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Event Information:
The
London Film Festival is the UK's
largest public film event, screening
more than 300 features,
documentaries and shorts from almost
50 countries. The festival, (the LFF),
currently in its 56th year, is run
every year in the second half of
October under the umbrella of the
British Film Institute. The Festival
showcases the best of world cinema
to champion creativity, originality,
vision and imagination, and presents
the finest contemporary
international cinema from both
established and emerging
film-makers. Set in the Autumn, the
festival hosts high profile awards
contenders, screens recently
restored archive films, champions
new discoveries and combines
curatorial strength with red carpet
glamour. It also provides an
extensive programme of industry
events, public forums, education
events, lectures, masterclasses and
Q&As with film-makers and film
talent.
The
festival is divided into themes
which cover different areas of
interest - in 2009 these were; Galas
and Special Screenings, Film on the
Square, New British Cinema, French
Revolutions, Cinema Europa, World
Cinema, Experimenta, Treasures from
the Archives, Short Cuts and
Animation. In 2009 the Festival,
whilst focused around Leicester
Square (Vue, Odeon West End and
Empire) and the BFI Southbank in
central London, also screened films
across 18 other venues – Curzon
Mayfair, ICA Cinema on The Mall, The
Ritzy in Brixton, Cine Lumière in
South Kensington, Queen Elizabeth
Hall on the South Bank, David Lean
Cinema in Croydon, the Genesis
Cinema in Whitechapel, The Greenwich
Picturehouse, the Phoenix Cinema in
East Finchley, Rich Mix in Old
Street, the Rio Cinema in Dalston,
the Tricycle Cinema in Kilburn, the
Waterman Art Centre in Brentford and
Trafalgar Square for the open air
screening of short films from the
BFI National Archive. The 2009
Festival featured 15 world premieres
including Wes Anderson’s first
animated feature, Fantastic Mr. Fox,
Sam Taylor-Wood’s feature début
Nowhere Boy, about the formative
years of John Lennon, as well as and
the Festival’s first ever Archive
Gala, the BFI’s new restoration of
Anthony Asquith’s Underground, with
live music accompaniment by the
Prima Vista Social Club. European
premieres in 2009 included
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs, Scott
Hicks’ The Boys Are Back and Robert
Connolly’s Balibo, as well as Umesh
Vinayak Kulkarni’s The Well and Lucy
Bailey and Andrew Thompson’s Mugabe
And The White African.
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