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Programme for Wednesday 21 October

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morning
Education screenings
Education Event: The Scouting Book for Boys
Wed 21 |
10:15 |
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.

New British drama about teenage friends David and Emily whose plans for the future suddenly take a deeper and darker turn.

 
Education screenings
Education Event: Short Films and New Filmmakers
Wed 21 |
10:30 |
BFI Southbank (NFT 1)
NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE
New young British filmmakers on stage to talk about their work as part of a showcase of great new animated and live action shorts.
afternoon
Galas & Special Screenings
Bright Star
Wed 21 |
13:00 |
Vue Screen 5
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.

 
Film on the Square
The Limits of Control
Wed 21 |
13:15 |
Vue Screen 7
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.
 
Experimenta
Castro
Wed 21 |
13:45 |
NFT2
PRIORITY BOOKING
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.
 
Film on the Square
About Elly
Wed 21 |
13:45 |
Vue Screen 9
PRIORITY BOOKING
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.
 
Experimenta
The Ferrari Dino Girl
Wed 21 |
14:00 |
ICA 1
FULLY BOOKED
Jan Němec's 'auto-documentary' recounts the story of how he filmed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and smuggled the footage out of the country.
 
Cinema Europa
Men on the Bridge
Wed 21 |
14:00 |
NFT1
PRIORITY BOOKING
A prize-winning portrait of life in the rapidly changing sprawl of today's Istanbul, offering resonant and affecting insights in a pacy, punchy, multi-strand narrative.
 
Short Cuts & Animation
The Gothic and the Grotesque
Wed 21 |
14:00 |
NFT3
PRIORITY BOOKING
Grotesque is disturbing. Gothic is magnificent. But both can be beautiful.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
An Education
Wed 21 |
15:30 |
Vue Screen 5
PRIORITY BOOKING
A lively and witty adaptation of Lynne Barber's memoir of a London schoolgirl seduced by the lifestyle of an older man.
 
Film on the Square
Balibo
Wed 21 |
15:45 |
Vue Screen 7
PRIORITY BOOKING
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.
 
Cinema Europa
St George Shoots the Dragon
Wed 21 |
16:00 |
NFT2
PRIORITY BOOKING
Epic, visionary Serbian war film from director Srdjan Dragojevic, about conflict, passion and jealousy in a village facing the prospect of World War I.
 
Experimenta
Perestroika
Wed 21 |
16:15 |
ICA 1
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.
 
World Cinema
Sergio
Wed 21 |
16:15 |
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'.
 
World Cinema
Shirley Adams
Wed 21 |
16:15 |
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.
evening
Film on the Square
Bellamy
Wed 21 |
18:15 |
DAVID LEAN CINEMA, CROYDON
FULLY BOOKED
Old campaigners Claude Chabrol and Gérard Depardieu join forces at last with a playful cop thriller in the Maigret tradition.
 
Cinema Europa
A Room and a Half
Wed 21 |
18:15 |
NFT2
FULLY BOOKED
Nobel prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky embarks on an imaginary voyage to St. Petersburg in Khrzhanovsky's imaginative and poetic film.
 
Other Events
Snipping Away at the Celluloid Ceiling
Wed 21 |
18:30 |
NFT3
PRIORITY BOOKING
A panel of brilliant filmmaking talent discuss the notion of a female aesthetic in their work and explore the reality of how women operate in today's film world.
 
Experimenta
They All Lie
Wed 21 |
18:45 |
ICA 1
PRIORITY BOOKING
An inventive post-modern thriller from Argentina's new avant-garde wave weaves together a series of intricate plotlines in a tale of historical intrigue, forgery, political legacies and sexual liaisons where we can never be sure of who or what to believe.
 
World Cinema
Burning Down The House: The Story of CBGB
Wed 21 |
19:00 |
STUDIO
FULLY BOOKED
 
Galas & Special Screenings
The White Ribbon
Wed 21 |
19:30 |
CURZON MAYFAIR
FULLY BOOKED
Michael Haneke's latest, mesmerising work surveys the life of a rural Protestant village in northern Germany over several months from 1913 to 1914, ending, tellingly, on the eve of World War One.
 
Cinema Europa
Storm
Wed 21 |
20:15 |
DAVID LEAN CINEMA, CROYDON
FULLY BOOKED
A legal drama about personal and political integrity, and about the face of modern Europe.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
The Boys Are Back
Wed 21 |
20:30 |
Vue Screen 5
FULLY BOOKED
A funny, anarchic and moving confessional drama about modern family life in the aftermath of tragedy.
 
Cinema Europa
My Only Sunshine
Wed 21 |
20:45 |
NFT2
PRIORITY BOOKING
Reha Erdem follows the celebrated Times and Winds with a poetic, bold and rewarding feature, daring in both form and content.
 
Cinema Europa
Calimucho
Wed 21 |
20:45 |
NFT3
PRIORITY BOOKING
Eugenie Jansen's smart and thoroughly charming film is a verité exercise shot during the 2007 summer tour of Circus Harlekino and features a cast whose daily routine is very similar to that of the characters they portray.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
The Boys Are Back
Wed 21 |
20:45 |
Vue Screen 7
FULLY BOOKED
A funny, anarchic and moving confessional drama about modern family life in the aftermath of tragedy.
 
World Cinema
Visitors
Wed 21 |
21:00 |
ICA 1
FULLY BOOKED
A triptych of digitally-shot stories from East Asian directors, linked by the motif of the home-coming outsider. Hong Sang-Soo, Naomi Kawase and Lav Diaz contribute funny, touching and surreal episodes, respectively.
 
Cinema Europa
The Big Dream
Wed 21 |
21:00 |
Vue Screen 6
PRIORITY BOOKING
Exciting, romantic autobiographical story of a cop come actor, who infiltrates the student protest groups in Rome, during the height of the 1968 demonstrations.

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