Programme for Friday 21 October

morning
Free film screenings
Fri 21 |
10:30 |
NFT2, BFI Southbank
afternoon
Cinema Europa
Fri 21 |
13:00 |
NFT2

Andrey Paounov’s compelling documentary about Simeon II of Bulgaria’s unprecedented journey from boy king to democratic leader.

 
French Revolutions
Fri 21 |
13:00 |
Vue Screen 3

Laurent Achard's stylishly nasty horror set in a small town cinema that's seen better days.

 
World Cinema
Fri 21 |
13:30 |
CURZON MAYFAIR
Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters trip across America.
 
New British Cinema
Fri 21 |
14:15 |
Ritzy Screen 2
An inventive melodrama referencing Tennessee Williams and A Streetcar Named Desire, a complex story of lust, rivalry and liberation in Kent countryside.
 
Cinema Europa
Fri 21 |
15:15 |
Vue Screen 6

Original and intriguing tale of a Chinese woman coming to work in a bar on the Venetian island of Chioggia who forms a friendship with a retired fisherman.

 
World Cinema
Fri 21 |
15:30 |
NFT2
A member of an elite Israeli anti-terrorist unit finds his world turned upside down when he encounters an act of shocking violence by an extremist Jewish group.
 
New British Cinema
Fri 21 |
15:45 |
NFT1

Documentary, drama and animation combine to tell the remarkable story of a successful lawyer possessed by psychotic visions.

 
Cinema Europa
Fri 21 |
15:45 |
NFT3

Two brothers end up as rivals in Murat Imbragimbekov's poetic tale of life in Azerbaijan in the 1970s.

 
Film on the Square
Fri 21 |
16:00 |
CURZON MAYFAIR

Jonathan Demme presents a compelling study of a New Orleans woman's five year struggle to return to her home following the post Katrina floods.

 
World Cinema
Fri 21 |
16:30 |
Ritzy Screen 2

Director Andrew Dosunmu has a background in commercials, photography and music video. This is a superb feature debut, and a spectacle to be marveled at.

evening
Film on the Square
Fri 21 |
18:30 |
CURZON MAYFAIR

The creators of Persepolis follow their terrific debut with an inspired adaptation of another of Marjane Satrapi’s award-winning graphic novels.

 
American Express Screen Talks
Fri 21 |
18:30 |
NFT1

We are delighted to welcome the director of Sideways, About Schmidt and this year's The Descendants to talk about his career to date.

 
World Cinema
Fri 21 |
18:30 |
Ritzy Screen 2

Ordinary folk by day, caped crusaders by night…the lives of actual superheroes.

 
In Focus with Time Out
Fri 21 |
20:30 |
Project Space
 
Treasures from the Archives
Fri 21 |
20:45 |
NFT3

Searing exposé of the controversial 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings in a landmark political documentary edited from live TV recordings.

 
New British Cinema
Fri 21 |
21:00 |
CURZON MAYFAIR
The debut feature from Dictynna Hood is a haunting tale of secrets and lies in the English countryside.
 
World Cinema
Fri 21 |
21:00 |
Ritzy Screen 2

Alison Bagnall's witty and delightful feature depicts the disarmingly affecting adventures of a truly odd couple.

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