London Film Festival 2022 Celebrity attendees

A total of 164 feature films will play at this year’s London Film Festival, alongside an abundance of shorts, TV series and an expanded program of XR (extended reality) works — and that’s in a comparatively slimmed-down era of curation for a public-facing festival that has long aimed to bring the best of the global festival circuit to non-traveling cinephiles.

What has definitely grown is the LFF’s national reach: In what fest director Tricia Tuttle terms the festival’s “new normal” format after a few years of structural shifts and COVID-era adjustments, the capital-centered event will also be hosting screenings in 10 other cities around the U.K., from Manchester to Edinburgh to Belfast — sealing its status as the country’s preeminent film festival. A digital program of up to 20 titles will also be made available for online viewing, while short films and screen talks will be free to stream on the BFI Player platform: “It’s really important to us to get to those places we can’t reach with our venue partnerships,” says Tuttle, adding that their priority is “to give new audiences a taste of what the festival is like.”

WORLD PREMIERES
World premieres have never been the primary selling point of a festival whose programmers pride themselves on cherrypicking the best of the rest. This year, however, the LFF has secured more enviable first looks than usual, with 24 features in the lineup making their first appearance in London — including Matthew Warchus’ eagerly awaited opening film “Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical,” an adaptation of the stage phenomenon that will bring stars Emma Thompson and Lashana Lynch, among others, to the red carpet. It’s also a rare family-friendly curtain-raiser: “We always want to surprise people with our opening night: We don’t want to get into a ‘this is the type of film that the LFF opens with’ [rut],” says Tuttle of the “really, really joyous” opener.

It’s the second year in a row that the fest has kicked off with a high-profile world premiere — last year it was Jeymes Samuel’s flashy, ultimately BAFTA-winning western “The Harder They Fall” — so Tuttle’s team may have established a new normal on this front too.

Other big-name titles world-premiering at the fest include Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix-backed stop-motion adaptation of “Pinocchio” (hoping to assert itself as the year’s best take on the tale after Disney’s Robert Zemeckis-directed disappointment); Dean Craig’s “The Estate,” a black comedy about dysfunctional family feuding, starring Toni Collette, Anna Faris and Kathleen Turner; and Irish animated fable “My Father’s Dragon,” the latest from director Nora Twomey and the repeatedly Oscar-nominated studio Cartoon Saloon (“The Breadwinner,” “The Secret of Kells”).

Naturally, homegrown British productions make up the bulk of the world premieres: “Showcasing UK talent is always the heart of the festival,” says Tuttle, Oscar winner Mark Rylance headlines “Inland,” a Gloucestershire-set you-can’t-go-home-again horror film from freshman director Fridtjof Ryder; Sam Riley and Haley Bennett star as estranged lovers reunited in prolific Welsh indie filmmaker Jamie Adams’ “She Is Love”; while Oscar-winning docker Asif Kapadia (“Amy”) and revered choreographer Akram Khan have collaborated, along with the English National Ballet, on the indirectly “Frankenstein”-inspired dance film “Creature.” And the plum get of their TV series lineup is the world premiere of the Amazon original “Mammals,” a marital drama from “Jerusalem” playwright Jez Butterworth, starring Sally Hawkins and James Corden.

COMPETITIONS
The festival’s competitive strands remain unchanged from last year, when an additional competition for immersive and extended-reality work was added to established sections for first features, documentaries and short films, as well as the premier Best Film selection.

Eight films will compete for the latter award, which was established in 2009 and has seen winners ranging from “A Prophet” to “Ida” to “Certain Women” to last year’s lovable Iranian champ “Hit the Road.” Hoping to join their ranks this year are such Cannes standouts as Austrian helmer Marie Kreutzer’s elegant Vicky Krieps starrer “Corsage,” Icelandic auteur Hlynur Palmason’s ravishingly austere ecclesiastical drama “Godland,” Britain’s Mark Jenkin’s cryptic folk horror “Enys Men” and British-Syrian co-production “Nezouh.” Fresh from its Grand Prize win at Venice, French-Senegalese director Alice Diop’s radical courtroom drama “Saint Omer” will also compete, along Lido-premiered titles Santiago Mitre’s “Argentina, 1985” and Fyzal Boulifa’s “The Damned Don’t Cry.” Clement Virgo’s Jamaican-Canadian family drama “Brother” rounds out the field.

With a surprise Venice Golden Lion in its pocket, Oscar-winner Laura Poitras’ Nan Goldin study “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” now casts a long shadow over a documentary competition lineup that also includes Delhi-centered Sundance victor “All That Breathes” and “Lynch/Oz,” the latest musing from Swiss cine-essayist Alexandre O. Philippe. Two world premieres are also included: Leah Gordon and Eddie Hutton-Mills’ colorful “Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters” and “Name Me Lawand,” a heart-tugging portrait of a Deaf Kurdish child from “The Possibilities Are Endless” director Edward Lovelace.

The Sutherland Award for Best First Feature is the festival’s oldest award — one that has auspiciously gone, in its 64-year history, to such filmmakers as Lynne Ramsay, Edward Yang, Kenneth Lonergan and Julia Ducournau. (Not to mention legends like Ozu and Antonioni in the days when it wasn’t a debut-only prize.) This year, vibrant British debuts from Georgia Oakley (“Blue Jean” and Thomas Hardiman (“Medusa Deluxe”) compete against Pakistani director Saim Sadiq’s trans-themed Cannes crowdpleaser “Joyland” and Mexican helmer Natalia Lopez Galliardo’s muscular Berlinale prizewinner “Robe of Gems,” among others.

GALAS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
As ever, the festival’s hottest tickets — many already sold out — are its A-list red carpet gala premieres, many of them fresh from Toronto and Venice. Rian Johnson’s all-star murder-mystery sequel “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” is this year’s closing film, while “Empire of Light,” Sam Mendes’ nostalgic, Olivia Colman-starring ode to movie theaters, is a very English choice for chief sponsor American Express’s gala slot. Other galas include Martin McDonagh’s critically adored Venice prizewinner “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Park Chan-wook’s slinky, Cannes-laureled noir puzzle “Decision to Leave,” Darren Aronofsky’s hothouse actors’ showcase “The Whale” and South African director Oliver Hermanus’ moving, London-set “Ikiru” remake “Living.”

The more mainstream tilt of the gala selection does, however, mean that it doesn’t quite match the diversity stats of the rest of the lineup. For example, of the 14 films, only two have female directors: Maria Schrader’s buzzy MeToo procedural “She Said,” and Chinonye Chukwu’s “Till,” a historical drama centered on the 1955 lynching of Mississippi teen Emmett Till and his mother Mamie’s crusade for justice.

The bigger picture is the better one: Across the whole festival lineup, 34% of the selected films have ethnically diverse directors or co-directors, while 41% have female or non-binary talent at the helm. Programmers aren’t bound to quotas, says Tuttle: “We do a lot of checking in as we go along, and make sure we’re looking in the right places. Because it’s really about looking, and what you center.”

The festival’s 14 Special Presentations are suitably varied, with a few unexpected selections mixed in alongside the bigger, shinier likes of Ruben Ostlund’s riotous Palme d’Or winner “Triangle of Sadness,” Sarah Polley’s starry, critically lauded feminist reckoning “Women Talking” and the fan-hyped Harry Styles starrer “My Policeman”: It’s heartening, for example, to see such high-profile slots for veteran Chilean docmaker Patricio Guzman’s politically charged “My Imaginary Country,” Nikyatu Jusu’s Sundance-winning balance of horror and racial allegory in “Nanny,” and Elegance Bratton’s queer Black military story “The Inspection.”

Meanwhile, the LFF has rarely rolled out the red carpet for a film quite as offbeat (and off the beaten track) as Ann Oren’s Locarno-premiered “Piaffe,” an erotic reflection on female bodily empowerment and growing a horse’s tail. Sixty-five years after its inaugural edition, this venerable fest can surprise us still.

HEADLINE GALAS

ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL

Matthew Warchus; Cast Emma Thompson; Alisha Weir; Lashana Lynch; Stephen Graham; Sindhu Vee; Tim Minchin; Dennis Kelly; Tim Bevan; Eric Fellner; Jon Finn; Luke Kelly

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

Rian Johnson; Ram Bergman; Daniel Craig; Janelle Monae; Edward Norton; Kathryn Hahn; Madelyn Cline; Kate Hudson; Leslie Odom Jr.; Jessica Henwick; Dave Bautista

EMPIRE OF LIGHT

Sam Mendes; Olivia Colman; Micheal Ward; Colin Firth; Toby Jones; Tom Brooke; Tanya Moodie; Crystal Clarke; Hannah Onslow; Pippa Harris

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

Martin McDonagh; Brendan Gleeson; Colin Farrell; Barry Keoghan; Graham Broadbent

BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS

Alejandro González Iñárritu; Daniel Giménez Cacho; Griselda Siciliani; Ximena Lamadrid; Iker Solano; Karla Luna Cantu; Stacy Perskie Kaniss; Darius Khondji

DECISION TO LEAVE

Park Chan-wook; Park-Hae il

LIVING

Oliver Hermanus; Stephen Woolley; Bill Nighy; Aimee Lou Wood; Kazuo Ishiguro

GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO

Guillermo del Toro; Mark Gustafson; David Bradley; Gregory Mann; Cate Blanchett; Christoph Waltz; Burn Gorman; Gary Ungar; Corey Campodonico; Alex Bulkley

SHE SAID

Maria Schrader; Carey Mulligan; Dede Gardner; Jeremy Kleiner; Megan Twohey; Jodi Kantor; Rebecca Lenkiewicz

THE SON

Florian Zeller; Vanessa Kirby

TILL

Chinonye Chukwu; Jalyn Hall; Danielle Deadwyler; Tosin Cole; John Douglas Thompson; Hayley Bennet; Barbara Broccoli; Keith Beauchamp

THE WHALE

Darren Aronofsky; Samuel D Hunter; Brendan Fraser

WHITE NOISE

Noah Baumbach; Greta Gerwig; Jodie Turner-Smith; Raffey Cassidy; David Heyman; Uri Singer; Leslie Converse

THE WONDER

Sebastián Lelio; Florence Pugh; Niamh Algar; Elaine Cassidy; Kila Lord Cassidy; Toby Jones; Tessa Ross; Emma Donoghue; Mathew Herbert

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 

ALLELUJAH

Richard Eyre; Jennifer Saunders; Judi Dench; Bally Gill; Gerard Horan; Lorraine Ashbourne; Louis Serkis-Ashbourne; Jesse Akele; Ross Tomlinson

BONES & ALL

Luca Guadagnino; Timothee Chalamet; Taylor Russell; David Kajganich; Theresa Park; Francesco Melzi d’Eril; Lorenzo Mieli; Marco Morabito; Peter Spears

CAUSEWAY

Lila Neugebauer; Jennifer Lawrence; Justine Ciarrocchi

THE ENGLISH

Hugo Blick; Greg Brenman; Colin Wratten; Emily Blunt; Chaske Spencer; Tom Hughes; Steve Wall; Stephen Rea

THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER

Joanna Hogg; Tilda Swinton; Carly Sophia-Davies; Joseph Mydell

HOLY SPIDER

Ali Abbasi; Zar Amir-Ebrahimi

MY POLICEMAN

Michael Grandage; Emma Corrin; David Dawson; Rupert Everett; Linus Roache; Gina McKee; Philip Herd; Robbie Rogers; Cora Palfrey; Bethan Roberts

NANNY

Nikyatu Jusu; Anna Diop; Michelle Monaghan; Nikkia Moulterie; Rina Yang

NIL BY MOUTH

Ray Winstone; Charlie Creed-Miles; Steve Sweeney

THE SWIMMERS

Sally El Hoisaini; Nathalie Issa; Manal Issa; Matthias Schweighöfe; Ahmed Malek; Yusra Mardini; Sven Spannenkrebs; Ali Jaafar; Eric Fellner; Stephen Daldry

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS

Ruben Östlund; Dolly De Leon

WOMEN TALKING

Sarah Polley; Claire Foy; Rooney Mara; Dede Gardner; Jeremy Kleiner

THE INSPECTION

Elegance Bratton; Chester Algernal Gordon

PIAFFE

Ann Oren; Kristof Gerega; Bjørn Melhus; Samuel Eschmann

FEATURES AND SERIES

100 WAYS TO CROSS THE BORDER

Amber Bemak

1976   

Manuela Martelli

A ROOM OF MY OWN   

Taki Mumladze; Mariam Khundadze

AFTER SHERMAN   

Jon-Sesrie Goff; Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich

AFTERSUN

Charlotte Wells; Paul Mescal; Frankie Corio; Adele Romanski; Amy Jackson

AISHA

Frank Berry; Letitia Wright

ALCARRAS

Carla Simón

ALL THAT BREATHES

Shaunak Sen; Aman Mann

ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED

Laura Poitras

ARGENTINA, 1985

Santiago Mitre; Ricardo Darín; Peter Lanzani

ATTACHMENT

Gabriel Bier Gislason; Ellie Kendrick

BECOMING PLANT

Grace Ndiritu; GAIKA

BLUE BAG LIFE   

Lisa Selby; Rebecca Lloyd Evans; Alex Fry; Natasha Dack-Ojumu; Elliot Murawski

BLUE ISLAND

Chan Tze-woon; Peter Yam; Fong Chung Yin Keith

BLUE JEAN

Georgia Oakley; Helene Sifre; Rosy McEwen; Kerry Hayes; Lucy Halliday; Lydia Page

BOBI WINE: GHETTO PRESIDENT

Christopher Sharpe; John Battsek; Barbara Kyagulanyi

BOY FROM HEAVEN

Tarik Saleh

BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER

Inka Rusi

BROTHER   

Clement Virgo; Damon D’Oliveira

BUTTERFLY VISION

Maksym Nakonechnyi; Darya Bassel

CALL JANE

Phyllis Nagy; Elizabeth Banks

CASA SUSANNA

Sébastien Lifshitz; Muriel Meynard

CHEE$E

Damian Marcano; Ayanna Cezanne Leonard; Jayyidah Marshall; Alexa Marcano

CLOSE   

Lukas Dhont; Michiel Dhont

CREATURE

Asif Kapadia; Akram Khan; Jefrey Cirio

CROWS ARE WHITE

Ahsen Nadeem; Dawn Light Blackman

DECLARATION

Mahesh Narayanan

EMILY THE CRIMINAL

John Patton Ford; Aubrey Plaza

ENYS MEN

Mark Jenkin; Denzil Monk; Mary Woodvine; Edward Rowe

EO   

Jerzy Skolimowski; Ewa Piaskowska

EXTERIOR NIGHT

Fabrizio Gifuni; Fausto Russo Alesi; Lorenzo Mieli

FARAAZ

Hansal Mehta; Ankur Pathak; Zahan Kapoor; Aditya Rawal

FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE

Kd Davison

GETTING IT BACK: THE STORY OF CYMANDE

Tim Mackenzie-Smith; Matt Wyllie; Steve Scipio; Patrick Patterson; Sam Kelly; Mike Rose

GOD SAID GIVE ‘EM DRUMS MACHINES

Kristian R. Hill; Jennifer Washington

GODLAND

Hlynur Pálmason; Katrin Pors

HERBARIA

Leandro Listorti

HIDDEN LETTERS

Violet Du Feng; James Costa; Mette Cheng Muntle-Kaas; Betsy Tsai

HIGH SCHOOL

Clea DuVall; Railey Gillilan; Seazynn Gilliland

HORSEPLAY

Marco Berger; Bruno Giganti

I LOVE MY DAD   

James Morosini

IF THE STREETS WERE ON FIRE

Alice Russell; Gannesh Rajah; Julia Nottingham; Mac Ferrari; Miles Carter

INLAND

Fridtjof Ryder; Henry Richmond; Louis Paine; Rory Alexander

INTO THE ICE

Lars Henrik Ostenfeld; Alun Hubbard

JEONG-SUN

Jeong Ji-hye; KIM Yong-joon

JOYLAND

Saim Sadiq; Apoorva Guru Charan; Ali Junejo; Alina Khan; Rasti Farooq; Sarwat Gilani

KAMIKAZE HEARTS

Juliet Bashore

KANAVAL

Leah Gordon; Eddie Hutton Mills; Natasha Dack

KLOKKENLUIDER

Neil Maskell; Jenna Coleman; Amit Shah; Sura Dohnke; Roger Evans; Helen Simmons; Stephanie Aspin

KLONDIKE

Maryna Er Gorbach

KNOW YOUR PLACE

Zia Mohajerjasbi

LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER

Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre; Emma Corrin; Jack O’Connell; Matthew Duckett; Joely Richardson; Peter Czernin; Graham Broadbent

LAST FLIGHT HOME

Ondi Timoner

LINOLEUM

Colin West; Chad Simpson

LIQUOR STORE DREAMS

So Yun Um

LYNCH/OZ

Alexandre O. Philippe

MALINTZIN 17

Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra; Natalia Polgovsky Ezcurra

MAMMALS

Jez Butterworth; Stephanie Laing; James Corden; Sally Hawkins; Melia Kreiling

MANTICORE

Pedro Hernández Santos; Alana Mejia Gonzalez; Alex Lafuente; Zoe Stein

MAYA NILO (LAURA)

Lovisa Sirén; Bahar Pars

MEDUSA DELUXE

Thomas Hardiman; Anita-Joy Uwajeh; Clare Perkins; Debris Stevenson; Harriet Webb; Heider Ali; Kayla Meikle; Lilit Lesser; Luke Pasqualino; Nicholas Karimi

MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM

Dylan Southern; Will Lovelace

MINI-ZLATAN AND UNCLE DARLING

Christian Lo; Petter Lindblad; Sara Sjöö

MORE THAN EVER

Emily Atef

MY FATHER’S DRAGON

Nora Twomey; Julie Lynn; Bonnie Curtis; Paul Young; Jacob Tremblay; Gaten Matarazzo

NAME ME LAWAND
Edward Lovelace; Fleur Nieddu; Sam Arnold; Beyan Taher; Neil Andrews; Marisa Clifford; Rebwar Hamad Amin; Lawand Hamad Amin; Rawa Hamad Amin; Tim O’Shea; Diene Petterle; Lisa Marie Russo; Isabel Freer

NAYOLA

Tomás Oom Martins

NEZOUH

Soudade Kaadan; Yu-Fai Suen; Nizar Alani

NIGHTMARE

Kjersti Helen Rasmussen; Einar Loftesnes; John Einar Hagen

ONE FINE MORNING

Mia Hansen-Løve

PACIFICTION

Albert Serra; Monste Triola

PALM TREES AND POWER LINES   

Jamie Dack; Leah Baker

PETER VON KANT

François Ozon

PRETTY RED DRESS

Dionne Edwards; Alexandra Burke; Natey Jones; Temilola Olatunbosun; Johannes Radebe; Georgia Goggin

ROBE OF GEMS

Natalia López Gallardo

RODEO

Julie Ledru

SAINT-OMER

Alice Diop; Aurélia Petit; Toufik Ayadi; Christophe Barral

SELF PORTRAIT AS A COFFEE POT

William Kentridge; Walter Murch

SHABU

Shamira Raphaëla

SHE IS LOVE

Jamie Adams; Haley Bennett; Sam Riley

SHTTL

Ady Walter; Jean-Charles Levy; Olias Barco; Mosche Lobel; Anissia Stasevich; Antoine Millet; Emily Karpel

SICK OF MYSELF

Eirik Sæther

SMALL, SLOW BUT STEADY

Shô Miyake

SUBTRACTION

Mani Haghighi

SUMMER WITH HOPE

Sadaf Foroughi; Kiarash Anvari

SUPER EAGLES 96’

Yemi Bamiro

THE AFRICAN DESPERATE

Martine Syms

THE BLACK PHARAOH, THE SAVAGE AND THE PRINCESS

Michel Ocelot

THE BLAZE

Quentin Reynaud; Léonard Glowinski; Sarah Sbeih; Alex Lutz; André Dussolier (Cast

THE BLUE ROSE OF FORGETFULNESS

Lewis Klahr

THE CLOUD MESSENGER

Rahat Mahajan; Ritvik Tyagi

THE DAMNED DON’T CRY

Fyzal Boulifa

THE ESTATE

Dean Craig

THE FUTURE TENSE

Christine Molloy; Joe Lawlor

THE GIRL FROM TOMORROW

Marta Savina; Virginia Valsecchi; Claudia Gusmano

THE GOOD NURSE 

Tobias Lindholm; Eddie Redmayne; Jessica Chastain; Scott Franklin; Krysty Wilson-Cairns; Amy Loughren

THE KINGDOM EXODUS

Louise Vesth

THE ORIGIN

Andrew Cumming; Oliver Kassman

THE PASSENGERS OF THE NIGHT

Mikhaël Hers

THE STORE

Ami-ro Sköld; Lovisa Charlier

THE WOMAN IN THE WHITE CAR

Chritine Ko; Ryeowong Jung

THE WOODCUTTER STORY

Mikko Myllylahti

THE WORST ONES

Romane Gueret; Marine Alaric; Frédéric Jouve

TORI AND LOKITA

Jean-Pierre And Luc Dardenne

UNDER THE FIG TREES

Erige Sehiri

UTAMA

Alejandro Loayza Grisi

WHAT ABOUT CHINA?

Trinh Minh-ha

WINTER BOY

Christophe Honoré

XALE

Moussa Sène Absa

YOU WON’T BE ALONE

Goran Stolevski

LFF EXPANDED

A MIGHT MASS EMERGES

Wu Tsang

ALL UNSAVED PROGRESS WILL BE LOST

Mélanie Courtinat

APPARATUS LUDENS

Jakob Skote; Max Ćelar

AS MINE EXACTLY

Charlie Shackleton

BLACK MOVEMENT LIBRARY – MOVEMENT PORTRAITS

LaJuné McMillian

DIGITAL MOTIONS

Marcel Kamapke; Björn Lengers

FRAMERATE: PULSE OF THE EARTH

William Trossell; Matthew Shaw

HAUNTED HOTEL: A MELODRAMA IN AUGMENTED REALITY

Guy Maddin; Magnus Fiennes; headraft

IN PURSUIT OF REPETITIVE BEATS

Darren Emerson; Dan Tucker

INTRAVENE

Darkfield

LINE OF CONTACT

Dani Ploeger

MISSING PICTURES EPISODE 3: THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG

Clément Deneux; Oriane Hurard

MONOLITHS

Lucy Hammond

PAN + TILT

Bruno Martelli; Ruth Gibson

PLANET CITY

Liam Young

THE CHOICE

Joanne Popinska

THE INFINITE LIBRARY

Mike Robbins; Mika Johnson

THE LAST TIME I SAW SNOW

Isobel Mascarenhas-Whitman; Alex Tennyson

WALZER

Leo Erken; Frieda Gustavs

ON THE MORNING YOU WAKE (TO THE END OF THE WORLD)

Mike Brett

SHORTS

A SOD STATE

Eoghan Ryan

AN AVOCADO PIT 

Ary Zara; Andreia Nunes; Frederico Serra

ARIBADA

Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau; Natalia Escobar

AS IF NO MISFORTUNE HAD OCCURRED IN THE NIGHT

Larissa Sansour; Soren Lind

BACK TO SCHOOL

Tyro Heath; Sonny

BLIND YELLOW SUNSHINE

Adonia Bouchehri

BLUE ROOM

Isidore Bethel; Merete Mueller

CHECOLOVAQUIA

Dennis Perinango; Jorge G. Castañeda

CHUU CHUU

Mackie Mallison

CURIOSA

Tessa Moult-Milewska; Sychelle-Kristina Yanda

DOWNSTREAM

Adam Kossoff

DROP OUT

Ade Femzo

FLOWERS

Dumas Haddad; George Telfer; Sheik Sheriff

FOR HEIDI

Lucy Campbell; Radha Bhandari; Barrington Paul Robinson; Delroy Brown; Aliyah Soyinka

FOREST COAL PIT

Jessica Wheeler; Sion Marshall-Waters; Alice Lusher; Catryn Ramasut

GROOM

Leyla Coll-O’Reilly; Laura McBride; Shannon Davidson

HAULOUT 

Evgenia Arbugaeva

I’LL BE BACK!

Hope Strickland

IN LIGHT

Alice Fassi

JILL, UNCREDITED

Anthony Ing

MAB HUDEL 

Edward Rowe; Ella Turner; Chris Jenkins

MARS

Abel Rubinstein; Stefan Demetriou; Cat Marshall; Yasmin Finney; Leah Choudhry; Marc Robinson

MONO NO AWARE

Quinton Dominguez; Jordan Somani

SPAM GETS A NEW HAT

Shelley Smith; David Lowry

MY EYES ARE UP HERE

Nathan Morris; Vanessa Muir; Katie Dolan; Naomi Wallwork; Ben Cura; Colin Hoult

MY YEAR OF DICKS

Sara Gunnarsdóttir

NANT

Tom Chetwode Barton; Vivien Kenny; Dylan Brady

OUTDOORS

John Fitzpatrick; Chuckie McEwan; Archie Sinclair; Bingqiang Xu; Nathan Ives-Moiba; Sam Goodchild

PATENT 1,571,148

Kevin Jerome Everson; Madeleine Molyneaux

PRAM SNATCHER

Sorcha Bacon; Theo James Krekis

ROARY

David Leister

ROSEMARY A.D. (AFTER DAD)

Tiffany Barrett; Ethan Barrett

SAPPUKEI

Chun Wang; Hikky Chen; Wen Hsu

SEAWEED

Julia Parks

SILENCE

Arnas Pigulevicius; Alfred Deragne

SKYWARD

Jessica Bishopp; Laura Shacham; Mya Bambrick; Arjun Dutta

SPINNING

Divian Ladwa; Patrick Baladi; Jonny Phillips; Mark Stanley; Chuckie McEwan; Archie Sinclair

STICKS OF FURY

Yuan Hu; Jonathan Caicedo-Galindo

SURPRI-! 

Rory D. Bentley; Fred Deedes; Deepak Verma; Ramesh Vetha

THE DEBUTANTE

Elizabeth Hobbs; Abigail Adison; Joanna David; Naomi Stafford

THE DEPENDENT VARIABLES

Lorenzo Tardella

THE OCEAN ANALOG

Luis Macias

THE PASS

Pepi Ginsberg; Aaron Z. Willson; Maria Akay

THE RILEY SISTERS

Julia Jackman; Savannah Power; Naomi Postawa; Rhiannon May

THE RITUAL TO BEAUTY

Maria Maronne; Shenny de Los Angeles

THE SEVERED TAIL

Marianna Simnett

TRANSPARENT

Siobhan Davies; Pinky Ghundale

TRIA

Giulia Grandinetti; Vincenzo Filippo

The 66th BFI London Film Festival takes place from Wednesday 5 October – Sunday 16 October, 2022.