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Programme for Sunday 18 October

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Film on the Square
The Time That Remains
Sun 18 |
12:45 |
Vue Screen 7
PRIORITY BOOKING
Elia Suleiman delivers his masterpiece with this sweeping, comic and ultimately heart-breaking account of sixty years of in the life of a Palestinian family.
 
World Cinema
A Shine Of Rainbows
Sun 18 |
13:30 |
Vue Screen 6
PRIORITY BOOKING
Tomas leaves his orphanage home and moves to a magical island but tragic events conspire against him.
 
Cinema Europa
This Very Instant
Sun 18 |
13:45 |
NFT2
PRIORITY BOOKING
A stylish documentary from Spanish filmmaker Manuel Huerga follows Oscar-winning Uruguayan singer-composer Jorge Drexler as he undertakes a short tour in late 2007.
 
World Cinema
Gigante
Sun 18 |
13:45 |
Vue Screen 9
PRIORITY BOOKING
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.
 
Experimenta
Blind Pig Who Wants To Fly
Sun 18 |
14:00 |
ICA 1
FULLY BOOKED
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.
 
Treasures from the Archives
Too Many Husbands
Sun 18 |
14:00 |
NFT1
PRIORITY BOOKING
Jean Arthur finds she has two husbands on her hands and begins to like it in a sharp comedy based on W. Somerset Maugham's play.
 
Short Cuts & Animation
People Are Strange
Sun 18 |
14:00 |
NFT3
FULLY BOOKED
From the rather odd to the completely mind-blowing. Expect a mental hangover from these 7 short films.
 
Film on the Square
From Time to Time
Sun 18 |
15:00 |
Vue Screen 5
FULLY BOOKED
Young Tolly tries to unlock the secrets of his ancestral home and in doing so unsettles some of its spirits.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Sun 18 |
15:15 |
Vue Screen 7
PRIORITY BOOKING

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Based on Jon Ronson's best-seller, this funny, eye-opening story reveals a bizarre secret US military unit trained in paranormal techniques.

 
Cinema Europa
Burrowing
Sun 18 |
16:00 |
NFT2
PRIORITY BOOKING
Beautifully evocative and impressionistic exploration of lives of local Swedish misfits.
 
World Cinema
Wah Do Dem
Sun 18 |
16:15 |
ICA 1
FULLY BOOKED
A daring and inventive slice of slacker cinema, a fish-out-of-water story that will leave you unsure whether to laugh or despair...
 
Short Cuts & Animation
The Young
Sun 18 |
16:15 |
NFT3
PRIORITY BOOKING
Vibrant and surprising, sometimes harsh and sometimes funny, but growing up is never boring.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
MICMACS
Sun 18 |
17:30 |
Vue Screen 5
PRIORITY BOOKING
Cinematic fantasy, topical subject matter, edge-of-the-seat pacing and witty wordplay combine in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's latest outing.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
MICMACS
Sun 18 |
17:45 |
Vue Screen 7
FULLY BOOKED
Cinematic fantasy, topical subject matter, edge-of-the-seat pacing and witty wordplay combine in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's latest outing.
evening
Treasures from the Archives
Vitaphone Varieties
Sun 18 |
18:00 |
NFT3
PRIORITY BOOKING
A dozen of Warner Bros. early sound shorts featuring vaudeville performers of the day, specially selected and introduced by preservationist Robert Gitt.
 
World Cinema
Today's Special
Sun 18 |
18:15 |
NFT2
FULLY BOOKED
This super-feel-good movie has it all – love, comedy and mouth-watering Indian food!
 
Cinema Europa
The Happiest Girl in the World
Sun 18 |
18:30 |
CURZON MAYFAIR
FULLY BOOKED
The latest find from Romania: an acerbic comedy about a young girl who wins a soft-drinks competition and finds that success comes with a catch.
 
World Cinema
Like You Know It All
Sun 18 |
18:30 |
ICA 1
FULLY BOOKED
Hong Sang-Soo's latest wry, comic bulletin from the sex-war centres on a middle-aged man who encounters two married women - and has two very different experiences.
 
Film on the Square
When You're Strange: A Film About the Doors
Sun 18 |
18:30 |
Vue Screen 6
FULLY BOOKED
A rich collection of previously unseen archive material deployed to great effect in Tom DiCillo's study of the rise of The Doors and self destruction of Jim Morrison.
 
Film on the Square
Cold Souls
Sun 18 |
18:45 |
Vue Screen 9
PRIORITY BOOKING
Actor Paul Giamatti stars as actor Paul Giamatti in this gentle existential comedy about an imagined international trafficking in human souls.
 
Other Events
LFF and BAFTA present Stylish by Design: The Production Designer in Cinema
Sun 18 |
19:00 |
BAFTA David Lean Room
FULLY BOOKED
Award-winning designers Eugenio Caballero & Andrew McAlpine offer us a rare insight into the world of production design.
 
World Cinema
Still Bill
Sun 18 |
19:00 |
STUDIO
FULLY BOOKED
A revealing portrait of Bill Withers, telling his story from being a child raised by his grandmother in Slab Fork, West Virginia, up to the celebrations surrounding his 70th birthday.
 
World Cinema
Kinatay
Sun 18 |
20:30 |
NFT2
FULLY BOOKED
Brillante Mendoza's Cannes prize-winner (Best Director) chronicles a young police cadet's horrified realisation that he's about to become an accessory to murder.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
Up in the Air
Sun 18 |
20:30 |
Vue Screen 5
FULLY BOOKED
From the director of Juno, a sharply scripted and crisply directed story set in the world of high flying business travel.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
Up in the Air
Sun 18 |
20:45 |
Vue Screen 7
FULLY BOOKED
From the director of Juno, a sharply scripted and crisply directed story set in the world of high flying business travel.
 
Cinema Europa
The Double Hour
Sun 18 |
21:00 |
CURZON MAYFAIR
FULLY BOOKED
Ultra-suspenseful contemporary crime thriller about a new romance, torn apart by robbery and murder.
 
Cinema Europa
Headhunter
Sun 18 |
21:00 |
ICA 1
FULLY BOOKED
A stylish corporate thriller. A journalist turned headhunter becomes entangled in a multinational power.
 
World Cinema
The Exploding Girl
Sun 18 |
21:00 |
NFT3
FULLY BOOKED
An enjoyable, understated study of old friends spending spring vacation together, and finding that their feelings may run deeper than friendship.
 
Film on the Square
Cold Souls
Sun 18 |
21:00 |
Vue Screen 6
FULLY BOOKED
Actor Paul Giamatti stars as actor Paul Giamatti in this gentle existential comedy about an imagined international trafficking in human souls.
 
Film on the Square
Bellamy
Sun 18 |
21:15 |
Vue Screen 9
PRIORITY BOOKING
Old campaigners Claude Chabrol and Gérard Depardieu join forces at last with a playful cop thriller in the Maigret tradition.

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Awards Ceremony

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