All Creatures Great and Small: Animals on Screen

In recent years, the representation of animals in both documentary and fiction films has become more complex. Through a range of forms and styles, cinema has reached beyond the confines of human experience to explore animal subjectivity and perspective. This year’s BFI London Film Festival programme presents a rich selection of animal films. This panel discussion will consider the place of animal protagonists and animal worlds in contemporary cinema and culture. Beyond mere romanticism and in our age of ecological reckoning, we consider what the cinematic animal might have to say about the shared fate of both human and non-human creatures?

Speakers

• Dr. Anat Pick, author of Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human
• Jessica Sarah Rinland, Dir. Collective Monologue
• Kazuhiro Sôda, Dir. The Cats of Gokogu Shrine

Hosted by Hyun Jin Cho, LFF Programmer

This event is free and open to those aged 15 and over.

Booking opens at 10am on Thursday 3 October.

Tickets for our free events do not guarantee entry and work on a first-come, first-served basis, so you should arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Missed out?

If you’ve missed out on tickets for this event, try your luck at the standby queue 30 minutes before the start time.