Pablo Larrain’s Spencer, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter and Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch are among the 159 features that will play the 65th BFI London Film Festival (LFF, October 6-17), which will also screen episodes one and two of the third season of HBO’sSuccession.
The festival will play 21 world premieres in its feature programme, including Sarah Smith and Jean Philippe-Vine’s Ron’s Gone Wrong, the debut feature from UK animation studio Locksmith Animation.
Titles will play both at cinemas in London and UK-wide at 10 LFF partner venues, with select virtual premieres also hosted on the BFI Player online platform.
In a first for the festival, gala titles will play each night at the Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre as part of the festivall’s new Southbank hub that will also include BFI Southbank. The Royal Festival Hall has a capacity of 2,700; its usage for LFF will be over 2,000, with the exact number to be confirmed. Audience capacity is yet to be confirmed.
The TFS team worked on a number of films featured in this years festival including:
Belfast, dir. Kenneth Branagh
Last Night In Soho, dir. Edgar Wright
Ron’s Gone Wrong, dirs. Sarah Smith, Jean Philippe-Vine.
Check out the full programme here: https://whatson.bfi.org.