Programme for Wednesday 28 October

Morning | Afternoon | Evening

Education Talks and Workshops

Education Event: Working Your Future

Wed 28 |

10:00 |

BFI Southbank (NFT 3)

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.

An overview of the challenges and opportunities lying ahead in the film industry with high profile industry guests. For students of film aged 18+.

Galas & Special Screenings

A Serious Man

Wed 28 |

13:15 |

Vue Screen 7

PRIORITY BOOKING

Classic Coens at their best with this droll story of a good man who finds life starting to go bad.

World Cinema

Plan B

Wed 28 |

13:30 |

Vue Screen 6

PRIORITY BOOKING

Marco Berger's debut feature sees conniving Bruno dumped by his girlfriend and deciding to win her back by hook or by crook; only she is happy with a new boyfriend Pablo and so Bruno devises another plan to get him out of the way.

World Cinema

Karaoke

Wed 28 |

13:45 |

NFT2

PRIORITY BOOKING

A young man returns from college to his home village in Malaysia, expecting to take over his mother's karaoke bar; but the village has changed, and everything he thinks he knows is wrong.

Cinema Europa

The Man Who Will Come

Wed 28 |

13:45 |

Vue Screen 9

PRIORITY BOOKING

Based on real life events, powerful World War 2 drama about the impact of German soldiers gradually encroaching on farming villages outside Bologna.

Education Talks and Workshops

Education Event: Amazing Stretchy Families Animation Workshop

Wed 28 |

14:00 |

BFI Southbank (Learning Spaces)

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.

Holiday animation workshop based on a short film in which a little girl changes size according to how she feels. For families.

Cinema Europa

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night

Wed 28 |

14:00 |

NFT1

PRIORITY BOOKING

Haunting and unusual romance between a nearly successful writer and his mysterious swimming teacher, who conceals a dark and desperately sad, past history.

World Cinema

City of Life and Death

Wed 28 |

14:00 |

NFT3

PRIORITY BOOKING

Lu Chuan's remarkable and very moving film chronicles 'the rape of Nanking' by the invading Japanese army in 1937 as a series of telling vignettes.

Film on the Square

Taking Woodstock

Wed 28 |

15:15 |

Vue Screen 5

PRIORITY BOOKING

A gently funny and goodhearted story about one young man's involvement in the landmark festival.

World Cinema

Forbidden Door

Wed 28 |

15:45 |

Vue Screen 7

PRIORITY BOOKING

Set in a slightly fantasticated present, Joko Anwar's astounding psycho-thriller centres on a deranged sculptor trying to rescue an abused child who may be his younger self... or may not be.

World Cinema

Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The Bottom Line

Wed 28 |

16:00 |

NFT2

PRIORITY BOOKING

As the British anti-apartheid movement celebrates it 50th birthday, a look at how grass roots movements mobilised during the 80s to enforce economic sanctions on South Africa.

Cinema Europa

Women Without Men

Wed 28 |

16:15 |

NFT1

FULLY BOOKED

In 1953, four Iranian women search for freedom or survival in Shirin Neshat's interpretation of the banned novel by Shahrunsh Parshipar.

World Cinema

Defamation

Wed 28 |

16:15 |

NFT3

PRIORITY BOOKING

Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir's documentary deals with anti-Semitism, which he claims never to have experienced personally, yet he hears the term used everyday.

French Revolutions

Around a Small Mountain

Wed 28 |

16:15 |

Vue Screen 9

PRIORITY BOOKING

French maestro Jacques Rivette directs Jane Birkin in a gentle, witty comedy-drama about a woman who returns to a small provincial circus.

Cinema Europa

Sweet Rush

Wed 28 |

18:15 |

RICH MIX Screen 1

FULLY BOOKED

A subtle, multi-layered film combining fiction, real-life narrative and an exploration of film-making itself, from veteran director Andrzej Wajda.

Cinema Europa

Ander

Wed 28 |

18:30 |

NFT1

PRIORITY BOOKING

A poignant debut feature, winner of a CICAE prize at Berlin, exploring the challenges faced by a middle-aged farmer in a rural Basque community whose certainties are called into question by the arrival of a Peruvian labourer.

World Cinema

City of Life and Death

Wed 28 |

18:30 |

NFT3

FULLY BOOKED

Lu Chuan's remarkable and very moving film chronicles 'the rape of Nanking' by the invading Japanese army in 1937 as a series of telling vignettes.