This year’s BFI London Film Festival features an array of Canadian films and co-productions as well as a screen talk with film director Denis Villeneuve.
Denis Villeneuve will be at the festival for a screen talk to share insights into his cinematic journey, spanning from his early works to his recent visionary epics. 12 October.
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE by Matthew Rankin: A deadpan, surreal comedy that explores unity through the shared language of film. 13-14 October.
BLINK, Canada-USA: A touching story about the remarkable Pelletier family who, faced with a devastating diagnosis, embark on a journey around the world. From directors Edmund Stenson, Daniel Roher. 13-19 October.
RUMOURS by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson: A riotously hilarious satire on the inefficiency of political summits. 13-20 October.
A NICE INDIAN BOY, USA-Canada: Putting a fresh queer and Indian spin on the tropes of the rom-com in a warm-hearted celebration of love and acceptance from director Roshan Sethi. 15-17 October.
WHO DO I BELONG TO, France-Canada-Tunisia: Meryam Joobeur builds on her Oscar®-nominated short, Brotherhood, to explore themes of family conflict and extremism, in this compelling and atmospheric feature debut. 15-18 October.
THE APPRENTICE, Canada-Denmark-Ireland: A Faustian bargain lies at the heart of Ali Abbasi’s stunningly crafted dramatisation of Donald Trump’s early career in New York. 15-17 October.
THE TREASURY OF HUMAN INHERITANCE, Canada-UK: Experimenting with radical forms of self and cohabitation, the four films in this programme by director Alexis Kyle Mitchell ask us to rethink our understandings of empathy and propose different possibilities of care work. 19 October.
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