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 68th London Film Festival 9-20 OCTOBER 2024 | 2 0 2 4 G A L A S | ||
Opening film: BLITZClosing film: PIECE BY PIECE Surprise film: SATURDAY NIGHT Gala screenings: ANORA THE APPRENTICE BIRD CONCLAVE ELTON JOHN: NEVER TOO LATE EMILIA PEREZ HARD TRUTHS JOY MARIA NIGHTBITCH THE ROOM NEXT DOOR THAT CHRISTMAS WE LIVE IN TIME Special Presentations: ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CESAIRE DAHOMEY ENDURANCE HARVEST I'M STILL HERE A NICE INDIAN BOY NICKEL BOYS THE PIANO LESSON QUEER A REAL PAIN THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG THE WILD ROBOT |
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:
 Honourable mention: LAYLA. MARIA. A REAL PAIN. SUPERBOYS OF MALEGAON. SATURDAY NIGHT. CONCLAVE. PIECE BY PIECE. SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY. THE COLOURS WITHIN. | ||
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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, Fr) 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 & 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, Sam Crane, UK) GRAND TOUR (Gomes, Por) THE GUTTER (Lester/Lester, US) HANAMI (Fernandes, Swi) HAPPYEND (Sora, Jpn-USA)
HARD TRUTHS (Leigh, UK)HARVEST (Tsangari, Gr) 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/Rice-Edwards, 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, UK)
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, UK)
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 (Quy, Ph) 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 FALL IS COMING (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 DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT (Jackson, US)
ALL OF US STRANGERS (Haigh, UK)ALLENSWORTH (Benning, US)
AMA GLORIA (Amachoukeli, Fr)THE ANIMAL KINGDOM (Cailley,Fr ) ANIMALIA (Alaoui, Mor) ANITA (Bloom/Zill, US)
ANSELM (Wenders, Ger)APOLONIA, APOLONIA (Glob, Den) ASOG (Devlin, Ph) BALTIMORE (Molloy/Lawlor, Ire) BANEL & ADAMA (Sy, Fr)
THE BEAST (Bonello, Fr)BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS (Attia, Tun)
THE BIKERIDERS (Nichols, US)BIRTH/REBIRTH (Moss, US) BLACK DOG (Jaques, UK)
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY (Naveriani, Geo)BONUS TRACK (Jackman, UK)
THE BOOK OF CLARENCE (Samuel, US)THE BOOK OF SOLUTIONS (Gondry, Fr)
THE BOY AND THE HERON (Miyazaki, Jpn)THE BRIDE (Birara,Rw ) THE BUCKINGHAM MURDERS (Mehta, Ind) BYE BYE TIBERIAS (Soualem, Pal) CELLULOID UNDERGROUND (Khoshbakht, Irn)
CHASING CHASING AMY (Rodgers, US)
CHICKEN RUN: DAWN OF THE NUGGET (Fell, UK)
CLOSE YOUR EYES (Erice, Sp)COBWEB (Kim, Kor) A COMMON SEQUENCE (Clark/Gibisser, US) COPA '71 (Ramsay/Erskine, UK) CROMA KID (Chea, DR) CULPRITS (Blakeson, UK)
DAAAAAALI! (Dupieux, Fr)DANCING ON THE EDGE OF THE VOLCANO (Aris, Leb) DANCING QUEEN (Gosse, Nor) THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE (Costa,Por ) DEAR JASSI (Singh, Ind)
DEEP SEA (Tian, Chn)
THE DELINQUENTS (Moreno, Arg)
DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH OF THE END OF THE WORLD (Jude, Rom)EARTH MAMA (Leaf, US)
THE ECHO (Huezo, Mex)
EILEEN (Oldroyd, US)
THE END WE START FROM (Belo, UK)
THE ETERNAL MEMORY (Alberdi, Chl)EUROPA (Mortezai,Aut ) EVERYTHING WORTHWHILE IS DONE WITH OTHER PEOPLE (Zaman,UK )
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi, Jpn)EXPATS (Wang, US)
FALLEN LEAVES (Kaurismaki, Fin)FANCY DANCE (Tremblay, US)
FERRARI (Mann, It)
FINGERNAILS (Nikou, US)FIRE THROUGH DRY GRASS (Neophytides/Molina, US)
FOE (Davis, Aus)FOREMOST BY NIGHT (Iriarte, Sp) FOUR DAUGHTERS (Hania, Tun) GASOLINE RAINBOW (Ross/Ross, US)
GASSED UP (Amponsah, UK)GIRL (Onashile, UK) GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT (Stephenson/Brewster, US) THE GOLDMAN CASE (Kahn, Fr) GOODBYE JULIA (Kordofani, Sud) GRIME KIDS (Cisse, UK) GUSH (Maxy, US)
HAAR (Hecking, UK)
HIGH AND LOW: JOHN GALLIANO (Macdonald, UK)
HIT MAN (Linklater, US)
HOARD (Carmoon, UK)
THE HOLDOVERS (Payne, US)HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS (Stolevski, Mac)
HOW TO HAVE SEX (Walker, UK)THE HYPNOSIS (De Geer, Swe) I AM SIRAT (Mehta/Taneja, Can)
IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE (Purevdash, Mon)
IN CAMERA (Khalid, UK)
IN RESTLESS DREAMS: THE MUSIC OF PAUL SIMON (Gibney, US)LES INDESIRABLES (Ly, Fr) INSHALLAH A BOY (Rasheed, Jor) INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL (Pham, Vie) IT CAN'T BE THAT NOTHING THAT CAN BE RETURNED (Kavelina, Ukr)
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)THE KLEZMER PROJECT (Koch/Schachmann, Aut) LAST SUMMER (Breillat, Fr)
LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL (Cairnes/Cairnes, Aus)LITTLE GIRL BLUE (Achache, Fr)
THE LOST BOYS (Graton, Bel)
LOST IN THE NIGHT (Escalante, Mex)LUBO (Diritti, It)
MAESTRO (Cooper, US)MAMBAR PIERRETTE (Mbakam, Bel) MANGOSTEEN (Saenjaroen, Tha)
MAY DECEMBER (Haynes, US)
MEMORY (Franco, US)MENU-PLAISIRS LES TROISGROS (Wiseman, US) THE MISSION (Moss/McBaine, US) MOLLI AND MAX IN THE FUTURE (Litwak, US)
MONSTER (Kore-eda, Jpn)MUSIC (Schanelec, Ger)
THE NATURE OF LOVE (Chokri, Can)
THE NEW BOY (Thornton, Aus)NIGHTWATCH: DEMONS ARE FOREVER (Bornedal, Den)
NYAD (Vasarhelyi/Chin, US)OCCUPIED CITY (McQueen,UK)
OMEN (Baloji, Bel)ON THE ADAMANT (Philibert, Fr) ONE LIFE (Hawes, UK)
ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS (Wei, Chn)OUR BODY (Simon, Fr)
PARADISE IS BURNING (Gustafson, Swe)
THE PEASANTS (Welchman/Welchman, Pol)PENA CORDILLERA (Carmona,Chl )
PERFECT DAYS (Wenders, Jpn)THE PIGEON TUNNEL (Morris, UK) POOLMAN (Pine, US)
POOR THINGS (Lanthimos, UK)POWER ALLEY (Halla, Br) THE PRACTICE (Rejtman, Arg) A PRINCE (Creton, Fr)
PRISCILLA (Coppola, US)
THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS (Mirza, Can)QUEENDOM (Galdanova,Fr ) RAMONA (Villegas,DR )
RED ISLAND (Fr)RED ROOMS (Plante, Can)
ROBOT DREAMS (Berger, Sp)ROOM IN A CROWD (Torres, Ph)
THE ROYAL HOTEL (Green, Aus)THE RYE HORN (Camborda, Sp) RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: OPUS (Sora, Jpn) THE SACRED CAVE (Minlo,Cam )
SALTBURN (Fennell, UK)
SAMSARA (Patino, Sp)
SCALA!!! (Giles/Catterall, UK)SELF PORTRAIT: 47 KM 2020 (Zhang, Chn)
THE SETTLERS (Galvez, Chl)SHAME ON DRY LAND (Petersen, Swe)
SHAYDA (Niasari, Aus)
SHORTCOMINGS (Park, US)
SHOSHANA (Winterbottom, UK)
SILVER HAZE (Polak, UK)
SKY PEALS (Hussain, UK)SLOW (Kavtaradze, Lit) THE SPECTRE OF BOKO HARAM (Raingou, Cam)
STARVE ACRE (Kokotajlo, UK)STOLEN (Tejpal, Ind) STOPMOTION (Morgan,UK ) SWAN SONG (McMullan, Can) THE SWEET EAST (Williams, US)
THE TASTE OF THINGS (Hung, Fr)THE TASTE OF MANGO (Abrahams, UK) TERRESTRIAL VERSES (Asgari/Khatami, Irn)
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN (Collins, Ire)THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER (Trueba/Mariscal, Sp) THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG (Hyland, Aus)
TIGER STRIPES (Eu, Mys)TOGETHER 99 (Moodyson, Swe)
TOTEM (Aviles, Mex)
TUESDAY (Pusic, UK)
UNICORNS (Hosaini/Floyd, UK)UNMOORED (Ingvarsson, UK) VINCENT MUST DIE (Castang, Fr) WILDING (Allen, UK) YOU CAN CALL ME BILL (Philippe, US) YOUTH (SPRING) (Bing, Fr)
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)
YOU WON'T BE ALONE (Stolevski, Ser) | ||
65th London Film Festival6-17 OCTOBER 2021 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: | 2 0 2 1 F I L M S | ||
7 DAYS (Sethi, US)
ALI & AVA (Barnard, UK)
ALL IS VANITY (Mereles, UK)
ALL MY FRIENDS HATE ME (Gaynord, UK)
THE ALLEYS (Ghandour, Jor)
AZOR (Fontana, Arg)
BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (Jude, Rom)
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)
IL BUCO (Frammartino, It)
BULL (Williams, UK)
CLARA SOLA (Alvarez, CR)
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)
DASHCAM (Savage, UK)
THE DIVIDE (Corsini, Fr)
DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi, Jpn)
ENCOUNTER (Pearce, US)
THE FAM (Baillif, Swi)
THE FEAST (Jones, UK)
FLEE (Rasmussen, Den)
THE FRENCH DISPATCH (Anderson, US)
THE GOOD BOSS (de Aranoa, Sp)
GREAT FREEDOM (Meise, Aut)
THE HAND OF GOD (Sorrentino, It)
THE HARDER THEY FALL (Samuel, US)
A HERO (Farhadi, Irn)
HIT THE ROAD (Panahi, Irn)
INEXORABLE (du Welz, Bel) |
KING RICHARD (Green, US)
LAMB (Johansson, Ice)
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO (Wright, UK)
THE LOST DAUGHTER (Gyllenhaal, US)
LUZZU (Camilleri, Mlt)
MASS (Kranz, US)
MEMORIA (Weerasethakul, Col)
MONEY HAS FOUR LEGS (Sun, Mya)
MOTHERING SUNDAY (Husson, UK)
MUNICH: THE EDGE OF WAR (Schwochow, UK)
NATURAL LIGHT (Nagy, Hun)
NEPTUNE FROST (Williams/Uzeyman, Rw)
NITRAM (Kurzel, Aus)
PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT (Audiard, Fr)
PASSING (Hall, US)
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)
THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN (Middleton/Spinney, UK)
RED ROCKET (Baker, US)
RON'S GONE WRONG (Smith/Vine)
SHEPHERD (Owen, UK)
SMALL BODY (Samani, It)
THE SOUVENIR: PART II (Hogg, UK)
SPENCER (Larrain, Ger)
SUCCESSION (Armstrong, US)
THE TENDER BAR (Clooney, US)
TITANE (Ducournau, Fr)
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (Coen, US)
TRUE THINGS (Wootliff, UK)
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (Haynes, US)
WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY (Hamaguchi, Jpn)
WILD INDIAN (Corbine, US)
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Trier, Nor)* reviews coming | ||
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