Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Elton John, Andrew Garfield, Saoirse Ronan Titles Among BFI London Film Festival Full Lineup
variety.comNaman Ramachandran The 68th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its star-studded 2024 lineup, featuring Angelina Jolie, Elton John, Daniel Craig, Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield, Saoirse Ronan, and more in a program boasting 39 world premieres and 12 international premieres among its 253 feature, short, series and immersive works.
The festival’s headline gala screenings will showcase a range of high-profile films. The world premiere of Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” starring Ronan opens the festival, while Morgan Neville’s “Piece by Piece” closes it.
Other gala screenings include R.J. Cutler and David Furnish’s “Elton John: Never Too Late,” Sean Baker’s “Anora,” Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice” starring Sebastian Stan, Andrea Arnold’s “Bird,” Edward Berger’s “Conclave” with Ralph Fiennes, Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” Ben Taylor’s “Joy,” Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” featuring Jolie, Marielle Heller’s “Nightbitch” starring Amy Adams, Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” with Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, Simon Otto’s “That Christmas” and John Crowley’s “We Live in Time” with Pugh and Garfield.
World premieres also include Darren Thornton’s Irish comedy “Four Mothers,” Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s documentary “Endurance,” Milko Lazarov’s Bulgarian drama “Tarika,” Laila Abbas’ “Thank You for Banking with Us,” Eloise King’s documentary “The Shadow Scholars,” Adam Wong Sau-Ping’s “The Way We Talk,” Gino Evans’ “Treading Water” and a restoration of Martin Rosen’s “Watership Down.” International premieres include Roshan Sethi’s “A Nice Indian Boy” with Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff, Sadie Frost’s documentary “Twiggy,” Kimberly Reed’s “I’m Your Venus,” and Jane Mingay’s “Pauline Black: A.
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