home » Programme

Programme for Monday 19 October

Morning | Afternoon | Evening
morning
Education screenings
Education Event: A Shine of Rainbows
Mon 19 |
10:00 |
Vue (Screen 9)
NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE

To book for LFF Education Events, please contact festival.education@bfi.org.uk or 0207 815 1344. Alternatively fill out an education online bookings form.

Eight-year-old orphan Tomàs explores magic and mystery in his new life next to the sea in the west of Ireland. For 7-11s.

 
Education screenings
Education Event: The Exploding Girl
Mon 19 |
10:30 |
BFI Southbank (NFT2)
NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE
Two friends on a summer break from college discover new possibilities where they least expect it in this gentle and moving US indie.
afternoon
Film on the Square
Tales from the Golden Age
Mon 19 |
12:45 |
Vue Screen 6
PRIORITY BOOKING
The idiocies of daily life in a dictatorship are explored in this comic, ironic look at Romania under the Ceaucescu regime.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
MICMACS
Mon 19 |
13:15 |
Vue Screen 7
PRIORITY BOOKING
Cinematic fantasy, topical subject matter, edge-of-the-seat pacing and witty wordplay combine in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's latest outing.
 
World Cinema
Still Bill
Mon 19 |
13:30 |
NFT1
PRIORITY BOOKING
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
The Exploding Girl
Mon 19 |
13:45 |
NFT2
PRIORITY BOOKING
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
Mon 19 |
13:45 |
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.
 
World Cinema
Like You Know It All
Mon 19 |
14:00 |
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.
 
Cinema Europa
Woman Without Piano
Mon 19 |
14:00 |
NFT3
FULLY BOOKED
From the 2006 LFF FIPRESCI winner, Javier Rebollo, comes 24 hours in the life of a Madrid housewife whose secrets begin to tumble as day rolls into night.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
Up in the Air
Mon 19 |
15:30 |
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
Father of My Children
Mon 19 |
15:45 |
Vue Screen 7
PRIORITY BOOKING
Superb drama from upcoming French talent Mia Hansen Løve: a family's life is turned upside down when the father, a hustling film producer, faces crisis.
 
Cinema Europa
Help Gone Mad
Mon 19 |
16:00 |
NFT2
PRIORITY BOOKING
A superbly acted black comedy of life in the Moscow suburbs that recalls the films of Kaurismaki and the theatre of Samuel Beckett.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
The Road
Mon 19 |
16:00 |
Vue Screen 6
FULLY BOOKED
A brilliant and largely faithful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
 
World Cinema
Trimpin: The Sound of Invention
Mon 19 |
16:15 |
NFT3
PRIORITY BOOKING
A portrait of the artist known simply as Trimpin, a sonic experimenter, a combination of inventor, engineer and composer.
 
Film on the Square
Bellamy
Mon 19 |
16:15 |
Vue Screen 9
FULLY BOOKED
Old campaigners Claude Chabrol and Gérard Depardieu join forces at last with a playful cop thriller in the Maigret tradition.
 
Experimenta
Double Take
Mon 19 |
16:30 |
ICA 1
FULLY BOOKED
Hitchcock, doppelgangers, the Cold War and American TV: a complex, conceptual and very enjoyable brew from artist/film-maker Johan Grimonprez.
 
Film on the Square
A Single Man
Mon 19 |
16:45 |
NFT1
FULLY BOOKED
A 52 year old British college professor living in Los Angeles tries to find meaning in his life after the death of his long term boyfriend.
evening
Cinema Europa
Dogtooth
Mon 19 |
18:15 |
Greenwich Picturehouse
FULLY BOOKED
The product of an active and inventive imagination, though some may doubt it comes from a healthy one…
 
World Cinema
One-Zero
Mon 19 |
18:15 |
NFT2
FULLY BOOKED
Cairo's bustling metropolis is brought thrillingly to life in this kaleidoscopic drama which sees multiple characters hurtling towards each other with a refreshing twist.
 
Experimenta
Perestroika
Mon 19 |
18:15 |
NFT3
FULLY BOOKED
Twenty years after the death of a dear friend, the filmmaker re-traces a ghostly journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway to investigate how images of the past can invade the present.
 
Film on the Square
Life During Wartime
Mon 19 |
18:15 |
Vue Screen 7
FULLY BOOKED
A sequel of sorts to the director's Happiness, this is an emotionally resonant and darkly humorous portrait of modern life and love.
 
Treasures from the Archives
The Touch
Mon 19 |
18:30 |
NFT1
PRIORITY BOOKING
Crucially restored version by the Swedish Film Institute of Ingmar Bergman's sensitive triangle love drama in which Bibi Andersson wants to keep both husband and lover.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
Bright Star
Mon 19 |
19:00 |
ODEON LEICESTER SQ.
PRIORITY BOOKING

No online booking for Odeon Leicester Square. To book tickets please call Box Office on 020 7928 3232.

Ben Wishaw and Abbie Cornish star in Jane Campion's intelligent, beautiful story of the passionate love between poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne.

 
Free Events with Time Out
Environmental Filmmaking: Can Cinema Ever Be Truly Green?
Mon 19 |
20:30 |
Delegates Centre
NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE
A panel discussion focussing on how environmental issues are affecting filmmaking today.
 
Film on the Square
The Limits of Control
Mon 19 |
20:30 |
Vue Screen 5
FULLY BOOKED
Jarmusch's audacious latest is a poetic, allusive, visually stunning variation on the conventional hitman movie, with Isaach De Bankolé heading a thrilling cast.
 
French Revolutions
The Girl on the Train
Mon 19 |
20:45 |
Greenwich Picturehouse
FULLY BOOKED
Rosetta star Emilie Dequenne is the lead in André Téchiné's rich, provocative drama about surviving the tensions of contemporary French life.
 
Short Cuts & Animation
The Gothic and the Grotesque
Mon 19 |
20:45 |
NFT3
FULLY BOOKED
Grotesque is disturbing. Gothic is magnificent. But both can be beautiful.
 
Film on the Square
The Limits of Control
Mon 19 |
20:45 |
Vue Screen 7
FULLY BOOKED
Jarmusch's audacious latest is a poetic, allusive, visually stunning variation on the conventional hitman movie, with Isaach De Bankolé heading a thrilling cast.
 
World Cinema
Sergio
Mon 19 |
21:00 |
NFT1
PRIORITY BOOKING
The life and death of Sergio Vieira de Mello, one time UN special representative in Iraq, described as 'a cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy'.
 
French Revolutions
White Material
Mon 19 |
21:00 |
Vue Screen 9
PRIORITY BOOKING
Director Claire Denis is on mesmerising form, directing Isabelle Huppert in a drama about a woman struggling to survive in an African revolution.
 
World Cinema
Eyes Wide Open
Mon 19 |
21:15 |
Vue Screen 6
FULLY BOOKED
A restrained and moving story of secret love in Jerusalem's Orthodox community.

Festival News

In Pictures | Day 16 of the Festival

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.

Sight & Sound Young Journalist Winners

30 Oct 2009

Sight & Sound Young Journalist Winners

We tally the entries and present the winners.

Awards Ceremony

29 Oct 2009

Awards Ceremony

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

In Pictures | Day 15 of the Festival

29 Oct 2009

In Pictures | Day 15 of the Festival

Behind the scenes at the Awards Ceremony.