The BFI Announce The Competition Line Up For 67th London Film Festival

This week the BFI will reveal the full line up of this year’s 67th London Film Festival, today they tease us all with the films in their Competition strand.

The line-up led by  new films from Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car), Lukas Moodysson (We Are Best!) and Kitty Green (The Assistant).

The festival unveiled 11 films competing for the Best Film Award in Official Competition. It’s not just about the established filmmakers, the First Feature Competition will also showcase 11 films screen which recognises the most original and imaginative directorial debut, competing for the Sutherland Award. 8 films screen in the Documentary Competition, competing for the Grierson Award and 10 films screen in the Short Film Competition, competing for the Short Film Award.

Also returning will be the popular London Film Festival Audience Awards.

“The films represented in each of these competitive strands offer audiences an exciting array of UK and global filmmaking voices and cinematic forms. We’re so proud to be showcasing each of these films and thank all the filmmaking teams in competition for sharing their films with us.” commented BFI London Film Festival Director, Kristy Matheson.

OFFICIAL COMPETITION
BALTIMORE (Ireland-UK, dir-scr. Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor)
DEAR JASSI (India, dir. Tarsem Singh Dhandwar)
EUROPA (Austria-UK, dir-scr. Sudabeh Mortezai)
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Japan, dir-scr. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
FINGERNAILS (USA, dir-scr. Christos Nikou)
GASOLINE RAINBOW (USA, dir-scr. Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross)
I AM SIRAT (India, dir. A collaboration between Deepa Mehta and Sirat Taneja)
THE ROYAL HOTEL (Australia, dir-scr. Kitty Green)
SELF PORTRAIT: 47 KM 2020 (China, dir. Zhang Mengqi)
STARVE ACRE (UK, dir-scr. Daniel Kokotajlo)
TOGETHER 99 (Sweden-Denmark, dir-scr. Lukas Moodysson)

FIRST FEATURE COMPETITION
BLACK DOG (UK, dir-scr. George Jaques)
EARTH MAMA (USA, dir-scr. Savanah Leaf)
HOARD (UK, dir-scr. Luna Carmoon)
IN CAMERA (UK, dir-scr. Naqqash Khalid)
MAMBAR PIERRETTE (Belgium-Cameroon, dir-scr. Rosine Mbakam)
PARADISE IS BURNING (Sweden-Italy-Denmark-Finland, dir-scr. Mika Gustafson)
PENAL CORDILLERA (Chile-Brazil, dir-scr. Felipe Carmona)
THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS (Canada, dir-scr. Fawzia Mirza)
SKY PEALS (UK, dir-scr. Moin Hussain)
TIGER STRIPES (Malaysia-Taiwan-Singapore--Netherlands-Indonesia-Qatar, dir-scr. Amanda Nell Eu)
TUESDAY (UK-USA, dir-scr. Daina O. Pusić)

DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
BYE BYE TIBERIAS (-Palestine-Belgium-Qatar, dir-scr. Lina Soualem)
CELLULOID UNDERGROUND (UK-Iran, dir. Ehsan Khoshbakht)
CHASING CHASING AMY (USA, dir. Sav Rodgers)
A COMMON SEQUENCE (USA-Mexico, dir. Mary Helena Clark, Mike Gibisser)
DANCING ON THE EDGE OF A VOLCANO (-Lebanon, dir-scr. Cyril Aris)
THE KLEZMER PROJECT (Austria-Argentina, dir-scr. Leandro Koch, Paloma Schachmann)
QUEENDOM (-USA, dir. Agniia Galdanova)
THE TASTE OF MANGO (UK-USA, dir. Chloe Abrahams)

SHORT FILM COMPETITION
THE ARCHIVE: QUEER NIGERIANS (UK, dir. Simisolaoluwa Akande)
AREA BOY (UK, dir. Iggy London)
BOAT PEOPLE (Canada, dir. Thao Lam, Kjell Boersma)
ESSEX GIRLS (UK, dir. Yero Timi-Biu)
THE GOOSE’S EXCUSE (Egypt-UK, dir. Mahdy Abo Bahat, Abdo Zin Eldin)
KHABUR (-Iran, dir. Nafis Fathollahzadeh)
ONSET (UK-Poland, dir. Anna Engelhardt, Mark Cinkevich)
THE SINGER (UK, dir. Cora Bissett)
THE WALK (UK, dir. Michael Jobling)
WELLS OF DESPAIR (Netherlands, dir. sata taas)

We will bring you the full line up later this week. The BFI 67th London Film Festival will take place between 4th and 15th October and we hope to be there in some shape or form…