Special Presentations
Join us for our Documentary, Experimenta, BFI Flare, and more Special Presentations.
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Aquarela
Dir Victor Kossakovsky | UK-Germany
‘Aquarela’ means watercolour in English, but that is too delicate a word to describe this stunning, sensory cinematic experience by Russian master Victor Kossakovsky.
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Been So Long
Dir Tinge Krishnan | UK
Chewing Gum star Michaela Coel leads a talented cast in Tinge Krishnan’s contemporary London musical, which reimagines Camden as a romantic neon-soaked wonderland.
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Fahrenheit 11/9
Dir-Scr Michael Moore | USA
One of North American culture’s most outspoken filmmakers, Michael Moore, turns his sights on one of the most controversial figures of our time: Donald Trump.
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The Hate U Give
Dir George Tillman Jr | USA
This powerful adaptation of Angie Thomas’ YA novel stars Amandla Stenberg as a teenager who witnesses the fatal police shooting of her childhood friend.
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The Little Drummer Girl
Dir Park Chan-wook | UK
Park Chan-wook’s stylistic mastery meets John le Carré’s espionage twists in this thrilling new series from the makers of The Night Manager.
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Make Me Up
Dir-Scr Rachel Maclean | UK
Rachel Maclean follows her Venice Biennale piece Spite Your Face with a daring new film that incisively deconstructs art history’s myth of feminine beauty with a savage, satirical blade.
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Out of Blue
Dir Carol Morley | UK
Carol Morley (Dreams of a Life and The Falling) returns to LFF with wonderfully stylised, offbeat noir thriller about a murder investigation and multiple realities.
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Peterloo
Dir-Scr Mike Leigh | UK
Mike Leigh orchestrates a superb ensemble cast in this rousing tale of working class uprising and its violent suppression in Manchester in 1819.
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Rafiki
Dir Wanuri Kahiu | Kenya-South Africa-France-Lebanon-Norway-Netherlands-Germany-USA
Romantic sparks fly between the daughters of two opposing politicians in Wanuri Kahiu’s neon-bright story of forbidden love in Kenya.
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They Shall Not Grow Old
Dir Peter Jackson | New Zealand
On the centenary of the First World War, Academy Award®-winner Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) presents the world premiere of an extraordinary new work, revealing the Great War as you have never seen it.
