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 BFI 52nd London Film Festival
15 - 30 OCTOBER 2008
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Fipresci Award: THREE BLIND MICE
First Feature (Sutherland Trophy): TULPAN
Feature Doc (Grierson Award): VICTOIRE TERMINUS
Satyajit Ray Award: MID-AUGUST LUNCH
Achievement in Film (Variety Award): Ralph Fiennes

Opening Night:
FROST/NIXON
Closing Night:
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Surprise Film:
THE WRESTLER
Galas:
THE BROTHERS BLOOM.
CHE.
THE CLASS.
EASY VIRTUE.
HUNGER.
GENOVA.
GONZO.
THE OTHER MAN.
QUANTUM OF SOLACE.
THE SECRET OF MOONACRE.
VICKY CHRISTINA BARCELONA.
W.
WALTZ WITH BASHIR.
BFI site RICH'S BEST OF THE FEST 2008:
  1. HUNGER
  2. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
  3. THE WRESTLER
  4. THE CLASS
  5. OF TIME AND THE CITY
  6. SUGAR
  7. WALTZ WITH BASHIR
  8. FROST/NIXON
  9. THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX
  10. GONZO
F I L M S   I N C L U D E
1234 (Borg, UK)
24 CITY (Jia, Chn)
57000 KM BETWEEN US (Kreuter, Fr)
* ACHILLES AND THE TORTOISE (Kitano, Jpn)
must see ADORATION (Egoyan, Can)
AFTERSCHOOL (Campos, US)
ALL AROUND US (Hashiguchi, Jpn)
AMERICAN TEEN (Burstein, US)
ANVIL: THE STORY OF ANVIL (Gervasi, US)
ANYWHERE USA (Haney-Jardine, US)
AWAYDAYS (Holden, UK)
THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX (Edel, Ger)
BALLAST (Hammer, US)
* THE BEACHES OF AGNES (Varda, Fr)
BEAUTIFUL LOSERS (Rose/Leonard, US)
BEIRUT OPEN CITY (Habchi, Leb)
LA BELLE PERSONNE (Honore, Fr)
THE BETRAYAL (Kuras, US)
BETTER THINGS (Hopkins, UK)
BIRDSONG (Serra, Sp)
BLACK SEA (Bondi, It)
BLIND LOVES (Lehotsky, Rom)
BROKEN LINES (Aprahamian, UK)
BRONSON (Refn, UK)
THE BROTHERS BLOOM (Johnson, US)
BULLET IN THE HEAD (Rosales, Sp)
THE CANDIDATE (Barfoed, Den)
CAPTIVE (Uchitel, Bul)
CHE: PART ONE (Soderbergh, US)
CHE: PART TWO (Soderbergh, US)
A CHRISTMAS TALE (Desplechin, Fr)
CITIZEN HAVEL (Koutecky, It)
THE CLASS (Cantet, Fr)
CLOUD 9 (Dresen, Ger)
COLD LUNCH (Sohaug, Nor)
COLOURS OF PASSION (Mehta, Ind)
COUNTRY WEDDING (Oskarsdottir, Ice)
COWARDS (Corbacho, Sp)
DEAN SPANLEY (Fraser, NZ)
DELTA (Mundruczo, Hun)
THE DESERT WITHIN (Pla, Mex)
DIVIZIONZ (Yes! That's Us, Uga)
IL DIVO (Sorrentino, It)
DYING OR FEELING BETTER (Barbosa, Fr)
EASY VIRTUE (Elliott, UK)
ELDORADO (Lanners, Bel)
EVERYBODY DIES BUT ME (Gai-Germanika, Rus)
EYE OF THE SUN (El-Batout, Egy)
THE FEATURE (Auder/Neel, US)
FIRAAQ (Das, Ind)
FLAME & CITRON (Madsen, Den)
FOZEN RIVER (Hunt, US)
FRANKLYN (McMorrow, UK)
must see FROST/NIXON (Howard, UK)
A GAME FOR GIRLS (Rovere, It)
GENOVA (Winterbottom, UK)
GERMAN + RAIN (Yokohama, Jpn)
GONZO (Gibney, US)
GOOD CATS (Liang, Chn)
THE GOOD THE BAD THE WEIRD (Kim, Kor)
GOODBYE SOLO (Bahrani, US)
* HAMLET 2 (Fleming, US)
HANSEL AND GRETEL (Yim , Kor)
HASSAN AND MORCOS (Imam, Egy)
HEART OF FIRE (Falorni, Ger)
HELEN (Molloy/Lawler, UK)
HOME (Meier, Swi)
HOOKED (Sitaru, Rom)
HUNGER (McQueen, UK)
I AM ALIVE (Gentili/Gentili, It)
I KNOW YOU KNOW (Kerrigan, UK)
INCENDIARY (Maguire, UK)
INVOLUNTARY (Ostlund, Swe)
JAY (Pasion, Phi)
JOHNNY MAD DOG (Sauvaire, Lib)
THE KARAMAZOVS (Zelenka, Cz)
* KISSES (Daly, Ire)
LAILA'S BIRTHDAY (Masharawi, Pal)
A LAKE (Grandrieux, Fr)
LAKE TAHOE (Eimbcke, Mex)
LARGO (Flanagan, US)
THE LAST THAKUR (Ahmed, Ban)
LAZY DAYS (Ponce, Sp)
LET'S TALK ABOUT THE RAIN (Jaoui, Fr)
LION'S DEN (Trapero, Arg)
LIVERPOOL (Alonso, Arg)
LOOSE ROPE (Karkhani, Iran)
LOUISE - MICHEL (Kervern, Fr)
LOVE LIVE LONG (Figgis, UK)
 * THE MARKET (Hopkins, Ger)
MAX MINSKY AND ME (Justice, Ger)
MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY (Jenkins, US)
MIA & THE MIGOU (Girerd, Fr)
MID-AUGUST LUNCH (Di Gregorio, It)
MIRACLE OF ST ANA (Lee, US)
MODERN LIFE (Depardon, Fr)
MOMMA'S MAN (Jacobs, US)
MUST READ AFTER MY DEATH (Dews, US)
NEW TOWN KILLERS (Jobson, UK)
NICK & NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST (Sollett, US)
NIGHT AND DAY (Hong, Kor)
NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS (Swanberg/Gerwig, US)
NO NETWORK (Kristinsson, Ice)
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD (Hartley, Aus)
NUCINGEN HAUS (Ruiz , Fr)
OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN (Michalek, Cz)
OF TIME AND THE CITY (Davies, UK)
ORDINARY BOYS (Hernandez, Sp)
THE OTHER MAN (Eyre, UK)
PARC (des Pallieres, Fr)
PARQUE VIA (Rivero, Mex)
THE PAST IS A FOREIGN LAND (Vicari, It)
A PERFECT DAY (Ozpetek, It)
THE POSSIBILTY OF AN ISLAND (Houellebecq, Fr)
QUANTUM OF SOLACE (Forster, UK)
QUICK GUN MURUGAN (Ghosh, Ind)
QUIET CHAOS (Grimaldi, It)
LA RABIA (Carri, Arg)
RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (Demme, US)
RAILROAD CROSSING (Vila, Den)
RAMCHAND PAKISTANI (Jabbar, Pak)
RELIGULOUS (Charles, US)
* REVANCHE (Spielmann, Aut)
ROUTINE HOLIDAY (Li, Chn)
RR (Benning, US)
SALT OF THIS SEA (Jacir , Pal)
SEAMSTRESSES (Todorov BULGARIA THE SECRET (Anwar, Ina)
THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES (Prince-Bythewood, US)
THE SECRET OF MOONACRE (Csupo, UK)
SEX POSITIVE (Wein, US)
SHIFTY (Creevy, UK)
SHULTES (Bakuradze, Rus)
THE SILENCE BEFORE BACH (Portabella, Sp)
THE SILENCE OF LORNA (Dardenne/Dardenne, Bel)
A SIMPLE HEART (Lane, Fr)
SKY, THE EARTH AND THE RAIN, THE (Leiva, Chl)
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Boyle, UK)
SOS - SUMMER OF SUSPENSE (Naes, Nor)
SOUTH MAIN (Parker, US)
STILL WALKING (Kore-eda, Jpn)
SUGAR (Boden/Fleck, US)
SUNSHINE BARRY & THE DISCO WORMS (Nielson, Den)
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK (Kaufman, US)
TAHAAN - A BOY WITH A GRENADE (Sivan, Ind)
A TALE OF TWO MOZZIES (Hastrup , Den)
TELSTAR (Moran, UK)
TEZA (Gerima, Eth)
THREE BLIND MICE (Newton, Aus)
THREE MONKEYS (Ceylan, Tur)
TOKYO! (Gondry/Carax/Bong, Jpn)
TONY MANERO (Larrain, Chl)
* TRICKS (Jakimowski, Pol)
TULPAN (Dvortsevoy, Rus)
TWO LOVERS (Gray, US)
TYSON (Toback, US)
UNDER THE TREE (Nugroho, Ina)
UNITED RED ARMY (Wakamatsu, Jpn)
UPRISE (Aguilar, Por)
VASHTI BUNYAN: FROM HERE TO BEFORE (Evans, UK)
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (Allen, Sp)
VICTOIRE TERMINUS (Barre, Con)
LA VIE D'ARTISTE (Fitoussi, Fr)
W. (Stone, US)
WALTZ WITH BASHIR (Folman, Isr)
THE WARLORDS (Chan, Chn)
A WEEK ALONE (Murga, Arg)
WELCOME TO SAJJANPUR (Benegal, Ind)
WENDY AND LUCY (Reichardt, US)
WHERE IS WINKY'S HORSE (Kamp, Ned)
THE WITCH OF THE WEST IS DEAD (Nagasaki, Jpn)
WONDERFUL TOWN (Assarat, Tha)
THE WRESTLER (Aronofsky, US)
YAH CHAYKA (Tanikawa, Jpn)

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