2022 film festival
66th BFI London Film Festival![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4b/2022_BFI_London_Film_Festival.jpg/260px-2022_BFI_London_Film_Festival.jpg) Official artwork for the 2022 BFI London Film Festival[1] |
Opening film | Matilda the Musical |
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Closing film | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery |
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Location | London, United Kingdom |
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Founded | 1957 |
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Awards | Best Film Award: Corsage |
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Festival date | 5–16 October 2022 |
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Website | whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp |
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BFI London Film Festival |
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2021 |
The 66th BFI London Film Festival was a film festival that took place from 5–16 October 2022.[2] British-American producer Tanya Seghatchian served as jury president.[3] Marie Kreutzer's Corsage won the Best Film Award.[4]
The festival opened with Matilda the Musical directed by Matthew Warchus[5] and closed with Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery directed by Rian Johnson.[6]
Juries
Main Competition
- Tanya Seghatchian, British-American producer[7]
- Gwendoline Christie, British actress
- Kemp Powers , American filmmaker and playwright
- Chaitanya Tamhane, Indian filmmaker
- Charles Gant, British journalist
First Feature Competition
- Nana Mensah, American actress, writer, and director
- Asim Chaudhry, British comedian and actor
- Isabel Stevens, British managing editor of Sight and Sound
- Kristy Matheson, Australian film programmer and creative director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival
Documentary Competition
- Roberto Minervini, Italian writer-director
- Tabitha Jackson, producer and former director of the Sundance Film Festival
- Morgan M. Page, Canadian writer and artist
Immersive Art and XR Competition
- Misan Harriman, Nigerian-British photographer
- Tonya Nelson, American regional director of Arts Council England
- Olivier Delpoux, French head of digital and audiovisual creation at Institut Français
Short Film Competition
- Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, British producer
- Sorcha Bacon, British producer
- Caspar Salmon, British journalist
- Maddy Probst, British managing producer at Bristol Watershed
Venues
Film screenings took place in 7 cinemas in London, while the Expanded section - dedicated to immersive art and extended realities (XR) - took place at 3 venues. Screenings for members of the press and film industry took place at two separate cinemas. Selected films were also screened at 10 additional cinemas across the UK.[8]
London cinemas
Expanded venues
UK-wide cinemas
- Broadway Cinema, Nottingham
- Chapter, Cardiff
- Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh
- Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow
- HOME, Manchester
- MAC, Birmingham
- Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast
- Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
- Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Watershed, Bristol
Official Selection
Galas
The following films were selected for the Galas section, which screens world, European, and British premieres of the most anticipated films.
Special Presentations
The following films were selected for the Special Presentations section.
In Competition
There were five competition sections, each with a different selection of films and different juries.
Official Competition
The following films competed for the Best Film Award.
First Feature Competition
The following films competed for the Sutherland Award, which is awarded to a directorial debut.
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
1976 | Manuela Martelli | Chile, Argentina, Qatar |
Blue Jean | Georgia Oakley | United Kingdom |
Jeong-sun | Jihye Jeong | South Korea |
Joyland | جوائے لینڈ | Saim Sadiq | Pakistan |
Medusa Deluxe | Thomas Hardiman | United Kingdom |
Our Lady of the Chinese Shop | Nossa senhora da loja do chinês | Ery Claver | Angola |
Robe of Gems | Manto de Gemas | Natalia López Gallardo | Argentina, Mexico |
Rodeo | Lola Quivoron | France |
Documentary Competition
The following films competed for the Grierson Award, which is awarded to a feature-length documentary.
Short Film Competition
The following films competed for the Short Film Award.
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
An Avocado Pit | Um Caroço de Abacate | Ary Zara | Portugal |
Drop Out | Ade Femzo | United Kingdom |
I Have No Legs, and I Must Run | 跑!跑!跑! | Yue Li | China |
The Ocean Analog | El oceano analogo | Luis Macias | Spain, Mexico |
It’s Raining Frogs Outside | Ampangabagat nin talakba ha likol | Maria Estela Paiso | Spain, Mexico |
The Ritual to Beauty | Maria Marrone, Shenny de Los Angeles | United States |
Rosemary A.D. (After Dad) | Ethan Barrett | United States |
A Sod State | Eoghan Ryan | Ireland, Netherlands |
Transparent | Siobhan Davies | United Kingdom |
Immersive Art and XR Competition
The following works competed for the Best Immersive Art and XR Award.
English Title | Original Title | Lead Artist(s) | Production Country |
All Unsaved Progress Will be Lost | Mélanie Courtinat | France |
Apparatus Ludens | Untold Garden | United Kingdom, Sweden |
As Mine Exactly | Charlie Shackleton | United Kingdom |
Black Movement Library – Movement Portraits | LaJuné McMillian | United States |
The Choice | Joanne Popinska | Canada, Poland |
Digital Motions | Helge Letonja, Marcel Karnapke, Björn Lengers, Anke Euler | Germany |
FRAMERATE: Pulse of The Earth | Matthew Shaw, William Trossell, ScanLAB Projects | United Kingdom |
In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats | Darren Emerson | United Kingdom |
The Infinite Library | Mika Johnson | India, Germany, Czechia |
Intravene | Darkfield, Crackdown, Brenda Longfellow | United Kingdom, Canada |
The Last Time I Saw Snow | Isobel Mascarenhas-Whitman, Alex Tennyson | United Kingdom |
Line of Contact | Dani Ploeger | Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ukraine |
Missing Pictures: The Money Wrench Gang | Clément Deneux | France, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Luxembourg, South Korea |
Monoliths | Lucy Hammond, Hannah Davies, Asma Elbadawi, Carmen Marcus | United Kingdom |
On the Morning You Wake (To the End Of The World) | Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Arnaud Colinart, Pierre Zandrowicz | United Kingdom, France, United States |
Pan + Tilt | Ruth Gibson, Bruno Martelli | United Kingdom |
Planet City | Liam Young, Kayvan Boudai, Elliot Ordower, James Clark | United States, China |
Walzer | Frieda Gustavs, Leo Erken | Netherlands |
Strands
Most of the out-of-competition films have been organised into strands, each based on a different mood or emotion.
Love
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
Aftersun | Charlotte Wells | United Kingdom, United States |
Blue Bag Life | Lisa Selby, Rebecca Hirsch Lloyd-Evans, Alex Fry | United Kingdom |
The Blue Caftan | Le Bleu du caftan | Maryam Touzani | France, Morocco, Belgium |
Bros | Nicholas Stoller | United States |
Close | Lukas Dhont | Belgium, France, Netherlands |
The Cloud Messenger | Meghdoot | Rahat Mahajan | India |
Lady Chatterley's Lover | Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre | United Kingdom |
Last Flight Home | Ondi Timoner | United States |
Love Life | ラブ ライフ | Koji Fukada | Japan, France |
Malintzin 17 | Eugenio Polgovsky, Mara Polgovsky | Mexico, Switzerland |
Mammals (episodes 1–3) | Stephanie Laing | United Kingdom |
Maya Nilo (Laura) | Lovisa Sirén | Sweden |
More Than Ever | Plus que jamais | Emily Atef | France, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway |
One Fine Morning | Un beau matin | Mia Hansen-Løve | France, Germany |
Pretty Red Dress | Dionne Edwards | United Kingdom |
She Is Love | Jamie Adams | United Kingdom |
Tori and Lokita | Tori et Lokita | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | Belgium, France |
Winter Boy | Le Lycéen | Christophe Honoré | France |
Debate
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
Blaze | Del Kathryn Barton | Australia |
Blue Island | 憂鬱之島 | Chan Tze-woon | Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan |
Bobi Wine: The People’s President | Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp | Uganda |
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power | Nina Menkes | United States |
Call Jane | Phyllis Nagy | United States |
Declaration | അറിയിപ്പ് | Mahesh Narayanan | India |
Exterior Night (episodes 1–6) | Esterno notte | Marco Bellocchio | Italy, France |
Hidden Letters | Violet Du Feng, Zhao Qing | China, United States, Norway, Germany |
If the Streets Were on Fire | Alice Russell | United Kingdom |
Klondike | Клондайк | Maryna Er Gorbac | Ukraine |
Next Sohee | 다음 소희 | July Jung | South Korea |
Palm Trees and Power Lines | Jamie Dack | United States |
Stonewalling | 石門 | Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka | Japan |
The Store | Butiken | Ami-ro Sköld | Sweden, Italy |
Laugh
Dare
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
Butterfly Vision | Бачення метелика | Maksym Nakonechnyi | Ukraine, Czechia, Croatia, Sweden |
Coma | Bertrand Bonello | France |
De Humani Corporis Fabrica | Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel | France |
EO | IO | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland, Italy |
Horseplay | Los agitadores | Marco Berger | Argentina |
Inland | Fridtjof Ryder | United Kingdom |
Into the Ice | Rejsen til isens indre | Lars Henrik Ostenfeld | Denmark, Germany |
Manticore | Manticora | Carlos Vermut | Spain |
No Bears | خرس نیست | Jafar Panahi | Iran |
Pacifiction | Tourment sur les îles | Albert Serra | France, Spain, Germany, Portugal |
Shttl | Ady Walter | Ukraine, France |
Subtraction | تفریق | Mani Haghighi | Iran, France |
Unrest | Unrueh | Cyril Schäublin | Switzerland |
The Woodcutter Story | Metsurin tarina | Mikko Myllylahti | Finland, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany |
Xalé | Moussa Sene Absa | Senegal, Ivory Coast |
Thrill
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
Ashkal | Youssef Chebbi | France, Tunisia, Qatar |
The Blaze | En plein Feu | Quentin Reynaud | France |
Boy from Heaven | صبي من الجنة, | Tarik Saleh | Sweden, France, Finland, Denmark |
Emily the Criminal | John Patton Ford | United States |
Faraaz | Hansal Mehta | India |
The Good Nurse | Tobias Lindholm | United States |
The Origin of Evil | L'Origine du mal | Sébastien Marnier | France, Canada |
Señorita 89 (episodes 1 and 2) | Lucía Puenzo, Nicolás Puenzo, Jimena Montemayor, Sílvia Quer | Mexico |
A Spy Among Friends (episodes 1 and 2) | Nick Murphy | United Kingdom |
The Stranger | Thomas M. Wright | Australia |
The Woman in the White Car | Christine Ko | South Korea |
Cult
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
Attachment | Natten har øjne | Gabriel Bier Gislason | Denmark |
The Kingdom Exodus (episodes 1 and 2) | Riget exodus | Lars von Trier | Denmark |
Linoleum | Colin West | United States |
New Normal | Bum-shik Jung | South Korea |
Nightmare | Marerittet | Kjersti Helen Rasmussen | Norway, France |
The Origin | Andrew Cumming | United Kingdom |
Unicorn Wars | Alberto Vázquez | Spain, France |
You Won't Be Alone | Goran Stolevski | Australia |
Journey
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
After Sherman | Jon-Sesrie Goff | United States |
Aisha | Frank Berry | Ireland |
Alcarràs | Carla Simón | Spain, Italy |
Autobiography | Makbul Mubarak | Indonesia, France, Singapore, Poland, Philippines, Germany, Qatar |
Crows Are White | Ahsen Nadeem | United States |
The Girl from Tomorrow | Primadonna | Marta Savina | Italy, France |
High School (episodes 1–3) | Clea DuVall | United States, Canada |
Know Your Place | Zia Mohajerjasbi | United States |
Liquor Store Dreams | So Yun Um | United States |
Nayola | José Miguel Ribeiro | Portugal, Belgium, France, Netherlands |
The Passengers of the Night | Les passagers de la nuit | Mikhaël Hers | France |
Shabu | Shamira Raphaela | Netherlands |
Small, Slow But Steady | ケイコ 目を澄ませて | Shô Miyake | Japan, France |
Summer with Hope | Tabestan Ba Omid | Sadaf Foroughi | Canada, Iran |
Super Eagles ‘96 | Yemi Bamiro | United Kingdom, Nigeria |
Under the Fig Trees | تحت الشجرة | Erige Sehiri | Tunisia, France, Switzerland, Germany, Qatar |
Utama | Alejandro Loayza Grisi | Bolivia, Uruguay, France |
Create
Experimenta
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
100 Ways to Cross the Border | Amber Bay Bemak | United States, Mexico |
Becoming Plant | Grace Ndiritu | United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway |
The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness | Lewis Klahr | United States |
Herbaria | Leandro Listorti | Argentina, Germany |
The United States of America | James Benning | United States |
Family
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess | Le Pharaon, le Sauvage et la princesse | Michel Ocelot | France |
Mini-Zlatan and Uncle Darling | Lill-Zlatan och morbror Raring | Christian Lo | Sweden, Norway |
My Father’s Dragon | Nora Twomey | Ireland |
My Robot Brother | Robotbror | Frederik Nørgaard | Denmark |
Neneh Superstar | Ramzi Ben Sliman | France |
Treasures
Shorts
The short film programme was divided into the following seven sections.
Ritual and Magick
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
Flowers | Dumas Haddad | United Kingdom |
I Have No Legs, and I Must Run | 跑!跑!跑! | Yue Li | China |
In Light | Alice Fassi | Bulgaria, France, Italy |
Nant | Tom Chetwode-Barton | United Kingdom |
Bird in the Peninsula | Atsushi Wada | France, Japan |
Bucket in the Forest | Blaise Borrer | Australia |
Frontier | Кордон | Tymofii Biniukov | Ukraine |
The Ritual to Beauty | Maria Marrone, Shenny de Los Angeles | United States |
This is Planet Earth
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
Skyward | Jessica Bishopp | United Kingdom |
Silence | Arnas Pigulevicius | United Kingdom |
Blue Room | Merete Mueller | United States |
Forest Coal Pit | Siôn Marshall-Waters | United Kingdom |
It’s Raining Frogs Outside | Ampangabagat nin talakba ha likol | Maria Estela Paiso | Spain, Mexico |
Haulout | Выход | Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev | United Kingdom |
The Flight or Fight Response
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
Tria | Giulia Grandinetti | Italy |
Birds | Katherine Propper | United States |
Groom | Leyla Coll-O’Reilly | United Kingdom |
Back to School | Tyro Heath | United Kingdom |
The Dependent Variables | Le variabili dipendenti | Lorenzo Tardella | Italy |
Yung Michal | Štepán Vodrážka | Czechia |
My Year of Dicks | Sara Gunnarsdóttir | United States, Iceland |
Night Walks and Happy Never Afterse
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
Honey | Madhu | Tanmay Chowdhary, Tanvi Chowdhary | India |
Outdoors | John Fitzpatrick | United Kingdom |
Rosemary A.D. (After Dad) | Ethan Barrett | United States |
An Avocado Pit | Um Caroço de Abacate | Ary Zara | Portugal |
Curiosa | Tessa Moult-Milewska | United Kingdom |
The Pass | Pepi Ginsberg | United States |
Checoslovaquia | Dennis Perinango | Peru |
Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
Suzie in the Garden | Zuza v zahradách | Lucie Sunková | Czechia, Slovakia |
I’m Not Afraid! | Ich habe keine Angst! | Marita Mayer | Germany, Norway |
Aeronaut | Leon Golterman | Netherlands |
Bellysaurus | Philip Watts | Australia |
Zootropolis + “Godfather of the Bride” | Josie Trinidad, Trent Correy | United States |
Bristles | Quentin Haberham | Netherlands |
Hush, Hush Little Bear | Čuči čuči | Māra Liniņa | Latvia |
Mr. Spam gets a New Hat | William Joyce | United Kingdom |
Hello to Me in 100 Years | Wu-Ching Chang | Taiwan |
Surprise Film
The Menu, dir. Mark Mylod
Awards
Competition
Audience
- Audience Award - Feature: Blue Bag Life by Lisa Selby, Rebecca Hirsch Lloyd-Evans, and Alex Fry
- Audience Award - Short: Drop Out by Ade Femzo
References
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