Programme for Saturday 24 October

Education Talks and Workshops

Education Event: Festival Funday Workshops with Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences & Wallace and Gromit's 20th Anniversary

Sat 24 |

11:15 |

BFI Southbank (Main Foyer)

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.

Lots of hands-on animation activity based on the animated treats at the BFI Southbank today. For families.

Experimenta

Monolog

Sat 24 |

12:00 |

Studio

NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE

Laure Prouvost reports on strange events in the Studio cinema. Free continuous loop.

Film on the Square

Astro Boy

Sat 24 |

13:00 |

ODEON WEST END 2

FULLY BOOKED

The robot boy from Metro City gets a CGI makeover in this updating of the anime classic.

Galas & Special Screenings

Chloe

Sat 24 |

13:00 |

Vue Screen 5

FULLY BOOKED

A woman investigates her suspicions of her husband's infidelity in this compelling and psychologically nuanced drama.

Film on the Square

Adrift

Sat 24 |

13:30 |

Vue Screen 6

PRIORITY BOOKING

Set on Brazil's Buzios beaches in the early 1980s, the story of one girl's coming of age is a sophisticated, handsome melodrama of considerable class.

Education Talks and Workshops

Education Event: Festival Funday Workshops with Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences & Wallace and Gromit's 20th Anniversary

Sat 24 |

13:45 |

BFI Southbank (Main Foyer)

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.

Lots of hands-on animation activity based on the animated treats at the BFI Southbank today. For families.

Short Cuts & Animation

Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences

Sat 24 |

13:45 |

NFT2

PRIORITY BOOKING

A selection of short animated films from around the world.

New British Cinema

Kicks

Sat 24 |

14:15 |

Ritzy Screen 2

FULLY BOOKED

A markedly assured feature debut from Lindy Heymann, an intelligent and witty comment on modern celebrity culture.

Other Events

Wallace & Gromit's 20th Anniversary

Sat 24 |

15:15 |

NFT1

PRIORITY BOOKING

Master animator Nick Park discusses his illustrious career and helps us celebrate 20 years since Wallace & Gromit hit our screens.

Experimenta

The Portuguese Nun

Sat 24 |

15:30 |

CINE LUMIERE

FULLY BOOKED

An actress discovers herself - and the pleasures of fado music - in this Lisbon-set drama by Eugène Green, one of French cinema's true originals.

Film on the Square

Extract

Sat 24 |

15:45 |

Vue Screen 7

PRIORITY BOOKING

Mike Judge, the creator of Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill, once again mining the American workplace for a smart and intuitive comedy, replacing the white collar cubicles of his cult feature Office Space to focus on the trials of a blue collar boss.

World Cinema

Beeswax

Sat 24 |

16:00 |

NFT2

PRIORITY BOOKING

A charismatic and refreshingly uncontrived film, populated with well-drawn and believable characters to root for.

Cinema Europa

Metropia

Sat 24 |

16:00 |

Vue Screen 6

PRIORITY BOOKING

Vincent Gallo and Juliette Lewis lead the voice cast in an innovative futuristic animation.

World Cinema

The Wind Journeys

Sat 24 |

16:15 |

Ritzy Screen 2

FULLY BOOKED

A nomadic Colombian minstrel embarks on a journey to return his cursed accordion from where it came...

Cinema Europa

The Eagle Hunter's Son

Sat 24 |

16:15 |

Vue Screen 9

PRIORITY BOOKING

The allure of breaking with tradition and experiencing city life calls to a young nomad living near the Mongolian border.

Treasures from the Archives

J'accuse

Sat 24 |

17:30 |

NFT1

FULLY BOOKED

Abel Gance's monumental indictment of military aggression and the insanity and slaughter of the First World War.

Film on the Square

Samson & Delilah

Sat 24 |

18:15 |

Vue Screen 7

PRIORITY BOOKING

Sensitively performed and beautifully filmed, Samson & Delilah marks the arrival of a significant, singular voice in world cinema.

French Revolutions

Villa Amalia

Sat 24 |

18:45 |

CINE LUMIERE

FULLY BOOKED

New British Cinema

1 Day

Sat 24 |

18:45 |

Ritzy Screen 2

FULLY BOOKED

Crime and grime in 24 hours on the mean streets of Birmingham...

World Cinema

Polytechnique

Sat 24 |

18:45 |

Vue Screen 9

PRIORITY BOOKING

An effectively minimalist telling of the atrocity of the Montreal engineering school massacre of 14 women students in 1989.

Experimenta

Human Nature

Sat 24 |

19:00 |

NFT3

PRIORITY BOOKING

All life is here: Joy, desire, suffering and sacrifice as told by Jacobs, Mattuschka, Trainor and others.

French Revolutions

The Thorn in the Heart

Sat 24 |

19:30 |

STUDIO

FULLY BOOKED

An affectionate but revealing portrait of filmmaker Michel Gondry's aunt.

French Revolutions

The French Kissers

Sat 24 |

21:00 |

CINE LUMIERE

FULLY BOOKED

High-school comedy, French style: comics creator turned director Riad Sattouf scores with a pithy, outrageous saga of acne, snogging and teenage angst.

New British Cinema

Valhalla Rising

Sat 24 |

21:00 |

Ritzy Screen 2

FULLY BOOKED

Visionary director Nicolas Winding Refn's brutal and highly metaphorical early medieval epic.

Film on the Square

Air Doll

Sat 24 |

21:15 |

Vue Screen 9

FULLY BOOKED

Kore-eda's unexpected fantasy is both a charming love story and a fragile parable: an inflatable sex doll suddenly acquires a soul and starts to discover what 'life' really is.