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The full programme for the 59th edition of the BFI London Film Festival has been revealed by festival director, Clare Stewart. Digital Cinema Media (DCM) is proud to be a media partner of the festival as part of its long-term partnership with the British Film Institute.
As previously announced, the festival will open and close with the European premieres of Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette and Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, respectively. Elsewhere, there will be gala screenings of Maggie Smith vehicle The Lady in the Van, Sundance buzzer Brooklyn, Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong drama The Program, Cannes competition title The Lobster, and The Idol, Hany Abu-Assad’s biopic about the Palestinian Arab Idol winner Mohammed Assaf.
Names expected to attend include Meryl Streep, Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston and Colin Farrell. Cate Blanchett, who with Carol and Truth has two films in the program, is set to receive the BFI’s highest honor, the BFI Fellowship, at the event.
The festival will screen a total of 238 fiction and documentary features, including 16 world premieres, eight international premieres, 40 European premieres and 11 archive films including five restoration world premieres. The line-up also includes 182 live action and animated shorts.
The festival programme will again be organised into categories clustered around the themes of Cult, Dare, Debate, Family, Journey, Laugh, Love, Sonic and Thrill.
The strands are each headlined with a gala:
Love: A Bigger Splash, Luca Guadagnino
Debate: The Program, Stephen Frears
Dare: The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos
Laugh: Brand: A Second Coming, Ondi Timoner
Thrill: Beeba Boys, Deepa Mehta
Cult: Bone Tomahawk, S. Craig Zahler
Journey: The Assassin, Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Sonic: The Idol, Hany Abu-Assad
Family: Goosebumps, Rob Letterman
The 59th BFI London Film Festival will run from 7 – 18 October 2015 at venues across London, from West End cinemas – Vue West End and the iconic Odeon Leicester Square; central London venues – BFI Southbank, BFI IMAX, Picturehouse Central, the ICA, Curzon Mayfair, Curzon Soho, Cineworld Haymarket and Ciné Lumière; and local cinemas – Ritzy Brixton, Hackney Picturehouse, Curzon Chelsea, Vue Islington and Rich Mix. Additional screenings and events will take place at Tate Modern. Audiences across the UK can enjoy the Festival via simultaneous screenings in their local cinemas.
Find out more here.