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The BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7 – 18) is adding TV series and AR/VR strands and growing its industry program. For the first time this year, in step with many other leading festivals, the event will host new series from broadcasters and streamers. A gala event will headline the strand of approximately 30 new…

Cannes Film Festival chiefs Pierre Lescure and Thierry Fremaux have named the six titles that will comprise its inaugural 'Film Week' at Hong Kong's K11 Musea in November (12-17). They include three from this year’s Cannes competition: Young Ahmed, which won best director, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, which took best…

The BFI London Film Festival has revealed its 2019 winners, which include lauded Colombian co-production Monos and Mati Diop’s well-received Atlantics. Monos, the Sundance thriller about child soldiers, took home the best film award in official competition, with jury president Wash Westmoreland saying, "Monos is a…

Long-awaited UK movie Fanny Lye Deliver'd, a regular fixture on Cannes prediction lists, has finally been delivered. Thomas Clay’s third feature, shot in 35mm, bows this week at the BFI London Film Festival after more than three years in post-production, a delay that prompted speculation over the movie’s health and…

Fox Searchlight co-chairs Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley today stressed the importance of independence and autonomy, during a talk at the BFI London Film Festival. "We've been allowed complete autonomy and the studio [Fox] has never interfered with us. No one at Fox ever said, 'You have to make this movie, [or] please…

Colette director Wash Westmoreland will head this year's BFI London Film Festival (LFF) main jury. He will be joined by Game Of Thrones actress Lena Headey, Egyptian writer and producer Mohamed Hefzy, I, Daniel Blake actress Hayley Squires, director Sudabeh Mortezai (whose Joy won last year's LFF Competition) and…

Fanny Lye Deliver'd, starring Maxine Peake, and Honey Boy, featuring Shia LaBeouf, are among the titles competing in competition at the London Film Festival. The 63rd BFI London Film Festival has unveiled the ten films to compete with 60% of the features directed or co-directed by women, while Isabel Sandoval, who…

Rian Johnson’s crime caper Knives Out is set to get its European premiere at the London Film Festival (Oct 2 – 13) as the event’s American Express Gala. Written and directed by Looper and Star Wars: The Last Jedi filmmaker Johnson, the movie stars Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana De Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni…

The London Film Festival has set Armando Iannucci’s (Veep) comedy-drama The Personal History Of David Copperfield as its opening film. The 63rd edition of the UK festival will kick off on Wednesday 2nd October with the film’s European premiere, indicating that the movie will likely get a world premiere at Venice…

British Film Institute CEO Amanda Nevill said Sunday at the close of the organization’s London Film Festival that Tricia Tuttle has been appointed Director, BFI Festivals. Tuttle had led this year’s festival as interim artistic director after Clare Stewart went on sabbatical last year. Stewart has now decided to step…

Joy, Girl and What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire? were among winners revealed tonight at the BFI London Film Festival. Sudabeh Mortezai’s Joy took home the Best Film Award in the Official Competition. Winner of both the first ever <a…

If there’s one question Keira Knightley gets tired of hearing, it’s ‘So, another period drama?’ “There’s the assumption that they’re all the same, and to me they’re different; just because one is a dress and another is a dress doesn’t mean it’s the same movie,” asserted the two-time Oscar-nominated actress at a BFI…