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 55th BFI London Film Festival
12 - 27 OCTOBER 2011
LFF site
Opening film: 360
Closing film: THE DEEP BLUE SEA
Galas:
THE ARTIST
ANONYMOUS
CORIOLANUS
A DANGEROUS METHOD
THE DESCENDANTS
THE FIRST BORN
THE IDES OF MARCH
THE KID WITH A BIKE
SHAME
TALES OF THE NIGHT
TRISHNA
W.E.
WE HAVE A POPE
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

2 0 1 1   A W A R D S ...

Film:
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
Doc (Grierson Award):
INTO THE ABYSS
First Feature (Sutherland Award): LAS ACACIAS
British Newcomer:
Candese Reid (JUNKHEARTS)
BFI Fellowship:
Ralph Fiennes (CORIOLANUS) and David Cronenberg (A DANGEROUS METHOD)

BFI site RICH'S BEST OF THE FEST 2011:
  1. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
  2. THE ARTIST
  3. WEEKEND
  4. SHAME
  5. THIS IS NOT A FILM
  6. WILD BILL
  7. ALPS
  8. BEAUTY
  9. DREAMS OF A LIFE
  10. SHE MONKEYS
Honourable mention: CARNAGE, THE DESCENDANTS, INTO THE ABYSS, THE KID WITH A BIKE, SNOWTOWN. 		F I L M S   I N C L U D E

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17 GIRLS (Coulin/Coulin, Fr)
360 (Meirelles, UK)
50/50 (Levine, US)
ABU, SON OF ADAM (Ahamed, Ind)
LAS ACACIAS (Giorgelli, Arg)
ALMAYER'S FOLLY (Akerman, Be)
ALMS OF THE BLIND HORSE (Singh, Ind)
ALPS (Lanthimos, Gr)
AMADOR (Aranoa, Sp)
AMERICAN FALLS (Solomon, US)
AMERICANO (Demy, Fr)
ANDA UNION (Pearce/Lascelles/Tiley, UK)
ANONYMOUS (Emmerich, UK)
THE ART OF LOVE (Mouret, Fr)
THE ARTIST (Hazanavicius, Fr)
ASMAA (Salama, Egy)
THE AWAKENING (Murphy, UK)
BACK TO STAY (Mumenthaler, Arg)
BEAUTY (Hermanus, SA)
BERNADETTE (Doolan, Ire)
BERNIE (Linklater, US)
BETTER THIS WORLD (Galloway/de la Vega, US)
THE BIRD (Caumon, Fr)
A BITTER TASTE OF FREEDOM (Goldovskaya, Swe)
THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 (Olsson, Swe)
BOAT WRECK (Ghosh, Ind)
THE BOY WHO WAS A KING (Paounov, Bul)
* BREATHING (Markovics, Aut)
CARNAGE (Polanski, Fr)
A CAT IN PARIS (Gagnol/Felicioli, Fr)
CHICKEN WITH PLUMS (Satrapi/Paronnaud, Fr)
CHILDREN WHO CHASE LOST VOICES (Shinkai, Jpn)
CORIOLANUS (Fiennes, UK)
CORPO CELESTE (Rohrwacher, It)
CORRESPONDENCE (Guerin/Mekas, Sp)
CRAZY HORSE (Wiseman, Fr)
CRULIC (Damian, Rom)
DAMSELS IN DISTRESS (Stillman, US)
A DANGEROUS METHOD (Cronenberg, Ger)
DARK HORSE (Solondz, US)
DARWIN (Brandestini, Swi)
THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong , Kor)
THE DEEP BLUE SEA (Davies, UK)
DENDERA (Tengan, Jpn)
THE DESCENDANTS (Payne, US)
THE DISH AND THE SPOON (Bagnall, US)
DRAGONSLAYER (Patterson, US)
DREAMS OF A LIFE (Morley, UK)
DREILEBEN: BEATS BEING DEAD (Petzold, Ger)
DREILEBEN: DON'T FOLLOW ME (Graf, Ger)
DREILEBEN: ONE MINUTE OF DARKNESS (Hochhausler, Ger)
EARLY ONE MORNING (Moutout, Fr)
ELENA (Zvyagintsev, Rus)
ETERNITY (Kongsakul, Tha)
THE EXCHANGE (Kolirin, Isr)
THE FAIRY (Abel/Gordon/Romy, Be)
THE FATHERLESS (Kreutzer, Aut)
FAUST (Sokurov, Rus)
THE FIRST BORN (Mander, UK)
FLYING FISH (Pushpakumara, Sri)
FOOTNOTE (Cedar, Isr)
THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD (Marston , US)
FREE RADICALS (Chodorov, Fr)
FUCHSIA: THE MINI-WITCH (Nijenhuis, Ned)
THE FUTURE (July, US)
FUTURES MARKET (Alvarez, Sp)
GANDU (Mukherjee, Ind)
THE GIANTS (Lanners, Be)
GOODBYE (Rasoulof, Irn)
THE GREAT BEAR (Jacobsen, Den)
GUILTY (Garenq, Fr)
GYPSY (Sulik, Svk)
* HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI (Miike, Jpn)
HARD LABOUR (Rojas/Dutra, Br)
* HEADHUNTERS (Tyldum, Nor)
HERE (King, US)
THE HOUSE (Liova, Svk)
* HOW TO RE-ESTABLISH A VOKDA EMPIRE (Edelstyn, UK)
* HUNKY DORY (Evans, UK)
HUT IN THE WOODS (Weingartner, Ger)
I WISH (Kore-eda, Jpn)
I'M CAROLYN PARKER (Demme, US)
THE IDES OF MARCH (Clooney, US
INTO THE ABYSS (Herzog, US)
THE JEWEL (Molaioli, It)
JUNKHEARTS (Krishnan, UK)
KAREN CRIES ON THE BUS (Vera, Col)
THE KID WITH A BIKE (Dardenne/Dardenne, Bel)
* KING CURLING (Endresen, Nor)
LAST DAYS HERE (Argott/Fenton, US)
LAST SCREENING (Achard, Fr)
LAST WINTER (Shank, Be)
LAWRENCE OF BELGRAVIA (Kelly, UK)
LET THE BULLETS FLY (Wen, Chn)
 LI AND THE POET (Segre, It)
LIKE CRAZY (Doremus, US)
* THE LONELIEST PLANET (Loktev, Ger)
THE LORD WORKED WONDERS IN ME (Serra, Sp)
LOTUS EATERS (McGuinness, UK)
LOUISE WIMMER (Mennegun, Fr)
LOW LIFE (Klotz/Perceval, Fr)
MAGIC TRIP (Ellwood/Gibney, US)
THE MAGICIANS (Lursen, Ned)
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (Durkin, US)
MEDIANERAS (Taretto, Arg)
* MICHAEL (Schleinzer , Aut)
* MISS BALA (Naranjo, Mex)
MITSUKO DELIVERS (Ishii, Jpn)
THE MONK (Moll, Sp)
MOURNING (Farshbaf, Irn)
MR TREE (Han , Chn)
MY BACK PAGE (Yamashita, Jpn)
THE NATURAL PHENOMENON OF MADNESS (Gohetia, Ph)
NATURAL SELECTION (Pickering, US)
THE NOBEL THIEF (Ghosh, Ind)
NOBODY ELSE BUT YOU (Hustache-Mathieu, Fr)
OLD DOG (Tseden, Chn)
ON THE ICE (MacLean, US)
ON THE SLY (Ringer, Be)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (Ceylan, Tur)
OSLO, AUGUST 31ST (Trier, Nor)
OSTENDE (Citarella, Arg)
OTELO BURNING (Blecher, SA)
OUTSIDE SATAN (Dumont, Fr)
PARIAH (Rees, US)
THE PETTIFOGGER (Klahr, US)
* PLAY (Ostlund, Swe)
POLICEMAN (Lapid, Isr)
RAMPART (Moverman, US)
REBELLION (Kassovitz, Fr)
RESTLESS (Van Sant, US)
RESTLESS CITY (Dosunmu, US)
RETURN (Johnson, US)
SARAH PALIN: YOU BETCHA! (Broomfield/Churchill, UK)
THE SCREEN ILLUSION (Amalric, Fr)
SEVEN ACTS OF MERCY (De Serio/De Serio, It)
SHAME (McQueen, UK)
SHE MONKEYS (Aschan, Swe)
SHOCK HEAD SOUL (Pummell, UK)
SILVER BULLETS (Swanberg, US)
A SIMPLE LIFE (Hui, Chn)
* SING YOUR SONG (Rostock, US)
SKET (Bhogal, UK)
SLEEPING SICKNESS(Kohler, Ger)
THE SLEEPING VOICE (Zambrano, Sp)
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES (Mekas, US)
THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO (Guediguian, Fr)
SNOWTOWN (Kurzel, Aus)
THE SOMNAMBULISTS (Jobson, UK)
THE SOUL OF FLIES (Burley, Sp)
STATELESS THINGS (Kim, Kor)
STOPPED ON TRACK (Dresen, Ger)
STRAWBERRY FIELDS (Lea, UK)
THE STUDENT (Mitre, Arg)
THE SUN-BEATEN PATH (Gyal, Chn)
SUPERHEROES (Barnett, US)
TAKE SHELTER (Nichols, US)
TALES OF THE NIGHT (Ocelot, Fr)
* TARGET (Zeldovich, Rus)
* TERRAFERMA (Crialese, It)
* TERRI (Jacobs, US)
THERE WAS NEVER A BETTER BROTHER (Ibragimbekov, Aze)
THIS IS NOT A FILM (Panahi/Mirtahmasb, Irn)
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (Sorrentino, It)
TRISHNA (Winterbottom, UK)
TWENTY CIGARETTES (Benning, US)
TWILIGHT PORTRAIT (Nikonova, Rus)
TWO YEARS AT SEA (Rivers, UK)
UNCLE KENT (Swanberg, US)
UNDERCURRENT (Asgeirsson , Ice)
VOLCANO (Runarsson, Den)
W.E. (Madonna, UK)
WALKING TOO FAST (Spacek, Cz)
THE WAVES (Morais, Sp)
WE HAVE A POPE (Moretti, It)
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (Ramsay, UK)
WEEKEND (Haigh, UK)
WHEN THE NIGHT (Comencini, It)
WHERE DO WE GO NOW? (Labaki, Leb)
WHORES' GLORY (Glawogger, Aut)
WILD BILL (Fletcher, UK)
* WITHOUT (Jackson, US)
WOMEN WITH COWS (Gerdehag, Swe)
WRECKERS (Hood, UK)
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Arnold, UK)
YATASTO (Paralluelo, Arg)

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