BIFA Nominated Feature Films 2019
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- DirectorSophie HydeStarsHolliday GraingerAlia ShawkatAmy MolloyBest friends Laura and Tyler fellow deviants, enablers and co-dependents. Laura is getting married and their booze and drug-fuelled Thelma and Louise life is in jeopardy and finds herself suspended between the two unable to give either up.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsTao ZhaoFan LiaoZheng XuA story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.
- DirectorMark JenkinStarsEdward RoweGiles KingChloe EndeanMartin is a fisherman without a boat, his brother Steven having re-purposed it as a tourist tripper. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the harbour.
- DirectorBrian WelshStarsCristian OrtegaLorn MacdonaldLaura FraserTwo teenage boys in Scotland in 1994, best friends with no control over their lives, risk everything to attend an illegal rave, hoping for the best night of their boring lives.
- DirectorRapmanStarsMicheal WardRohan NeddJo MartinA gang war dooms the lifelong bond of south London friends in this acclaimed crime drama that features its writer-director as a rapping Greek chorus.
- DirectorChiwetel EjioforStarsChiwetel EjioforMaxwell SimbaFelix LemburoAgainst all the odds, a thirteen-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
- DirectorNinian DoffStarsLewis GribbenRian GordonViraj JunejaAn anarchic, hip-hop inspired comedy that follows four city boys on a wilderness trek as they try to escape a mysterious huntsman.
- DirectorShelly LoveStarsBronagh GallagherLola PetticrewMary MouldsA boozy 44-year-old single mother becomes pregnant from a one-night-stand, much to the shame of her buttoned-up teen daughter.
- DirectorZara BalfourMarcus StephensonStarsNima GurungSangpo LamaTsering Deki LamaThe extraordinary story of children born in High Himalayas of Nepal. At 4 years old, they're sent to school in the city, hoping education means a better life. They do not see their parents again for 12 years. Now, aged 16, they trek home.
- DirectorTaghi AmiraniStarsRalph FiennesWalter MurchWinston ChurchillTheatrical feature documentary on the story of Operation Ajax, the CIA/MI6 staged coup in 1953 in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mossadegh.
- DirectorSimon BirdStarsMonica DolanEarl CaveElliot Speller-GillottA teenager spends his summer listening to heavy metal music and trying to get along with his librarian mum.
- DirectorAsif KapadiaStarsDiego MaradonaDalma MaradonaPeléConstructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the career of celebrated football player Diego Maradona, who played for S.S.C. Napoli in the 1980s.
- DirectorSacha PolakStarsVicky KnightKatherine KellyEliza Brady-GirardA young British mother struggles to reclaim her life after a brutal acid attack leaves her severely scarred.
- DirectorCraig RobertsStarsSally HawkinsMorfydd ClarkRobert PughAfter Jane falls into a state of despair over her schizophrenia, she encounters new sources of love and life with surprising results.
- DirectorWaad Al-KateabEdward WattsStarsWaad Al-KateabSama Al-KhateabHamza Al-KhateabFOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.
- DirectorWilliam McGregorStarsEleanor Worthington-CoxJodie InnesKobna Holdbrook-SmithA folk tale set in the hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
- DirectorAndrea Luka ZimmermanAdrian JacksonStarsJo GalbraithJake GoodeRichard HoneyghanHere For Life is an uncommon story on common ground. Wayward, hybrid, tender.
- DirectorPeter StricklandStarsSidse Babett KnudsenMarianne Jean-BaptisteJulian BarrattIn Fabric is a haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store and follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.
- DirectorRupert GooldStarsRenée ZellwegerJessie BuckleyFinn WittrockLegendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.
- DirectorShola AmooStarsNicholas PinnockDenise BlackSamuel AdewunmiAfter a happy childhood in the countryside, a teenager moves to London, where he must navigate an unfamiliar environment on his road to adulthood.
- DirectorFyzal BoulifaStarsRoxanne ScrimshawNichola BurleyKacey AinsworthLynn and Lucy are lifelong best friends, their relationship as intense as any romance. Neither has ventured far from where they grew up. Lynn, who married her first boyfriend and whose daughter is fast growing up, is delighted when the charismatic, volatile Lucy has her first baby boy. Lucy, however, does not react to being a mother as Lynn expects. Soon, they find their friendship is tested in extreme circumstances.
- DirectorNoah BaumbachStarsAdam DriverScarlett JohanssonJulia GreerNoah Baumbach's incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.
- DirectorOliver HermanusStarsKai Luke BrummerBarbara-Marié ImmelmanMichael KirchA young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.
- DirectorAlejandro LandesStarsSofia BuenaventuraJulián GiraldoKaren QuinteroOn a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
- DirectorGerard JohnsonStarsCraig FairbrassPolly MaberlySinead MatthewsBuild him up. Tear him apart.
- DirectorHarry WootliffStarsLaia CostaStuart MartinLisa McGrillisElena and Jake meet by chance on New Years Eve, arguing for the same taxi. However, instead of going their separate ways after sharing a taxi, they initiate a determined relationship.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsSong Kang-hoLee Sun-kyunCho Yeo-jeongGreed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
- DirectorArmando IannucciStarsDev PatelHugh LaurieTilda SwintonA modern take on Charles Dickens's classic tale of a young orphan who is able to triumph over many obstacles.
- DirectorCéline SciammaStarsNoémie MerlantAdèle HaenelLuàna BajramiOn an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
- DirectorBarnaby SouthcombeStarsJessica BardenJordan BolgerEdward HoggTwo couples - each comprising a teacher and a student - spend a life-changing weekend at the seaside resort town of Scarborough.
- DirectorJeanie FinlayStarsFreddy McConnellDirector Jeanie Finlay charts a transgender man's path to parenthood after he decides to carry his child himself. The pregnancy prompts an unexpected and profound reckoning with conventions of masculinity, self-definition and biology.
- DirectorWill BecherRichard PhelanStarsJustin FletcherJohn SparkesAmalia VitaleWhen an alien with amazing powers crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organization can capture her.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsKris HitchenDebbie HoneywoodRhys McgowanHoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.
- DirectorJoanna HoggStarsNeil YoungTosin ColeJack McMullenA young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.
- DirectorEd PerkinsStarsAndrew CaleyAlex LewisMarcus LewisAfter losing his memory in an accident, Alex Lewis trusts his twin brother, Marcus, to tell him about his past only to discover that he's hiding a dark secret about their childhood.
- DirectorZed NelsonStarsAdrianAinaAlanSome of the businesses on Hoxton Street have been around for over a hundred years. Recent times have witnessed an explosion of property development. The locals feel the exclusion of being priced out, and wonder who's to blame.
- DirectorTim WardleStarsRobert ShafranMichael DomnitzHoward SchneiderIn 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. But their quest to find out why turns into a bizarre and sinister mystery.
- DirectorJamie PattersonStarsDerren NesbittJordan StephensApril PearsonA veteran drag queen with a terminal illness cleans up unfinished business.
- DirectorKristoffer NyholmStarsPeter MullanGerard ButlerEmma KingThree lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles obtain a mysterious trunk, leading to their mysterious disappearance.
- DirectorChanya ButtonStarsGemma ArtertonElizabeth DebickiIsabella RosselliniThe fascinating true story of the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf.
- DirectorRalph FiennesStarsOleg IvenkoRalph FiennesLouis HofmannThe story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West.
- DirectorTom HarperStarsJessie BuckleyMatt CostelloJane PattersonA troubled young Glaswegian woman dreams of becoming a Nashville country star.
- DirectorIcíar BollaínStarsCarlos AcostaSantiago AlfonsoKeyvin MartínezThe director Icíar Bollaín presents the story of the Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, a legend on the dance world and the first black dancer to perform some of the most famous ballet roles. A dancer who did not want to dance.