01/09/2016 - European premieres in competition include Benedict Andrews’ Una, Headline Galas include Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest, J.A. Bayona’s A Monster Calls

The 60^th British Film Institute (BFI) London Film Festival (5-16 October) has revealed its full programme and competition titles. The festival will screen a total of 193 fiction and 52 documentary features, including 18 world premieres, 8 international premieres, and 39 European premieres. There will also be screenings of 144 short films.

As previously announced the festival will open with Amma Asante’s A United Kingdom [+see also:
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interview: David Oyelowo
film profile] (read news) and close with Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire [+see also:
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film profile] (read news). Headline Galas include Garth Davis’ Lion [+see also:
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interview: Juan Antonio Bayona
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film profile] (US/UK), Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe (South Africa/US), Oliver Stone’s Snowden [+see also:
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interview: Oliver Stone
film profile] (US/Germany), and Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest [+see also:
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interview: Lone Scherfig
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The competition titles are as follows.

Competition

Brimstone [+see also:
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Q&A: Martin Koolhoven
film profile] - Martin Koolhoven (Netherlands/France/Germany/Sweden/UK)
Certain Women - Kelly Reichardt (US)
Clash [+see also:
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film profile] - Mohamed Diab (Egypt/France)
Elle [+see also:
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film profile] - Paul Verhoeven (France/Germany/Belgium)
Frantz [+see also:
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Q&A: François Ozon
film profile] - Francois Ozon (France/Germany)
Goldstone - Ivan Sen (Australia)
Layla M [+see also:
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film profile] - Mijke De Jong (Netherlands)
Moonlight - Barry Jenkins (US)
Neruda [+see also:
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film profile] - Pablo Larrain (Chile/Argentina/France/Spain/US)
A Quiet Passion [+see also:
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film profile] - Terence Davies (UK/Belgium)
Una [+see also:
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film profile] - Benedict Andrews (UK)
Your Name - Makoto Shinkai (Japan)

First Feature Competition

Chameleon - Jorge Riquelme Serrano (Chile)
A Date for Mad Mary [+see also:
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film profile] - Darren Thornton (Ireland)
Divines [+see also:
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interview: Houda Benyamina
film profile] - Houda Benyamina (France/Qatar)
The Giant [+see also:
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interview: Johannes Nyholm
film profile] - Johannes Nyholm (Sweden/Denmark)
Hedi [+see also:
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film profile] - Mohamed Ben Attia (Tunisia/Belgium/France)
Lady Macbeth [+see also:
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interview: William Oldroyd
film profile] - William Oldroyd (UK)
The Levelling [+see also:
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film profile] - Hope Dickson Leach (UK)
My Life as a Courgette [+see also:
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interview: Claude Barras
film profile] - Claude Barras (Switzerland/France)
Playground [+see also:
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interview: Bartosz M. Kowalski
film profile] - Bartosz M. Kowalski (Poland)
Porto [+see also:
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interview: Gabe Klinger
film profile] - Gabe Klinger (US/France/Portugal)
Raw [+see also:
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interview: Julia Ducournau
film profile] - Julia Ducournau (France/Belgium)
What’s in the Darkness - Wang Yichun (China)
Wulu [+see also:
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film profile] - Daouda Coulibaly (France)

Documentary Competition

All This Panic - Jenny Gage (US)
Chasing Asylum - Eva Orner (Australia/Afghanistan/Cambodia/Indonesia/Iran/Lebanon)
David Lynch: The Art Life - Jon Nguyen, Olivia Neergaard-Holm (US/Denmark)
The Graduation [+see also:
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film profile] - Claire Simon (France)
An Insignificant Man - Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla (India/Netherlands)
Lovetrue - Alma Har’el (US)
On Call [+see also:
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film profile] - Alice Diop (France)
Safari [+see also:
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film profile] - Ulrich Seidl (Austria/Denmark)
The Space in Between – Marina Abramović and Brazil - Marco Del Fiol (Brazil)
Starless Dreams - Mehrdad Oskouei (Iran)
Tower - Keith Maitland (US)
The War Show [+see also:
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interview: Andreas Dalsgaard
film profile] - Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon (Denmark/Finland/Syria)