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BFI London Film Festival

BFI London Film Festival

Wednesday, 08 October 2025 until Sunday, 19 October 2025

Easily one of the world’s most glamorous festivals, the London Film Festival gathers the year’s best of festivals films. Over the years the festival has consulted heavily on its industry reach which led to the creation of the London Production Market in parallel with the festival. LFF is one of Europe’s most important publicity generating festivals. 


 

 

Our coverage of BFI:London Film Festival 2020 can be found here

Our coverage of BFI:London Film Festival 2019 can be found here

Our coverage of BFI:London Film Festival 2018 can be found here


2025 films... 

Our watch-list can be found here 

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& Sons

100 Nights of Hero

22+1, in the programme Show Me Who I Am

8 PM and the Cat

A

Ackee and Saltfish, in the programme Discovering Home

After the Hunt

Afterlives

Alpha

Always

Anemone

Animal Farm

Another Other, in the programme Cadences of Refusal

Ariel

The Assistant

At the Place of Ghosts

B

Baby, in the programme Mapped Out Futures

Bad Apples

Balearic

Ballad of a Small Player

Becoming Human

Below the Clouds

Beyond the Rush, in the programme Roots and Branches

The Big Bad Wolf, in the programme Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences

Birdhouse, in the programme This is London: Small Stories, Big City

Black is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story

Black Rabbit, White Rabbit

Blknws: Terms & Conditions

Blue Heron

Blue Moon

Blue Prince

The Blue Trail

Border as Interface, in the programme Back and Forth Across the Line

Broken English

Bugonia

C

Calle Malaga

Cameraman, in the programme This is London: Small Stories, Big City

Candy Bar, in the programme Are You Kidding?

Capybaras, in the programme Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences

Cardboard, in the programme Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences

ChaO

Chikha, in the programme Roots and Branches

Chimera, in the programme Pulling the Rug Out

The Choral

Christy

The Chronology of Water

The Conjured Ones, in the programme Back and Forth Across the Line

Cover-up

Coyotes, in the programme Mapped Out Futures

Crab No. 7, in the programme Are You Kidding?

Crusts, in the programme Show Me Who I Am

D

D is for Distance

Daria’s Night Flowers, in the programme Cadences of Refusal

Dark Skin Bruises Differently, in the programme Show Me Who I Am

The Deal Episodes 1 and 2

The Death of Bunny Munro Episodes 1 and 2

Death of the Reprobate

Decorado

Despelote

The Devil and the Bicycle, in the programme Show Me Who I Am

The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box)

Diamonds in the Sand

Die My Love

DJ Ahmet

The Dollhouse

Dreamers

Dreams

Dry Leaf

Duse

Dust to Dreams, in the programme Roots and Branches

E

The Early Sun, Red as a Hunter’s Moon, in the programme In the Clouds Flecks of Memories Pass By

Elephant Families, in the programme Discovering Home

End of Play, in the programme Are You Kidding?

Endless Cookie

Enzo

Exit 8

The Eyes of Ghana

F

Father Mother Sister Brother

The Fence

Finding Optel

Flock, in the programme Pulling the Rug Out

ForeverGreen, in the programme Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences

Forgotten Routes, in the programme Mapped Out Futures

Fragments for Venus, in the programme Shadows of the Living

Frankenstein

Fucktoys

fugue notes, in the programme Anatomy of Place, Sites of Becoming

Future Botanica

Fwends

G

Giant

The Girls

God is Shy, in the programme Pulling the Rug Out

Good Boy

Grandma is Thirsty, in the programme Pulling the Rug Out

H

H Is for Hawk

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Half Memory, in the programme In the Clouds Flecks of Memories Pass By

Hamlet

Hamnet

happiness, in the programme Back and Forth Across the Line

Hedda

Hedgehog Cakes: Sweet Weapon of Terror, in the programme Shadows of the Living

High Wire

Highway to the Moon, in the programme Mapped Out Futures

The History of Sound

The Holy Boy

Honey Bunch

Hope is Lost, in the programme Discovering Home

Hotel London

House Trap, in the programme Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences

the house was there before me, in the programme Anatomy of Place, Sites of Becoming

Human Resource

I

I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash, in the programme Discovering Home

The Ice Tower

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Is This Thing On?

Ish

Island of the Winds

It Was Just an Accident

J

Jay Kelly

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

K

Ka Ba Ddi: a breath, a move, a game, in the programme In the Clouds Flecks of Memories Pass By

Khartoum

The Kidnapping of Arabella

Kim Novak’s Vertigo

Kontinental ’25

L

La grazia

La Paga

Lady

Landmarks

Left-Handed Girl

Life After

Little Amelie

Little Monsters, in the programme Are You Kidding?

Love Me Tender

The Love That Remains

Love, Brooklyn

Love+War

Lucky Lu

Lurker

M

Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)

Magellan

Magid / Zafar, in the programme Roots and Branches

Mare’s Nest

Maspalomas

The Mastermind

The Memory of Butterflies

Memory of Princess Mumbi

Miroirs No.3

Mirror

More Life

Morning Circle, in the programme Cadences of Refusal

Mortu Nega

Moss & Freud

Mother

Mother Goose, in the programme Are You Kidding?

Mushroom’s Life, in the programme Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences

My Blood is Palestinian, in the programme Mapped Out Futures

My Father’s Shadow

N

The Naughty Seat, in the programme Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences

New Territories (Spectacle is King), in the programme Cadences of Refusal

No Other Choice

Nostalgie, in the programme Pulling the Rug Out

Nothing out of the Island: Bridges, in the programme In the Clouds Flecks of Memories Pass By

Nouvelle Vague

NOWISWHENWEARE (the stars)

Nsala, in the programme Back and Forth Across the Line

O

Olmo

One Woman One Bra

Only on Earth

Original Sin, in the programme Mapped Out Futures

Orphan

Orwell: 2+2=5

P

A Pale View of Hills

Palestine 36

Party Animal, in the programme Are You Kidding?

Peter Hujar’s Day

Pillion

Play Life

Portobello

The President’s Cake

Primate Visions; Macaque Macabre, in the programme Shadows of the Living

A Private Life

Promised Sky

R

Radius Catastrophe, in the programme Anatomy of Place, Sites of Becoming

Red Egg & Ginger, in the programme Show Me Who I Am

Redoubt

Reflection in a Dead Diamond

Rental Family

Resurrect Me As a Parasite, in the programme Shadows of the Living

Resurrection

Retreat

Romeria

Roofman

Rose of Nevada

S

A Sad and Beautiful World

Saipan

The Secret Agent

Seeds

Sentimental Value

Seventeen, in the programme Discovering Home

She’s the He

she’s waiting for the sunset, in the programme In the Clouds Flecks of Memories Pass By

Shiny Precious Things, in the programme Pulling the Rug Out

Sholay

Short Summer

Silent Friend

Singing Wings

Sink

Sirat

Snow Bear, in the programme Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences

So Here We Are, in the programme Discovering Home

Some Goodbyes We Made

The Son and the Sea

The Songbird’s Secret

Songs of Forgotten Trees

Songs of Travel

The Souffleur

Sound of Falling

Speak with the Dead, in the programme Pulling the Rug Out

Spray Me, in the programme This is London: Small Stories, Big City

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

Straight Circle

The Stranger

Super Nature

Sweet Talkin’ Guy, in the programme Show Me Who I Am

T

Terror Element, in the programme Back and Forth Across the Line

The Testament of Ann Lee

Tetes Brulees

The Thing with Feathers

Toad in the Hole, in the programme This is London: Small Stories, Big City

Train Dreams

The Travelers

Tuktuit: Caribou, in the programme Cadences of Refusal

Tumtum, in the programme This is London: Small Stories, Big City

Twinless

Two Prosecutors

U

Ultras

Under the Wave Off Little Dragon, in the programme Discovering Home

Untamable

A Useful Ghost

V

The Vile

The Voice of Hind Rajab

W

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

The Wasp or The Sheer Beauty of Accepting Yourself, in the programme Are You Kidding?

Wasteman

We Had Fun, in the programme Roots and Branches

Weightless

What Marielle Knows

Whispers in the Woods

Whitch, in the programme Are You Kidding?

Wild Style

With Hasan in Gaza

Womb, in the programme Show Me Who I Am

The World of Love

Y

Yellow Bucket, in the programme This is London: Small Stories, Big City

You Can Call Me Lou, in the programme Roots and Branches