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Programme for Sunday 25 October

Morning | Afternoon | Evening
morning
Education screenings
Education Event: The Exception and the Rule + Panel Discussion on the Nature of Anthropological 'Truth'
Sun 25 |
11:00 |
BFI Southbank (NFT 3)
NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE
An example of 'experimental ethnography' shot primarily in Karachi, followed by a discussion on the nature of anthropological 'truth'.
afternoon
Experimenta
My Absolution
Sun 25 |
12:00 |
Studio
NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE
Russian artist Victor Alimpiev translates simple actions into cryptic performance. Free continuous loop.
 
French Revolutions
The French Kissers
Sun 25 |
13:00 |
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.
 
Other Events
Brightwide presents... A special screening of No One Knows About Persian Cats
Sun 25 |
13:00 |
NFT1
FULLY BOOKED
Brightwide highlight the best in social and political cinema and launch their new multi-media platform at this year’s LFF.
 
Cinema Europa
The Eagle Hunter's Son
Sun 25 |
13:15 |
Vue Screen 7
PRIORITY BOOKING
The allure of breaking with tradition and experiencing city life calls to a young nomad living near the Mongolian border.
 
Short Cuts & Animation
Animation Panorama
Sun 25 |
13:45 |
NFT2
PRIORITY BOOKING
A selection of new British animation and international award-winners.
 
Film on the Square
Air Doll
Sun 25 |
13:45 |
Vue Screen 9
PRIORITY BOOKING
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.
 
Education Talks and Workshops
Education Event: 16mm Filmmaking Workshop: Experimental Ethnography
Sun 25 |
14:00 |
Learning Space
FULLY BOOKED

Film and anthropology come together in this theoretical and practical workshop exploring how text and voice can work with the moving image.

 
Experimenta
The Exception and the Rule
Sun 25 |
14:00 |
NFT3
PRIORITY BOOKING
Mirza/Butler's ambitious new work inspired by their experiences in India and Pakistan. Showing with works by Owusu and Lertxundi.
 
World Cinema
Behind the Rainbow
Sun 25 |
14:00 |
Ritzy Screen 2
FULLY BOOKED
This absorbing documentary follows the transition of the ANC from a liberation organisation into South Africa's ruling party.
 
Cinema Europa
His & Hers
Sun 25 |
14:00 |
TRICYCLE
FULLY BOOKED
This distinctive documentary, shot through with charm and humour, has a deceptively simple conceit that manages to deliver an honest and revealing insight into life in Ireland.
 
World Cinema
Well Done Abba
Sun 25 |
14:00 |
WATERMANS, BRENTFORD
FULLY BOOKED
Shyam Benegal, whose Welcome to Sajjanpur was showcased at the Festival last year, returns with a new comedy on Indian village life.
 
French Revolutions
Villa Amalia
Sun 25 |
15:30 |
CINE LUMIERE
PRIORITY BOOKING
 
Galas & Special Screenings
Toy Story 2 (In Disney Digital 3D™)
Sun 25 |
15:30 |
Vue Screen 5
PRIORITY BOOKING
Pixar's finest return to the big screen but this time in glorious digital 3D.
 
Film on the Square
Samson & Delilah
Sun 25 |
15:45 |
Vue Screen 7
FULLY BOOKED
Sensitively performed and beautifully filmed, Samson & Delilah marks the arrival of a significant, singular voice in world cinema.
 
Treasures from the Archives
The Night of Counting the Years
Sun 25 |
16:00 |
NFT2
FULLY BOOKED
A classic masterpiece of Egyptian cinema based on the true story of a desert tribe plundering precious artifacts from the Tombs of the Pharaohs.
 
Galas & Special Screenings
Toy Story 2 (In Disney Digital 3D™)
Sun 25 |
16:00 |
Vue Screen 6
PRIORITY BOOKING
Pixar's finest return to the big screen but this time in glorious digital 3D.
 
UNIFRANCE Masterclasses
Jacques Audiard
Sun 25 |
16:15 |
NFT1
PRIORITY BOOKING
The writer-director of A Prophet gives us an insight into how he creates such complex characters.
 
World Cinema
Polytechnique
Sun 25 |
16:15 |
Vue Screen 9
PRIORITY BOOKING
An effectively minimalist telling of the atrocity of the Montreal engineering school massacre of 14 women students in 1989.
 
New British Cinema
The Scouting Book For Boys
Sun 25 |
16:30 |
Ritzy Screen 2
FULLY BOOKED
An expertly constructed drama depicting the anxieties and fears of being a teenager, without denying the occasional delights of being young during a hazy British summer.
 
Cinema Europa
Who's Afraid of the Wolf?
Sun 25 |
16:30 |
TRICYCLE
FULLY BOOKED
Family relations and fairy stories become intertwined in a charming fantasy for ‘adults with children'.
 
World Cinema
Gulaal
Sun 25 |
16:45 |
WATERMANS, BRENTFORD
FULLY BOOKED
A power-packed and provocative mélange of political intrigue, corruption, love and deceit, sewn together with poetic sensibilities and an evocative folk-music score.
evening
Experimenta
Whirl of Confusion
Sun 25 |
19:00 |
NFT3
PRIORITY BOOKING
'And to increase our perplexity we were plunged in a whirl of confusion.' Includes works by Klahr, Müller, Pope and Gatten.
 
Film on the Square
Surprise Film
Sun 25 |
20:30 |
Vue Screen 5
FULLY BOOKED
 
Treasures from the Archives
The Savage Eye
Sun 25 |
20:45 |
NFT3
PRIORITY BOOKING
A triple bill of maverick experimental filmmaker Joseph Strick's best and critically acclaimed documentaries about the modern human condition.
 
Film on the Square
Surprise Film
Sun 25 |
20:45 |
Vue Screen 7
FULLY BOOKED
 
New British Cinema
London River
Sun 25 |
21:00 |
Ritzy Screen 2
FULLY BOOKED
Brenda Blethyn is outstanding in Rachid Bouchareb's drama set in the aftermath of the London bomb attacks of 2005.
 
French Revolutions
Leaving
Sun 25 |
21:15 |
Vue Screen 6
FULLY BOOKED
A passionate tale of a bourgeois wife and mother's flight from her respectable life.

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