BFI London Film Festival reveals galas, full programme

03/09/2014 - 12 films to compete for the Grierson documentary award

A Little Chaos by Alan Rickman

The British Film Institute (BFI) London Film Festival (October 8-19) has revealed its full programme. Apart from the previously announced opening and closing galas, Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game [+see also:
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interview: Mike Leigh
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interview: Alan Rickman
film profile] (UK); Kristian Levring’s The Salvation [+see also:
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interview: Kristian Levring
film profile] (Denmark/UK/South Africa); Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep [+see also:
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interview: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
film profile] (Turkey); Nick Fenton and Peter Strickland’s Björk: Biophilia Live (UK); and Tomm Moore’s Song of the Sea (Ireland/Luxembourg/Denmark/Belgium).

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Nominees for the Grierson Award in the Documentary Competition category are Nadav Schirman’ The Green Prince [+see also:
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film profile] (Germany/Israel/UK); Jean-François Caissy’s Guidelines (Canada); Randall Wright’s Hockney: A Life in Pictures [+see also:
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film profile] (UK); Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado’s The Immortalists (US); Ulrich Seidl’s In the Basement [+see also:
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film profile] (Austria); Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan [+see also:
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film profile] (Netherlands/Ukraine); Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery [+see also:
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film profile] (US/France); Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden’s Ne Me Quitte Pas [+see also:
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film profile] (Netherlands/Belgium); Edward Lovelace and James Hall’s The Possibilities are Endless [+see also:
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film profile] (UK); Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan’s Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Syria/France); Debra Granik’s Stray Dog (US); and Lynette Wallworth’s Tender (Australia).