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Programme for Tuesday 20 October

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Education screenings
Education Event: Storm
Tue 20 |
10:00 |
Vue (Screen 5)
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.

Faces are put to historical facts in a dynamic dramatisation of the individuals and lives involved in the aftermath of war.

afternoon
Cinema Europa
Lourdes
Tue 20 |
13:00 |
NFT1
PRIORITY BOOKING
A meticulously drawn study of a pilgrimage to the iconic site, touching on themes of faith, hope and charity.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
Up in the Air
Tue 20 |
13:00 |
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.
 
Film on the Square
Bluebeard
Tue 20 |
13:15 |
Vue Screen 7
PRIORITY BOOKING
Not your everyday fairy tale: Catherine Breillat proposes a witty, surreal, typically provocative re-reading of the ultimate story of a bad marriage.
 
Film on the Square
The Limits of Control
Tue 20 |
13:30 |
Vue Screen 6
PRIORITY BOOKING
Jarmusch's audacious latest is a poetic, allusive, visually stunning variation on the conventional hitman movie, with Isaach De Bankolé heading a thrilling cast.
 
Cinema Europa
Morphia
Tue 20 |
13:45 |
NFT2
PRIORITY BOOKING
A compelling and occasionally graphic story adapted from Mikhail Bulgakov's stories about a country medical practice in Russia in 1917.
 
Film on the Square
The Milk of Sorrow
Tue 20 |
13:45 |
Vue Screen 9
PRIORITY BOOKING
Winner of the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival, Claudia Llosa's second feature focuses on a young Peruvian woman coming to terms with the death of her mother in a country whose recent history has been marked by bloody civil conflict.
 
World Cinema
The Search
Tue 20 |
14:00 |
ICA 1
FULLY BOOKED
Pema Tseden's Tibetan road movie centres on the search for actors to star in a traditional Buddhist opera; a beautiful film about a rapidly changing society, about dying traditions, about spiritual confusions... and about fragile hearts.
 
Short Cuts & Animation
I Fought the Law
Tue 20 |
14:00 |
NFT3
PRIORITY BOOKING
Short films with added fighting: from verbal disagreements to clashes of ideology, to full on machine-gun in face Mexican stand-offs.
 
World Cinema
Eyes Wide Open
Tue 20 |
15:30 |
Vue Screen 5
PRIORITY BOOKING
A restrained and moving story of secret love in Jerusalem's Orthodox community.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
MICMACS
Tue 20 |
15:45 |
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.
 
World Cinema
One-Zero
Tue 20 |
16:00 |
NFT2
PRIORITY BOOKING
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.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
Bright Star
Tue 20 |
16:00 |
Vue Screen 6
FULLY BOOKED

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.

 
French Revolutions
White Material
Tue 20 |
16:15 |
Vue Screen 9
FULLY BOOKED
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
Feast of Villians
Tue 20 |
16:30 |
ICA 1
FULLY BOOKED
In Pan Jianlin's pugnacious indie feature a young deliveryman in Beijing, desperately trying to pay his father's hospital bills, decides to sell one of his own kidneys on the black market.
evening
Film on the Square
Balibo
Tue 20 |
18:15 |
Vue Screen 7
FULLY BOOKED
A dramatised account seen of the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists killed while covering Indonesia's military campaign in the border regions of East Timor.
 
Screen Talks
Jane Campion
Tue 20 |
18:30 |
NFT1
PRIORITY BOOKING
The Oscar winning director joins us to discuss her impressive career.
 
Treasures from the Archives
Far From Vietnam
Tue 20 |
18:30 |
NFT3
PRIORITY BOOKING
Classic protest film in which French new wave directors collaborate to make a co-operative movie condemning America's war of aggression in Vietnam.
 
New British Cinema
Oil City Confidential
Tue 20 |
18:45 |
ICA 1
FULLY BOOKED
Julien Temple's latest conceptual rock documentary puts the case for Dr Feelgood, as 'four estuarine John-the-Baptists to Johnny Rotten's anti-Christ'.
 
Film on the Square
About Elly
Tue 20 |
18:45 |
Vue Screen 9
FULLY BOOKED
A supremely sophisticated Iranian drama, where tragedy strikes a group of friends while they're at a getaway on the banks of the Caspian Sea.
 
World Cinema
Trimpin: The Sound of Invention
Tue 20 |
19:00 |
STUDIO
FULLY BOOKED
A portrait of the artist known simply as Trimpin, a sonic experimenter, a combination of inventor, engineer and composer.
 
Experimenta
Castro
Tue 20 |
20:30 |
NFT2
FULLY BOOKED
The chase movie is given an unexpected makeover in Argentine director Alejo Moguillansky's fast, furious and gloriously inventive tale of a man on the run from an angry ex-wife and her team of hapless assailants.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
An Education
Tue 20 |
20:30 |
Vue Screen 5
FULLY BOOKED
A lively and witty adaptation of Lynne Barber's memoir of a London schoolgirl seduced by the lifestyle of an older man.
 
World Cinema
Shirley Adams
Tue 20 |
20:45 |
NFT3
PRIORITY BOOKING
This intense social-realist drama, set in Cape Town, follows a mother as she struggles to rehabilitate her son, a victim of gun violence.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
An Education
Tue 20 |
20:45 |
Vue Screen 7
FULLY BOOKED
A lively and witty adaptation of Lynne Barber's memoir of a London schoolgirl seduced by the lifestyle of an older man.
 
World Cinema
At the End of Daybreak
Tue 20 |
21:00 |
ICA 1
FULLY BOOKED
Inspired by a tabloid news story, Ho Yuhang's tale of the illicit affair between a confused 23-year-old and an underage high-school girl is a kind of modern Malaysian film noir.

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