Full line-up Announced for the BFI London Film Festival

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The programme for the 58th BFI London Film Festival launched today. This is the 10th year DCM has partnered with Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festival.

This year's BFI London Film Festival kicks off on October 8 with Alan Turing drama The Imitation Game and finishes on October 19 with David Ayers' tank drama Fury.  The full line-up, featuring 245 features and 148 shorts, has now been announced.

IMITATION GAME

The Festival will screen a total of 245 fiction and documentary features, including 16 World Premieres, 9 International Premieres, 38 European Premieres and 19 Archive films including 2 Restoration World Premieres. There will also be screenings of 148 live action and animated shorts. A stellar line-up of directors, cast and crew are expected to take part in career interviews, master classes, Q&As and other special events. The 58th BFI London Film Festival will run Wednesday 8 - Sunday 19 October 2014.

Taking place over 12 days, the Festival’s screenings are at venues across the capital, from the West End cinemas – Odeon West End, Vue West End and the iconic Odeon Leicester Square; central London venues – BFI Southbank, Odeon Covent Garden, the ICA, Curzon Mayfair, Curzon Soho and Ciné Lumière; and local cinemas – Ritzy Brixton, Hackney Picturehouse, Vue Islington and Rich Mix. Additional screenings and events will take place at the Odeon BFI IMAX, Empire Leicester Square, Curzon Chelsea and Queen Elizabeth Hall. Audiences across the UK can enjoy the Festival via simultaneous screenings in their local cinemas.

Among the gala screenings, we can expect to see quite a few probable Oscar contenders. Foxcatcher, the wrestling drama from Bennet Miller, will be there, as will Jason Reitman's Men, Women & Children; Mike Leigh's Mr Turner; Sundance favourite Whiplash, with Miles Teller and JK Simmons; the Reese Witherspoon-starring Wild; Vera Brittain story Testament Of Youth; and, from the archives, The Battles Of Coronel and Falkland Islands.

Each strand of the programme also has a gala, including Jon Stewart's Rosewater, Alan Rickman's A Little Chaos, Xavier Dolan's Mommy and the new film from The Book Of Kells' Tomm Moore, Song Of The Sea. The Festival will also see the world premiere of Monsters: Dark Continent, the follow-up to Gareth Edwards' original film.