The BFI London Movie Competition (LFF) 2024 will cover cover documentaries about “witches,” and zoos and animal rescue facilities in Argentina, first aspects from directors of varied backgrounds, and Ali Abbas’ Donald Trump film The Apprentice in its gala lineup organizers acknowledged on Wednesday as they unveiled the fat program for this 365 days’s event.
Total, LFF will cover cover 253 titles, in conjunction with aspects motion photos, shorts, sequence, and immersive works, that hail from seventy 9 countries and characteristic 64 languages. Of the total, 112 works are made by female and non-binary filmmakers, or 44 p.c of the program, the fest acknowledged.
The London doc lineup consists of the likes of Elizabeth Sankey’s 90-minute goth-y Witches, which posits a connection between historic witchery and put up-partum psychological suffering and debuted on the Tribeca Movie Competition.
In the intervening time, the first characteristic program at LFF consists of Denise Fernandes’ Hanami, which not too prolonged ago world-premiered on the Locarno Movie Competition, and Neo Sora’s Happyend, which debuted at Venice 2024.
LFF Sequence will over all over again “showcase compelling sequence and episodic programming at some level of the strands, with contemporary work from one of the most area’s most fun film and TV creatives, in conjunction with Steven Knight, Jon Brown, Thomas Vinterberg, Sam Mendes, Alfonso Cuarón, Janicza Bravo, Nick Murphy and Tinge Krishnan,” the fest acknowledged.
Final week, the LFF published its 11 competitors program titles, in conjunction with contemporary movies with Barry Keoghan, Nick Cave, and the voices of Sarah Snook and Eric Bana. Amongst them are The Unheard of Omit Flower, the contemporary film from Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, identified for his or her Cave movie 20,000 Days on Earth, and the Luca Guadagnino-produced April from Georgia’s Dea Kulumbegashvili, whose feminist debut characteristic Starting set drew rave opinions.
As in outdated years, LFF’s program previous the competitors sections is organized by strand “to aid discovery and to begin up the competition to contemporary audiences.” The strands are: Adore, Debate, Snigger, Dare, Thrill, Cult, Bolt, Impact, Experimenta, Family, Shorts and Treasures. Audiences would possibly well presumably get contemporary and thrilling Sequence programming in most of the strands. Premieres consist of 40 world premieres (of16 aspects, two sequence, 19 shorts, and three immersive projects), 12 worldwide premieres (six aspects, four shorts, two immersive) and 21 European premieres (17 aspects, one sequence, three shorts).
The Debate strand, shall we declare, will consist of the likes of Asif Kapadia’s Venice Movie Competition title 2073, Sergei Loznitsa’s Ukraine doc The Invasion, Göran Hugo Olsson’s Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989, and Wang Bing’s Formative years (Homecoming).
“Cinematic tips materialize in loads of kinds, and this 365 days artists comprise taken us to a couple of giddy highs and poked at our tender underbellies,” acknowledged competition director Kristy Matheson. “Afraid histories linger shut to the bottom alongside optimistic futures, all explored in weird and artistic ways.”
Added BFI CEO Ben Roberts: “The staunch pleasure of LFF for me is seeing the labor of so many talented filmmakers advance to lifestyles and given the prominence and noise that they deserve.”
Take a look at out one of the most latest program lineup additions for LFF 2024 below.
First Feature Competition
Crocodile Tears (director Tumpal Tampubolon)
Hanami (director Denise Fernandes)
Happyend (director Neo Sora)
Final Swim (director Sasha Nathwani)
My Eternal Summer season (director Sylvia Le Fanu)
Olivia & the Clouds (director Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat)
On Falling (director Laura Carreira)
Santosh (director Sandhya Suri)
September Says (director Ariane Labed)
To a Land Unknown (director Mahdi Fleifel)
Who Quit I Belong to (director Meryam Joobeur)
Documentary Competition
Collective Monologue (director Jessica Sarah Rinland)
Holloway (directors Sophie Compton, Daisy-Might well well Hudson)
Kamay (directors Ilyas Yourish, Shahrokh Bikaran)
Mother Vera (directors Cécile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson)
Rising up at Night (director Nelson Makengo)
Hunting for Mavis Beacon (director Jazmin Jones)
The Shadow Students (director Eloise King)
Witches (director Elizabeth Sankey)
LFF Sequence
Thomas Vinterberg’s Families Worship Ours
Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer
Jordan Tannahill’s The Listeners
Steven Knight’s A Thousand Blows
co-directors Sam Mendes and Liza Johnson’s The Franchise
Headline Galas
Opening Night Gala – BLITZ (Director-Screenwriter Steve McQueen, UK)
Closing Night Gala – PIECE BY PIECE (Director Morgan Neville, USA)
American Particular Gala – ELTON JOHN: NEVER TOO LATE (Directors R.J. Cutler, David Furnish, USA)
ANORA (Director-Screenwriter Sean Baker, USA)
THE APPRENTICE (Director Ali Abbasi, Canada-Denmark-Ireland)
BIRD (Director-Screenwriter Andrea Arnold, UK)
CONCLAVE (Director Edward Berger, UK-USA)
EMILIA PÉREZ (Director-Screenwriter Jacques Audiard, France)
BFI Patrons’ Gala – HARD TRUTHS (Director-Screenwriter Mike Leigh, UK-Spain)
Cunard Gala – JOY (Director Ben Taylor, UK)
MARIA (Director Pablo Larraín, Italy-Germany-USA)
NIGHTBITCH (Director-Screenwriter Marielle Heller, USA)
Family Gala – THAT CHRISTMAS (Director Simon Otto, UK)
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (Director-Screenwriter Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
The Mayor of London’s Gala – WE LIVE IN TIME (Director John Crowley, UK-France)
Special Shows
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (Director-Screenwriter Payal Kapadia, France-India-Netherlands-Luxembourg)
Experimenta Special Presentation – THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE (Director Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, USA)
Documentary Special Presentation – DAHOMEY (Director-Screenwriter Mati Diop, France-Senegal-Benin)
ENDURANCE (Directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Natalie Hewit, UK-USA)
HARVEST (Director Athina Rachel Tsangari, UK-Germany-Greece-France-USA)
I’M STILL HERE (Director Walter Salles, Brazil-France 2024)
BFI Flare Special Presentation – A NICE INDIAN BOY (Director Roshan Sethi, USA-Canada)
NICKEL BOYS (Director RaMell Ross, USA)
THE PIANO LESSON (Director Malcolm Washington, USA)
QUEER (Director Luca Guadagnino, Italy-USA)
A REAL PAIN (Director-Screenwriter Jesse Eisenberg, USA-Poland)
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Director-Screenwriter Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran-Germany-France)
Treasures Special Presentation – SILENT SHERLOCK (Directors Maurice Elvey, George Ridgwell, UK)
THE WILD ROBOT (Director-Screenwriter Chris Sanders, USA)
Short Movie Competition
ADURA BABA MI (Director-Screenwriter Juliana Kasumu, UK)
COLD SNAP (Director-Screenwriter Ellen Evans, UK)
DRAGFOX (Director Lisa Ott, UK)
I DON’T WANT TO BE JUST A MEMORY (Director Sarnt Utamachote, Germany)
MAGIC CANDIES (Director Nishio Daisuke, Japan)
MOTHER’S DAY (Director-Screenwriter Emily Burnett, UK)
SEE IT, SAY IT (Director-Screenwriter Nez Khammal, UK)
STOMACH BUG (Director-Screenwriter Matty Crawford, UK)
TWO REFUSALS (WOULD WE RECOGNIZE OURSELVES UNBROKEN?) (Director Suneil Sanzgiri, USA)
VIBRATIONS FROM GAZA (Director-Screenwriter Rehab Nazzal, Palestine-Canada)
Adore
ALL OF YOU (Director William Bridges, UK)
ALL SHALL BE WELL (Director-Screenwriter Ray Yeung, Hong Kong (S.A.R of China))
AT AVERROES & ROSA PARKS (Director Nicolas Philibert, France)
GRAND TOUR (Director Miguel Gomes, Portugal-Italy-France)
I’M YOUR VENUS (Director Kimberly Reed, USA)
MOTHERBOARD (Director-Screenwriter Victoria Mapplebeck, UK)
PATRICE: THE MOVIE (Director Ted Passon, USA)
PAVEMENTS (Director-Screenwriter Alex Ross Perry, USA)
QUEENS OF DRAMA (Director Alexis Langlois, France-Belgium)
SEX (Director-Screenwriter Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway)
TARIKA (Director Milko Lazarov, Bulgaria-Germany-Luxembourg)
WEIGHTLESS (Director Sara Fgaier, Italy)
WHEN FALL IS COMING (Director François Ozon, France)
WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS (Director-Screenwriter Rúnar Rúnarsson, Iceland-Netherlands-Croatia-France)
Debate
2073 (Director Asif Kapadia, UK)
BLACK BOX DIARIES (Director Shiori Itō, Japan-USA-UK)
THE CATS OF GOKOGU SHRINE (Director Kazuhiro Soda, Japan-USA)
FAMILIES LIKE OURS (Sequence Creator-Director Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark-France-Sweden-Czechia-Belgium-Norway-Germany)
I AM NEVENKA (Director Icíar Bollaín, Spain-Italy)
THE INVASION (Director-Screenwriter Sergei Loznitsa, Netherlands-France-USA)
ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989 (Director-Screenwriter Göran Hugo Olsson, Sweden-Finland-Denmark)
JULIE KEEPS QUIET (Director Leonardo Van Dijl, Belgium-Sweden)
THE LISTENERS (Sequence Creator-Screenwriter Jordan Tannahill, UK)
THREE KILOMETRES TO THE END OF THE WORLD (Director Emanuel Pârvu, Romania)
YOUTH (Homecoming) (Director Wang Bing, France-Luxembourg-Netherlands)
Snigger
AUDREY (Director Natalie Bailey, Australia)
THE GUTTER (Directors Isaiah Lester, Yassir Lester, USA)
THE OTHER WAY AROUND (Director Jonás Trueba, Spain-France)
RUMOURS (Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Canada-Germany)
SOFA, SO GOOD (Director-Screenwriters Kyle Thiele, Eli Thiele, Cole Thiele, USA)
A TRAVELER’S NEEDS (Director-Screenwriter Hong Sangsoo, South Korea)
TRIUMPH (Directors Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Bulgaria-Greece)
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE (Director Matthew Rankin, Canada)
Dare
BIONICO’S BACHATA (Director Yoel Morales, Dominican Republic)
CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (Director Jia Zhangke, China)
CIDADE; CAMPO (Director-Screenwriter Juliana Rojas, Brazil-Germany-France)
DON’T CRY, BUTTERFLY (Director-Screenwriter Dương Diệu Linh, Vietnam-Singapore-Philippines-Indonesia)
EIGHT POSTCARDS FROM UTOPIA (Director-Screenwriters Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Romania)
FAMILIAR TOUCH (Director-Screenwriter Sarah Friedland, USA)
MY STOLEN PLANET (Director-Screenwriter Farahnaz Sharifi, Germany-Iran)
THE NIGHTS STILL SMELL OF GUNPOWDER (Director-Screenwriter Inadelso Cossa, Mozambique-France-Germany-Portugal-Netherlands-Norway)
PEPE (Director-Screenwriter Nelson Carlos De los Santos Arias, Dominican Republic-Namibia-Germany-France)
PRAIA FORMOSA (Director Julia de Simone, Portugal-Brazil)
SANATORIUM UNDER THE SIGN OF THE HOURGLASS (Director-Screenwriters Quay Brothers, UK-Poland-Germany)
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ÊTAT (Director-Screenwriter Johan Grimonprez, Belgium-France-Netherlands)
SUGAR ISLAND (Director-Screenwriter Johanné Gómez Terrero, Dominican Republic-Spain)
VIÊT AND NAM (Director-Screenwriter Trương Minh Quý, Philippines-France-Singapore-Netherlands-Italy-Germany-Vietnam)
Thrill
AÏCHA (Director-Screenwriter Mehdi M. Barsaoui, Tunisia-France-Italy-Saudi Arabia-Qatar)
ARCHITECTON (Director-Screenwriter Victor Kossakovsky, Germany-France)
LA COCINA (Director-Screenwriter Alonso Ruizpalacios, Mexico-USA)
EAT THE NIGHT (Directors Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, France)
GHOST TRAIL (Director Jonathan Millet, France-Germany-Belgium)
MALDOROR (Director Fabrice du Welz, Belgium-France)
MARCO, THE INVENTED TRUTH (Directors Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño, Spain)
MISERICORDIA (Director-Screenwriter Alain Guiraudie, France-Spain-Portugal)
SKINCARE (Director Austin Peters, USA-Italy)
STRANGER EYES (Director-Screenwriter Yeo Siew Hua, Singapore-Taiwan-France-USA)
A THOUSAND BLOWS (Sequence Creator-Screenwriter Steven Knight, UK)
Cult
THE BALCONETTES (Director Noémie Merlant, France)
CHAIN REACTIONS (Director-Screenwriter Alexandre O. Philippe, USA)
FRÉWAKA (Director-Screenwriter Aislinn Clarke, Ireland)
SISTER MIDNIGHT (Director-Screenwriter Karan Kandhari, UK)
THE SURFER (Director Lorcan Finnegan, Australia-Ireland)
THE WAILING (Director Pedro Martín-Calero, Spain-Argentina-France)
THE WEEKEND (Director Daniel Oriahi, Nigeria)
Bolt
AFTER THE LONG RAINS (Director-Screenwriter Damien Hauser, Kenya-Switzerland)
BABY (Director Marcelo Caetano, Brazil)
EEPHUS (Director Carson Lund, USA-France)
FLOW (Director Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia-France-Belgium)
GOOD ONE (Director-Screenwriter India Donaldson, USA)
LAYLA (Director-Screenwriter Amrou Al-Kadhi, UK)
LOOK INTO MY EYES (Director Lana Wilson, USA)
MY EVERYTHING (Director-Screenwriter Anne-Sophie Bailly, France)
SEBASTIAN (Director-Screenwriter Mikko Mäkelä, UK-Belgium-Finland)
SHAMBHALA (Director-Screenwriter Min Bahadur Bham, Nepal-France-Norway-Turkey-Hong Kong (S.A.R of China)-Taiwan-USA-Qatar)
SUJO (Director-Screenwriters Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez, Mexico-France-USA)
SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY (Directors Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, UK-USA)
TREADING WATER (Director-Screenwriter Gino Evans, UK)
THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE (Director-Screenwriter Mo Harawe, Austria-France-Germany-Somalia)
Impact
ABIDING NOWHERE (Director Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan-USA)
ERNEST COLE: LOST & FOUND (Director-Screenwriter Raoul Peck, France-USA)
GRAND THEFT HAMLET (Director-Screenwriters Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane, UK)
IT’S NOT ME (Director-Screenwriter Leos Carax, France)
ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO (Directors Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards, UK)
PAULINE BLACK: A 2-TONE STORY (Director Jane Mingay, UK)
THE STIMMING POOL (The Neurocultures Collective (Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker), Steven Eastwood, UK)
SUPERBOYS OF MALEGAON (Director Reema Kagti, India)
TWIGGY (Director Sadie Frost, UK)
TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER (Director Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet, UK-Denmark-USA)
THE WAY WE TALK (Director Adam Wong Sau-Ping, Hong Kong (S.A.R of China))
Experimenta
THE TREASURY OF HUMAN INHERITANCE (Director-Screenwriter Alexis Kyle Mitchell, Canada-UK)
I DON’T WANT TO BE JUST A MEMORY (Director Sarnt Utamachote, Germany)
FORMS OF CIRCULATION #1 (Director-Screenwriters Paul Stewart, Sarah Perks, UK)
THE RIVER THAT NEVER ENDS (Director-Screenwriter JT Trinidad, Philippines)
NOTES: REMEMBERED AND FOUND (Director-Screenwriter Maria Anastassiou, UK-Cyprus)
TWO REFUSALS (WOULD WE RECOGNIZE OURSELVES UNBROKEN?) (Director Suneil Sanzgiri, USA)
FILE NO. 2304 (Director-Screenwriter A.S.M. Kobayashi, Canada-USA)
AT THE VERGE OF WORDLESSNESS (Director-Screenwriter Alaa Abu Asad, Netherlands)
AVANT SERIANA (Director-Screenwriter Samy Benammar, Canada-Algeria)
NIDO DE CROCODILO (Director-Screenwriter Jazmin Rojas Forero, Colombia-Germany)
NON/LIVING (Director-Screenwriter Müge Yildiz, Turkey-Finland)
TWO STONES (Director Noel Meek, Aotearoa Recent Zealand)
HEXHAM HEADS (Director-Screenwriters Chloë Delanghe, Mattijs Driesen, Belgium)
THE FLESH OF LANGUAGE (Director-Screenwriter Amanda Rice, Ireland)
HEMEL (Director Danielle Dean, UK)
OUR LADY WHO BURNS (Director-Screenwriter Alice dos Reis, Portugal)
DIRECT ACTION (Directors Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell, Germany, France)
A FIDAI FILM (Director Kamal Aljafari, Palestine)
UNDR (Director Kamal Aljafari, Palestine)
A NIGHT WE HELD BETWEEN (Director-Screenwriter Noor Abed, Palestine)
NO EXORCISM FILM (Director-Screenwriter Komtouch Napattaloong, Thailand)
SMALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT (Director-Screenwriter Daniel Hui, Singapore)
Experimenta Works in Development:
15 IRANIAN YEARS (Adonia Bouchehri)
CTRL+Z (Parwana Haydar)
THE KRUEGER INSTITUTE (Mahenderpal Sorya)
I AM A DALE (Edd Carr)
Family
BLINK (Directors Edmund Stenson, Daniel Roher, Canada-USA)
THE COLOURS WITHIN (Director Naoko Yamada, Japan)
SAVAGES (Director Claude Barras, Switzerland-France-Belgium)
WATERSHIP DOWN (Director Martin Rosen, UK)
Sharp Shorts for Younger Audiences:
COO-RAGE (Director Alina Milkina, Netherlands)
LOVE AT FIRST WAF (Directors Louise Le Toullec, Helene Gouil, France)
WHO’S WRONG? (Directors Stina Wirsén, Linda Hambäck, Sweden)
THE BRAVE LOCOMOTIVE (Director Andrew Chesworth, USA)
THE ODD CARROT (Director Inese Pavēne, UK)
FREELANCE (Directors Luciano A Muñoz Sessarego, Magnus I. Møller, Peter Smith, Denmark)
THE CHILD OF THE WAVES (Directors Valentine Hilarin, Gaelle Bejjani, Yuhan Wang, Martin Misguided, Noam Szwarc, Sofian Pourquery-de-Boisserin, France)
HELLO SUMMER (Directors-Screenwriters Martin Smatana, Veronika Zacharová, Slovakia-Czechia-France)
MAGIC CANDIES (Director Nishio Daisuke, Japan)
Treasures
THE CHURNING (Director Shyam Benegal, India)
MANJI (Director Yasuzô Masumura, Japan)
MARÍA CANDELARIA (Director Emilio Fernández, Mexico)
THE SEALED SOIL (Director Marva Nabili, Iran)
THE TALK OF THE TOWN (Director George Stevens, USA)
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