The 63rd edition of the BFI London Film Festival will take place from October 2 through 13 this year, with a large delegation of French artists in attendance and no less than 21 French films (including majority-French coproductions) to be showcased in the various festival sections.
An event that was initiated in the 1950s by British film critics, and was originally conceived as a condensed version of the major international film festivals (featuring screenings of films already presented at Cannes and Venice), the BFI London Film Festival has established itself as one of the key movie industry events in the United Kingdom, with now around 250 films from 75 countries screened each year.
France will be represented this year by 21 feature films (in addition to the French cinema classics programmed) and 23 minority-French coproductions.
The following actors and directors are expected to join the French delegation this year (to be confirmed): Nicolas Bedos and Guillaume Canet (La Belle Epoque), Stéphane Demoustier (The Girl with a Bracelet), Mati Diop (Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story), Céline Sciamma, Adèle Haenel et Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Lady on Fire), Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau (Don't Look Down), Dominik Moll (Only the Animals), François Ozon (By the Grace of God), Sébastien Lifshitz (Adolescentes), Jérémy Clapin (I Lost My Body), Rebecca Zlotowski (An Easy Girl), Manele Labidi (Arab Blues), and Filippo Meneghetti (Two of Us).
All the French films at the 2019 BFI London Film Festival
Official Competition
- The Weeping Woman by Jayro Bustamante (minority-French coproduction)
- Monos by Alejandro Landes (minority coproduction)
Galas & Special Screenings
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma
- Bombay Rose by Gitanjali Rao (minority coproduction)
First Feature Competition
Create
- Celebration by Olivier Meyrou
- Talking About Trees by Suhaib Gasmelbari
- To Live to Sing by Johnny Ma (minority coproduction)
Documentary Competition
- Cunningham by Alla Kovgan (minority coproduction)
- Overseas by Sung-a Yoon (minority coproduction)
Cult
- Deerskin by Quentin Dupieux
- Adoration by Fabrice Du Welz (minority coproduction)
Dare
- I Lost My Body by Jérémy Clapin
- Don't Look Down by Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
- Zombi Child by Bertrand Bonello
- Tremors by Jayro Bustamante (minority coproduction)
- Tlamess by Ala Eddine Slim (minority coproduction)
- Fire Will Come by Oliver Laxe (minority coproduction)
Debate
- By the Grace of God by François Ozon
- The Girl with a Bracelet by Stéphane Demoustier
- Staff Only by Neus Ballús (minority coproduction)
- Made in Bangladesh by Rubaiyat Hossain (minority coproduction)
- Martin Eden by Pietro Marcello (minority coproduction)
- Noura's Dream by Hinde Boujemaa (minority coproduction)
- A Son by Mehdi M. Barsaoui (minority coproduction)
Family
- The Bears' Famous Invasion by Lorenzo Mattotti
- The Prince's Voyage by Jean-François Laguionie, Xavier Picard
Journey
- Adolescentes by Sébastien Lifshitz
- An Easy Girl by Rebecca Zlotowski
- The Cordillera of Dreams by Patricio Guzmán (minority coproduction)
- Burning Night by Eryk Rocha (minority coproduction)
- The Orphanage by Shahrbanoo Sadat (minority coproduction)
Laugh
- It Must Be Heaven by Elia Suleiman
- Arab Blues by Manele Labidi
- The Unknown Saint by Alaa Eddine Aljem (minority coproduction)
Love
- On a Magical Night by Christophe Honoré
- Two of Us by Filippo Meneghetti
- Happy Birthday by Cédric Kahn
- La Belle Epoque by Nicolas Bedos
- And Then We Danced by Levan Akin (minority coproduction)
Thrill
- Only the Animals by Dominik Moll
- The Whistlers by Corneliu Porumboiu (minority coproduction)
- The Traitor by Marco Bellocchio (minority coproduction)
- Bacurau by Kleber Mendonça Filho (minority coproduction)
