Browse all the sections of the 57th London Film Festival (Oct 9-20) including the galas, competition titles and individual sections.

Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status

WP = WP
EP = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere

Gala’s

Opening Night
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (US) EP

Closing Night
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock (US/UK) EP

Official Competition - Best Film

  • Abuse Of Weakness, Catherine Breillat (France) EP
  • The Double, Richard Ayoade (UK) EP
  • Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski (Poland) EP
  • Like Father, Like Son, Kore-Eda Hirokazu (Japan) UK
  • The Lunchbox, Ritesh Batra (India) UK
  • Of Good Report, Jahmil X.T. Qubeka (South Africa) UK
  • Parkland, Peter Landesman (US) UK
  • Rags & Tatters, Ahmad Abdalla (Egypt) EP
  • The Selfish Giant, Clio Barnard (UK) UK
  • Starred Up, David Mackenzie (UK) EP
  • Tom At The Farm, Xavier Dolan (Canada) UK
  • Tracks, John Curran (Australia) UK
  • Under The Skin, Jonathan Glazer (UK) UK

First Feature Competition
The Sutherland Award

  • B For Boy, Chika Anadu (Nigeria) WP
  • Hide Your Smiling Faces, Daniel Patrick Carbone (US) UK
  • Ilo Ilo, Anthony Chen (Singapore) UK
  • Kill Your Darlings, John Krokidas (US) UK
  • The Long Way Home, Alphan Eşeli (Turkey) UK
  • Luton, Michalis Konstantatos (Greece) UK
  • Salvo, Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza (Italy) UK
  • Sarah Prefers To Run, Chloé Robichaud (Canada) UK
  • Sixteen, Rob Brown (UK) WP
  • Trap Street, Vivian Qu (China) UK
  • Wounded, Fernando Franco (Spain) UK
  • Youth, Tom Shoval (Israel) UK

Documentary Competition
The Grierson Award

  • Aatsinki: The Story Of Arctic Cowboys, Jessica Oreck (Finland) EP
  • The Armstrong Lie, Alex Gibney (US) UK
  • At Berkeley, Frederick Wiseman (US) UK
  • Cutie And The Boxer, Zachary Heinzerling (US) UK
  • Here Be Dragons, Mark Cousins (UK) EP
  • La Maison De La Radio, Nicolas Philibert (France) UK
  • Manhunt, Greg Barker (US) UK
  • The Missing Picture, Rithy Panh (France) UK
  • My Fathers, My Mother And Me, Paul-Julien Robert (Austria) UK
  • Pipeline, Vitaly Mansky (Russia) UK
  • Teenage, Matt Wolf (US) UK
  • Ukraine Is Not A Brothel, Kitty Green (Ukraine) UK

Love (33 Features, 8 Shorts)

  • 2 Autumns, 3 Winters Sebastien Betbeder(France)UK
  • Adore, Anne Fontaine (Australia) UK
  • Bad Hair, Mariana Rondón (Venezuela) UK
  • La Belle Et La Bete, Jean Cocteau (France)
  • Bertolucci On Bertolucci, Luca Guadagnino And Walter Fasano (Italy) IP
  • Child’s Pose, Călin Peter Netzer (Romania) UK
  • Fandry, Nagraj Manjule (India) WP
  • Floating Skyscrapers, Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland)UK
  • Gloria, Sebastian Lelio (Chile) UK
  • Grand Central, Rebecca Zlotowski (France) UK
  • It Felt Like Love, Eliza Hittman (US) UK
  • It’s All So Quiet, Nanouk Leopold (Netherlands) UK
  • Selective Memories, Rituparno Ghosh (India) WP
  • Ladder To Damascus, Mohamad Malas (Lebanon) EP
  • The Last Impresario, Gracie Otto (Australia) WP
  • The Lusty Men, Nicholas Ray (US)
  • May In The Summer, Cherien Dabis (Qatar) UK
  • Model Shop, Jacques Demy (US)
  • Must Have Been Love, Eirik Svensson (Norway) UK
  • On My Way, Emmanuelle Bercot (France) UK
  • The Past, Asghar Farhadi (France) UK
  • The Police Officer’s Wife, Philip Gröning (Germany)UK
  • Sandra, Luchino Visconti (Italy)
  • The Sarnos - A Life In Dirty Movies, Wiktor Ericsson (Sweden) IP
  • So Young, Vicki Zhao (China) UK
  • The Spectacular Now, James Ponsoldt (US) UK
  • Stop The Pounding Heart, Roberto Minervini (US) UK
  • Suzanne, Katell Quillévéré (France) IP
  • Those Happy Years, Daniele Luchetti (Italy) UK
  • Thy Womb, Brillante Mendoza (Philippines) UK
  • A Time In Quchi, Tso-Chi Chang (Taiwan) UK
  • Vara: A Blessing, Khyentse Norbu (Hong Kong) WP
  • Vic And Flo Saw A Bear, Denis Cote (Canada) UK
  • The Wishful Thinkers, Jonás Trueba (Spain) UK

  • Orbit Ever After, Jamie Stone (UK) WP
  • Full Time, Mark Gill (UK) UK
  • The Phone Call, Mat Kirkby (UK) EP
  • Kick-Heart, Masaaki Yuasa (Japan) UK
  • Pieces, Jack Weatherley (UK) WP
  • Auschwitz On My Mind, Assaf Machnes (Israel-Poland) UK
  • Out Of Darkness, Manjinder Virk (UK) WP
  • Night Of The Foxes, Tom Haines (UK) UK

Debate (20 Features, 8 Shorts)

  • Atambua 39°Celsius, Riri Riza (Indonesia) UK
  • Closed Curtain, Jafar Panahi & Kamboziya Partovi (Iran) UK
  • Gore Vidal: The United States Of Amnesia, Nicholas Wrathall (US) EP
  • Le Grand Cahier, János Szász (Germany) UK
  • Harbour Drift, Leo Mittler (Germany)
  • Honey, Valeria Golino (Italy) UK
  • The Kill Team, Dan Krauss (US) EP
  • The Last Of The Unjust, Claude Lanzmann(France)UK
  • Leave To Remain, Bruce Goodison (UK) WP
  • Manila In The Claws Of Light, Lino Brocka (Philippines)
  • Manuscripts Don’t Burn, Mohammad Rasoulof(Iran)UK
  • Milius, Zak Knutson, Joey Figueroa (US) IP
  • Papusza, Joanna Kos-Krauze & Krzysztof Krauze (Poland) UK
  • The Plague, Neus Ballús (Spain) UK
  • The Ravine Of Goodbye, Tatsushi Omori (Japan) UK
  • The Rooftops, Merzak Allouache  (Algeria) UK
  • Stop-Over, Kaveh Bakhtiari (Switzerland)
  • Tell Me Lies, Peter Brook (UK)
  • They’ll Come Back, Marcelo Lordello (Brazil) UK
  • Wałęsa. Man Of Hope, Andrzej Wajda (Poland) UK

  • Our Lad, Rachna Suri (UK) London Premiere
  • Killing Time, Simon Nunn (UK) London Premiere
  • More Than Two Hours, Ali Asgari (Iran) UK
  • Jasmine’s Revolution, Sam Johnson (UK) WP
  • Framed, Evgenia Gostrer (Germany) UK
  • My Sense Of Modesty, Sébastien Bailly (France) UK
  • Dream Girl, Oliver Schwarz (Switzerland) UK
  • Beat, Aneil Karia (UK) London Premiere

Dare (24 features, 8 shorts)

  • As I Lay Dying, James Franco (US) UK
  • Camille Claudel 1915, Bruno Dumont (France) UK
  • Eastern Boys, Robin Campillo (France) UK
  • An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker, Danis Tanovic (Bosnia & Herzegovina) UK
  • Exhibition, Joanna Hogg  (UK) UK
  • Exhibits Or Stories From The Castle, Palo Korec (Slovakia) UK
  • The Fear, Jordi Cadena (Spain) IP
  • Cholera, Aritz Moreno (Spain) IP             
  • The Golden Dream, Diego Quemada-Diez (Mexico) UK
  • Harmony Lessons, Emir Baigazin (Kazakhstan) UK
  • Half Of A Yellow Sun, Biyi Bandele (UK) EP
  • Jeune & Jolie, Francois Ozon (France) UK
  • Kalpana, Uday Shankar (India)
  • La Paz, Santiago Loza (Argentina) UK
  • Lebanon Emotion, Jung Young-Heon (S Korea) UK
  • Let The Fire Burn, Jason Osder (US) EP
  • A Long And Happy Life, Boris Khlebnikov (Russia) UK
  • Norte, The End Of History, Lav Diaz (Philippines) UK
  • One Day When The Rain Falls, Ifa Isfansyah, (Indonesia) UK
  • Portrait Of Jason, Shirley Clarke (US)
  • Shame, Yusup Razykov (Russia) UK
  • Story Of My Death, Albert Serra (Spain) UK
  • A Touch Of Sin, Zhangke Jia, (China) UK
  • Victim, Basil Dearden (UK)
  • Violette, Martin Provost (France) EP

  • Daimi, Marie Grahtø Sørensen  (Denmark) UK
  • Lisa, Go Home!, Oksana Buraja (Lithuania) UK
  • Daybreak, Ian Lagarde (Canada) IP
  • Twinkle, Twinkle, Deborah Haywood (UK) WP
  • Nesma’s Birds, Najwan Ali (Iraq) WP
  • Animals I Killed Last Summer, Gustav Danielsson (Sweden) London Premiere
  • The Dewberry Empire, Christian Schlaeffer (UK) WP
  • The Pack, Mario Fernández Alonso (Spain) UK

Laugh (19 Features, 9 Shorts)

  • Afternoon Delight, Jill Soloway (US) IP
  • Borgman, Alex Van Warmerdam (Netherlands) UK
  • The Bounceback, Bryan Poyser (US) IP
  • Chinese Puzzle, Cédric Klapisch (France) UK
  • Computer Chess, Andrew Bujalski (US) UK
  • Doll & Em, Azazel Jacobs WP
  • Drinking Buddies, Joe Swanberg (US) EP
  • Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, Chiemi Karasawa (US) IP
  • Enough Said, Nicole Holofcener (US) EP
  • Glückskinder, Paul Martin (Germany)
  • Gone Too Far!, Destiny Ekaragha (UK) WP
  • The Great Passage, Yuya Ishii (Japan) EP
  • Hello Carter, Anthony Wilcox (UK) UK
  • Love Me Till Monday, Justin Hardy (UK) WP
  • Me, Myself And Mum, Guillaume Gallienne (France) IP
  • Our Sunhi, Hong Sangsoo (South Korea) UK
  • The Parrot And The Swan, Alejo Moguillansky (Argentina) EP
  • See You Next Tuesday, Drew Tobia (US) EP
  • A Street In Palermo, Emma Dante (Italy) IP

  • Penny Dreadful, Shane Atkinson (US) UK
  • Drunker Than A Skunk, Bill Plympton (US) UK
  • Things He Never Said, Col Spector (UK) WP
  • Talking Dog For Sale, €10, Lewis-Martin Soucy (France)
  • Stew & Punch, Simon Ellis (UK)
  • Pandas, Matus Vizar (Slovakia) UK
  • To Leech, Stephen Leslie (UK) WP
  • Crackin’ Down Hard, Mike Clattenburg (US) EP
  • Aboriginal Heart, Michelle Blanchard (Australia) IP

Thrill (16 Features, 9 Shorts)

  • 1, Paul Crowder (US) IP
  • 11.6, Philippe Godeau (France) UK
  • All Is Lost, J C Chandor (US) UK
  • The Doorway To Hell, Archie Mayo (US)
    Picture Snatcher, Lloyd Bacon (US) short
  • Drones, Rick Rosenthal (US) EP
  • Durban Poison, Andrew Worsdale (South Africa) IP
  • The Enemy Within Yorgos Tsemberopoulos(Greece)UK
  • Gaslight, Thorold Dickinson (UK)
  • Heli, Amat Escalante (Mexico) UK
  • Kon-Tiki, Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg (UK) UK
  • The Lady From Shanghai, Orson Welles (US) WP
  • Northwest, Michael Noer (Denmark) UK
  • New World, Park Hoon-Jung (South Korea) UK
  • Omar, Hany Abu-Assad (Palestine) UK
  • Pioneer, Erik Skjoldbjærg (Norway) UK
  • Weekend Of A Champion , Frank Simon (UK) UK

  • 5 Meters 80, Deveaux Nicolas (France) UK
  • Keeping Up With The Joneses Michael Pearce(UK)WP
  • Something For Nothing, Andrew Brand (UK) UK
  • That Wasn’t Me, Esteban Crespo (Spain)
  • A Girl Named Elastika, Guillaume Blanchet(Canada)UK
  • The Slaughter, Jason B Kohl (US)
  • Minimus, Jonathan Hopkins (UK) WP
  • That Night, Chris Foggin (UK)

Cult (12 Features, 8 Shorts)

  • All Cheerleaders Die, Edward Lucky Mckee, Chris Sivertson (US) UK
  • Blackwood, Adam Wimpenny (UK) WP
  • The Congress, Ari Folman (Israel) UK
  • Grand Piano, Eugenio Mira (Spain) UK
  • Jodorowsky’s Dune, Frank Pavich (US) UK
  • Rigor Mortis, Juno Mak (Hong Kong) UK
  • The Sacrament, Ti West (US) UK
  • The Strange Colour Of Your Body’s Tears, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani (Belgium) UK
  • Sx_Tape, Bernard Rose (US) WP
  • Why Don’t You Play In Hell?, Sion Sono (Japan) UK
  • The Witches, Cyril Frankel WP
  • The Zero Theorem, Terry Gilliam (UK) UK

  • L’assenza, Jonathan Romney (UK) WP
  • Mystery, Chema García Ibarra (Spain) UK
  • Getting On, Ewan Stewart (UK)
  • No Kaddish In Carmarthen, Jesse Armstrong (UK)
  • The Ringer, Chris Shepherd (UK)
  • Plug & Play, Michael Frei (Switzerland) UK
  • Sidney, Karan Kandhari (UK) WP
  • Drone, Daniel Jewel (UK) WP

Journey (25 Features, 12 Shorts)

  • Bends, Flora Lau (Hong Kong) UK
  • The Chase, Arthur D. Ripley (US)
  • Cowboy, Delmer Daves (US)
  • The Do Gooders, Chloe Ruthven (UK) WP
  • Eliza Lynch - Queen Of Paraguay, Alan Gilsenan (Ireland) WP
  • The Eternal Return Of Antonis Paraskevas, Elina Psykou (Greece) UK
  • Four Ways To Die In My Hometown, Chai Chunya (China) UK
  • Gare Du Nord, Claire Simon (France) UK
  • Grigris, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (France) UK
  • L’intrepido, Gianni Amelio  (Italy) UK
  • Late At Night: Voices Of Ordinary Madness, Xiaolu Guo (UK) EP
  • Lifelong, Asli Özge (Turkey) UK
  • Locke, Steven Knight (UK) UK
  • Mother Of George, Andrew Dosunmu (US) UK
  • My Class, Daniele Gaglianone (Italy) IP
  • Nine Lives, Arne Skouen (Norway)
  • Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, Sang-Soo Hong (South Korea) UK
  • The Rocket, Kim Mordaunt (Australia) UK
  • Short Term 12, Destin Daniel Cretton (US) UK
  • Sniffer, Buddhadeb Dasgupta (India) WP
  • Siddharth, Richie Mehta (Canada) UK
  • So Much Water, Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge (Uruguay) UK
  • Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors, Sam Fleischner (US) UK
  • Tonnerre, Guillaume Brac (France) UK
  • The Weight Of Elephants, Daniel Joseph Borgman (Denmark) UK
  • Sea View, Jane Linfoot (UK) WP
  • Jeanetmila, Eike Schulz & Hendrik Raufmann (Germany) UK
  • Sevilla, Bram Schouw (Netherlands) UK
  • House Party, Adrian Sitaru (Romania) UK

Sonic (10 Features)

  • Becoming Traviata, Philippe Béziat (France) UK
  • Broadway Idiot, Doug Hamilton (US) IP
  • Electro Shaabi, Hind Meddeb (France) EP
  • Good Ol’ Freda, Ryan White (US) EP
  • How We Used To Live, Paul Kelly (UK) WP
  • Marvin Hamlisch: The Way He Was, Dori Berinstein (US) IP
  • Mistaken For Strangers, Tom Berninger (US) UK
  • Off The Beaten Track, João Pedro Moreira (Portugal) WP
  • The Punk Singer, Sini Anderson (US) EP
  • Twenty Feet From Stardom, Morgan Neville (US) UK

Family (7 Features, 9 Shorts)

  • Anina, Alfredo Soderguit (Uruguay) UK
  • Antboy,  Ask Hasselbalch (Denmark) UK
  • Felix, Marc Boreal And Thibaut Chatel (France) UK
  • The Kids From The Port, Roberta Durrant (South Africa) UK
  • My Mommy Is In America And She Met Buffalo Bill, Alberto Morais (Spain) UK
  • Side By Side, Arthur Landon (UK) UK
  • Upsidedown, Bernd Sahling (Germany) UK

  • Hedgehogs And The City, Ēvalds Lācis (Latvia) UK
  • The Fox Who Followed The Sound, Fatemeh Goudarzi (Iran) UK
  • The Meatballs And Sorry Bullies, Johan Hagelbäck (Sweden) UK
  • Doron Coron, Yuichi Ito (Japan) UK
  • Meatballs And Fork Beast, Johan Hegelbäck (Sweden) UK
  • Cat In The Bag, Nils Skapans (Latvia) UK
  • The Little Blond Boy With A White Sheep, Eloi Henriod (France) UK
  • Komaneko, Home Alone, Tsuneo Goda (Japan) UK
  • I’m Running Away, Eva Lindström (Sweden) UK

London Calling (7 shorts)

  • Close, Geoffrey Taylor (UK)
  • Woodhouse, Fred Rowson (UK) WP
  • Up On The Roof, Nour Wazzi (UK) WP
  • The Field, Andy Orr & Matt Jones (UK) WP
  • Anita, Geoff Bellhouse (UK) WP
  • Going Under, Toby Paton (UK) WP
  • Battlecock!, Ben Mallaby (UK)

Experimenta (9 Features, 55 Shorts)

  • Anak Araw, Gym Lumbera (Philippines) UK
  • From Gulf To Gulf To Gulf, Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran (India) UK
  • A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness, Ben Rivers & Ben Russell (France) UK
  • Barbaric Land Screening With Farther Than The Eye Can See, Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi  (France) UK
  • Farther Than The Eye Can See Screening With Pays Barbare, Alsharif, Basma (UAE) UK
  • Taşkafa, Stories Of The Street, Andrea Luka Zimmerman (Turkey) IP
  • Undertone Overture, Jodie Mack (US) IP
  • New Fancy Foils, Jodie Mack (US) IP
  • Dusty Stacks Of Mom: The Poster Project, Jodie Mack (US) EP
  • Glistening Thrills, Jodie Mack (US) IP
  • Let Your Light Shine, Jodie Mack (US) IP
  • Terra, Pedro Lino (Portugal) IP
  • The Foxes, Corin Sworn (UK) UK
  • Buffalo Death Mask, Mike Hoolboom (Canada) UK
  • People To Be Resembling, The Otolith Group (UK) UK
  • Zabriskie Point (Redacted), Stephen Connolly (UK) UK
  • Outwork, Stephen Sutcliffe (UK)
  • The Realist, Scott Stark (US) EP
  • The Chimera Of M, Sebastian Buerkner (UK) IP
  • Territories, Isaac Julien (UK)
  • In Excelsis Deo (In Adoration Of God), Sophie Muller (UK)
  • Catherine De Medicis Part 2, Steven Chivers (UK)
  • Grayson/Flowers/Jewels, Jennifer Binnie (UK)
  • My Conversations On Film, Boris Lehman (Belgium) UK
  • Guided By Voices, Stom Sogo (Japan)
  • A Perfect Three, Stom Sogo (Japan)
  • Silver Play, Stom Sogo (Japan)
  • Ya Private Sky, Stom Sogo (Japan)
  • Tri, Stom Sogo (Japan)
  • C For Cias, Stom Sogo (Japan)
  • Slow Death, Stom Sogo (Japan)
  • An Algorithm, Bette Gordon (US)
  • The Discovery Of The Phonograph, Stuart Sherman (US)
  • A Thousand Suns, Mati Diop (France) UK
  • Bedtime Story, Esther Shatavsky (US)
  • Six Windows, Marjorie Keller (US)
  • Mission To Mongo, J. Hoberman (US)
  • Goodbye 42nd Street, Richard Kern (US)
  • Radio Adios, Henry Hills (US)
  • Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller, Manuel De Landa (US)
  • Belle Comme Le Jour, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tristan Bera (France) UK
  • Greystone, Kerry Tribe (US) WP
  • The New World, Ruth Novaczek (UK) WP
  • Elsa Merdelamerdelamer, Abigail Child (US) IP
  • Circle In The Sand, Michael Robinson (US) UK
  • Cremer, David Leister, Lucy Harris (UK) WP
  • G/R/E/A/S/E, Antoni Pinent (Spain) UK
  • The Trick Brain, Ed Atkins (UK) UK
  • It For Others, Duncan Campbell (UK) UK
  • Swan Song, Anouk De Clercq, Jerry Galle & Anton Aeki (Belgium) UK
  • From My Shadow Collection, Duncan Reekie (UK) WP
  • Beauty In Motion, Tina Keane (UK)
  • Indoctrination, Michael Salkeld (UK)      
  • Between Regularity And Irregularity, Masahiro Tsutani (Japan) UK
  • Cut Out, Simon Payne (UK) WP
  • Stay The Same, Sam Firth (UK)
  • How Not To Be Seen. A Fucking Didactic Educational .Mov File, Hito Steyerl (Germany) UK
  • Gibraltar, Margaret Salmon (UK) WP
  • Let Us Persevere In What We Have Resolved Before We Forget, Ben Russell (US) UK
  • Circle In The Sand, Michael Robinson (US) UK
  • Time And The Wave, William Raban (UK) EP
  • Sun Song, Joel Wanek (US) WP
  • The Devil, Jean-Gabriel Périot (France) UK
  • Concrete Parlay, Fern Silva (US) UK
  • Congregations, Onyeka Igwe (UK) WP
  • Action On The Strip, John Warren (US) WP

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