BFI London Film Festival 2023

BFI London Film Festival 2023

Season

Please note : this season finished in Oct 2023

The 67th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express is brimming with the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling - and everyone is invited!

This is your chance to delight in the undiscovered, as all feature films and series are being shown in the UK for the first (and sometimes only) time. Be the first to see new films from Emerald Fennell, Todd Haynes, Andrew Haigh, Molly Manning Walker and more as Watershed teams up once more with the BFI.


Previous screenings in this season

The Holdovers

classified 15 BFI London Film Festival 2023
The Holdovers
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

As the students of New England prep school Barton Academy excitedly depart for the winter holidays, a rag-tag bunch with nowhere to go are forced to stay behind.

Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget

classified U BFI London Film Festival 2023
Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

From our local multi award-winning animation studio Aardman, and Academy Award® and BAFTA-nominated director Sam Fell comes the eagerly anticipated sequel to the beloved and highest-grossing stop-motion animated film of all time.

Birth/Rebirth

classified 18 BFI London Film Festival 2023
Birth/Rebirth
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein gets a new lease of life in this chilling morality tale from debut director Laura Moss.

The End We Start From

classified 15 BFI London Film Festival 2023
The End We Start From
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

Mahalia Belo’s confident feature debut brings Megan Hunter’s acclaimed 2017 dystopian novel to the screen as a disaster movie, whose immense power derives from the intimacy of its performances.

Omen

classified 15 S BFI London Film Festival 2023
Omen
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

A deserving winner of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard New Vision Award, rapper-turned-filmmaker Baloji’s magical realist drama is a dazzling debut.

20,000 Species Of Bees LFF

classified 15 S BFI London Film Festival 2023
20,000 Species Of Bees
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

Estibaliz Urresola’s delicate debut feature 20,000 Species of Bees is a tender, heartfelt drama about an eight-year-old’s unforgettable summer holiday of self-discovery.

How To Have Sex LFF

classified 15 BFI London Film Festival 2023
How To Have Sex
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

Molly Manning Walker’s startlingly frank and stylish UK debut is about a wild teen holiday gone awry, and tackles thorny issues of coercion and consent head on.

Eileen

classified 15 BFI London Film Festival 2023
Eileen
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

Based on the book of the same name by literary powerhouse Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen follows a peculiar young woman whose dreary life stretches on toward unending misery.

The Mission

classified 15 BFI London Film Festival 2023
The Mission
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

Animation and archive combine in this compelling portrait of the life and death of young missionary, John Allen Chau.

All Of Us Strangers

classified 15 BFI London Film Festival 2023
All Of Us Strangers
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

Adam (Andrew Scott) is a screenwriter living in London. He strikes up an uneasy acquaintance with his mysterious neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal), which edges towards something more intimate.

Robot Dreams

classified PG BFI London Film Festival 2023
Robot Dreams
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

Adapted from Sara Varon’s graphic novel, Pablo Berger’s gorgeous, colourful and sharply humorous film offers insightful reflections on the pleasures of camaraderie.

The Royal Hotel

classified 15 BFI London Film Festival 2023
The Royal Hotel
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

Kitty Green’s tightly coiled social thriller expertly examines male-female power dynamics in a microcosm of Australian society.

Housekeeping For Beginners

classified 15 BFI London Film Festival 2023
Housekeeping For Beginners
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

A queer Macedonian woman goes to drastic measures to hold her makeshift family together following a tragedy, in idiosyncratic director Goran Stolevski’s new film.

May December

classified 15 BFI London Film Festival 2023
May December
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

With a trifecta of stunning performances from Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore and Charles Melton, Todd Haynes effortlessly combines classical melodrama with contemporary preoccupations of celebrity and scandal in May December.

Earth Mama

classified 15 BFI London Film Festival 2023
Earth Mama
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

Savanah Leaf’s directorial feature debut is an intimate depiction of a mother’s fear and love, crafting a story that redefines perspectives and asks us to bear witness to vulnerability and the desire to be seen.

Saltburn

classified 15 BFI London Film Festival 2023
Saltburn
Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023
Film

Academy Award® winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) brings us a beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire.

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