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BFI London Film Festival

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Festivals

Trauma ripples through time at the London Film Festival

by Erin Mussett

Jesse Eisen­berg, Mal­colm Wash­ing­ton and Christo­pher Andrews explored the diverg­ing man­i­fes­ta­tions of gen­er­a­tional trau­ma at this year’s Lon­don Film Festival.
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Festivals

20 Hidden Gems at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival

by Little White Lies

Our hand-picked haul of must-see titles from out­side the main gala and com­pe­ti­tion strands.
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Festivals

Chasing Chasing Amy – first-look review

by Soma Ghosh

Sav Rodgers weaves per­son­al and pop cul­ture his­to­ry togeth­er as he unpacks the lega­cy of Kevin Smith’s 1997 roman­tic comedy.
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Festivals

Baltimore – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Imo­gen Poots shines in this angu­lar, frag­ment­ed por­trait of Eng­lish rose-turned-fire­brand activist Rose Dug­dale from Irish film­mak­ers Joe Lawlor and Chris­tine Molloy.
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Festivals

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Raven Jack­son’s fea­ture debut announces a strik­ing visu­al tal­ent, fol­low­ing the sto­ry of a young wom­an’s life in rur­al Mississippi.
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Festivals

Celluloid Underground – first-look review

by David Jenkins

This fas­ci­nat­ing and melan­choly doc­u­men­tary sees an Iran­ian exile in Lon­don look­ing back to the stranger-than-fic­tion roots of his for­ma­tive cinephelia.
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Festivals

The full BFI London Film Festival 2023 line-up has been announced

by Marina Ashioti

Yor­gos Lan­thi­mos’ Poor Things and Emer­ald Fennell’s Salt­burn are among the picks of this year’s bumper LFF crop.
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Festivals

Struggling fathers take the spotlight at this year’s BFI London Film Festival

by Zahra AlHadad

A trio of dra­mas explain the rela­tion­ship between fathers and chil­dren put an empha­sis on parental per­son­hood at this year’s Lon­don Film Festival.
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Festivals

Medusa Deluxe – first-look review

by Jojo Ajisafe

The cut­throat world of hair­dress­ing is the set­ting for this sparky mur­der mys­tery – a debut for Thomas Hardiman.
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Festivals

Exploring empathy through virtual reality at LFF

by Patrick Gamble

The 2022 LFF Expand­ed pro­gramme fea­tured a num­ber of vir­tu­al real­i­ty expe­ri­ences which aimed to con­nect audi­ences and film­mak­ers more than ever.
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Festivals

Klokkenluider – first-look review

by Josh Slater-Williams

Actor Neil Maskell makes his debut as a film­mak­er with this spiky thriller.
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Festivals

Women Talking – first-look review

by Saffron Maeve

A group of women meet in secret to dis­cuss escap­ing their abu­sive, iso­lat­ed colony in Sarah Pol­ley’s adap­ta­tion of Miri­am Towes’ novel.