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Official Competition

The Best Film Award recognises inspiring, inventive and distinctive filmmaking.

Films in Official Competition


Dearest

This deeply moving drama charts the turmoil of a Chinese couple whose child is abducted.

The Duke of Burgundy

Peter Strickland’s new film is a bold and sensual exploration of the power dynamic between two women who live cut off from the outside world.

The Falling

Get ready to swoon. It’s 1969, and a mysterious fainting sickness overtakes an English all-girl school in Carol Morley’s beguiling follow-up to Dreams of a Life.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

A mysterious female vampire stalks the streets of a deadbeat town in this arresting debut.

Girlhood

Céline Sciamma’s triumphant third film is a beautifully observed examination of a young girl’s search for identity in the underprivileged suburbs of Paris.

The Keeping Room

On the American frontier a young woman is forced to go to any means to defend her kin from the ravages of the barbaric outside world.

Leviathan

Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Cannes award winner is a striking attack on corrupt politics set on Russia’s northwest coastline.

The New Girlfriend

François Ozon’s delicious new drama is a smart and sly satire – with some jaw-dropping twists – about gender, class and consumerism.

Phoenix

A concentration camp survivor undergoes reconstructive surgery and embarks on a search for her husband in postwar Germany.

The President

A provocative and disquieting parable about a deposed president from the great Iranian director Moshen Makhmalbaf.

Son of a Gun

A smart heist thriller about a tough young hoodlum who teams up with a ruthless con and finds himself attracted to a smart, street-savvie young woman.

Timbuktu

In Abderrahmane Sissako’s stunning new film, residents of a Mali town struggle to cope with the imposition of Sharia Law by radical Islamist invaders.


Official LFF Calendar - http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-london-film-festival-2014-calendar.pdf