London Film Festival Interest List 2021
These are the films I want to see from The BFI London Film Festival 2021 in screening order. It is great to be back in London in-person, although we are also seeing things through the BFI Player too.
Once I watch something, it moves to my London Film Festival 2021 List.
Once I watch something, it moves to my London Film Festival 2021 List.
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- DirectorJoshua AltmanBing LiuOn Chicago's South and West sides, guns and gangs are destroying countless lives. Two men dedicate their lives educating, empowering and healing young Black men at high risk for being victims-or perpetrators-of deadly gun-violence.
- DirectorAndreas FontanaStarsFabrizio RongioneStéphanie CléauCarmen IriondoYvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, goes to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared overnight.
- DirectorEmmanuel CarrèreStarsJuliette BinocheLouise PocieckaSteve PapagiannisIt is based on French journalist Florence Aubenas's bestselling non-fiction work Le Quai de Ouistreham, investigating rising precarity in French society through her experiences in the northern port city of Caen.
- DirectorLorenzo VigasStarsHernán MendozaHatzín NavarreteElián GonzalezA Mexican teenager sets out to collect his fathers remains, only to be sucked into the underbelly of the manufacturing industry.
- DirectorMads HedegaardStarsKim Cannon ArmWalter DayShigeru MiyamotoKim Kanoin arm is a guy from Denmark who has played Gyruss so much since the 80s that he one of the biggest experts. I have seen him many times in bipbip bar and can attest to his greatness. He is very good at what he does in Gyruss.
- DirectorNathalie Álvarez MesénStarsWendy Chinchilla ArayaAna Julia Porras EspinozaDaniel Castañeda RincónIn a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 40-year-old woman, experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself from the repressive religious and social conventions which have dominated her life.
- DirectorMounia AklStarsYumna MarwanNadine LabakiSaleh BakriA couple decide to leave the toxic pollution of their home city of Beirut, hoping to build a utopian existence in a pristine home in the mountains.
- DirectorRob SavageStarsAnnie HardyAmar Chadha-PatelAngela EnahoroTwo friends embark on a horror-fueled road trip and livestream the most terrifying night of their lives.
- DirectorDebbie Tucker GreenStarsHayden McleanSharlene WhyteDavid GyasiFollows British and American Black characters of different generations navigating their way through today's society, offering a critical perspective on the state of the nation.
- DirectorFred BaillifStarsClaudia GrobAnais UldryKassia Da CostaA group of teenage girls have been placed in a residential care home with social workers. This forced "family" experience creates unexpected tensions and intimacies. An incident triggers a chain of over-reactions.
- DirectorGessica GeneusStarsNehemie BastienGaëlle Bien-AiméDjanaina FrancoisFreda lives with her family in a popular neighborhood in Haiti. They survive with their little street food shop. The precariousness and violence of their daily life push them to do everything they can to escape their situation.
- DirectorPaco PlazaStarsAlmudena AmorVera ValdezKarina KolokolchykovaA Paris model must return to Madrid where her grandmother, who had brought her up, just had a stroke. But spending just a few days with this relative turns into an unexpected nightmare.
- DirectorStefan RuzowitzkyStarsMurathan MusluLiv Lisa FriesMax von der GroebenWhen an ex-prisoner of the Great War returns home and finds his comrades brutally murdered, he decides to bring the serial-killer to justice.
- DirectorMichelangelo FrammartinoStarsNicola LanzaAntonio LanzaLeonardo LaroccaThe extraordinary adventure of the young members of the Piedmont Speleological Group who, having already explored all the caves of Northern Italy, changed course in August 1961 and went South to explore other caves unknown to man.
- DirectorRahul JainExplores the dramatic consequences of India's growing economy, capturing not only a city in crisis but magnifying our collective climate realities.
- DirectorAna Lily AmirpourStarsKate HudsonJeon Jong-seoCraig RobinsonA girl with unusual powers escapes from a mental asylum and tries to make it on her own in New Orleans.
- DirectorCJ HuntStarsCJ HuntMr. HuntMitch LandrieuIn December 2015, the New Orleans City Council voted to remove four Confederate monuments from public grounds. A forceful group of critics protested the decision, and fearing retaliation, no crew would agree to remove the statues.
- DirectorRachel LangStarsLouis GarrelCamille CottinIna Marija BartaitéNika, a woman in her early twenties, leaves Ukraine to follow her boyfriend Vlad, a young soldier based in a military camp in Corsica. While there, she meets Céline, the wife of Commander Maxime.
- DirectorHenrik Martin DahlsbakkenStarsFilip BergLia BoysenSamuel FrölerSet in the 1920s, two drifters are being chased by the police after a failed train robbery.
- DirectorNatesh HegdeStarsGopal HegdeRamakrishna Bhat DundiRaj B. ShettyIn a remote village in Southern India, Pedro, an outcast and a drunk, accidentally kills a cow and sets off a revelatory chain of events that put him against the entire community.
- DirectorMartyn RobertsonStarsBen LargScottish Surf champion Ben Larg's bigger challenge is the biggest and most dangerous cold water waves in the world at Mullaghmore. Danger, opportunity, parental dilemma collide, propelling Ben and his family towards an unknown destiny.
- DirectorRussell OwenStarsTom HughesKate DickieGreta ScacchiA young Scottish shepherd, following the death of his unfaithful wife, fights to maintain his own sanity when the past catches up to him.
- DirectorAlexandre O. PhilippeStarsJohn K. Bucher Jr.Michele SalimbeniA radical examination of Monument Valley's representation in cinema and advertising, THE TAKING scrutinizes how a site located on sovereign Navajo land came to embody the fantasy of the "Old West."
- DirectorPrasun ChatterjeeStarsAsik ShaikhArif ShaikhJayati ChakrabortyTwo 8-year old boys navigate a growing religious divide in this portrait of childhood set after the destruction of India's Babri Mosque.
- DirectorNatalia AlmadaDocumentary explores how humanity expresses itself with technology and the intended and unintended consequences of our tech-dominated world.
- DirectorAleksandre KoberidzeStarsAni KarseladzeGiorgi BochorishviliOliko BarbakadzeA chance encounter on a street corner has Lisa and Giorgi fall in love at first sight, but an evil spell is cast on them. Will they ever meet again?