Programme for Saturday 17 October

afternoon
Galas & Special Screenings
Sat 17 |
13:15 |
Vue Screen 7
Wes Anderson works with stop-motion animation and an outstanding voice cast to bring Roald Dahl's much loved story to the screen.
 
Treasures from the Archives
Sat 17 |
13:30 |
NFT1
Delmer Daves's intense, good looking Western based on Othello, in which Glenn Ford confronts jealousy and violence on Ernest Borgnine's ranch.
 
Experimenta
Sat 17 |
14:00 |
ICA 1
Ever thought you knew everything there was to know about Method Acting? Think again as Argentine filmmakers Martín Rejtman and Federico León cast their caustic eye on a child acting coach who shares the secrets of his successes.
 
Cinema Europa
Sat 17 |
14:00 |
NFT3
Amusing, coming of age tale sees young Max constantly failing to achieve despite his best intentions.
 
Film on the Square
 
Film on the Square
Sat 17 |
15:45 |
Vue Screen 7
 
Treasures from the Archives
Sat 17 |
16:15 |
NFT3
Aeronautical heroes compete to be first to the South Pole, while Fay Wray looks on anxiously, in Frank Capra's early-sound adventure spectacular.
 
Film on the Square
Sat 17 |
16:15 |
Vue Screen 9
Playing fast and loose with the boundaries between fiction and documentary, Charleyne Yi questions whether true love exists.
evening
French Revolutions
Sat 17 |
18:30 |
NFT3
How one of France's great directors nearly made a visionary masterpiece: a revealing documentary about a legendary catastrophe of French cinema.
 
Experimenta
Sat 17 |
18:45 |
ICA 1
The Chinese are the main pork-eaters in predominantly Muslim Indonesia, and a pig provides Edwin with his central metaphor in a kaleidoscopic account of the fraught Chinese-Indonesian experience. With two of Edwin's prizewinning recent shorts.
 
World Cinema
Sat 17 |
21:15 |
Vue Screen 9
From Uruguay comes a quirky, beautifully performed tale of obsession as a supermarket security guard becomes drawn to one of the cleaners he observes at work on the video security monitors.

Festival News

30 Oct 2009

In Pictures | Day 16 of the Festival

We wave goodbye to the Festival at the Gala screening of Sam Taylor-Wood's Nowhere Boy.

30 Oct 2009

Sight & Sound Young Journalist Winners

We tally the entries and present the winners.

29 Oct 2009

Awards Ceremony

We announce the winner of the Best Film award, plus we welcome our new BFI Fellows.

29 Oct 2009

In Pictures | Day 15 of the Festival

Behind the scenes at the Awards Ceremony.