London Film Festival Interest List 2017
This is a list of films from The London Film Festival 2017 which I want to see.
I already have tickets for everything through to the closing night film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) (in viewing order below) and then everything after it (alphabetical order) are ones I will try to catch at the press & industry screenings or afterwards.
Once seen, I move titles over my LFF 2017 Seen list.
I already have tickets for everything through to the closing night film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) (in viewing order below) and then everything after it (alphabetical order) are ones I will try to catch at the press & industry screenings or afterwards.
Once seen, I move titles over my LFF 2017 Seen list.
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- DirectorPablo BergerStarsMaribel VerdúAntonio de la TorrePriscilla DelgadoA housewife struggles with her husband after he is possessed by a ghost.
- DirectorCarlos Marques-MarcetStarsOona ChaplinNatalia TenaGeraldine ChaplinTwo women, Eva and Kat, and the best friend of one of them, Roger. A boat in the canals of London and a question: Is it possible to live love, family, and life in such different ways and yet remain united?
- DirectorLéa MysiusStarsNoée AbitaLaure CalamyJuan Cano13-year-old Ava learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected, and she confronts the problem in her own way.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsMariam Al FerjaniGhanem ZrelliNoomen HamdaA college student seeks help after a brutal assault but faces a bureaucratic nightmare when she reveals that her perpetrators are police officers.
- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsIshaan KhattarMalavika MohananGoutam GhoseA hedonistic teenager in Mumbai is busted for dealing drugs and goes to his estranged sister for help, but complications land her in jail.
- DirectorAnurag KashyapStarsVineet Kumar SinghJimmy ShergillZoya HussainA boxer struggles to make his mark in the boxing world.
- DirectorOfir Raul GraizerStarsTim KalkhofSarah AdlerRoi MillerA German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
- DirectorBen HowlingYolanda RamkeStarsSimone LandersMartin FreemanMarlee Jane McPherson-DobbinsAfter an epidemic spreads all over Australia, a father searches for someone willing to protect his daughter.
- DirectorModi BarryCédric IdoStarsJacky IdoTatiana RojoJean-Baptiste AnoumonAn agile and colorful comedy about the lives of African immigrants in Paris. Charles is the most skilled and elegant among the sellers used by hairdressers in the populated district of Château d'Eau. His mission is to fill the beauty salon with the clients captured in the street. But when the competition is intense and everyone wants to be the number one, the dirty game is on the agenda. Soon Charles will find himself in a dangerous spiral in which his dreams, reputation and even his wardrobe will be affected.
- DirectorNick KellyStarsDermot MurphyJacob McCarthyAdrian HudsonAn unlikely friendship develops between the bipolar drummer of a rock band and an institutionalized teen living with Asperger's syndrome.
- DirectorDavid FreyneStarsElliot PageSam KeeleyTom Vaughan-LawlorA disease that turns people into zombies has been cured. Society discriminates against the once-infected zombies, as do their own families, which causes social issues to arise. This leads to militant government interference.
- DirectorVincenzo MarraStarsMimmo BorrelliRoberto del GaudioLucio GiannettiA former missionary in Africa, Giuseppe works in a small Roman diocese, but is transferred to a small town in Naples. He will face the harsh local reality.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanStarsPaul HoldengräberElvis CostelloPatti SmithA look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
- DirectorAlain GomisStarsVéro Tshanda Beya MputuGaetan ClaudiaPapi MpakaFélicité sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When her 14-year-old son has a motorcycle accident, she goes on a frantic search through the streets of Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. And her path crosses that of Tabu.
- DirectorMichael MatthewsStarsVuyo DabulaZethu Dlomo-MphahleleHamilton DlaminiLives change forever when Tau, the young lion, kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town.
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsForest WhitakerEric BanaJeff GumAfter the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
- DirectorAdrian ShergoldStarsMaxine PeakeMacy ShackletonAshton SteeleA comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's clubs.
- DirectorAaron KatzStarsLola KirkeZoë KravitzJohn ChoA heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant unravels the mystery, she must confront her own understanding of friendship, truth and celebrity.
- DirectorXavier BeauvoisStarsNathalie BayeLaura SmetIris BryWomen are left behind to work a family farm during the Great War.
- DirectorBornila ChatterjeeStarsNaseeruddin ShahTisca ChopraNeeraj KabiAn adaptation of William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus set in contemporary New Delhi. The Hungry is a contemporary retelling of Shakespearian tragedy Titus Andronicus, set in the extravagant surroundings of an Indian wedding whilst exploring the role of the patriarch and corruption in Indian politics and big business.
- DirectorJimmy HendersonStarsCeline TranLaurent PlancelTharoth SamWhat started as a simple escort mission will soon turn to chaos as the prisoners of Koh Kla take over the prison grounds. A special task force [Jean-Paul Ly, Dara Our, Tharoth Sam] gets trapped in the prison will have to fight their way out for survival, to protect a key witness [Savin Phillip].
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsJuliette BinocheXavier BeauvoisPhilippe KaterineIsabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love at last.
- DirectorRuth MaderStarsFritz KarlKatharina LorenzFlorian TeichtmeisterLife Guidance, the eponymous agency supports people in leading an optimal life. When Alexander lets the wrong thing slip out one day, Life Guidance arrives on the scene immediately.
- DirectorJessica M. ThompsonStarsStephanie BeatrizConrad RicamoraSusan HeywardAfter her world is irrevocably changed, a successful New York City architect struggles to regain intimacy and control in her life.
- DirectorJohn Carroll LynchStarsHarry Dean StantonDavid LynchRon LivingstonLucky follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town.
- DirectorJulian RosefeldtStarsCate BlanchettErika BauerRuby BustamanteCate Blanchett performs manifestos as a series of striking monologues.
- DirectorWon Shin-yeonStarsSol Kyung-guKim Nam-gilKim Seol-hyunA former serial killer with Alzheimer's fights to protect his daughter from her psychotic boyfriend.
- DirectorLéonor SerrailleStarsLaetitia DoschSouleymane Seye NdiayeGrégoire MonsaingeonIn her early thirties, broke, and in the wake of a humbling breakup, a spirited, yet rudderless young woman finds herself struggling to get by in the bustling Parisian metropolis; however, if she can make it there, she'll make it anywhere.
- DirectorDustin Guy DefaStarsAbbi JacobsonMichael CeraTavi GevinsonFollows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.
- DirectorMahamat-Saleh HarounStarsEriq EbouaneySandrine BonnaireAalayna LysAn African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.
- DirectorAmr SalamaStarsAhmad El-FishawiMaged El-KidwaniAhmed MalekAn Islamic cleric has a crisis of faith when he hears the news that his childhood idol, Michael Jackson, has died.
- DirectorFranz OstenStarsHimanshu RaiCharu RoySeeta Devi Jr.A historical romance set in the Mughal Empire. Selima (Enakshi) is a princess-foundling raised by a potter and loved by her brother, Shiraz (Rai). She is abducted and sold as a slave to Prince Khurram, later Emperor Shah Jehan (Roy), who falls for her, to the chagrin of the wily Dalia (Seeta Devi). When Selima is caught with Shiraz, the young man is condemned to be trampled to death by an elephant. A pendant reveals Selima's royal status and she saves her brother, marries the prince and becomes Empress Mumtaz Mahal while Dalia is banned for her machinations against Selima. When Selima dies (1629), the emperor builds her a monument to the design of the now old and blind Shiraz, the Taj Mahal. The film contains a number of passionate kissing scenes.
- DirectorCarla SimónStarsLaia ArtigasPaula RoblesBruna CusíAfter her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.
- DirectorJan ZabeilStarsAlexander FehlingBérénice BejoArian MontgomeryAaron wants to become a family with his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son, but high up in the Italian Dolomites, his attempts to win the boy's acceptance turn into a dangerous power game.
- DirectorAnnemarie JacirStarsMohammad BakriSaleh BakriTarik KoptyA father and his estranged son must come together to hand deliver his daughter's wedding invitations to each guest as per local Palestinian custom, in this rousing family drama from Annemarie Jacir (When I Saw You).
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsElliott Crosset HoveSimon SearsVic Carmen SonneA brother odyssey set in a worker environment during a cold winter. We follow two brothers, their routines, habits, rituals and a violent feud that erupts between them and another family.
- DirectorJustin BensonAaron MoorheadStarsAaron MoorheadJustin BensonCallie HernandezAs kids, they escaped a UFO death cult. Now, two adult brothers seek answers after an old videotape surfaces and brings them back to where they began.
- DirectorJonas CarpignanoStarsPio AmatoIolanda AmatoKoudous SeihonIn A CIAMBRA, a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region's factions - the local Italians, the African refugees and his fellow Romani. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere, learning the necessary skills for life on the streets of their hometown. When Cosimo disappears and things start to go wrong, Pio sets out to prove he's ready to step into his big brother's shoes but soon finds himself faced with an impossible decision that will show if he is truly ready to become a man.
- DirectorEshom NelmsIan NelmsStarsJohn HawkesAnthony AndersonOctavia SpencerAn alcoholic ex cop finds a woman on the roadside, left for dead. He offers to find the killer pro bono as P.I. Her granddad hires him. Things get nasty.
- DirectorBaz PoonpiriyaStarsChutimon ChuengcharoensukyingEisaya HosuwanTeeradon SupapunpinyoLynn, a genius high school student who makes money by cheating tests, receives a new task that leads her to set foot on Sydney, Australia. In order to complete the millions-Baht task, Lynn and her classmates have to finish the international STIC(SAT) exam and deliver the answers back to her friends in Thailand before the exam takes place once again in her home country.