56th BFI London Film Festival
We are proud to be partner venue of the 56th BFI London Film
Festival where you can experience this year’s best new films first.
The BFI London Film Festival champions creativity, originality, vision and imagination by annually showcasing the best of contemporary world cinema, documentaries, shorts, animation and experimental film. The festival is a highly regarded and anticipated event in Europe’s cultural calendar, attracting leading international filmmakers, industry professionals and the media together with large public audiences to London for a 12 day celebration of cinema.
Tickets for London Film Festival screenings can be purchased through the BFI and BFI Box Office 020 7928 3232 (9.30am-8.30pm daily) or the London Film Festival website: bfi.org.uk/lff
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LFF Experimenta: The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott
10 October 2012
Turner Prize nominee Luke Fowler explores the role played by left wing intellectuals in the working class communities of post-war Yorkshire.
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LFF Experimenta: Breaking the Frame
10 October 2012
The first feature-length documentary on Carolee Schneemann, an artist whose pioneering work has transformed discourses on the body, sexuality and gender.
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LFF Experimenta: Peter Kubelka: The Essence of Cinema
11 October 2012
The seven films made by Peter Kubelka between 1955 and 2003 are an extraordinary demonstration of cinematic possibilities.
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LFF Experimenta: Occupy The Cinema
11 October 2012
Protest and survive: Karen Mirza and Brad Butler’s ambitious new film screens with two equally powerful works by Russell/Cailleau and Ken Jacobs.
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LFF: The Dream and the Silence
12 October 2012 - 14 October 2012
Framed by two sequences featuring Miquel Barceló at work, one of Spain’s leading painters, Jaime Rosales explores the devastation that hits a family following a shocking bereavement.
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LFF: I’m Going to Change My Name (Alaverdy)
12 October 2012 - 14 October 2012
Maria Saakyan’s poetic and inventive new film focuses on 14-year-old Evridika, experiencing the first extremes of adolescent emotion, and her private world of internet chat rooms and mobile conversations.
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LFF: What Is Love
12 October 2012
Ruth Mader’s contemplation of relationships between families, husbands and wives or with God, taking place in different strata of society, makes for an exquisite film.
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LFF: My Amityville Horror
12 October 2012
In January 1976, the Lutz family fled the infamous 112 Ocean Drive, claiming to have endured an onslaught of poltergeist activity. This documentary offers what might be the most compelling insight yet into what really took place.
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LFF: Key of Life (Kagi-Dorobou No Method)
13 October 2012
Deliciously funny, not to mention brilliantly timed riff on Trading Places, acted with relish by the all-star cast.
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LFF: The Patience Stone (Syngué Sabour)
13 October 2012
A beautiful Afghan woman tends to her fighter husband in their bombshelled bedroom. The fighting rages outside while she clings desperately to the hope that one day he will wake up and recover consciousness.
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LFF: Fragments of Kubelka
13 October 2012
In this extended portrait, Peter Kubelka speaks at length about his life, work and interests, drawing on a vast range of knowledge and experience.
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LFF: Tango Libre
14 October 2012
An offbeat slammer pic such as you’ve never seen. Director Fonteyne has crafted an intense, intelligent and affecting character piece that never quite goes where you expect.
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LFF: The Stoning of Saint Stephen (La Lapidation de Saint Étienne)
14 October 2012
From Catalan director Pere Vilà Barceló comes an austere, almost Bressonian French-language study of a family in conflict.
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LFF: Beautiful 2012 (Mei Hao 2012)
15 October 2012 - 16 October 2012
This superb package of shorts by leading East Asian directors offers four kinds of pleasure.
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LFF: Francine
15 October 2012
A small wonder of a film, a spare, wildy original and elegiac character study that carries integrity and emotional weight.
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LFF: Room 237
15 October 2012
Rodney Ascher explores the cult following Stanley Kubrick's The Shining has garned in the 30 years since its release, including a number who insist that Kubrick implanted ideas about history and the world we live in throughout the film, littering it with codes to decipher.
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LFF: With You, Without You (Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka)
15 October 2012
Akin to The English Patient, this Sri Lankan independent film is set in the months after war and deftly explores the emotional fall-out of such trauma on the lives of ordinary people.
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LFF: Peddlers (Halahal)
16 October 2012
Fresh from Cannes success, this compelling multi-strand film noir tells of ace narcotics investigation cop Ranjit.
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LFF: Death of a Man in the Balkans (Smrt čoveka na Balkanu)
16 October 2012
Inspired by his own experience – a neighbour was found dead – director Miroslav Momcilovic has produced a compelling commentary on an absurd reality.
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LFF: Four
16 October 2012
Adapted from a stage play by Christopher Shinn, the debut feature from Joshua Sanchez is a provocative rumination on race and sexuality.
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LFF: 10 + 10 (Shi jia shi)
17 October 2012 - 18 October 2012
Twenty of the top directors in Taiwan contribute five-minute vignettes on the uniqueness of their homeland. They rise to the occasion with a varied range of mini-documentaries, mini-fictions and mini-drama docs, some of them touching, many darkly amusing.
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LFF: Solar Eclipse (Pod Sluncem Tma)
17 October 2012
Martin Marecek’s film analyses the course of events with an ironic perspective that raises uncomfortable issues around the clash of cultures.
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LFF: Boy Eating The Bird's Food (To Agori Troi to Fagito Tou Pouliou)
17 October 2012
A provocative character study shot with vérité styling in claustrophobic close-up on handheld camera, and an urgent parable for Greece’s economic meltdown.
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LFF: Museum Hours
17 October 2012
A charming rumination on art and observation featuring strikingly beautiful images that appeared to have been captured casually.
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LFF: Silence
18 October 2012
Renowned for his documentary work, Pat Collins has delivered a remarkable first fiction feature with Silence, a simple, haunting and poetic vision of Ireland which brings to mind few precedents and defies easy categorisation.
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LFF: Blancanieves
18 October 2012
Taking its inspiration from the Brothers’ Grimm story, Pablo Berger offers a gothic, black & white treatment of the myth of Snow White.
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LFF: Tall as the Baobab Tree
18 October 2012
Torn between loyalty to her elders and her dreams for the future, Columba hatches a secret plan to rescue her young sister from being sold into an arranged marriage.