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 69th London Film Festival 8-19 OCTOBER 2025 | 2 0 2 5 G A L A S | ||
Opening film: WAKE UP DEAD MANClosing film: 100 NIGHTS OF HERO Surprise film: TUNER Special Presentations: AFTERLIVES BROKEN ENGLISH THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO MASPALOMAS N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (THE STARS) SHOLAY: DIRECTOR'S CUT |
Gala screenings:RENTAL FAMILY AFTER THE HUNT BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER BLUE MOON BUGONIA THE CHORAL CHRISTY DIE MY LOVE FRANKENSTEIN H IS FOR HAWK HAMNET THE HISTORY OF SOUND IS THIS THING ON? IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT JAY KELLY THE MASTERMIND NO OTHER CHOICE NOUVELLE VAGUE PILLION ROOFMAN SENTIMENTAL VALUE SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE | ||
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& SONS (Trapero, UK)100 NIGHTS OF HERO (Jackman, UK) * AFTER THE HUNT (Guadagnino, US) AFTERLIVES (Lee, Ger) ALPHA (Ducournau, Fr) ALWAYS (Chen, US) * ANEMONE (Day-Lewis, UK) ANIMAL FARM (Serkis, UK) ANOTHER OTHER (Thompson, US) ARIEL (Patino, Sp) THE ASSISTANT (Sasnal, Pol) AT THE PLACE OF GHOSTS (Hannam, Can) BAD APPLES (Etzler, UK) BALEARIC (De Sosa, Sp) 
BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER (Berger, UK)BECOMING HUMAN (Ly, Cam) BELOW THE CLOUDS (Rosi, It) THE BIG BAD WOLF (Wright, UK) BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL: THE KWAME BRATHWAITE STORY (Bamiro, UK) BLACK RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT (Mokri, Taj) BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS (Joseph, US) BLUE HERON (Romvari, Can)
BLUE MOON (Linklater, US)THE BLUE TRAIL (Mascaro, Br) BORDER AS INTERFACE (Szeman, UK) BROKEN ENGLISH (Forsyth/Pollard, UK)
BUGONIA (Lanthimos, US)CALLE MALAGA (Touzani, Mor) CAPYBARAS (Soderguit, Uru) CARDBOARD (Vine, UK) CHAO (Aoki, Jpn)
THE CHORAL (Hytner, UK)
CHRISTY (Michod, US)THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER (Stewart, US) THE CONJURED ONES (Bustillo, Ven) COVER-UP (Poitras/Obenhaus, US) D IS FOR DISTANCE (Petit/Matthews, Fin) DARIA'S NIGHT FLOWERS (Tafakory, Irn) THE DEAL (Bron, Swi) THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO (Eklof, UK) DECORADO (Vazquez, Sp) THE DEVIL SMOKES (AND SAVES THE BURNT MATCHES IN THE SAME BOX) (Bucio, Mexico) DIAMONDS IN THE SAND (Victoria, Ph) DIE MY LOVE (Ramsay, Can) DJ AHMET (Unkovski, Mac) DREAMERS (Gharoro-Akpojotor, UK) DREAMS (Franco, Mex) DRY LEAF (Koberidze, Ger) DUSE (Marcello, It) THE EARLY SUN, RED AS A HUNTER'S MOON (Piron, US) ENDLESS COOKIE (Scriver/Scriver, Can) ENZO (Campillo, Fr) THE EXIT 8 (Kawamura, Jpn) THE EYES OF GHANA (Proudfoot, US) FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER (Jarmusch, US) THE FENCE (Denis, Fr) FINDING OPTEL (Brown/Brown, SA) FOREVERGREEN (Engelhardt/Spears, US) FRAGMENTS FOR VENUS (Diop, It) * FRANKENSTEIN (del Toro, US) F*CKTOYS (Sriram, US) FUGUE NOTES (Ershadi, NZ) FUTURE BOTANICA (van Brakel/Erturkan, Ned) FWENDS (Somerville, Aus) GIANT (Athale, UK) THE GIRLS (Peries, Sri) GOOD BOY (Komasa, Pol) H IS FOR HAWK (Lowthorpe, UK) HAIR, PAPER, WATER (Graux/Quy, Bel) HALF MEMORY (Essi, UK) HAMLET (Karia, UK) * HAMNET (Zhao, UK) HAPPINESS (Yucel, Ned) * HEDDA (DaCosta, US) HEDGEHOG CAKES: SWEET WEAPON OF TERROR (Stepanenko, Ukr) HIGH WIRE (Chong, UK)
THE HISTORY OF SOUND (Hermanus, US)THE HOLY BOY (Strippoli, It) HONEY BUNCH (Sims-Fewer, Can) HOTEL LONDON (Alauddin Jamal, UK) HOUSE TRAP (Hampshire, Ned) THE HOUSE WAS THERE BEFORE ME (Mikkola, Can) HUMAN RESOURCE (Thamrongrattanarit, Tha)
THE ICE TOWER (Hadzihalilovic, Fr)IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU (Bronstein, US) * IS THIS THING ON? (Cooper, US) ISH (Perretta, UK) ISLAND OF THE WINDS (Hsu, Tai) * IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (Panahi, Irn)
JAY KELLY (Baumbach, US)JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE (Almereyda/Stephens, US) KA BA DDI: A BREATH, A MOVE, A GAM (Alia Syed, UK) KHARTOUM (AlHag/Snoopy/Saeed/etc, Qat) THE KIDNAPPING OF ARABELLA (Cavalli, It) KIM NOVAK'S VERTIGO (Philippe, US) KONTINENTAL '25 (Jude, Rom) * LA GRAZIA (Sorrentino, It) LA PAGA (Beyzaie, Irn) LADY (Abrahams, UK) |
LANDMARKS (Martel, Arg)LEFT-HANDED GIRL (Tsou, Tai) LIFE AFTER (Davenport, US) LITTLE AMELIE (Vallade/Han, Fr) * LOVE+WAR (Vasarhelyi/Chin, US) LOVE ME TENDER (Cambet, Fr) LOVE, BROOKLYN (Holder, US)
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS (Palmason, Ice)LUCKY LU (Lloyd Lee Choi, US) 
LURKER (Russell, US)MAD BILLS TO PAY (Vargas, US) MAGELLAN (Diaz, Por) MARE'S NEST (Rivers, UK-Fr) MASPALOMAS (Arregi/Goenaga, Sp) THE MASTERMIND (Reichardt, US) THE MEMORY OF BUTTERFLIES (Sadowski, Per) MEMORY OF PRINCESS MUMBI (Hauser, Ken) MIROIRS NO 3 (Petzold, Ger) MORE LIFE (Banton, Den) MORNING CIRCLE (al-Sharif, Ger) MORTU NEGA (Gomes, GnB) MOSS & FREUD (Lucas, UK) MOTHER (Mitevska, Mac) MUSHROOM'S LIFE (Lacis, Lat) MY FATHER'S SHADOW (Davies, UK) THE NAUGHTY SEAT (Johnson, UK) NEW TERRITORIES: SPECTACLE IS KING (Storr, UK) NO OTHER CHOICE (Park, Kor) NOTHING OUT OF THE ISLAND: BRIDGES (Mosquea, DR) NOUVELLE VAGUE (Linklater, Fr) N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (THE STARS) (Schneider, US) NSALA (Mbanza, Con) OLMO (Eimbcke, US) ONE WOMAN ONE BRA (Nchogu, Ken) ONLY ON EARTH (Petre, Den) ORPHAN (Nemes, Hun) ORWELL: 2+2=5 (Peck, Fr) A PALE VIEW OF HILLS (Ishikawa, Jpn) * PALESTINE 36 (Jacir, Pal) PETER HUJAR'S DAY (Sachs, US) PILLION (Lighton, UK) PORTOBELLO: THE FALL OF ENZO TORTORA (Bellocchio, It) THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE (Hadi, Irq) PRIMATE VISIONS; MACAQUE MACABRE (Tontey, Ina) A PRIVATE LIFE (Zlotowski, Fr) PROMISED SKY (Sehiri, Swe) RADIUS CATASTROPHE (Youssef, Lebn) REDOUBT (Skoog, Swe) REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND (Cattet/Forzani, Bel) * RENTAL FAMILY (Hikari, US) RESURRECT ME AS A PARASITE (Dao/Sainsbury, UK) RESURRECTION (Bi, Chn) RETREAT (Evans, UK)
ROMERIA (Simon, Sp)
ROOFMAN (Cianfrance, US)ROSE OF NEVADA (Jenkin, UK) A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD (Aris, Leb) SAIPAN (D'Sa/Leyburn, Ire) THE SECRET AGENT (Mendonca, Br) SEEDS (Shyne, US) SENTIMENTAL VALUE (Trier, Nor)
SHE'S THE HE (McCarthy, US)SHE'S WAITING FOR THE SUNSET (Ratnik, Lit) SHOLAY: DIRECTOR'S CUT (Sippy, Ind) SHORT SUMMER (Korkia, Ger) SILENT FRIEND (Enyedi, Ger) SINGING WINGS (Khaledi, Irn) SINK (Duraie, Jor) SIRAT (Laxe, Sp) SNOW BEAR (Blaise, US) THE SON AND THE SEA (Cairns, UK) THE SONGBIRD'S SECRET (Lanciaux, Fr) SONGS OF FORGOTTEN TREES (Roy, Ind) THE SOUFFLEUR (Solnicki, Aut) SOUND OF FALLING (Schilinski, Ger) SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Cooper, US) STRAIGHT CIRCLE (Hudson, UK) THE STRANGER (Ozon, Fr) SUPER NATURE (Sayers, UK) TERROR ELEMENT (Engelhardt/Cinkevich, UK) THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (Fastvold, UK) TETES BRULEES (Ajmia/Zellama, Bel)
THE THING WITH FEATHERS (Southern, UK)* TRAIN DREAMS (Bentley, US) THE TRAVELERS (Bingong, Cmr) TUKTUIT: CARIBOU (McIntyre, Can) TUNER (Roher, Can)
TWINLESS (Sweeney, US)
TWO PROSECUTORS (Loznitsa, Fr)ULTRAS (Ekner, Swe) UNTAMEABLE (Ngijol, Fr) A USEFUL GHOST (Boonbunchachoke, Tha) * THE VILE (Ansari, UAE) THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB (Hania, Tun)
WAKE UP DEAD MAN (Johnson, US)WASTEMAN (McMau, UK) WEIGHTLESS (Thalund, Den) WHAT MARIELLE KNOWS (Hambalek, Ger) WHISPERS IN THE WOODS (Munier, Fr) WILD STYLE (Ahearn, US) WITH HASAN IN GAZA (Aljafari, Pal) THE WORLD OF LOVE (Yoon, Kor) | ||
 68th London Film Festival 9-20 OCTOBER 2024 Opening film: BLITZ Closing film: PIECE BY PIECE Surprise film: SATURDAY NIGHT 2 0 2 4 A W A R D S : Best Film: MEMOIR OF A SNAIL Documentary: MOTHER VERA First Feature: Laura Carreira (ON FALLING) Jury prize: ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL Audience Award: FOUR MOTHERS Audience Award - Doc: HOLLOWAY RICH'S BEST OF THE FEST 2024: | 2 0 2 4 F I L M S | ||
2073 (Kapadia, UK)ABIDING NOWHERE (Tsai, Tai) AFTER THE LONG RAINS (Hauser, Ken) AICHA (Barsaoui, Tun)
ALL OF YOU (Bridges, UK)ALL SHALL BE WELL (Yeung, Chn)
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (Kapadia, Fr)
ANORA (Baker, US)
THE APPRENTICE (Abbasi, Can)
APRIL (Kulumbegashvili, Geo)ARCHITECTON (Kossakovsky, Ger) THE ASSESSMENT (Fortune, UK ) AT AVERROES & ROSA PARKS (Philibert, Fr) AT THE VERGE OF WORDLESSNESS (Asad, Ned) AUDREY (Bailey, Aus) AVANT SERIANA (Benammar, Canada-Alg)
BABY (Caetano, Br)THE BALCONETTES (Merlant, Fr) THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE (Hunt-Ehrlich, US) BIONICO’S BACHATA (Morales, DR)
BIRD (Arnold, UK)BLACK BOX DIARIES (Ito, Jpn)
BLITZ (McQueen, UK)BRING THEM DOWN (Andrews, Ire) BURY YOUR DEAD (Dutra, Br) THE CATS OF GOKOGU SHRINE (Soda, Jpn) CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (Jia, Chn) CHAIN REACTIONS (Philippe, US) CIDADE; CAMPO (Rojas, Br) LA COCINA (Ruizpalacios, Mex) COLLECTIVE MONOLOGUE (Rinland, Arg)
THE COLOURS WITHIN (Yamada, Jpn)
CONCLAVE (Berger, UK)CROCODILE TEARS (Tumpal Tampubolon, Ina)
DAHOMEY (Diop, Fr)DICIANOVVE (Tortorici, It) DIRECT ACTION (Cailleau/Russell, Ger) DON'T CRY, BUTTERFLY (Linh, Vie) EAT THE NIGHT (Poggi/Vinel, France) EEPHUS (Lund, US) EIGHT POSTCARDS FROM UTOPIA (Jude/Ferencz-Flatz, Rom)
ELLIS PARK (Kurzel, Aus)* ELTON JOHN: NEVER TOO LATE (Cutler/Furnish, US)
EMILIA PEREZ (Audiard, Fr)
THE END (Oppenheimer, Den)ENDURANCE (Vasarhelyi/Chin/Hewit, UK)
ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND (Peck, Fr)
THE EXTRAORDINARY MISS FLOWER (Forsyth/Pollard, UK)FAMILIAR TOUCH (Friedland, US) FAMILIES LIKE OURS (Vinterberg, Den) A FIDAI FILM (Aljafari, Pal) FILE NO 2304 (Kobayashi, Can) FIRE OF WIND (Mateus, Por) THE FLESH OF LANGUAGE (Rice, Ire)
FLOW (Zilbalodis, Lat)FORMS OF CIRCULATION #1 (Stewart/Perks, UK)
FOUR MOTHERS (Thornton, Ire)FREWAKA (Clarke, Ire)
GHOST TRAIL (Millet, Fr)
GOOD ONE (Donaldson, US)
GRAND THEFT HAMLET (Grylls/Crane, UK)
GRAND TOUR (Gomes, Por)THE GUTTER (Lester/Lester, US) HANAMI (Fernandes, Swi)
HAPPYEND (Sora, Jpn)
HARD TRUTHS (Leigh, UK)
HARVEST (Tsangari, UK)HEMEL (Dean, UK) HEXHAM HEADS (DirecDelanghe/Driesen, Bel) HOLLOWAY (Compton/Hudson, UK) I AM NEVENKA (Bollain, Sp-Italy) I DON'T WANT TO BE JUST A MEMORY (Utamachote, Ger)
I'M STILL HERE (Salles, Br)I'M YOUR VENUS (Reed, US) THE INVASION (Loznitsa, Ned) ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989 (Olsson, Swe) IT'S NOT ME (Carax, Fr)
JOY (Taylor, UK)
JULIE KEEPS QUIET (van Dijl, Bel)KAMAY (Yourish/Bikaran, Afg) LAST SWIM (Nathwani, UK)
LAYLA (Al-Kadhi, UK)THE LISTENERS (Tannahill, UK) LIVING IN TWO WORLDS (O, Jpn) LOOK INTO MY EYES (Wilson, US) MALDOROR (Welz, Bel) MARCO, THE INVENTED TRUTH (Arregi/Garano, Sp)
MARIA (Larrain, It)
MEMOIR OF A SNAIL (Elliot, Aus)
MISERICORDIA (Guiraudie, Fr)MOTHER VERA (Embleton, Alys Tomlinson, UK) |
MOTHERBOARD (Mapplebeck, UK)MY ETERNAL SUMMER (Le Fanu, Den) MY EVERYTHING (Bailly, Fr) MY STOLEN PLANET (Sharifi, Irn)
A NICE INDIAN BOY (Sethi, US)
NICKEL BOYS (Ross, US)NIDO DE CROCODILO (Forero, Col) A NIGHT WE HELD BETWEEN (Abed, Pal)
NIGHTBITCH (Heller, US)THE NIGHTS STILL SMELL OF GUNPOWDER (Cossa, Moz) NO EXORCISM FILM (Napattaloong, Tha) NON/LIVING (Yildiz, Tur) NOTES: REMEMBERED AND FOUND (Anastassiou, UK) OLIVIA & THE CLOUDS (Pichardo Espaillat, DR) ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL (Nyoni, Zam) ON FALLING (Carreira, UK)
ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO (Macdonald, UK)
THE OTHER WAY AROUND (Trueba, Sp)OUR LADY WHO BURNS (dos Reis, Por) PATRICE: THE MOVIE (Passon, US) PAULINE BLACK: A 2-TONE STORY (Mingay, UK) PAVEMENTS (Perry, US) PEPE (Arias, DR)
THE PIANO LESSON (Washington, US)
PIECE BY PIECE (Neville, US)PRAIA FORMOSA (Simone, Por) QUEENS OF DRAMA (Langlois, Fr)
QUEER (Guadagnino, It)
A REAL PAIN (Eisenberg, US)RISING UP AT NIGHT (Makengo, Con) THE RIVER THAT NEVER ENDS (Trinidad, Ph)
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (Almodovar, Sp)
RUMOURS (Maddin/Johnson/Johnson, Can)SANATORIUM UNDER THE SIGN OF THE HOURGLASS (Quay/Quay, UK)
SANTOSH (Suri, Ind)
SATURDAY NIGHT (Reitman, US)
SEBASTIAN (Makela, UK)
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Rasoulof, Irn)SEEKING MAVIS BEACON (Jones, US) SEPTEMBER SAYS (Labed, Ire)
SEX (Haugerud, Nor)THE SHADOW SCHOLARS (King, UK) SHAMBHALA (Bham, Nep) SISTER MIDNIGHT (Kandhari, UK)
SKINCARE (Peters, US)SMALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT (Hui, Sin) SOFA, SO GOOD (Thiele/Thiele, Cole Thiele, US) SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT (Grimonprez, Bel) THE STIMMING POOL (Eastwood/etc, UK) STRANGER EYES (Hua, Sin) SUGAR ISLAND (Terrero, DR) SUJO (Rondero/Valadez, Mex) THE SUMMER BOOK (McDowell, Fin)
SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY (Bonhote/Ettedgui, UK)
SUPERBOYS OF MALEGAON (Kagti, Ind)
THE SURFER (Finnegan, Aus)TARIKA (Lazarov, Bul) THANK YOU FOR BANKING WITH US (Abbas, Pal)
THAT CHRISTMAS (Otto, UK)A THOUSAND BLOWS (Knight, UK) THREE KILOMETRES TO THE END OF THE WORLD (Parvu, Rom)
TO A LAND UNKNOWN (Fleifel, Gr)
A TRAVELER'S NEEDS (Hong, Kor)
TREADING WATER (Evans, UK)THE TREASURY OF HUMAN INHERITANCE (Mitchell, Can) TRIUMPH (Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Bul) TWIGGY (Frost, UK) TWO REFUSALS (Sanzgiri, US) TWO STONES (Meek, Aotearoa NZ) TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER (Perlmutter/Ouimet, UK) UNDER THE VOLCANO (Kocur, Pol) UNDR (Aljafari, Pal) UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE (Rankin, Can)
VERMIGLIO (Delpero, It)
VIET AND NAM (Truong, Vie)THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE (Harawe, Aut) THE WAILING (Martin-Calero, Sp) THE WAY WE TALK (Wong, Chn)
WE LIVE IN TIME (Crowley, UK)THE WEEKEND (Oriahi, Nga) WEIGHTLESS (Fgaier, It)
WHEN AUTUMN FALLS (Ozon, Fr)WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS (Runarsson, Ice) WHO DO I BELONG TO (Joobeur, Fr)
THE WILD ROBOT (Sanders, US)WITCHES (Sankey, UK) THE WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT (Brady, Aus) YOUTH: HOMECOMING (Bing, Fr) | ||
67th London Film Festival4-15 OCTOBER 2023 Opening film: SALTBURN Closing film: THE KITCHEN Surprise film: FERRARI 2 0 2 3 A W A R D S : Best Film: EVIL DOES NOT EXIST Documentary: BYE BYE TIBERIAS First Feature: Mika Gustafson (PARADISE IS BURNING) Audience Award: GASSED UP Audience Award - Doc: THE TASTE OF MANGO Audience Award - Immersive: MURALS RICH'S BEST OF THE FEST 2023: | 2 0 2 3 F I L M S | ||
20,000 SPECIES OF BEES (Urresola, Sp)
ALL OF US STRANGERS (Haigh, UK)
AMA GLORIA (Amachoukeli, Fr)
ANSELM (Wenders, Ger)
THE BEAST (Bonello, Fr)
THE BIKERIDERS (Nichols, US)
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY (Naveriani, Geo)
BONUS TRACK (Jackman, UK)
THE BOOK OF CLARENCE (Samuel, US)
THE BOY AND THE HERON (Miyazaki, Jpn)
CHASING CHASING AMY (Rodgers, US)
CHICKEN RUN: DAWN OF THE NUGGET (Fell, UK)
CLOSE YOUR EYES (Erice, Sp)
DAAAAAALI! (Dupieux, Fr)
DEEP SEA (Tian, Chn)
THE DELINQUENTS (Moreno, Arg)
DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH OF THE END OF THE WORLD (Jude, Rom)
THE ECHO (Huezo, Mex)
EILEEN (Oldroyd, US)
THE END WE START FROM (Belo, UK)
THE ETERNAL MEMORY (Alberdi, Chl)
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi, Jpn)
FALLEN LEAVES (Kaurismaki, Fin)
FERRARI (Mann, It)
FINGERNAILS (Nikou, US)
FOE (Davis, Aus)
GASSED UP (Amponsah, UK)
HAAR (Hecking, UK)
HIGH AND LOW: JOHN GALLIANO (Macdonald, UK)
HIT MAN (Linklater, US)
HOARD (Carmoon, UK)
THE HOLDOVERS (Payne, US)
HOW TO HAVE SEX (Walker, UK)
IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE (Purevdash, Mon)
IN CAMERA (Khalid, UK)
IN RESTLESS DREAMS: THE MUSIC OF PAUL SIMON (Gibney, US)
KENSUKE'S KINGDOM (Hendry/Boyle, UK)
KIDNAPPED (Bellocchio, It) |
THE KILLER (Fincher, US)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Scorsese, US)
THE KITCHEN (Tavares/Kaluuya, UK)
LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL (Cairnes/Cairnes, Aus)
THE LOST BOYS (Graton, Bel)
LOST IN THE NIGHT (Escalante, Mex)
MAESTRO (Cooper, US)
MAY DECEMBER (Haynes, US)
MONSTER (Kore-eda, Jpn)
THE NATURE OF LOVE (Chokri, Can)
THE NEW BOY (Thornton, Aus)
NYAD (Vasarhelyi/Chin, US)
OMEN (Baloji, Bel)
ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS (Wei, Chn)
PARADISE IS BURNING (Gustafson, Swe)
THE PEASANTS (Welchman/Welchman, Pol)
PERFECT DAYS (Wenders, Jpn)
POOR THINGS (Lanthimos, UK)
PRISCILLA (Coppola, US)
THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS (Mirza, Can)
RED ISLAND (Fr)
ROBOT DREAMS (Berger, Sp)
THE ROYAL HOTEL (Green, Aus)
SALTBURN (Fennell, UK)
SAMSARA (Patino, Sp)
SCALA!!! (Giles/Catterall, UK)
THE SETTLERS (Galvez, Chl)
SHAYDA (Niasari, Aus)
SHORTCOMINGS (Park, US)
SHOSHANA (Winterbottom, UK)
SILVER HAZE (Polak, UK)
SKY PEALS (Hussain, UK)
STARVE ACRE (Kokotajlo, UK)
THE TASTE OF THINGS (Hung, Fr)
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN (Collins, Ire)
TIGER STRIPES (Eu, Mys)
TOTEM (Aviles, Mex)
TUESDAY (Pusic, UK)
UNICORNS (Hosaini/Floyd, UK)
THE ZONE OF INTEREST (Glazer, Pol) | ||
 66th London Film Festival 5-16 OCTOBER 2022 2 0 2 2 A W A R D S : Best Film: CORSAGE Audience Award: BLUE BAG LIFE Documentary: ALL THAT BREATHES First Feature: Manuela Martelli (1976) Immersive: AS MINE EXACTLY RICH'S BEST OF THE FEST 2022: | 2 0 2 2 F I L M S | ||
1976 (Martelli, Chl)
AFTERSUN (Wells, UK)
AISHA (Berry, Ire)
ALCARRAS (Simon, Sp)
ALL THAT BREATHES (Sen, Ind)
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (Poitras, US)
ALLELUJAH (Eyre, UK)
ARGENTINA, 1985 (Mitre, Arg)
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (McDonagh, Ire)
BARDO (Inarritu, Mex)
BLUE BAG LIFE (Lloyd-Evans/Selby/Fry, UK)
THE BLUE CAFTAN (Touzani, Mor)
BLUE JEAN (Oakley, UK)
BOBI WINE: THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT (Sharp/Bwayo, Ug)
BONES AND ALL (Guadagnino, US)
BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER (Menkes, US)
BROS (Stoller, US)
BROTHER (Virgo, Can)
BUTTERFLY VISION (Nakonechnyi, Ukr)
CAIRO CONSPIRACY (Saleh, Swe)
CASA SUSANNA (Lifshitz, Fr)
CAUSEWAY (Neugebauer, US)
CLOSE (Dhont, Bel)
CORSAGE (Kreutzer, Aut)
CROWS ARE WHITE (Nadeem, US)
THE DAMNED DON'T CRY (Boulifa, Mor)
DECISION TO LEAVE (Park, Kor)
EMILY THE CRIMINAL (Ford, US)
EMPIRE OF LIGHT (Mendes, UK)
ENYS MEN (Jenkin, UK)
EO (Skolimowski, Pol)
THE ESTATE (Craig, UK)
THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER (Hogg, UK)
FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE (Davison, US)
GETTING IT BACK: THE STORY OF CYMANDE (MacKenzie-Smith, UK)
GLASS ONION (Johnson, US)
GODLAND (Palmason, Ice)
THE GOOD NURSE (Lindholm, US) |
GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO (Del Toro/Gustafson, US)
HIDDEN LETTERS (Feng, Chn)
HOLY SPIDER (Abbasi, Den)
HORSEPLAY (Berger, Arg)
INLAND (Jenkin, UK)
THE INSPECTION (Bratton, US)
JOYLAND (Sadiq, Pak)
KLOKKENLUIDER (Maskell, UK)
KLONDIKE (Er Gorbach, Ukr)
LIVING (Hermanus, UK)
LOVE LIFE (Fukada, Jpn)
LYNCH/OZ (Philippe, US)
MEDUSA DELUXE (Hardiman, UK)
THE MENU (Mylod, US)
MY FATHER'S DRAGON (Twomey, Ire)
MY POLICEMAN (Grandage, UK)
NANNY (Jusu, US)
NAME ME LAWAND (Lovelace, UK)
NO BEARS (Panahi, Irn)
OUT OF DARKNESS (Cumming, UK)
PETER VON KANT (Ozon, Fr)
RIMINI (Seidl, Aut)
ROALD DAHL'S MATILDA THE MUSICAL (Warchus, UK)
RODEO (Quivoron, Fr)
SAINT OMER (Diop, Fr)
SHE SAID (Schrader, US)
SICK OF MYSELF (Nor)
THE SON (Zeller, UK)
TILL (Chukwu, US)
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (Ostlund, Swe)
UTAMA (Grisi, Bol)
THE WHALE (Aronofsky, US)
WHITE NOISE (Baumbach, US)
WINTER BOY (Honore, Fr)
WOMEN TALKING (Polley, US)
THE WONDER (Lelio, Ire)
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