This year’s programme for the 67th BFI London Film Festival has been announced. This year’s festival takes place over twelve days from 4 – 15 October. Films and Series from all strands of the Festival will screen in many of central London’s iconic cinemas with a curated selection of features also being showcased at 9 partner venues across the UK.
The LFF will present a compelling and diverse programme of films, shorts, series and immersive works from 92 countries, featuring 79 languages playing across the 12 days of the festival. This includes 99 works made by female and non-binary filmmakers – 39% of the programme.
Opening this year’s festival is Emerald Fennell’s new film, Saltburn with Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya’s The Kitchen closing the festival on 15th October. Works from the likes of David Fincher (The Killer, above), Martin Scorsese, Yorgos Lanthimos, Sally El Hosaini, Jonathan Glazer, Steve McQueen, Michel Gondry, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Adura Onashile, Bertrand Bonello, Robin Campillo, Lukas Moodysson, Maite Alberdi, William Oldroyd, DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman, James Benning, Claire Simon, Angela Schanelec, Nicolas Philibert, Lila Avilés, Tatiana Huezo, Victoria Linares Villegas, Michel Franco, Quentin Dupieux, Catherine Breillat, Mohamed Ben Attia, Molly Manning Walker, Kitty Green, Aki Kaurismäki, Marco Bellocchio, Hirokazu Koreeda, Amat Escalante, Nuhash Humayun, Kaouther Ben Hania, Tr?n Anh Hùng, Baloji, Marie Amachoukeli, Jesse Lewis Reece, Cédric Kahn, Alexandre O. Philippe, Ladj Ly, Alex Gibney, James Krishna Floyd, Dominic Leclerc, Frederick Wiseman, Fawzia Mirza, Pat Collins, Deepa Mehta, Bill Ross, Turner Ross and Mahalia Belo feature.
Some 252 titles (comprising features, shorts, XR works and series) hailing from 92 countries, and featuring 79 languages will be represented.
Here are the big headline galas.
HEADLINE GALAS
- Opening Night Gala – SALTBURN (UK, dir.-scr. Emerald Fennell)
- Closing Night Gala – THE KITCHEN (UK, dir. Kibwe Tavares, Daniel Kaluuya)
- American Express Gala – ONE LIFE (UK, dir. James Hawes)
- ALL OF US STRANGERS (UK, dir.-scr. Andrew Haigh)
- THE BIKERIDERS (USA, dir. Jeff Nichols)
- THE BOOK OF CLARENCE (USA, dir.-scr. Jeymes Samuel)
- The Mayor of London’s Gala – CHICKEN RUN: DAWN OF THE NUGGET (UK, dir. Sam Fell)
- Cunard Gala – THE HOLDOVERS (USA, dir. Alexander Payne)
- THE KILLER (USA, dir. David Fincher)
- KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (USA, dir. Martin Scorsese)
- MAESTRO (USA, dir. Bradley Cooper)
- MAY DECEMBER (USA, dir. Todd Haynes)
- NYAD (USA, dir. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin)
- POOR THINGS (UK, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
