8 – 19 OCTOBER

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Principal Partner Supported by Main Sponsors The 58th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express®, would like to thank the following organisations for their support of this year’s industry programme:

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Power to the Pixel: The Cross-Media Forum

With support from Creative Europe – MEDIA programme of the European Union. Additional support from Creative Skillset Film Skills Fund as part of a Bigger Future 2, Arts Council England, Canada Media Fund, BFI, Roskino, ARTE International, Create.Innovate / Northern Film and Media, beActive, ITVS, OMDC, Telefilm Canada, SODEC, Québec Government Office, Bell Fund, IFP and Cinekid. Partners of our Nordic Focus are the Nordisk Film and TV Fond, The Danish Film Institute, The Swedish Film Institute, The Norwegian Film Institute, The Finnish Film Foundation, SWIM and The Icelandic Film Centre.

NET.WORK @ LFF Supported by VERY WARM WELCOME TO THIS YEAR’S BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AMERICAN EXPRESS

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you, our industry colleagues, to the 58th BFI London Film Festival’s Industry Programme and I extend enormous CONTENTS thanks to our partners at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Mayor of London, Film London, Creative England and Creative Skillset, amongst so many others. In Conversation 4-5 ‘Supporting the future success of British film’ is central to the BFI’s Film Forever strategy. This year, our key emphasis in the LFF Industry Programme has been to produce more impactful initiatives and events to better support new and Talking Points 6 emerging British talent in the international context that the Festival provides. On the occasion of DreamWorks Animation studio’s 20th Anniversary, we have Advice & Meet the 7 invited CEO and co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg to reflect on the importance of Commissioners filmmaker and talent development at this year’s industry keynote. In a conversation that will span the highlights of Jeffrey’s extraordinary career, he Networking 9 will also offer valuable advice to emerging filmmakers and established industry & Drinks professionals who are seeking to take a more active role in nurturing the next generation of filmmakers. New British 10 With a bumper crop of first-time features from British filmmakers represented Talent in the LFF programme, we are proud to be extending our support for emerging filmmakers with NET.WORK@LFF, our three-day intensive talent development Partner Events 11 programme with Creative England. In another first, we are profiling Screen International’s UK Stars of Tomorrow with an event that will also introduce the next generation of UK filmmakers and acting talent to international casting Calendar 12-15 directors and agents. We pay tribute to one of Britain’s most esteemed directors, Stephen Frears, with a Map 16 career conversation hosted by VARIETY’s chief film critic, Scott Foundas. Also in conversation are other significant filmmakers such as Peter Strickland and Bruna Film List 17-22 Papandrea who will also share experience and advice. Over the course of nine days, we are offering panel discussions and roundtables on such hot topics as awards campaigning and diversity in the industry and we have invited some of the most influential UK commissioners to engage with visiting international filmmakers. We welcome the return of our partnership programmes with Film London and Power to the Pixel who present financing forums for feature films in the Production Finance Market (PFM) and for cross-media projects in The Pixel Market respectively. There are more films screening than ever before in our packed Press & Industry screening schedule, with our Buyers Screenings facilitating the transition of films screening in the LFF programme into the UK marketplace. This year also sees the introduction of our Digital Library, enabling delegates to easily catch-up on Festival viewing. And keeping the Festival spirit flowing, our festival hub this year is at Century Soho, where delegates are encouraged to meet and mingle, and our Delegate Centre is located in the newly refurbished surrounds of the BFI Stephen Street. We look forward to welcoming you. Front cover image of Morten Tyldum on Clare Stewart the set of The Imitation Game, courtesy of BFI Head of Cinemas and Festivals STUDIOCANAL Festival Director, BFI London Film Festival

For more LFF Industry Information, please contact: and relax with complimentary tea and coffee. The Delegate Centre will also host 12 Viewing Library stations for Delegates to access the General Accreditation and Delegate Services Festival Digital Viewing Library (booking information is above). [email protected] +44 (0)20 7849 4454 WHEELCHAIR ACCESS Viewing Library Bookings Please note: Press & Industry Screenings (taking place at Odeon [email protected] +44 (0)20 7957 4719 Covent Garden) have step-free access to the venue located to the (this line is open from 9 Oct) side of the cinema on Stacey Street. Screen 1 is fully accessible via Industry Events lift and stairs directly to the back of the Screen and has two double [email protected] wheelchair bays on either side at the rear of the auditorium. Buyers & Sellers Services There is no wheelchair access to Screens 2, 3 or 4. [email protected] [email protected] If you need assistance, a member of staff will be happy to help. DELEGATE CENTRE DURING LFF With thanks to the Industry Team: This year the Delegate Centre is relocating to the BFI headquarters Nigel Cross, Louise Tutt, Carina Volkes, Alice Melin, Sarah Braimah, at BFI Stephen Street in London’s West End (closest tube station: Carolina Boninger, Sarah Muir, Mary Davies, Monika Visniarova, Tottenham Court Road). Delegates can use the Delegate Centre to Tom Humphrey, Ayako Tanka, Viola Pellegrini, Sandra Dhillon, access free Wi-Fi, collect delegate passes and festival bags, network Laurent Dahan, Olivier Namet IN CONVERSATION

Industry intelligence from the leading lights IN CONVERSATION IN of the international film business

INDUSTRY KEYNOTE This series of illuminating talks and interviews with This keynote conversation is particularly relevant as this inspiring British producers and directors, and visiting month DreamWorks Animation is celebrating 20 years, international luminaries is spearheaded by the 58th during which time the studio has produced some of the BFI London Film Festival Industry Keynote by Jeffrey most successful animated franchises including Shrek, Katzenberg, CEO and Founder of Dreamworks Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon Animation, in association with Creative Skillset. under Katzenberg’s leadership. In conversation with Festival Director Clare Stewart, Please RSVP to [email protected] with event title in the Katzenberg will talk about his fascinating career which subject line includes roles as President of Paramount Pictures and Chairman of the Walt Disney Company, where he oversaw the production of some of the most influential films of our time including Academy Award-winners Ordinary People and Terms of Endearment as well as beloved animated movies including Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King.

TUE 14 OCT 15:00 NFT1, BFI Southbank

4 IN CONVERSATION

STEPHEN FREARS IN CONVERSATION WITH SCOTT FOUNDAS Presented with VARIETY From his first short film in 1968 (The Burning) to his just completed Lance Armstrong biopic, Stephen Frears will discuss a rich and varied body of work that moves easily between the serious and the light-hearted, and which has been marked by collaborations with some of Britain’s finest writers. His filmography includes Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, The Queen, My Beautiful Launderette, Tamara Drew and Philomena. Frears will join Scott Foundas, chief film critic of VARIETY, and LFF 2014 Official Competition juror, to talk about his impressive and expansive career, what compels him to make films and his approach to directing. Please RSVP to [email protected] with event title in the subject line

SAT 11 OCT 15:00 May Fair Hotel Screening Room

BRUNA PAPANDREA Presented with WOMEN IN FILM AND TELEVISION UK With Jean-Marc Vallee’s LFF May Fair Hotel Gala Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon and David Fincher’s Gone Girl among her recent credits as producer and executive producer respectively, Bruna Papandrea will reveal the key factors she looks for when developing a film and discuss the steps she has taken to build and sustain a successful career. In conversation with Kate Kinninmont, the chief executive of Women in Film and Television UK, Australian-born Bruna Papandrea, will talk about her early career in Australia, and her London work with Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack at Mirage Enterprises. After a stint in New York City at leading US indie GreeneStreet Films, Papandrea moved to to work with Michael London’s Groundswell Productions. Since 2009 she has headed her own outfit, called Make Movies, with a remit to make smart films with commercial appeal. Her first movie, Warm Bodies, was released in 2012 and was a box-office and critical hit. Please RSVP to [email protected] with event title in the subject line SUN 12 OCT 15:00 The Green Room, Century Soho

PETER STRICKLAND AND NICK FENTON Presented with THE WELLCOME TRUST With two very different new films, Sonic Gala Björk Live: Biophilia and Official Competition title The Duke Of Burgundy, both screening in the Festival, British director Peter Strickland is being heralded internationally as a IN CONVERSATION visionary filmmaker. The music documentary Björk Live: Biophilia, co-directed with Nick Fenton, is a visually-stunning live concert film featuring the peerless Icelandic musician, which combines archive and found footage to create a unique, unusual meditation on the relationship between artifice and reality. Strickland and Fenton will be joined in conversation by BBC Radio 4 broadcaster, scientist and writer Adam Rutherford. Björk Live: Biophilia received backing from the London-based global charitable foundation, the Wellcome Trust, which supports particular films inspired by scientific themes. Strickland’s fascination with biology is also very present in the extraordinary design of The Duke Of Burgundy. Please RSVP to [email protected] with event title in the subject line

THU 9 OCT 15:00 Venue TBC

5 TA L K I N G P O I N TS

Hot topics in the British and international film industry A series of lively events will bring together filmmakers and industry delegates to engage in debates and meetings about some of the most compelling cultural, creative and commercial priorities for filmmakers today.

DIVERSITY WORKING SESSION WORKING WITH A CASTING DIRECTOR Presented with BFI Film Fund Presented with The Casting Society Of America (CSA) An invitation-only, roundtable discussion hosted by A trio of leading US casting directors, Deborah Ed Vaizey, Minister of State at the Department for Aquila (The Shawshank Redemption), Jeanne McCarthy Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for (Foxcatcher) and Susan Shopmaker (Listen Up Philip), Business, Innovation and Skills, and Ben Roberts, join with their UK counterparts, including Gary Director of the BFI Film Fund, with producers, Davy (Hunger) to talk about the vital role they play distributors, sales agents and exhibitors. It will look at in discovering new international talent and the meeting the challenges of broadening diversity in the subtle art of matching them with the world’s leading British film industry. (Closed event) producers and directors. THU 9 OCT WED 15 OCT 10:00 – 12:00 Blue Room, BFI Southbank 11:00 The Club Room, Century Soho

BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL AWARDS CAMPAIGN THE ART OF MAKING A FAMILY FILM Presented with The Hollywood Reporter Presented with BFI Film Fund A discussion chaired by Festival Director Clare Stewart As British films flourish at the local box office, including with Carola Ash, the director of Europe at the Academy family films, The art of making films aimed at and of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, top awards about children and young people will be discussed by consultant Liz Miller of Premier Communications directors working in this genre. Debbie Isitt (the Nativity and further guests. They will discuss the best way trilogy), Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant) and LFF filmmaker to craft a pitch-perfect awards campaign, examining Jon Wright (Robot Overlords) will be joined by the BFI the different elements to consider including the role Film Fund’s Ben Roberts and the BFI’s young audiences festivals play in creating critical buzz and driving specialist Justin Johnson to talk about their experiences. awards-season momentum. FRI 17 OCT TALKING POINTS FRI 10 OCT 15:00 The Green Room, Century Soho 15:00 The Green Room, Century Soho CASE STUDIES THE BIG PICTURE ON SMALL SCREENS Presented with Directors UK The different ways to put together a UK-European Susanna White, the director of films such as Nanny co-production will be showcased in case studies McPhee and the Big Bang and the upcoming Our Kind of of two fascinating collaborations. Traitor, as well as the TV series Parade’s End, Generation THE SALVATION Presented with WE ARE UK FILM Kill and Boardwalk Empire will talk with director The Danish producer and director team of Sisse Graum James Kent (Testament Of Youth) and Bryn Higgins Jorgensen (The Hunt, All You Need is Love) and Kristian (Electricity) for The Big Picture on Small Screens. Sharing Levring (The King is Alive) will reveal the journey from experiences, they will consider what a director needs to page to screen of The Salvation, the English-language know to maintain a successful career – and their sanity Western, starring Mads Mikkelsen and Eva Green, – working across features, high-end TV, music promos co-produced by Denmark’s Zentropa with the UK’s and commercials. The questions they will address Forward Films and South Africa’s Spier Film. will include how relationships may vary with actors, producers and the crew from format to format, and the THE SALVATION: WED 15 OCT 13:00 The Club Room, Century Soho level of creative control a director can expect on each. BYPASS Presented With Film London PFM MON 13 OCT Producer Sam Haillay (Better Things) of Third Films 17:00 The Green Room, Century Soho will talk at the Film London Production Finance Market about working with Sweden’s Film I Vast, the Torino Film Lab, Film Agency Wales and Germany’s Unless otherwise stated, to register your interest in The Match Factory to make Duane Hopkins’ Bypass. attending, please RSVP to [email protected] BYPASS: THU 16 OCT 16:00 – 17:30 Hilton Tower Bridge

6 ADVICE SESSIONS

One-to-one meetings with industry experts

HOW TO QUALIFY AS BRITISH HOW TO GET YOUR SHORT FILM ACCEPTED How to qualify your film, high-end television BY AN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL programme, animation programme or video game as What do filmmakers need to think about when British under the Cultural Test or as an official they submit their films to international festivals? UK co-production. The festival circuit is vital for short films, but it’s not about submitting them just anywhere – there The BFI certification unit is the first point of contact are thousands to choose from. for applicants wanting to access the UK’s creative sector tax reliefs. Philip Ilson, Short Film Programmer at the BFI London Film Festival offers advice on the Anna Mansi, Head of Certification and Christopher best ways to get your films accepted into an Halliday, Senior Certification Analyst at the BFI, international festival. will offer advice about qualifying. To book please email rsvpindevents@bfi.org.uk To book please email: [email protected]

MON 13 & TUE 14 OCT WED 15 OCT 11:00 - 12.30 Delegate Centre, BFI Stephen Street 11:00-13:00 Delegate Centre, BFI Stephen Street

MEET THE COMMISSIONERS

The films the decision-makers love Some of the UK’s leading creative film executives have chosen a film from this year’s 2014 LFF programme – one with which they may not have had any involvement – to talk simply of what they like and admire about the film with the film’s writer or director. From these conversations, the industry and filmmaker audience will glean valuable insights into the kinds of films and storytelling that excites and moves the people who hold the green-light power. Through these informal sessions, we will also discover the origins of these films, the production challenges, and where the filmmakers find their inspirations. ADIVCE / COMMISSIONERS

ANNA HIGGS, JOE OPPENHEIMER, LIZZIE FRANCKE, BEN ROBERTS, Commissioning Commissioning Senior Film Director BFI Film Executive, Film4 Editor, BBC Films, Executive, Fund, talks about Film choice to talks about Foxcatcher BFI Film Fund, talks Love Is Strange with be announced with the film’s about Girlhood director Ira Sachs casting director with director Celine Jeanne McCarthy Sciamma

MON 13 OCT TUE 14 OCT THU 16 OCT FRI 17 OCT 11:00 The Club Room, 13:00 The Club Room, 13:00 The Club Room, 11:00 The Club Room, Century Soho Century Soho Century Soho Century Soho

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FILM LONDON EXHIBITORS’ BREAKFAST: BFI NET.WORK SHORT BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL SPECIAL FILMMAKERS’ BREAKFAST Presented in partnership with BFI Film Audience Are you a filmmaker working on a short film? Maybe Network, the Film London Exhibitors’ breakfast you have a short film and wonder what to do next? returns to the Festival for a second year. The breakfast is an opportunity for exhibitors from across the UK The BFI’s NET.WORK for writers, directors and producers to network and learn from speakers who will be who have yet to make their first feature, is offering presenting innovative audience development projects talent like you the opportunity to hear more about how from their Hub regions. the NET.WORK operates, followed by an informal chat over breakfast with some of its key executives. Event supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. All you have to do is sign up and show up. Please RSVP to: filmhublondon@filmlondon.org.uk Please RSVP to: rsvpindevents@bfi.org.uk

THU 9 OCT THU 16 OCT 10:00-12:30 Institute of Contemporary Arts 09:00-12:00 Benugo Riverfront, BFI Southbank

NETWORKING DRINKS NETWORKING This year the LFF Hub will be at Century Soho, where many of this year’s Industry events will take place. Come along to meet, chat and enjoy a drink with fellow Industry and Filmmaker Delegates at our regular Networking Drinks in the Club Room, 18:30 – 19:30 daily (excluding Friday 10) at 61-63 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6LQ.

Please ensure that you bring your delegate pass along with you to gain admission. Please note that due to capacity restrictions, the networking hours are open to industry and filmmaker delegates only.

THU 9 – FRI 17 OCT (exc. FRI 10) 18:30-19:30 Century Soho

9 NEW BRITISH TALENT

This year, the Festival is launching two great rising talent initiatives, NET.WORK @ LFF and Screen International’s UK Stars of Tomorrow at LFF

NET.WORK @ LFF A unique, internationally-focused talent development programme managed and delivered by Creative England on behalf of the BFI, the Festival and other NET.WORK partners. Fifteen emerging writers, directors and producers from across the UK are participating in an intensive three-day programme comprising master- classes, screenings, networking and one-to-ones with BEC SMITH DAVID ROBERT MITCHELL visiting international filmmakers and executives whose films are screening at the 2014 LFF. They include producer Teddy Schwarzman (The Imitation Game), UTA talent agent Bec Smith (Son of A Gun, Camp X-Ray), director Susanne Bier (A Second Chance, Serena), writer-director David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) and financier Claudia Bluemhuber of Silver Reel Partners. Participants will learn first-hand about making films which connect with audiences around the world. Please note: Attendees for NET.WORK have already been selected. TEDDY SCHWARZMAN SUSANNE BIER

UK STARS OF TOMORROW AT LFF The inaugural Screen International and British Council UK Stars of Tomorrow at LFF dinner is supported by the Casting Society of America (CSA). The Festival will bring together a selection of the UK Stars of Tomorrow with key international industry figures at the LFF, including US

NEW BRITISH TALENT BRITISH NEW and international casting directors and packaging agents, festival programmers, filmmaker Lab executives and funding specialists. 2014’s prestigious selection of actors, writers, directors and producers includes Sophie Cookson (Kingsman: The Secret Service), Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones, The Calling), Taron Egerton (Testament Of Youth, Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Sam Keeley (Monsters: The Dark Continent). Previous Stars include some of the most successful actors in the world today including The Imitation Game star Benedict Cumberbatch, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Robert Pattinson, Emily Blunt, and new Star Wars actor John Boyega, as well as leading UK writer Abi Morgan, director Andrea Arnold and hot new director John Maclean, whose debut feature is the upcoming Slow West starring Michael Fassbender, which is produced by See-Saw Films. This unique event will be preceded by a casting masterclass led by US casting agent Deborah Aquila, whose credits include The Shawshank Redemption and TV series Dexter and The Shield.

This event is in association with We are UK FILM. UK Stars of Tomorrow at LFF events are by invitation only.

10 PARTNER EVENTS

POWER TO THE PIXEL: THE CROSS-MEDIA FORUM Power to the Pixel: The Cross-Media Forum (7 - 10 Oct) Fund, The Danish Film Institute, France Télévisions, helps to foster financing relationships between UK industry Ontario Media Development Corp, the Norwegian Film professionals and their international counterparts working Institute, SODEC, the Swedish Film Institute, the Finnish in interactive media, film, television, advertising, publishing Film Institute, the Icelandic Film Centre and from South and finance. The 8th edition will open with a keynote America IMCINE and RioFilme

presentation from John S. Johnson, the Co-founder of Full details and tickets available at powertothepixel.com or email BuzzFeed, which recently launched a dedicated feature [email protected] for further information. film division. Johnson is also Executive Director of the Harmony Institute, a world-leading research organisation analysing the impact of entertainment media on society. He will be joined by speakers from leading companies including Rovio Entertainment, NFB Canada, the BBC, Playmatics, ITVS, The Guardian and UKIE.

The event consists of the Conference (7 Oct), the Pixel Market (8 & 9 Oct) and the annual Think Tank. The Forum will play host to over 500 international delegates wanting to discover and discuss new projects. They include key decision-makers from some of the world’s leading finance and production organisations including the CNC, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Tribeca Film Institute, Canada Media JOHN S. JOHNSON CONFERENCE: 7 OCT & PIXEL MARKET: 8 OCT NFT1, BFI Southbank

FILM LONDON PRODUCTION FILM LONDON FILM LONDON MARKET FINANCE MARKET MICRO MARKET PLACE LIVE The Film London Production Film London presents Micro Market Place Live, the entertaining Finance Market (PFM) is returning Market, the innovative micro- and unique panel event from Film for an eighth year. This two-day budget finance market. Micro London in partnership with Film event focuses on facilitating over Market will provide 25 filmmaking Export UK, returns to the Festival 800 face-to-face meetings between teams with a day of dedicated for a third time. An experienced producers and financiers from meetings with financiers looking film industry panel, including the international market place to source projects budgeted at producers, sales agents, financiers to foster relationships and source €1m and under. and distributors, will be confronted

financing for specific projects. Please note: Attendees to this year’s with a set of unfolding events A keynote address, workshops Micro Market have already been in the life of a fictional feature and networking opportunities selected. Entry is by application project. They have to act fast are also part of the event. and subsequent invitation only. and think on their feet to Micro Market is supported by successfully guide the project LFF industry delegates are invited Creative Skillset. to attend the public keynote address from development to exploitation. and workshops. Please RSVP to

Limited places are available. Please EVENTS PARTNER pfm@filmlondon.org.uk to register. RSVP to: rsvpindevents@bfi.org.uk Additional information on the to secure your place. PFM and its aims can be found at filmlondon.org.uk/pfm Market Place Live is supported by Creative Skillset. The PFM is supported by the Mayor of London, Creative Europe, UK Trade & Investment and the BFI.

WED 15 – THU 16 OCT WED 15 – THU 16 OCT WED 15 OCT Hilton Tower Bridge Hilton Tower Bridge 16:30 – 18:00 Hilton Tower Bridge

11 CALENDAR KEY Available for UK distribution Available for world sales representation

THU 9 OCT FRI 10 OCT SAT 11 OCT

09:00 MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN 09:00 MR. TURNER (149min) OLS 09:15 NATIONAL GALLERY (173min) (116min) OLS OCG4 09:15 MAIDAN (133min) OCG4 10:00 – FILM LONDON 09:45 APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR 09:45 DEAREST (130min) OCG3 09:00 12:30 EXHIBITORS BREAKFAST ICA (86min) OCG3

10:00 – TALKING POINT: 10:00 MOOMINS ON THE RIVIERA 10:30 DÉCOR (114min) OCG1 12:00 DIVERSITY ROUNDTABLE (80min) OCG1 Blue Room, BFI SouthBank (Closed Session) 10:00 10:15 BLIND (96min) OCG4 10:30 STILL THE WATER (116min) OCG3 10:45 CHASING BERLUSCONI (82min) OCG1

11:00 RETURN TO ITHACA (95min) 11:00 BUTTER ON THE LATCH 11:00 A SECOND CHANCE (105min) OCG2 (72min) OCG2 OCG2 11:30 THE TURNING (180min) OCG3 11:00

12:30 A HARD DAY (111min) OCG4 12:15 BLACK SOULS (103min) 12:30 WILD TALES (122min) OCG3 OCG4 12:45 PASOLINI (87min) OCG1 12:45 1001 GRAMS (90min) OCG4 12:00 12:30 THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS (82min) OCG1 12:45 THE FALLING (102min) OCG2

13:00 SOMETHING MUST BREAK 13:15 THE KEEPING ROOM (95min) (81min) OCG3 OCG2 13:15 TIMBUKTU (97min) OCG2 13:30 LABOUR OF LOVE (84min) 13:00 OCG1 CALENDAR

14:45 GUIDELINES (76min) OCG1 14:30 MADAME BOVARY 14:45 MACONDO (98min) OCG4 14:00 (118min) OCG4 14:45 THEEB (100min) OCG1

15:00 – IN CONVERSATION: PETER 15:00 – TALKING POINT: BUILDING 15:00 NE ME QUITTE PAS (107min) 16:30 STRICKLAND & NICK 17:00 A SUCCESSFUL AWARDS OCG3 CAMPAIGN FENTON Venue TBC 15:15 ROSEWATER (103min) OCG2 Century Soho Green Room 15:00 WHITE GOD (119min) OCG3 15:00 THE NEW GIRLFRIEND 15:30 NIGHT BUS (95min) OCG1 15:00 15:15 LAND HO! (96min) OCG4 (107min) OCG2 15:30 THE GOOB (86min) OCG2 15:15 THE DROP (107min) OCG3

15:00 – IN CONVERSATION: 16:30 STEPHEN FREARS 16:00 May Fair Hotel Screening Room

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18:30 – NETWORKING DRINKS 18:30 – NETWORKING DRINKS 19:30 Century Soho Club Room 19:30 Century Soho Club Room 18:00

Please check individual events listings for booking information. All information correct at time of printing.

12 KEY PRESS & INDUSTRY SCREENING BUYERS & SELLERS SCREENING EVENTS

SUN 12 OCT MON 13 OCT

09:00 WILD (106min) OLS 09:30 NO MAN’S LAND (117min) SS1 09:45 THE LOST AVIATOR (90min) SS2 09:00

10:15 X + Y (111min) OCG3 10:00 HUNGRY HEARTS (109min) OCG3 10:30 SILVERED WATER, SYRIA SELF-PORTRAIT 10:30 FISHING WITHOUT NETS (109min) OCG4 (92min) OCG4 10:45 THE LAMB (85min) OCG1 10:45 WAR BOOK (95min) OCG1 10:00

11:00 KUNG FU JUNGLE (100min) OCG2 11:00 – MEET THE COMMISSIONER: ANNA HIGGS 11:45 Century Soho Club Room 11:00 – ADVICE SESSION: HOW TO QUALIFY AS BRITISH 11:00 12:30 Delegate Centre 11:00 THE MAN IN THE ORANGE JACKET (71min) OCG2 11:45 THE WAY OUT (102min) SS1

12:45 THE WONDERS (110min) OCG3 12:00 MARGARITA, WITH A STRAW (100min) SS2 12:30 THE WORLD OF KANAKO (118min) OCG4 12:30 EDEN (131min) OCG3 12:00 12:45 LEVIATHAN (140min) OCG2

13:00 GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (3D) (70min) OCG1 13:00 ELECTRICITY (96min) OCG1 13:15 A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT 13:15 THE SILENT STORM (98min) OCG4 13:00 (100min) OCG2

14:45 STRAY DOG (100min) OCG1 14:00 THE PRESIDENT (115min) SS1 14:00 14:15 JAMIE MARKS IS DEAD (100min) SS2

15:00 – IN CONVERSATION: WILD PRODUCER 15:00 CUB (85min) OCG1 16:30 BRUNA PAPANDREA Century Soho Green Room 15:15 IN THE BASEMENT OCG3 (85min) 15:00 MY OLD LADY (104min) OCG4 15:30 THE SALVATION (91min) OCG2 15:00 15:15 THE GOLD BUG (100min) OCG3 15:45 THE FILM THAT BUYS THE CINEMA (70min) 15:30 GENTE DE BIEN (86min) OCG2 OCG4

16:15 NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE (87min) SS1 16:00 16:30 THE BLUE ROOM (76min) SS2 CALENDAR

17:00 – TALKING POINT: THE BIG PICTURE ON SMALL 18:00 SCREENS Century Soho Green Room 17:00

18:30 – NETWORKING DRINKS Century Soho Club Room 18:30 – INDUSTRY DRINKS SPONSORED BY DIRECTORS UK 19:30 19:30 Century Soho Club Room 18:00 18:30 DEAREST (130min) SS1 18:45 CAMP X-RAY (117min) SS2

13 CALENDAR KEY Available for UK distribution Available for world sales representation

TUE 14 OCT WED 15 OCT

09:00 TESTAMENT OF YOUTH (130min) OLS 09:00 WHIPLASH (106min) OLS 09:30 THE NARROW FRAME OF MIDNIGHT (93min) SS1 09:00 – FILM LONDON PRODUCTION FINANCE MARKET 09:45 AUSTIN TO (72min) SS2 18:00 Tower Bridge Hilton 09:00 09:00 – PFM IN CONVERSATION: KEYNOTE SPEECH 11:00 Tower Bridge Hilton (Invite Only) 09:30 PARTY GIRL (96min) SS1 09:45 MOOMINS ON THE RIVIERA (80min) SS2

10:00 THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: THEM 10:15 HARD TO GET (94min) OCG4 (89min) OCG3 10:30 RADIATOR (93min) OCG1 10:30 THE 78 PROJECT MOVIE (95min) OCG4 10:45 SHADOW DAYS (95min) OCG3 10:00 10:45 HISTORY OF FEAR (79min) OCG1

11:00 – ADVICE SESSION: HOW TO QUALIFY AS BRITISH 11:00 – TALKING POINT: WORKING WITH 12:30 Delegate Centre 12:00 A CASTING DIRECTOR Century Soho Club Room 11:00 PHOENIX (98min) OCG2 11:00 – ADVICE SESSION: HOW TO GET YOUR SHORT FILM 11:00 11:45 NE ME QUITTE PAS (107min) SS1 13:00 ACCEPTED BY AN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL Delegate Centre 11:00 THE LOST AVIATOR (90min) OCG2 11:45 KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON (84min) SS1

12:00 VILLA TOUMA (85min) SS2 12:00 BRIDES (93min) SS2 12:00 12:30 PING PONG SUMMER (92min) OCG1 12:30 GIRLHOOD (113min) OCG3 12:45 THE FURTHEST END AWAITS (118min) OCG4 12:45 THE LITTLE DEATH (96min) OCG1

13:00 – MEET THE COMMISSIONER: JOE OPPENHEIMER 13:00 – TALKING POINT: THE SALVATION CASE STUDY 13:45 Century Soho Club Room 13:45 Century Soho Club Room 13:00 MARC QUINN-MAKING WAVES (80min) OCG3 13:00 THE IMMORTALISTS (80min) OCG2 13:00 13:15 THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY (104min) OCG2 13:15 WHITE BIRD IN A BLIZZARD (90min) OCG4 CALENDAR

14:00 DÉCOR (114min) SS1 14:00 KELLY & CAL (110min) SS1 14:15 FAR FROM MEN (101min) SS2 14:15 EXCUSE MY FRENCH (100min) SS2 14:00 14:45 THE TRIBE (132min) OCG1 14:45 MOMMY (134min) OCG2

15:00 – IN CONVERSATION: THE LFF INDUSTRY KEYNOTE 15:00 CATCH ME DADDY (111min) OCG3 16:30 JEFFREY KATZENBERG NFT1 15:15 WHEN ANIMALS DREAM (84min) OCG4 15:00 THE DINNER (92min) OCG3 15:30 6 DESIRES: DH LAWRENCE AND SARDINIA (85min) 15:00 15:15 THE GREEN PRINCE (99min) OCG4 OCG1 15:30 LOVE IS STRANGE (98min) OCG2

16:15 THE WHITE HAIRED WITCH OF LUNAR KINGDOM 16:15 SPANISH AFFAIR (95min) SS1 (103min) SS1 16:30 PASOLINI (87min) SS2 16:00 16:30 THEEB (100min) SS2 16:30 – MARKET PLACE LIVE Tower Bridge Hilton 18:00

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18:30 – NETWORKING DRINKS Century Soho Club Room 18:30 – NETWORKING DRINKS Century Soho Club Room 19:30 19:30 18:00 18:30 FREE FALL (89min) SS1 18:30 FRENCH RIVIERA (116min) SS1 18:45 TENDER (73min) SS2 18:45 DANCING ARABS (105min) SS2

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09:00 FOXCATCHER (135min) OLS 09:30 THE FURTHEST END AWAITS (118min) SS1 09:00 – SHORT FILMMAKERS BREAKFAST 09:45 STRAY DOG (100min) SS2 12:00 benugo Riverfront 09:00 09:00 – FILM LONDON PRODUCTION FINANCE MARKET 18:00 Hilton Tower Bridge 09:30 METAMORPHOSES (102min) SS1 09:45 10,000 KM (99min) SS2

10:15 MONSTERS: DARK CONTINENT (122min) OCG3 10:00 – PFM MEETINGS The Blue Room, BFI Southbank 10:30 MARGARITA, WITH A STRAW (100min) OCG1 13:00 10:45 JAUJA (101min) OCG4 10:15 THE SATELLITE GIRL AND THE MILK COW (81min) 10:00 OCG4 10:30 LOREAK (100min) OCG1 10:45 DIFRET (99min) OCG3

11:00 AUSTIN TO BOSTON (72min) OCG2 11:00 – MEET THE COMMISSIONER: BEN ROBERTS 11:45 TALKS ABOUT LOVE IS STRANGE WITH DIRECTOR 11:45 HARD TO GET (94min) SS1 IRA SACHS Century Soho Club Room 11:00 11:00 WINTER SLEEP (196min) OCG2 11:45 TWO SHOTS FIRED (104min) SS1

12:00 RADIATOR (93min) SS2 12:00 ZERO MOTIVATION (100min) SS2 12:00 12:45 SON OF A GUN (108min) OCG2 12:30 3 HEARTS (90min) OCG4 12:45 THE PRESIDENT (118min) OCG1

13:00 – MEET THE COMMISSIONER: LIZZIE FRANCKE 13:00 SNOW IN PARADISE (108min) OCG3 13:45 TALKS ABOUT GIRLHOOD WITH DIRECTOR CELINE SCIAMMA Century Soho Club Room 13:00 13:00 SECOND COMING (105min) OCG3 13:15 THE NARROW FRAME OF MIDNIGHT (93min) OCG1 13:30 SONG OF THE SEA (93min) OCG4

14:00 IN THE BASEMENT (85min) SS1 14:00 I CAN QUIT WHENEVER I WANT (100min) SS1 14:15 A BLAST (83min) SS2 14:15 MR KAPLAN (98min) SS2 14:00 14:45 BETI AND AMARE (94min) OCG4

15:00 A LITTLE CHAOS (116min) OCG2 15:00 TALKING POINT: THE ART OF MAKING A FAMILY FILM 15:15 THE FACE OF AN ANGEL (100min) OCG3 Century Soho Green Room 15:00 15:30 HONEYTRAP (93min) OCG4 15:00 THE WHITE HAIRED WITCH OF LUNAR KINGDOM 15:45 TENDER (73min) OCG1 3D (103min) OCG2 15:15 FAR FROM MEN (101min) OCG1 15:30 ROBOT OVERLORDS (88min) OCG3

16:00 – TALKING POINT: BYPASS CASE STUDY 16:15 NIGHT BUS (95min) SS1 17:30 AT THE PFM Hilton Tower Bridge 16:30 LABOUR OF LOVE (84min) SS2

16:00 16:15 WILD LIFE (106min) SS1 CALENDAR 16:30 THE SILENT STORM (101min) SS2

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18:30 – NETWORKING DRINKS Century Soho Green Room 18:30 – NETWORKING DRINKS Century Soho Club Room 19:30 19:30 18:00 18:30 LEOPARDI (135min) SS1 18:30 MY FRIEND VICTORIA (95min) SS1 18:45 THE TRIBE (132min) SS2 18:45 THE IMMORTALISTS (80min) SS2

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BLOOMSBU KEY 1 Delegate Centre and 7 1 Stephen Street Screening ST Rooms at BFI Stephen Street RY GT RUSSELL 21 Stephen Street, W1T 1LN bfi.org.uk/lff 2 BFI Southbank NFT1, NFT2, NFT3, Studio South Bank, SE1 8XT 020 7456 8374 bfi.org.uk/lff 6 3 Odeon Covent Garden 3 135 Shaftesbury Ave WC2H 8AH odeon.co.uk 4 Odeon Leicester Sq 24-26 Leicester Sq, WC2H 7LQ odeon.co.uk 8 5 ICA The Mall, SW1Y 5AH 2 4 ica.org.uk 6 The Hospital Club 24 Endell St, WC2H 9HQ 020 7170 9100 9 4 thehospitalclub.com 7 Radisson Edwardian Kenilworth Hotel Gt Russell St, WC1B 3BL radissonedwardian.com/

MAP kenilworth 2 8 Century Soho 61-63 Shaftesbury Ave 5 W1D 6LQ centuryclub.co.uk RIVER THAMES

PRESS AND INDUSTRY SCREENINGS BUYERS AND SELLERS SCREENINGS VENUES: VENUE: Odeon Covent Garden (OCG), 135 Shaftesbury BFI Stephen Street (SS), 21 Stephen Street, W1T 1LN Avenue, WC2H 8AH (9 – 17 October) (13 – 17 October) Odeon Leicester Square (OLS), 24-26 Leicester Sq, The Buyers and Sellers screenings showcase a WC2H 7LQ (selected dates 9 – 19 October) selection of Festival films which are available for Admission is open to all LFF delegate pass distribution in the UK or are seeking world sales holders on a first come, first served basis representation, as an integral part of the services unless otherwise stated. Admission will only be offered by the Festival. We aim to highlight these granted on presentation of a valid delegate pass. titles to buyers and sellers and provide an environment that makes it easy and convenient for them to see films and do business. Access is open to all LFF delegate pass holders, with priority entry to holders of a Buyers/Sellers pass.

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10,000 KM BLACK SOULS CHASING BERLUSCONI Dir Carlos Marques-Marcet. 99min Dir Francesco Munzi. 103min Dir Ole Endresen. 82min Technology rather than love threatens to Based on a true story, this is an epic tale A veteran harness-racing horse driver tear a couple apart in Carlos Marques- of an Italian Calabrian Mafia family. hatches a ‘fail-safe’ plan to turn his Marcet’s beautifully observed study of a Fri 10 Oct 12:15 OCG4 fortunes around, from the director of King long distance romance. Curling (LFF 2011). Thu 16 Oct 09:45 SS2 A BLAST Thu 9 Oct 10:45 OCG1 Dir Syllas Tzoumerkas. 83min 1001 GRAMS A woman flees her old life against CUB Dir Bent Hamer. 90min the turbulent backdrop of Greece’s Dir Jonas Govaerts. 85min Marie likes things to be safe and economic crisis. A cub scout expedition turns into a quantifiable. But can you measure Thu 16 Oct 14:15 SS2 nightmare in this dark modern fairytale, happiness or even the weight of a life? Mon 13 Oct 15:00 OCG1 Sat 11 Oct 12:45 OCG4 BLIND Dir Eskil Vogt. 96min DANCING ARABS 3 HEARTS A woman’s blindness only serves to Dir Eran Riklis. 105min Dir Benoît Jacquot. 90min sharpen her capacity for imagination and Absorbing drama about the adventures Charlotte Gainsbourg plays a woman fantasy in the directorial debut from the of a Palestinian teenager Eyad sent to a caught in a play of love, fate and narrative writer of Oslo, August 31st. prestigious Israeli boarding school. coincidence, in Benoît Jacquot’s sly, Thu 9 Oct 10:15 OCG4 Wed 15 Oct 18:45 SS2 eerie and entertaining tale of chance- crossed love. THE BLUE ROOM DEAREST Fri 17 Oct 12:30 OCG4 Dir Mathieu Amalric. 76min Dir Peter Ho-Sun Chan. 130min Love is a spiked cage in Mathieu Amalric’s This deeply moving drama charts 6 DESIRES: DH LAWRENCE AND latest film, Georges Simenon adaptation the turmoil of a Chinese couple whose SARDINIA following a two-timing everyman pinned child is abducted. Dir Mark Cousins. 85min under the wheels of fate. Mon 13 Oct 18:30 SS1 Documentary filmmaker Mark Cousins Mon 13 Oct 16:30 SS2 Sat 11 Oct 09:45 OCG3 follows in the footsteps of DH Lawrence in this dazzling road-trip through Sardinia. BRIDES DÉCOR Wed 15 Oct 15:30 OCG1 Dir Tinatin Karjrishvili. 93min Dir Ahmad Abdalla. 114min Nutsa, a young mother in her thirties, is A successful film set designer finds herself THE 78 PROJECT MOVIE struggling to bring up her children in the inexplicably transported into another Dir Alex Steyermark. 95min suburbs of Tbilisi. Her partner Goga is persona as a married housewife while Musicians from around the US lay down serving a 10-year jail sentence. working on a new production. tracks on an antique recording device in Wed 15 Oct 12:00 SS2 Tue 14 Oct 14: 00 SS1 this beguilng portrait of old time folk music. Sat 11 Oct 10:30 OCG1 Wed 15 Oct 10:30 OCG4 BUTTER ON THE LATCH Dir Josephine Decker. 72min DIFRET APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR A boldly innovative debut feature about Dir Zeresenay Berhane Mehari. 99min Dir Desiree Akhavan. 86min the mysterious unravelling of a female A young Ethiopian woman faces the death A twentysomething, bisexual Iranian- friendship at a Balkan musical festival penalty for killing the man who raped American woman struggles to conform in the woods of California. her until a brave lawyer decides to take to traditional Persian standards, figure Fri 10 Oct 11:00 OCG2 on her case. out her stalled career and negotiate her Fri 17 Oct 10:45 OCG3 troubled love life. CAMP X-RAY Fri 10 Oct 09:45 OCG3 Dir Peter Sattler. 117min THE DINNER Kristen Stewart stars as a guard Dir Ivan De Matteo. 92min AUSTIN TO BOSTON in Gauntanamo Bay who strikes Gripping psychological thriller about a Dir James Marcus Haney. 72min an uncomfortable bond with one

family plunged into crisis as their children FILM LIST Join London’s Communion collection of of her prisoners. are implicated in a murder. musicians as they perform across the US in Mon 13 Oct 18:45 SS2 Tue 14 Oct 15:00 OCG3 this road-trip turned tour documentary. Tue 14 Oct 09 :45 SS2 CATCH ME DADDY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF Dir Daniel Wolfe, Matthew Wolfe. 111min Thu 16 Oct 11:00 OCG2 ELEANOR RIGBY: THEM A complex and challenging debut from the Dir Ned Benson. 89min BETI AND AMARE Wolfe brothers about a young girl fleeing Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy star as Dir Andy Siege. 94min her traditional family. a married couple torn asunder, in this In 1930s Ethiopia, a young woman escapes Wed 15 Oct 15:00 OCG3 moving contemporary drama that explores Mussolini’s army and is almost attacked by how to be a whole person again following a bandits, were it not for the arrival of an traumatic event. otherworldly presence whom she befriends. Wed 15 Oct 10:00 OCG3 Fri 17 Oct 14:45 OCG4

17 THE DROP THE FILM THAT BUYS THE CINEMA A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE Dir Michaël R. Roskam. 107min Dir Cube Cinema. 70min AT NIGHT Based on a story by acclaimed US crime A wonderful collection of films from an Dir Ana Lily Amirpour. 100min writer Dennis Lehane, this is a smart and eclectic array of contributors A mysterious female vampire stalks the thrilling drama featuring a standout commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol streets of a deadbeat town in this performance by Tom Hardy. independent cinema the Cube. arresting debut. Fri 10 Oct 15:15 OCG3 Mon 13 Oct 15:45 OCG4 Sun 12 Oct 13:15 OCG2

THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY FISHING WITHOUT NETS GIRLHOOD Dir Peter Strickland. 104min Dir Cutter Hodierne. 109min Dir Céline Sciamma. 113min Peter Strickland’s new film is a bold and Tense, muscular filmmaking that tells the Céline Sciamma’s triumphant third film is sensual exploration of the power dynamic gripping story of a young Somali fisherman a beautifully observed examination of a between two women who live cut off from reluctantly caught up in piracy. young girl’s search for identity in the the outside world. Mon 13 Oct 10:30 OCG4 underprivileged suburbs of Paris. Tue 14 Oct 13:15 OCG2 Wed 15 Oct 12:30 OCG3 FOXCATCHER EDEN Dir Bennett Miller. 135min THE GOLD BUG Dir Mia Hansen-Løve. 131min A riveting, tense and unsettling exploration Dir Alejo Moguillansky, Fia-Stina Mia Hansen-Løve (Father of My Children) of the power of money and obsession Sandlund. 100min creates a sprawling fictional drama about from the acclaimed director of Capote High theatrics, red herrings and quickfire the rise of the French house music scene – and Moneyball. dialogue come together in this entertaining exuberant, idyllic and musically heady. Thu 16 Oct 09:00 OLS take on the culture of co-productions that Mon 13 Oct 12:30 OCG3 shapes contemporary filmmaking. FREE FALL Sun 12 Oct 15:15 OCG3 ELECTRICITY Dir György Pálfi. 89min Dir Bryn Higgins. 96min György Pálfi’s absurdist and provocative GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (3D) Agyness Deyn stars in a powerful story take on life in contemporary Budapest Dir Jean-Luc Godard. 70min seen through the eyes of a young woman glimpsed through seven extraordinary Jean-Luc Godard goes 3D – his way – in a whose epilepsy brings extraordinary life stories. typically complex and mischievous hallucinations as she searches for her Tue 14 Oct 18:30 SS1 disquisition on words, images, politics and lost brother. the world as seen by a dog named Roxy. Mon 13 Oct 13:00 OCG1 FRENCH RIVIERA Sun 12 Oct 13:00 OCG1 FILM LIST FILM Dir André Téchiné. 116min EXCUSE MY FRENCH Catherine Deneuve heads an excellent cast THE GOOB Dir Amr Salama. 100min in André Techiné’s engrossing drama about Dir Guy Myhill. 86min A Christian boy in Egypt is forced to swap familial, financial and possibly murderous Rural Norfolk is the atmospheric backdrop his elite education for state school, where intrigue in the world of Nice casinos. to this accomplished debut about a teen he is believed to be a Muslim. Wed 15 Oct 18:30 SS1 finding love. Wed 15 Oct 14:15 SS2 Thu 9 Oct 15:30 OCG2 THE FURTHEST END AWAITS THE FACE OF AN ANGEL Dir Chiang Hsiu Chiung. 118min THE GREEN PRINCE Dir Michael Winterbottom. 100min A beautifully observed and quietly moving Dir Nadav Schirman. 99min A filmmaker struggles to turn a notorious portrait of a friendship between two The astonishing story of the relationship real-life crime into a feature film in Michael women set against the majestic beauty of between an Israeli secret services agent Winterbottom’s moving new drama. the Sea of Japan. and the son of a high-ranking Hamas Thu 16 15:15 OCG3 Fri 17 Oct 09:30 SS1 member who for years was a spy. Tue 14 Oct 12:45 OCG4 Tue 14 Oct 15:15 OCG4 THE FALLING Dir Carol Morley. 102min FURY GUIDELINES Get ready to swoon. It’s 1969, and a Dir David Ayer. 120min Dir Jean-François Caissy. 76min mysterious fainting sickness overtakes an David Ayer’s brilliant action drama tells the A compelling observational study of a high English all-girl school in Carol Morley’s story of US soldiers and the demons they school in Quebec from documentary beguiling follow-up to Dreams of a Life. face down as they drive their tank through filmmaker Jean-François Caissy. Fri 10 Oct 12:45 OCG2 occupied Europe during WWII. Thu 9 Oct 14:45 OCG1 Sun 19 Oct 09:00 OLS FAR FROM MEN A HARD DAY Dir David Oelhoffen. 101min GENTE DE BIEN Dir Kim Seong-Hun. 111min This gripping existential western – North Dir Franco Lolli. 86min A crooked cop’s bad day goes from worse to African style – sees Viggo Mortensen and A ten-year-old is packed off to live with his hellish when a hit-and-run accident leaves Reda Kateb play two men battling to down-at-heel father in this touching, him with a corpse on his hands. survive in 1950s Algeria. exquisitely observed Colombian drama. Thu 9 Oct 12:30 OCG4 Tue 14 Oct 14:15 SS2 Sun 12 Oct 15:30 OCG2 Fri 17 Oct 15:15 OCG1

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HARD TO GET JAUJA LEOPARDI Dir Zee Ntuli. 94min Dir Lisandro Alonso. 101min Dir Mario Martone. 135min A compact, highly enjoyable and kinetic Viggo Mortensen is a distraught Handsome, moving period biopic of action thriller unfurls at breakneck speed Danish military man searching his legendary Italian 19th century poet in downtown Johannesburg. fugitive daughter in Lisandro Alonso’s Giacomo Leopardi. Thu 16 Oct 11:45 SS1 breathtaking drama, set in nineteenth- Thu 16 Oct 18:30 SS1 Tue 14 Oct 10:15 OCG4 century Patagonia. Thu 16 Oct 10:45 OCG4 LEVIATHAN HISTORY OF FEAR Dir Andrey Zvyagintsev. 140min Dir Benjamín Naishtat. 79min KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Cannes award A series of unexplained incidents within Dir Alan Hicks. 84min winner is a striking attack on corrupt a gated Argentine community lie at the Music bridges the generation gap in this politics set on Russia’s northwest coastline. heart of Benjamín Naishtat’s exploration poignant documentary about the Mon 13 Oct 12:45 OCG2 of a society on the brink of collapse. friendship between two jazz musicians. THE LITTLE DEATH Wed 15 Oct 10:45 OCG1 Wed 15 Oct 11:45 SS1 Dir Josh Lawson. 96min HONEYTRAP THE KEEPING ROOM A group of suburban Sydney couples Dir Rebecca Johnson. 93min Dir Daniel Barber. 95min explore their taboo sexual predilections, A Brixton-set drama about a 15-year- On the American frontier a young woman causing havoc with their various old girl whose desperate need for is forced to go to any means to defend relationships. acceptance leads her to take part in her kin from the ravages of the barbaric Wed 15 Oct 12:45 OCG1 a tragic act of violence. outside world. A LITTLE CHAOS Thu 16 Oct 15:30 OCG4 Sat 11 Oct 13:15 OCG2 Dir Alan Rickman. 116min HUNGRY HEARTS KELLY & CAL Kate Winslet plays a landscape gardener Dir Saverio Costanzo. 109min Dir Jen McGowan. 110min employed by King Louis XIV to transform Enthralling New York-set drama about a Juliette Lewis returns to centre stage with the gardens at Versailles. young couple who tear each other apart a charming performance as a bored Thu 16 Oct 15:00 OCG2 over care of their first child. housewife who finds she has much in LOREAK Mon 13 Oct 10:00 OCG3 common with her much younger neighbour. Wed 15 Oct 14:00 SS1 Dir Jon Garaño, Jose Mari Goenaga. 100min I CAN QUIT WHENEVER I WANT A moving and beautifully performed Dir Sydney Sibilia. 100min KUNG FU JUNGLE Basque-language feature focusing on Italy’s biggest comedy hit about a bunch of Dir Teddy Chen. 100min interlocking stories of grief from the broke academics who decide to do a Iconic action super star Donnie Yen plays a directors of the acclaimed For 80 Days. ‘Breaking Bad’ and enter the drug former martial arts instructor released Fri 17 Oct 10:30 OCG1 manufacture and dealing business. from prison to catch a killer in this THE LOST AVIATOR Fri 17 Oct 14:00 SS1 adrenaline-fuelled Hong Kong actioner. Sun 12 Oct 11:00 OCG2 Dir Andrew Lancaster. 90min THE IMMORTALISTS The true-life story of pioneering aviator Dir Jason Sussberg, David Alvarado. 80min LABOUR OF LOVE Bill Lancaster, whose heady career in A riveting account of two remarkable Dir Adityavikram Sengupta. 84min the 1920s ended with a controversial scientists set on finding a way to In this sublime tale of love and longing, a murder trial. prolong life. young couple are forced apart because of Mon 13 Oct 9:45 SS2 Fri 17 Oct 18:45 SS2 their heavy work shifts and dream of the Wed 15 Oct 11:00 OCG2 day when they will meet. Wed 15 Oct 13:00 OCG2 Fri 17 Oct 16:30 SS2 LOVE IS STRANGE IN THE BASEMENT Dir Ira Sachs. 98min Dir Ulrich Seidl. 85min THE LAMB Ira Sachs’s refined Manhattan-set drama Dir Kutlug˘ Ataman. 85min sees Alfred Molina’s Ben and John Lithgow’s

A typically provocative documentary FILM LIST about Austrians and their basements Kutlug˘ Ataman’s funny, touching George in the latter days of a tender, from Ulrich Seidl. fable about an impoverished Turkish loving 39-year relationship. family’s quest for a lamb to serve at a Thu 16 Oct 14:00 SS1 Tue 14 Oct 15:30 OCG2 traditional banquet. Mon 13 Oct 15:15 OCG3 Mon 13 Oct 10:45 OCG1 MACONDO JAMIE MARKS IS DEAD Dir Sudabeh Mortezai. 98min Dir Carter Smith. 100min LAND HO! Tense, touching and insightful realist A melancholic and unconventional ghost Dir Martha Stephens. 96min drama about a young Chechen refugee story from director Carter Smith. Two old friends rekindle their sense of fun trying to keep his head above water in this road movie across Iceland. in suburban Vienna. Mon 13 Oct 14:15 SS2 Thu 9 Oct 15:15 OCG4 Sat 11 Oct 14:45 OCG4

19 MADAME BOVARY MONSTERS: DARK CONTINENT NE ME QUITTE PAS Dir Sophie Barthes. 118min Dir Tom Green. 122min Dir Sabine Lubbe Bakker, Niels van A classic re-telling of the moving Flaubert Follow the alien invasion to the Koevorden. 107min novel, with Mia Wasikowska perfectly infected zones of the Middle East in This moving hybrid of documentary cast as the titular character whose this pyrotechnic sequel to Gareth and bromance charts the lives of two resistance to societal conventions leads Edwards’ cult sci-fi hit, Monsters. Belgian alcoholics. to rebellion and disgrace. Thu 16 Oct 10:15 OCG3 Tue 14 Oct 11:45 SS1 Fri 10 Oct 14:30 OCG4 Sat 11 Oct 15:00 OCG3 MOOMINS ON THE RIVIERA MAIDAN Dir Xavier Picard. 80min NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE Dir Sergei Loznitsa. 133min The Moomins holiday on the Riviera Dir Benoît Délepine, Gustave Kervern. A visually striking account of the street and bring mayhem with them. 87min protests in the Ukraine at the beginning Wed 15 Oct 09:45 SS2 Novelist Michel Houellbecq plays a man of this year from Sergei Loznitsa, director Fri 10 Oct 10:00 OCG1 determined to kill himself in this jet-black of In the Fog. comedy from France. Fri 10 Oct 09:15 OCG4 MR KAPLAN Mon 13 Oct 16:15 SS1 Dir Álvaro Brechner. 98min THE MAN IN THE ORANGE JACKET A downtrodden seventy-something Jewish THE NEW GIRLFRIEND Dir Aik Karapetian. 71min man attempts to restore his pride by Dir François Ozon. 107min A brutally austere horror film from Latvia unmasking an elderly German beach bar François Ozon’s delicious new drama about a worker avenging the boss who owner as a Nazi war criminal. is a smart and sly satire – with some fired him. Fri 17 Oct 14:15 SS2 jaw-dropping twists – about gender, Mon 13 Oct 11:00 OCG2 class and consumerism. MR. TURNER Fri 10 Oct 15:00 OCG2 MARC QUINN – MAKING WAVES Dir Mike Leigh. 149min Dir Gerry Fox. 80min Mike Leigh’s exultant account of the later NIGHT BUS Artist Marc Quinn’s life is captured in years of J. M. W. Turner, with a Cannes- Dir Simon Baker. 95min all its many guises in this fascinating winning performance by Timothy Spall. A series of funny, touching and surprising fly-on-the-wall documentary. Fri 10 Oct 09:00 OLS encounters take place one night among the Tue 14 Oct 13:00 OCG3 diverse passengers of a London night bus. MY FRIEND VICTORIA Fri 17 Oct 16:15 SS1 MARGARITA, WITH A STRAW Dir Jean-Paul Civeyrac. 95min

FILM LIST FILM Sat 11 Oct 15:30 OCG1 Dir Shonali Bose. 100min Adapted from Doris Lessing, Jean-Paul This compelling drama from India Civeyrac’s haunting drama explores NO MAN’S LAND charts the struggles and sense of race, class and identity in the story of Dir Ning Hao. 117min freedom experienced by a Delhi two young, black Parisian women and A smart, blackly hilarious, and gleefully teenager with cerebral palsy when their different destinies. unhinged homage to the Spaghetti Western she wins a scholarship to NY. Fri 17 Oct 18:30 SS1 from Ning Hao. Mon 13 Oct 12:00 SS2 Mon 13 Oct 09:30 SS1 Thu 16 Oct 10:30 OCG1 MY OLD LADY Dir Israel Horovitz. 104min PARTY GIRL MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN Down-and-out Kevin Kline inherits a gold Dir Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Dir Jason Reitman. 116min mine of a Paris apartment, but can’t sell Samuel Theis. 96min Jason Reitman explores the way the while Maggie Smith’s still living in it. A startling, clear-eyed portrait of an ageing modern technologies both enhance and Sun 12 Oct 15:00 OCG4 bar hostess whose decision to marry a hinder our lives and relationships in this long-term admirer, and relinquish her cross-generational comedy drama. THE NARROW FRAME OF MIDNIGHT party girl ways, leaves her questioning Thu 9 Oct 09:00 OLS Dir Aik Karapetian. 93min her identity. A sweeping multi-character treatise on Wed 15 Oct 09:30 SS1 METAMORPHOSES love and loss follows an orphaned girl Dir Christophe Honoré. 102min in Morocco at the mercy of a local criminal PASOLINI French director Christophe Honoré brings and his girlfriend. Dir Abel Ferrara. 87min Ovid’s Metamorphoses to life in a boldly Tue 14 Oct 09 :30 SS1 Abel Ferrara explores the last day in inventive modern-day version. Thu 16 Oct 13:15 OCG1 the life of Pier Paolo Pasolini (played Thu 16 Oct 09:30 SS1 by Willem Dafoe). NATIONAL GALLERY Wed 15 Oct 16:30 SS2 MOMMY Dir Frederick Wiseman. 173min Thurs 9 Oct 12:45 OCG1 Dir Xavier Dolan. 134min Frederick Wiseman’s masterly Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan and absorbing portrait of Britain’s impresses again with his latest award- National Gallery. winning exercise in stylistic and Sat 11 Oct 09:15 OCG4 imaginative melodrama. Wed 15 Oct 14:45 OCG2

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PHOENIX THE SALVATION SOMETHING MUST BREAK Dir Christian Petzold. 98min Dir Kristian Levring. 91min Dir Ester Martin Bergsmark. 81min A concentration camp survivor Mads Mikkelsen does what a man’s gotta do A striking coming-of-age tale about undergoes reconstructive surgery in the lawless pioneer West in this violent a young transgendered teen set in and embarks on a search for her and stylish western. present-day Stockholm. husband in postwar Germany. Mon 13 Oct 15:30 OCG2 Thu 9 Oct 13:00 OCG3 Tue 14 Oct 11:00 OCG2 SATELLITE GIRL AND THE MILK COW SON OF A GUN PING PONG SUMMER Dir Chang Hyung-Yun. 81min Dir Julius Avery. 108min Dir Michael Tully. 92min A bizarre trio of heroes wards off evil in A smart heist thriller starring Ewan Like a time capsule straight outta 1985, this enjoyable animated tale from Korea. McGregor, about a tough young hoodlum Hip Hop has arrived and 13-year old Rad Fri 17 Oct 10:15 OCG4 who teams up with a ruthless con and a Miracle is about to have the summer street-savvy young woman. holiday that will change everything! THE SECOND CHANCE Thu 16 Oct 12:45 OCG2 Tue 14 Oct 12:30 OCG1 Dir Susanne Bier. 105min Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Games of Thrones) SONG OF THE SEA THE POSSIBIITIES ARE ENDLESS gives a career-best performance as a Dir Tomm Moore. 93min Dir Edward Lovelace, James Hall. 82min troubled cop in Susanne Bier’s story of Ancient magic and folklore is at the heart A moving and haunting account of singer blinkered obsession of this fine animated tale from Ireland Edwyn Collins’s long and difficult recovery Sat 11 Oct 11:00 OCG2 from the director of The Secret of Kells. from a stroke. Thu 16 Oct 13:30 OCG4 Fri 10 Oct 12:30 OCG1 SECOND COMING Dir Debbie Tucker Green. 105min SPANISH AFFAIR THE PRESIDENT A family is shaken by an unexplained Dir Emilio Martínez-Lázaro. 95min Dir Mohsen Makhmalbaf. 115min pregnancy in Debbie Tucker Green’s A hit in Spain, this enjoyable rom-com A provocative and disquieting parable bold debut. combines inventive energy, fish-out-of- about a deposed president from the great Thu 16 Oct 13:00 OCG3 water gags, engaging performances and a Iranian director Moshen Makhmalbaf. hilarious plot where regional clichés meet Mon 13 Oct 14:00 SS1 SHADOW DAYS nationalist aspirations. Dir Zhao Dayong. 95min Fri 17 Oct 12:45 OCG1 Wed 15 Oct 16:15 SS1 A quasi-ghost story about a young urban RADIATOR Chinese couple returning to their dusty STILL THE WATER Dir Tom Browne. 93min rural roots interrogates one child policy Dir Naomi Kawase. 116min A moving drama interspersed with and authoritarianism. One of the years most visually ravishing moments of black comedy about the Tues 14 Oct 10:45 OCG3 films is this tale of two youths growing up strains of coping with ageing parents. and falling in love on a small island off the THE SILENT STORM Thu 16 Oct 12:00 SS2 Japanese mainland. Dir Corinna McFarlane. 101min Tue 14 Oct 10:30 OCG1 Thu 9 Oct 10:30 OCG3 A wild Scottish island provides the RETURN TO THE ITHACA backdrop for this taut drama of a stormy STRAY DOG Dir Laurent Cantet. 95min marriage between an authoritarian Dir Debra Granik. 100min A group of middle-aged Cubans reunite minister and his mysterious wife whose Winter’s Bone director Debra Granik’s one evening in Havana to meet an old lives are shaken by the unexpected arrival poignant and entertaining portrait of friend whose life hasn’t quite turned of a delinquent into their home. American war vet and biker Ronnie out as he imagined it would. Thu 16 Oct 16:30 SS2 ‘Stray Dog’ Hall. Thu 9 Oct 11:00 OCG2 Mon 13 Oct 13:15 OCG4 Fri 17 Oct 09:45 SS2 Sun 12 Oct 14:45 OCG1 ROBOT OVERLOADS SILVERED WATER, A SYRIA SELF Dir Jon Wright. 88min PORTRAIT TENDER Dir Ossama Mohammed, Wiam Simav Dir Lynette Wallworth. 73mins

Sean and his friends take on the robot FILM LIST empire in this British sci-fi adventure. Bedirxan. 92min A close-knit community in Australia start Fri 17 Oct 15:30 OCG3 A provocative, hard-hitting account of life up a not-for-profit funeral service in this in Syria during the civil war, and the pain life-affirming film about death and dying. ROSEWATER of exile for Syrians living abroad. Tue 14 Oct 18:45 SS2 Dir Jon Stewart. 103min Sun 12 Oct 10:30 OCG4 Thu 16 Oct 15:45 OCG1 Jon Stewart brilliantly tells the story of Maziar Bahari, the journalist who was SNOW IN PARADISE TESTAMENT OF YOUTH detained for 188 days in an Iranian prison. Dir Andrew Hulme. 108min Dir James Kent. 130min Sat 11 Oct 15:15 OCG2 A petty East End criminal finds spiritual Vera Brittain’s extraordinary life support from an unlikely source when a during WWI is explored in this drug deal ends in violent tragedy. magnificent period drama. Fri 17 Oct 13:00 OCG3 Tue 14 Oct 09 : 00 OLS

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THEEB THE WAY OUT WILD TALES Dir Naji Abu Nowar. 100min Dir Petr Václav. 102min Dir Damián Szifrón. 122min A Bedouin boy experiences a desert Petr Václav’s perceptive and Six hilarious short stories combine to adventure when he joins a British unconventional study of a Czech form a macabre tango at the gates of officer searching for a well on the Roma family features a magnetic madness in this outrageous comedy eve of the 1916 Arab Revolt. performance by Klaudia Dudková about the trials of modern life. Tue 14 Oct 16:30 SS2 as its determined heroine. Sat 11 Oct 12:30 OCG3 Fri 10 Oct 14:45 OCG1 Mon 13 Oct 11:45 SS1 WINTER SLEEP TIMBUKTU WHEN ANIMALS DREAM Dir Nuri Bilge Ceylan. 196min Dir Abderrahmane Sissako. 97min Dir Jonas Alexander Arnby. 84min Beautifully performed, scripted and shot, A town is invaded by radical Islamists who Jonas Alexander Arnby blends Nordic noir Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Palme d’Or-winner is an install an extreme form of Sharia Law, only and grisly coming-of-age fantasy in this incisive, intimate epic about male foibles to find the local populace finding their own modern werewolf tale. and marital tensions. ways of dealing with it. Wed 15 Oct 15:15 OCG4 Fri 17 Oct 11:00 OCG2 Thu 9 Oct 13:15 OCG2 WHIPLASH THE WONDERS THE TRIBE Dir Damien Chazelle. 106min Dir Alice Rohrwacher. 110min Dir Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy. 132min A gifted young drummer finds himself Magical coming-of-age drama, where Love, crime and brutality reign in a school challenged by a brilliant mentor intent teenage girl, Gelsomina, tries to escape for young deaf people in a hugely original on pushing his student to greatness. restrictions of her rural family life by Ukrainian drama, acted entirely using Wed 15 Oct 09:00 OLS entering a TV talent show. sign language. Sun 12 Oct 12:45 OCG3 WHITE BIRD IN A BLIZZARD Thu 16 Oct 18:45 SS2 Dir Gregg Araki. 90min THE WORLD OF KANAKO Tue 14 Oct 14:45 OCG1 Celebrated indie filmmaker Gregg Araki Dir Tetsuya Nakashima. 118min THE TURNING returns with a lyrical and impressionistic A wayward ex-detective investigates Dir Various. 180min adaptation of Laura Kasischke’s novel. his daughter’s disappearance in this A host of directors, including a few actors Wed 15 Oct 13:15 OCG4 gleefully nasty thriller. behind the camera for the first time, Sun 12 Oct 12:30 OCG4 WHITE GOD present a series of dramas based on Tim Dir Kornél Mundruczó. 119min X + Y

FILM LIST FILM Winton’s short stories. Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize Dir Morgan Matthews. 111min Fri 10 Oct 11:30 OCG3 at Cannes, a bold and visceral tale of An autistic teenage prodigy travels TWO SHOTS FIRED canine uprising. from the English suburbs for a maths Dir Martín Rejtman. 104min Thu 9 Oct 15:00 OCG3 competition in Taipei, challenging his A deliciously droll comedy from Martín safely defined outlook. THE WHITE HAIRED WITCH OF Rejtman, a key figure of the New Argentine Sun 12 Oct 10:15 OCG3 LUNAR KINGDOM Cinema, charting the aftermath of an Dir Jacob Cheung. 103min ZERO MOTIVATION unexplained shooting on a middle-class An action-packed, effects-laden new Dir Talya Lavie. 100min Buenos Aires family. vision of Liang Yusheng’s classic novel A winning comedy set about the exploits Fri 17 Oct 11:45 SS1 ‘Baifa Monü Zhuan’. of a group of young female conscripts to VILLA TOUMA Tue 14 Oct 16:15 SS1 the Israeli army. Dir Suhra Arraf. 85min Fri 17 Oct 15:00 OCG2 Fri 17 Oct 12:00 SS2 Black comedy about an orphaned teenager goes to stay with her three spinster aunts, WILD who embark on an obsessive quest to find Dir Jean-Marc Vallée. 115min her a husband. Reese Witherspoon impresses in this moving account of one woman’s attempt Tue 14 Oct 12:00 SS2 to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. WAR BOOK Mon 13 Oct 09:00 OLS Dir Tom Harper. 95min A tense British political drama about a WILD LIFE secret nuclear protocol from the 50s that’s Dir Cédric Kahn. 106min put through its paces in the back rooms of Matthieu Kassovitz plays a traveller father Parliament to test real-world scenarios. who kidnaps his sons in an attempt to raise them off the grid, free from consumerism Sun 12 Oct 10:45 OCG1 and in touch with nature. Thu 16 Oct 16:15 SS1

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