London Film Festival 2022

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Joyland Joyland
Joyland and Medusa Deluxe
1976 (Chile, '76) (Country: Chile; Year: 2022; Director: Manuela Martelli; Writer: Manuela Martelli, Alejandra Moffat; Stars: Aline Küppenheim, Alejandro Goic)
A woman finds herself dicing with danger after she is asked for help.
Blue Jean (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Georgia Oakley; Writer: Georgia Oakley; Stars: Rosy McEwen, Kerrie Hayes, Lydia Page, Stacy Abalogun, Deka Walmsley, Amy Booth-Steel, Gavin Kitchen, Farrah Cave, Lucy Halliday, Lainey Shaw, Aoife Kennan, Elizabeth Shaw, Edmund Wiseman, Emily Fairweather, Kate Soulsby)
A schoolteacher is forced to live a double life against the backdrop of Thatcher's Britain.
Jeong-Sun (Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Jihye Jeong; Writer: Jihye Jeong; Stars: Geum-Soon Kim, Geumseona Yoon)
A factory worker finds herself a victim of cyberbullying.
Joyland (Country: Pakistan; Year: 2022; Director: Saim Sadiq; Writer: Saim Sadiq; Stars: Sana Jafri, Ali Junejo)
As the Ranas, a happily patriarchal joint family, yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theater and falls for an ambitious trans starlet. Their impossible love story illuminates the entire family's desire for a sexual rebellion.
Medusa Deluxe (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Thomas Hardiman; Writer: Thomas Hardiman; Stars: Clare Perkins, Kayla Meikle, Darrell D’Silva, Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Kae Alexander, Heider Ali, Luke Pasqualino, Debris Stevenson, Lilit Lesser)
A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing competition.
Blue Jean Blue Jean
Blue Jean and 1976
Our Lady Of The Chinese Shop (Country: Angola; Year: 2022; Director: Ery Claver; Writer: Ery Claver; Stars: Cláudia Púcuta, David Caracol, Willi Ribeiro, Meili Li)
A plastic statue of the Virgin Mary creates unexpected changes to the lives of those who encounter it on the streets of Luanda.
Robe Of Gems (Country: Mexico; Year: 2022; Director: Natalia López; Writer: Natalia López; Stars: Nailea Norvind, Antonia Olivares, Mónica Poggio, Aida Roa, Juan Daniel García Treviño)
Isabel and her family take possession of her mother’s villa in rural Mexico where they reconnect with their long-time domestic worker Mari, whose sister has disappeared.
Rodeo (Year: 2022; Director: Lola Quivoron)
Drama about a young woman in an underground dirt bike community.
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