Programme for Friday 23 October

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.

From the harshest of beginnings, the painful and courageous journey to hope for a poor African-American girl from Harlem.

Education screenings

Education Event: Polytechnique

Fri 23 |

10:30 |

Vue (Screen 9)

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.

A dramatisation of the events surrounding a college shooting, atmospherically re-created with black and white photography and an eerie soundtrack.

Film on the Square

Mother

Fri 23 |

12:45 |

Vue Screen 7

A quack herbalist and acupuncturist turns 'detective' to prove her son's innocence when he's charged with murder in Bong Joon-Ho's stunningly original account of maternal feelings in all their terrifying intensity.

Cinema Europa

A Room and a Half

Fri 23 |

13:00 |

CINE LUMIERE

Nobel prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky embarks on an imaginary voyage to St. Petersburg in Khrzhanovsky's imaginative and poetic film.

Galas & Special Screenings

The Boys Are Back

Fri 23 |

13:00 |

Vue Screen 5

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

A funny, anarchic and moving confessional drama about modern family life in the aftermath of tragedy.

Film on the Square

Fri 23 |

14:00 |

NFT3

At 100, legendary director Manoel de Oliveira gets better and better: this moral tale about love and folly is tart, concise and just about perfect.

Cinema Europa

Calimucho

Fri 23 |

14:15 |

Ritzy Screen 2

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.

Cinema Europa

The Last Days of Emma Blank

Fri 23 |

16:00 |

CINE LUMIERE

An unsettling, darkly playful, very funny, and thoroughly relevant comment on class, power, greed and hypocrisy.

Cinema Europa

Osadné

Fri 23 |

16:15 |

NFT3

A witty and entertaining documentary about a small village in Eastern Slovakia and its application for a grant from the European Union.

World Cinema

Fire of Mansaré

Fri 23 |

16:30 |

Ritzy Screen 2

Mansour Sora Wade presents a story about desire, choice and the freedom (or lack of it) of young people forced into a traditional practice where a male tags a girl at birth for marriage in adulthood.

Screen Talks

Julianne Moore

Fri 23 |

18:30 |

NFT1

One of the most daring and talented actors of her generation joins us to discuss her diverse slate of work.

New British Cinema

Mugabe and the White African

Fri 23 |

18:30 |

Ritzy Screen 2

Documentary illustrating the bravery of a white Zimbabwean family as they stand up to President Robert Mugabe over his aggressive land reform.

New British Cinema

Shed Your Tears and Walk Away

Fri 23 |

19:00 |

STUDIO

Fear and loathing in Hebden Bridge...

Galas & Special Screenings

Underground

Fri 23 |

19:30 |

Queen Elizabeth Hall

Iranian Cinema: Post-New Wave, Post-Election… Where Now?

Passions run deeper than the Northern Line in Asquith's 1920s classic of love, treachery and murder on the London underground.

Free Events with Time Out

Fri 23 |

20:30 |

Delegates Centre

Will the recent political turmoil in Iran see the emergence of new cinematic voices?

French Revolutions

Hadewijch

Fri 23 |

20:45 |

CINE LUMIERE