The London Festival, the BFI London Film Festival, has unveiled the schedule for its 58th edition.
As previously announced «The Imitation Game»Will be in charge of the opening of the event, while the closing will be carried out by«fury«.
Among the most outstanding proposals in its official section we find «The Duke of Burgundy«, New work by Peter Strickland, a director who surprised us two years ago with« Berberian Sound Studio »or«Son of a Gun»By Julius Avery.
The evening galas will be reserved for films such as the Oscar contenders «foxcatcher","Men, Women & Children","It","Whiplash","Mr. Turner","Little Chaos","Rosewater»Or sensations from the past Cannes Festival such as the winner of the Palme d'Or«Winter Sleep»Or«Mommy»Winner of the Special Jury Prize.
Programming of London Festival 2014:
Official Section
"Dearest" by Peter Chan (China / Hong Kong)
"The Duke of Burgundy" by Peter Strickland (UK)
"The Falling" by Carol Morley (UK)
«A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night» by Ana Lily Amirpour (Iran / USA)
"Girlhood" by Céline Sciamma (France)
"The Keeping Room" by Daniel Barber (USA)
"Leviathan" by Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russia)
«The New Girlfriend» by François Ozo (France)
"Phoenix" by Christian Petzold (Germany)
"The President" by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran)
"Son of a Gun" by Julius Avery (Australia)
"Timbuktu" by Abderrahmane Sissako (France / Mauritania)
Sutherland Award for Best First Feature
"'71" by Yann Demange (UK)
"Butter on the Latch" by Josephine Decker (USA)
"Catch Me Daddy" by Daniel Wolfe (UK)
"Difret" by Zeresenay Mehari (Ethiopia / USA)
«Gente de bien» by Franco Lolli (Colombia / France)
"The Goob" by Guy Myhill (UK)
"Labor of Love" by Aditya Vikram Sengupta (India)
"Macondo" from Sudabeh Mortezai (Austria)
"Second Coming" by Debbie Tucker Green (UK)
"Something Must Break" by Ester Martin Bergsmark (Sweden)
"Theeb" by Naji Abu Nowar (United Arab Emirates / Qatar / Jordan / United Kingdom)
"The Tribe" by Miroslav Slaboshpitsky (Ukraine / Netherlands)
Grierson Award for Best Documentary
"The Green Prince" by Nadav Schirman (Germany / USA / UK / Israel)
«Guidelines» by Jean-François Caissy (Canada)
Randall Wright's "Hockney" (UK)
"The Immortalists" by David Alvarado, Jason Sussberg (UK / USA / India)
"In the Basement" by Ulrich Seidl (Austria)
"Maidan" by Sergey Loznitsa (Ukraine / Netherlands)
"National Gallery" by Frederick Wiseman (France / USA / UK)
«Ne me quitte pas» by Sabine Lubbe Bakker, Niels van Koevorden (Netherlands / Belgium)
"The Possibilities Are Endless" by James Hall, Edward Lovelace (UK)
"Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait" by Wiam Bedirxan, Ossama Mohammed (Syria / France)
"Stray Dog" by Debra Granik (USA)
"Tender" by Lynette Wallworth (Australia)