The seventieth BFI London Movie Competition has revealed its full line-up, the UK’s greatest movie occasion bringing collectively a few of the 12 months’s most talked-about pageant favorites, many anticipated function movies within the awards race and titles quickly to premiere in Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
With “Elsinore” starring Andrew Scott opening the pageant and Jesse Eisenberg’s “The Debut” already introduced because the nearer, LFF 2026 has added a collection of gala displays, together with Cannes hit “Membership Child,” Danny Boyle’s Venice opener “Ink,” Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Fatherland,” Florian Zeller’s “Bunker,” and Cristian’s Palme d’Or winner Munglue. “Fjord,” Javier Calvo’s queer epic “La Bola Negra,” and Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beloved.”
Different galas embrace “Being Heumann” by Siân Heder, “Klara and the Solar” by Taika Waititi, “A Lengthy Winter” by Andrew Haigh, “Minotaur” by Andrey Zvyagintsev, “Paper Tiger” by James Grey, “Attainable Love” by Lee Chang-dong, “Prime Facie” by Susanna White, “Tender Loving Care” by Mike Leigh and “Wild Horse 9” and Bassem by Martin McDonagh. Tariq is your mom, your mom, your mom.
LFF 2026 additionally landed high-profile world premieres, together with Laika’s animated function “Wildwood” and director Travis Knight and Brad Chicken’s Netflix movie “Ray Gunn.” Different movies making their London debut embrace Anthony Wonke’s British boxing biopic “Within the Shadows,” Carol Morley’s semi-autobiographical “7 Miles Out” and Sean Mathias’ “Frank and Percy.”
Elsewhere, worldwide premieres at LFF embrace Boots Riley’s “I Love Boosters,” “Behemoth!” » by Tony Gilroy and “Ketticé” by Giovanni Tortorici.
On the tv aspect, the pageant screens episodes of each “The Journey to the Northern Lights” by Michael Winterbottom, a part of the “The Journey” collection, and “Visionquest” from Marvel Studio.
The pageant has already introduced its foremost competitors, however titles introduced in competitors for the Sutherland First Function Prize embrace Ashley Walters’ “Animol,” Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo’s “Ben’Imana” and Olive Nwosu’s “Girl.” In the meantime, the documentary competitors options “As soon as Upon a Time in Harlem” by William Greaves and David Greaves, “Queer Edward II” by Theo Rollason and “Concrete Land” by Asmahan Bkerat.
In complete, the LFF will current 251 function movies, brief movies, collection and immersive works from 88 international locations, together with 109 works by feminine filmmakers (43% of this system) and 33 world premieres.
“When this pageant started 70 years in the past, simply over a decade after the tip of the Second World Conflict, British society was in a interval of fast social change,” stated Kristy Matheson, inventive director of BFI Festivals. “Then, as now, we glance to artists to synthesize our occasions. And what imaginative and prescient they’ve for us in 2026; the tumults of the occasions dwell in our program, but in addition cinematic thrills, ethical conundrums and a recurring exploration of care and group. If you end up in London, or throughout the UK, this October, you’ll be provided the chance to expertise worlds outdoors of us. We hope you possibly can be part of us.”
The BFI London Movie Competition runs from October 7 to 18.