Special Presentations
Join us for our Documentary, Experimenta, BFI Flare, and more Special Presentations.
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Bad Education
Dir Cory Finley | USA
A deliciously piquant pairing of Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney powers Cory Finley’s eagerly awaited follow-up to his explosive debut Thoroughbreds (LFF 2017).
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Blackbird
Dir Roger Michell | USA
A superb Susan Sarandon plays a mother spending a final few days with her husband and adult children in Roger Michell’s exquisite reworking of 2014 Danish drama Silent Heart.
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Bombay Rose
Dir-Scr Gitanjali Rao | India-UK-France-Qatar
This animated feature is both epic and personal, and a glorious love letter to life and love in Mumbai.
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Documentary Special Presentation
The Cave (Syria)
Dir Feras Fayyad | Syria
Oscar-nominated Feras Fayyad’s (Last Men in Aleppo) essential film tells the harrowing story of an underground Syrian hospital and its extraordinary staff.
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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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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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Experimenta Special Presentation
Krabi, 2562
Dir-Scr Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong | UK-Thailand
Observing locals and visitors creates a highly original portrait of the Thai tourist town of Krabi in this collaboration between award-winning directors Anocha Suwichakornpong and Ben Rivers.
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Archive Special Presentation
Love, Life and Laughter
Dir George Pearson | UK
Lost for nearly a century, this rediscovery is a wonderful opportunity to fall under the spell of Betty Balfour, Britain’s ‘Queen of Happiness’.
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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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BFI Flare Special Presentation
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Dir-Scr Céline Sciamma | France
A female portrait painter falls in love with her subject in Girlhood director Céline Sciamma’s perfect new film.
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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.
