BFI London Film Festival 2023
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 2023As 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 2023From 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 2023Mary 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 2023Mahalia 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.
20,000 Species Of Bees LFF
classified 15 S BFI London Film Festival 2023Estibaliz 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 2023Molly 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 2023Based 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 2023Animation 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 2023Adam (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 2023Adapted 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 2023Kitty 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 2023A 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 2023With 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 2023Savanah 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 2023Academy Award® winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) brings us a beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire.