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London Film Festival's 68th edition will open with Steve McQueen's Blitz on October 9 and run until October 20. Among the film's screening is Cannes Grand Prix winner All We Imagine As Light.

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Nickel Boys
Nickel Boys
The tale of two Black teenagers who become wards of a barbaric juvenile reformatory.
The Wild Robot
The Wild Robot
A robot designed to assist humans finds herself stranded on an island populated only by animals.
The Cats Of Gokogu Shrine
The Cats Of Gokogu Shrine
Documentary about the cats that have set up home around the Shinto shrine in Ushimado.
2073
2073
A futuristic docudrama lamenting the state of the world to come.
Queer
Queer
A louche older man pursues a younger boy toy in Mexico City before the pair go on the hunt for psychedelics in Ecuador.
Grand Theft Hamlet
Grand Theft Hamlet
Shot entirely inside the video game Grand Theft Auto, this documentary charts the story of two out-of-work actors as they try to stage a full production of Hamlet within this notoriously violent digital world.
On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
Absurdist drama sees family secrets gradually revealed during the preparations for a funeral.
Conclave
Conclave
Drama surrounding the election of a new Pope.
Nightbitch
Nightbitch
A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mother, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn.
Flow
Flow
An animated adventure about a group of animals who must work together to survive a catastrophe in a post-human world.
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London Film Festival Features

'I think there is a wisdom to children that adults lose sight of'
Matthew Rankin on liminal spaces and child's play in Universal Language
A little unpredictability
Payal Kapadia on cinematic inspirations and All We Imagine As Light
Reflections of a cat
Gints Zilbalodis on Hayao Miyazaki, fairy tales and Latvia’s Oscar submission, Flow
'I’m still enjoying the process of talking about Julie and advocating for her silence'
Leonardo van Dijl on Belgian Oscar nominee Julie Keeps Quiet
Leaning to darkness
Aislinn Clarke on the Na Sidhe, Ireland's troubled history, and Fréwaka
Well seasoned
François Ozon, Hélène Vincent and Josiane Balasko on creating characters of a certain age in When Fall Is Coming
Art, friendship and nature
Tilda Swinton on dressing for Pedro Almodóvar, and The Room Next Door
'I always thought that losing my mother also was discovering her'
Sylvia Le Fanu on bringing her own experience of grief to My Eternal Summer
'It is impossible to escape memory'
Director Fabrice du Welz on the lingering trauma of the real case behind Maldoror and the questions he hopes to provoke
Last minute London Film Festival highlights
Films to catch that still have tickets available
Concrete ideas
Alessandro Nivola on Costantino Nivola, Le Corbusier, and The Brutalist
Breaking the mould
Memoir Of A Snail director Adam Elliot on creating textured underdogs and emotional conflict
Audiard on a crazy musical spree in Mexico
Director on changing identity, democracy and drug cartels
At last Maddin makes mischief in Cannes
G7 satire star power for Rumours filmmaker
Arnold reveals the naked truth
Cannes award-winning director of Bird on how images spark imagination
'I couldn't stay indifferent'
Ilyas Yourish on his motivations for making documentary Kamay
Contemplating change
Cécile Embleton and Alys Tomlinson on filmmaking and life choices in Mother Vera
'I start working from a very intellectual perspective, but then it's a lot of intuition'
Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias on experimentation and storytelling in Pepe

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