The 67th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its full lineup, which incorporates galas and particular displays of movies by up to date masters.
As beforehand introduced, Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn” will open the pageant and Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya’s “The Kitchen” will shut it. James Hawes’ “One Life” is the American Express gala and Sam Fell’s “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” the Mayor of London gala.
In addition, the pageant’s headline galas embody Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” David Fincher’s “The Killer,” Andrew Haigh’s “All of us Strangers,” Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders,” Jeymes Samuel’s “The Book Of Clarence,” Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers,” Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,”
Todd Haynes’ “May December,” Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s “Nyad” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things.”
Special displays embody Miyazaki Hayao’s “The Boy And The Heron,” Kim Jee-woon’s “Cobweb,” Mahalia Belo’s “The End We Start From,” Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves,” Garth Davis’ “Foe,” Abdou Cisse’s “Grime Kids,” Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man,” Goran Stolevski’s “Housekeeping For Beginners,” Ladj Ly’s “Les Indésirables,” Michel Franco’s “Memory,” Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City,” Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” and Jonathan Glazer’s “Zone of Interest.”
The pageant’s competitors titles had been beforehand introduced.
In all, this system includes 252 titles, together with options, shorts, XR works and sequence from 92 nations, throughout 79 languages. Among these, 99 works are made by feminine and non-binary filmmakers – 39% of this system. All options and sequence will display screen to U.Okay. audiences for the primary time, together with 29 world premieres (14 options, two sequence and 13 shorts), seven worldwide premieres (six options and one quick) and 30 European premieres (22 options, one sequence and 7 shorts). Of the nations represented, the U.Okay. has greater than 80 titles, adopted by the U.S. and France with greater than 50 works every.
As in earlier years, the characteristic movie program is organized by Love, Debate, Laugh, Dare, Thrill, Cult, Journey, Create, Experimenta, Family and Treasures strands and new sequence programming will be present in most of the strands.
Festival director Kristy Matheson stated: “In getting ready this 2023 pageant, my colleagues and I’ve been endlessly buoyed by the artistry, concepts and gifted people and communities which have come into our orbit.”
Ben Roberts, CEO, BFI, added: “Cinema has reclaimed its standing as a cultural drive, an art-form that may spark a dialog around the globe, and which is able to resound loudly by the wide-ranging line-up of important cinema that our 67th version of the BFI London Film Festival will provide. I’m significantly excited that the pageant shall be sharing the exhilarating expertise of latest work from world filmmakers alongside so many debut options from the U.Okay. this 12 months.”
The full pageant program is right here. The pageant runs Oct. 4-15.
