The British Film Institute has announced the full programme for this year’s BFI London Film Festival, which includes 58 films from around the world including the previously announced opening night European premiere of Mangrove from director Steve McQueen and closing night film Ammonite from director Francis Lee.
Here’s the full list of films for the 2020 edition, with each screening presented virtually alongside an intro or Q&A from filmmakers and programmers:
- 180° Rule | Farnoosh Samadi
- 200 Meters | Ameen Nayfeh
- A Common Crime | Francisco Márquez
- A Day-Off of Kasumi Arimura | Hirokazu Kore-eda
- African Apocalypse | Rob Lemkin
- After Love | Aleem Khan
- Ammonite | Francis Lee
- Another Round | Thomas Vinterberg
- Bad Tales | Fabio D’Innocenzo, Damiano D’Innocenzo
- Bloody Nose, Empty Pocket | Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
- The Cheaters | Paulette McDonagh
- The Chess Game of the Wind | Mohammad Reza Aslani
- Cicada | Matt Fifer and Kieran Mulcare
- Days | Tsai Ming-Liang
- David Byrne’s American Utopia | Spike Lee
- Delia Derbyshire: the Myths and Legendary Tapes | Caroline Catz
- The Disciple | Chaitanya Tamhane
- Farewell Amor | Ekwa Msangi
- Friendship’s Death | Peter Wollen
- Genus Pan | Lav Diaz
- Gold for Dogs | Anna Cazenave Cambet
- Herself | Phyllida Lloyd
- Honeymood | Talya Lavie
- I Am Samuel | Pete Murimi
- Identifying Features | Fernanda Valadez
- If It Were Love | Patric Chiha
- Industry | Lena Dunham, Tinge Krishnan, Ed Lilly
- The Intruder | Natalia Meta
- Kajillionaire | Miranda July
- Limbo | Ben Sharrock
- Mangrove | Steve McQueen
- Mogul Mowgli | Bassam Tariq
- Never Gonna Snow Again | Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert
- New Order | Michel Franco
- Nomadland | Chloé Zhao
- Notturno | Gianfranco Rosi
- One Man and His Shoes | Yemi Bamiro
- The Painter and the Thief | Benjamin Ree
- Possessor | Brandon Cronenberg
- The Reason I Jump | Jerry Rothwell
- Relic | Natalie Erika James
- Rose | Jennifer Sheridan
- The Salt in Our Waters | Rezwan Shahriar Sumit
- Shadow Country | Bohdan Sláma
- Shirley | Josephine Decker
- Siberia | Abel Ferrara
- Soul | Pete Docter, Kemp Powers
- Sound for the Future | Matt Hulse
- Stray | Elizabeth Lo
- Striding Into the Wind | Wei Shujun
- Supernova | Harry Macqueen
- This Is My Desire (Eyimofe) | Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri
- Time | Garrett Bradley
- Ultraviolence | Ken Fero
- Undine | Christian Petzold
- Wildfire | Cathy Brady
- Wolfwalkers | Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart
- Zanka Contact | Ismaël El Iraki
“This has been such a period of uncertainty and change across the industry,” said Tricia Tuttle, BFI London Film Festival Director. “When we embarked on a radical new plans for our 2020 edition, we stepped into unknown territory. But we’ve been so encouraged by the adventurousness of filmmakers and rights holders, the unwavering support of our collaborators and the spirit of unity and experimentation. And I feel like we have accelerated so many of our longer term plans in just a few months – especially our desire to offer audiences across the UK greater access to the LFF.”
“We all want to be back in cinemas, seeing films on the big screen, together, immersed,” Tuttle continues. “But we also want to keep seeing new cinematic storytelling from all parts of the world, hearing different voices and perspectives; this version of LFF delivers on both of those aims. I could not be prouder to work with so many amazing professionals, artists and creative businesses to make these absolutely cracking new films, series, talks and XR programmes available to audiences.”
The BFI London Film Festival 2020 runs between October 7th and October 18th. For more information and tickets, visit the official site here.
