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Festival opener Mangrove
This year's London Film Festival ran from October 7 to 18. Due to the pandemic, it was a hybrid edition, which, for the first time, will screen a number of films widely across the UK. It opened with Steve McQueen's Mangrove and closed with Francis Lee's Ammonite.
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Old friends Sam and Tusker go on a road trip to make the most of their time together two years after Tusker was diagnosed with early-onset dementia.
In hellish Casablanca, a car-crash sets ablaze a burning, passionate love story between has-been rocker Larsen and the streetwise Rajae.
A music teacher finds himself in The Great Before, an incredible place where new souls are born.
Reunited after a 17-year separation, Walter, an Angolan immigrant, is joined in the US by his wife and teenage daughter. Now absolute strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help overcome the emotional distance between them.
Fox Rich fights for her husband’s release from jail, after he is sentenced to 60 years of incarceration for a bank robbery, a crime she also served time for in the Nineties.
Animation set in the Ireland of the Cromwell period, when a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland to wipe out the last pack... only to discover the magical world of the wolfwalkers.
Based on the book by Naoki Higashida this immersive film explores the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people around the world.
Martin and three of his friends, all weary high school teachers, embark on an experiment to maintain a constant level of intoxication throughout the workday.
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