25 & Under
£5 tickets for 16-25 year olds.
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Calling all film fans aged 16-25! Get £5 tickets in advance for the below #LFF films (first come, first served).
For £5 tickets to all screenings during the Festival (including galas, subject to availability), visit the venue box office 45 mins before start time with your ID.
Did you know you can also get £3 tickets year round at BFI Southbank - find out more!
Events
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Screen Talk: Kim Longinotto
Sunday 6 October
Acclaimed documentarian Kim Longinotto joins us to discuss her storied career and her new documentary Shooting the Mafia.
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Screen Talk: Michael B Jordan
Sunday 6 October
Michael B Jordan’s rise has been meteoric, and we welcome him on the occasion of his latest starring role in Just Mercy to discuss his approach to acting and producing.
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LFF Connects: Atom Egoyan
Tuesday 8 October
Atom Egoyan joins us to discuss his distinguished body of work – which includes opera, theatre, music, and art installations - and the making of Guest of Honour.
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Screen Talk: Céline Sciamma
Wednesday 9 October
Acclaimed director and screenwriter Céline Sciamma joins us to talk about her career and the making of her fourth feature film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
Feature films
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Adolescents
Dir Sébastien Lifshitz | France
This captivating coming-of-age documentary follows best friends Anaïs and Emma for five years of teenagehood.
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Mayor of London’s Gala
The Aeronauts
Dir Tom Harper | UK
The sky is no limit for Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne’s aerial explorers in this heart-racing and breathless adventure story about flight and scientific discovery.
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An Easy Girl
Dir Rebecca Zlotowski | France
Rebecca Zlotowski investigates desire, the lure of the high life and the imagery of modern female sexuality in a French summer-of-sun drama with a difference.
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Axone
Dir-Scr Nicholas Kharkongor | India
This bittersweet comedy follows migrants in Delhi who are attempting to organise a wedding party, but soon find everything going wrong.
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Don’t Look Down
Dir-Scr Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau | France
Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau return with an elegant and intimate drama about love and revenge, crafted with dramatic intensity and visual dazzle.
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The Elephant Man
Dir David Lynch | USA-UK
John Hurt is exceptional in David Lynch’s compassionate immersion into the vicious world experienced by ‘freaks’ in 19th century London.
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First Love
Dir Takashi Miike | Japan-UK
A young boxer on the brink of death falls in love with a woman caught in the crossfire between yakuza and triad gangs in a fight over stolen drugs.
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The Girl with a Bracelet
Dir-Scr Stéphane Demoustier | France-Belgium
Family relations and social expectations are compellingly picked apart in this French courtroom drama about a teenager caught in the spotlight of a murder case.
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Gösta
Dir-Scr Lukas Moodysson | Sweden
He is the best! Lukas Moodysson’s long-awaited return and first TV series is a loving satire about the nicest child psychologist in provincial Sweden.
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Harriet
Dir Kasi Lemmons | USA
Cynthia Erivo (Widows) gives a show-stopping and star-making turn as the American revolutionary anti-slavery heroine Harriet Tubman in Kasi Lemmons’ Harriet.
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Heart
Dir-Scr Ga-young Jeong | South Korea
Fleabag meets Hong Sangsoo in this funny and savage film that stars its director, Ga-young Jeong, as a woman without boundaries.
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Headline Gala
Hope Gap
Dir-Scr William Nicholson | UK
Annette Bening and Bill Nighy star as a couple on the rocks in this witty divorce drama directed by celebrated screenwriter William Nicholson (Gladiator, Shadowlands, Les Misérables).
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House of Hummingbird
Dir-Scr Bora Kim | South Korea-USA
Announcing a bright new voice in South Korean cinema, Bora Kim brings us this absorbing coming-of-age drama about a dysfunctional Seoul family circa 1994.
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I Lost My Body
Dir Jérémy Clapin | France
A severed hand searches for its owner in this striking animation, which grabbed the Grand Prize at the Cannes Critics' Week.
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Dare Gala
Judy & Punch
Dir-Scr Mirrah Foulkes | Australia
Writer/Director Mirrah Foulkes delivers an audaciously brilliant first feature, with Mia Wasikowska splendid in this fairy tale with a feminist twist.
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Just Mercy
Dir Destin Daniel Cretton | USA
Michael B Jordan and Jamie Foxx excel in this powerful and impassioned death row drama based on real events.
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The Lodge
Dir Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala | UK-USA
Goodnight Mommy directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala take us to a remote cabin in the woods for their spine-chilling sophomore feature.
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Monsoon
Dir-Scr Hong Khaou | UK
Hong Khaou follows Lilting (BFI Flare 2014) with this gorgeous drama that evokes the disorientation of returning to an unrecognisable homeland.
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Nocturnal
Dir Nathalie Biancheri | UK
A teenage girl forms a mysterious relationship with an older man in this atmospheric debut from director Nathalie Biancheri.
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Our Ladies
Dir Michael Caton-Jones | UK
This infectious 1990s-set comedy drama finds six Catholic teenage choirgirls cutting loose in Edinburgh, in a loving adaptation of Alan Warner’s novel The Sopranos.
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Love Gala
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Dir-Scr Michael Schwartz, Tyler Nilson | USA
The spirit of Mark Twain lives on in this effortlessly charming buddy movie about a young man in pursuit of his dreams.
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Premature
Dir Rashaad Ernesto Green | USA
Budding writer Ayanna’s life is transformed over the course of one hot Harlem summer, when a handsome and mysterious stranger walks into her life.
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Rocks
Dir Sarah Gavron | UK
This is a vibrant and hugely engaging portrait of female friendship and growing up in London from director Sarah Gavron (Brick Lane, Suffragette) and writers Theresa Ikoko and Claire Wilson.
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Scales
Dir-Scr Shahad Ameen | Saudi Arabia-United Arab Emirates-Iraq
The story of a fishing village in thrall to mysterious sea creatures makes for a spellbinding feature debut from Shahad Ameen.
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The Sharks
Dir-Scr Lucía Garibaldi | Uruguay-Argentina-Spain
An intriguing coming-of-age tale is presented through the allegorical prism of an environmental incident.
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Staff Only
Dir Neus Ballús | Spain-France
Neus Ballús’ second feature (after docudrama The Plague) follows a Spanish teenager who is forced to consider her whiteness on a family holiday in Senegal.
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Transnistra
Dir Anna Eborn | Sweden-Denmark-Belgium
Anna Eborn’s dreamy documentary details six teenagers coming of age over the course of one year whilst marooned in Transnistra, a Soviet-style breakaway republic sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine.
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Waves
Dir-Scr Trey Edward Shults | USA
Following Krisha and It Comes at Night, Trey Edward Shultz continues to impress with one of the year's most dazzling cinematic achievements, a study of a family's dramatic unravelling and redemption.
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Wet Season
Dir-Scr Anthony Chen | Singapore-Taiwan
Anthony Chen follows his First Feature Award-winning Ilo Ilo (LFF 2013) with this hugely satisfying portrait of a woman on a journey to rediscover herself.
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Yves Saint Laurent: The Last Collections
Dir Olivier Meyrou | France
Withheld from release for nearly 20 years, this exquisitely crafted and moving documentary observes the last few years in the company of style icon Yves Saint Laurent.
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Zombi Child
Dir-Scr Bertrand Bonello | France
The latest provocation from Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama, LFF 2016) splices Haitian history and folklore with contemporary life at an elite girls’ boarding school in Paris.
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