan, UK)
THE SALT IN OUR WATERS (Sumit, Ban)SHADOW COUNTRY (Slama, Cz)
SHIRLEY (Decker, US)
SIBERIA (Ferrara, It)
SOUL (Docter, US)SOUND FOR THE FUTURE (Hulse, UK) STRAY (Lo, US) STRIDING INTO THE WIND (Wei, Chn)
SUPERNOVA (Macqueen, UK)THIS IS MY DESIRE (Esiri/Esiri, Nga)
TIME (Bradley, US)ULTRAVIOLENCE (Fero, UK)
UNDINE (Petzold, Ger)
WILDFIRE (Brady, UK)
WOLFWALKERS (Moore/Stewart, Ire)ZANKA CONTACT (El Iraki, Fr) * reviews coming | ||
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