Overview

• Organizers confirmed 247 works from 79 countries, including 6 world, 10 international and 11 European premieres among features, with 42% of the slate by female and non-binary filmmakers.
• Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man opens the festival and Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero closes it.
• Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet is set for its European/UK premiere, while Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly and Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? headline major galas alongside the series premiere of Isabella Eklöf’s The Death of Bunny Munro.
• Screen Talks feature Daniel Day-Lewis, Yorgos Lanthimos, Richard Linklater, Jafar Panahi, Lynne Ramsay, Tessa Thompson and Chloé Zhao, with sessions streamed via BFI Player and the BFI’s YouTube channel; Industry Forum details follow in the coming weeks.
• The festival anchors at BFI Southbank and Royal Festival Hall and expands to 11 partner venues across the UK, adding Filmhouse Edinburgh and the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, with public tickets on sale Sept. 16.