2024 BFI London Film Festival

{{Infobox film festival|name=68th BFI London Film Festival|image=|caption=|opening=Blitz|closing=Piece by Piece|location=London, United Kingdom|founded=1957|awards=|host=|number=|date=9–20 October 2024|website={{URL|https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp}}|main=BFI London Film Festival|previous=2023|next=2025}}

The 68th BFI London Film Festival was a film festival that took place from 9–20 October 2024. The competition films were announced on 29 August 2024 while the films for the galas and the strands were revealed on 4 September 2024.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2024/08/london-film-festival-dea-kulumbegashvili-april-barry-keoghan-bring-them-down-competition-1236072294/|title=London Film Festival: Dea Kulumbegashvili’s ‘April’ And Barry Keoghan Pic ‘Bring Them Down’ To Play In Competition|website=Deadline|first=Zac|last=Ntim|date=29 August 2024|accessdate=6 September 2024}}{{Cite web |date=2024-09-04 |title=Full programme announced for 68th BFI London Film Festival |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/london-film-festival/news/full-programme-68th-bfi-london-film-festival |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=BFI |language=en |archive-date=2024-09-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240904150652/https://www.bfi.org.uk/london-film-festival/news/full-programme-68th-bfi-london-film-festival |url-status=live }}

Steve McQueen's historical drama Blitz opened the festival on 9 October 2024, being the third film by McQueen to do so after Widows in 2018 and Mangrove in 2020.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2024/07/steve-mcqueen-blitz-london-film-festival-world-premiere-saoirse-ronan-harris-dickinson-stephen-graham-1235998279/|title=Steve McQueen's 'Blitz' To Open London Film Festival As World Premiere|first=Zac|last=Ntim|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=July 1, 2024|access-date=July 2, 2024|archive-date=July 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711122425/https://deadline.com/2024/07/steve-mcqueen-blitz-london-film-festival-world-premiere-saoirse-ronan-harris-dickinson-stephen-graham-1235998279/|url-status=live}} Morgan Neville's animated documentary film Piece by Piece closed the festival on 20 October 2024.{{Cite web |last=Ramachandran |first=Naman |date=2024-09-04 |title=Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Elton John, Andrew Garfield, Saoirse Ronan Titles Among BFI London Film Festival Full Lineup |url=https://variety.com/2024/global/global/london-film-festival-2024-full-lineup-1236129675/ |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

Juries

The jury members were as follows:{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/london-film-festival/news/competition-juries-2024#:~:text=This%20year's%20competition%20jury%20presidents,June%20Givanni%20and%20Chloe%20Abrahams.|title=Competition juries announced for 68th BFI London Film Festival|website=BFI London Film Festival|date=27 September 2024|accessdate=20 October 2024|archive-date=2 October 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241002230219/https://www.bfi.org.uk/london-film-festival/news/competition-juries-2024#:~:text=This%20year's%20competition%20jury%20presidents,June%20Givanni%20and%20Chloe%20Abrahams.|url-status=live}}

= Main Competition =

Alexandre O. Philippe, Swiss film director – Jury president
Manori Ravindran, English trade journalist
Reinaldo Marcus Green, American filmmaker

= First Feature Competition ([[Sutherland Award]]) =

Dionne Edwards, British filmmaker – Jury president
Julia Weigl, artistic co-director of the Munich Film Festival
Bernardo Rondeau, curator of Film Programs at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and former Senior Director of Film Programs for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

= Documentary Competition (Grierson Award) =

June Givanni, Guyanese-British curator, archivist, and founder of the June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive – Jury president
Ella Glendining, British writer and director
Raul Niño Zambrano, creative director of Sheffield DocFest

= Short Film Competition =

Chloe Abrahams, Sri Lankan-British writer and director – Jury president
Simisolaoluwa Akande, British director
George Jaques, British filmmaker

Venues

The partner venues for the festival included:{{cite web|url=https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=venues-uk|title=LFF on tour|website=British Film Institute|accessdate=6 September 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=venues&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=|title=Venues|website=British Film Institute|accessdate=6 September 2024|archive-date=6 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240906232938/https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=venues&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=|url-status=live}}{{col-begin}}{{col-break}}

= London cinemas =

BFI Southbank
BFI IMAX
Curzon Mayfair
Curzon Soho
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
Prince Charles Cinema
Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall
Vue West End
Picturehouse Central - Press and industry screenings

= Expanded venues =

Bargehouse at Oxo Tower Wharf
Outernet
Theatre Avenue

= UK-wide cinemas =

Official Selection

= Galas =

The following films were selected for the Galas section, which screens world, European, and British premieres:{{Cite web |last=Ntim |first=Zac |date=2024-09-04 |title=BFI London Film Festival Lineup: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin To Debut 'Endurance', Baker, Heller, Berger & Abbasi's Trump Movie Among Headline Galas — Full List |url=https://deadline.com/2024/09/bfi-london-film-festival-lineup-2024-elizabeth-chai-vasarhelyi-jimmy-chin-endurance-sean-baker-anora-ali-abbasis-donald-trump-the-apprentice-1236077351/ |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}

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English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
colspan="4"\| Opening Night Gala
colspan="2" \|Blitz \|Steve McQueen \| United Kingdom, United States
colspan="4"\| Closing Night Gala
colspan="2" \|Piece by Piece \|Morgan Neville \| United States
colspan="4"\| American Express Gala
colspan="2" \|Elton John: Never Too Late \|R.J. Cutler, David Furnish \|United States
colspan="4"\| Mayor of London's Gala
colspan="2" \|We Live in Time \| John Crowley \| United Kingdom, France
colspan="4"\| Cunard Gala
colspan="2" \|Joy \|Ben Taylor \|United Kingdom
colspan="4"\| BFI Patron's Gala
colspan="2" \|Hard Truths \|Mike Leigh \|United Kingdom, Spain
colspan="4"\| Family Gala
colspan="2" \|That Christmas \|Simon Otto \|United Kingdom United States
colspan="4"\| Headline Gala
colspan="2" \|Anora \|Sean Baker \|United States
colspan="2" \|The Apprentice \|Ali Abbasi \|Canada, Denmark, Ireland
colspan="2" \|Bird \|Andrea Arnold \|United Kingdom, France, Germany, United States
colspan="2" \|Conclave \|Edward Berger \| United Kingdom, United States
colspan="2" \|Emilia Pérez \|Jacques Audiard \|France
colspan="2" \|Maria \|Pablo Larraín \|Italy, Germany, United States
colspan="2" \|Nightbitch \|Marielle Heller \| United States
The Room Next Door \|La habitación de al lado \|Pedro Almodóvar \|Spain

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English Title

! Original Title

! Director(s)

! Production Country

colspan="4"| Opening Night Gala

colspan="2" |Blitz

|Steve McQueen

| United Kingdom, United States

colspan="4"| Closing Night Gala

colspan="2" |Piece by Piece

|Morgan Neville

| United States

colspan="4"| American Express Gala

colspan="2" |Elton John: Never Too Late

|R.J. Cutler, David Furnish

|United States

colspan="4"| Mayor of London's Gala

colspan="2" |We Live in Time

| John Crowley

| United Kingdom, France

colspan="4"| Cunard Gala

colspan="2" |Joy

|Ben Taylor

|United Kingdom

colspan="4"| BFI Patron's Gala

colspan="2" |Hard Truths

|Mike Leigh

|United Kingdom, Spain

colspan="4"| Family Gala

colspan="2" |That Christmas

|Simon Otto

|United Kingdom
United States

colspan="4"| Headline Gala

colspan="2" |Anora

|Sean Baker

|United States

colspan="2" |The Apprentice

|Ali Abbasi

|Canada, Denmark, Ireland

colspan="2" |Bird

|Andrea Arnold

|United Kingdom, France, Germany, United States

colspan="2" |Conclave

|Edward Berger

| United Kingdom, United States

colspan="2" |Emilia Pérez

|Jacques Audiard

|France

colspan="2" |Maria

|Pablo Larraín

|Italy, Germany, United States

colspan="2" |Nightbitch

|Marielle Heller

| United States

The Room Next Door

|La habitación de al lado

|Pedro Almodóvar

|Spain

= Special Presentations =

The following films were selected for the Special Presentations section:

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English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
colspan="2" \|All We Imagine As Light \|Payal Kapadia \|France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg
colspan="2" \|The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire \|Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich \|United States
colspan="2" \|Dahomey \|Mati Diop \|France, Senegal, Benin
colspan="2" \|Endurance \|Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Natalie Hewit \|United Kingdom, United States
colspan="2" \|Harvest \|Athina Rachel Tsangari \|United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France, United States
I’m Still Here \|Ainda Estou Aqui \|Walter Salles \|Brazil, France
colspan="2" \|A Nice Indian Boy (BFI Flare Special Presentation) \|Roshan Sethi \|United States, Canada
colspan="2" \|Nickel Boys \|RaMell Ross \| rowspan="2" \|United States
colspan="2" \|The Piano Lesson \|Malcolm Washington
colspan="2" \|Queer \|Luca Guadagnino \|Italy, United States
colspan="2" \|A Real Pain \|Jesse Eisenberg \|United States, Poland
The Seed of the Sacred Fig \|دانه‌ی انجیر معابد \|Mohammad Rasoulof \|Iran, Germany, France
colspan="2" \|Silent Sherlock (1921–1923) \|Maurice Elvey, George Ridgwell \|United Kingdom
colspan="2" \|The Summer Book \|Charlie McDowell \|Finland, United Kingdom
colspan="2" \|The Wild Robot \|Chris Sanders \|United States

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English Title

! Original Title

! Director(s)

! Production Country

colspan="2" |All We Imagine As Light

|Payal Kapadia

|France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg

colspan="2" |The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

|Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich

|United States

colspan="2" |Dahomey

|Mati Diop

|France, Senegal, Benin

colspan="2" |Endurance

|Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Natalie Hewit

|United Kingdom, United States

colspan="2" |Harvest

|Athina Rachel Tsangari

|United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France, United States

I’m Still Here

|Ainda Estou Aqui

|Walter Salles

|Brazil, France

colspan="2" |A Nice Indian Boy (BFI Flare Special Presentation)

|Roshan Sethi

|United States, Canada

colspan="2" |Nickel Boys

|RaMell Ross

| rowspan="2" |United States

colspan="2" |The Piano Lesson

|Malcolm Washington

colspan="2" |Queer

|Luca Guadagnino

|Italy, United States

colspan="2" |A Real Pain

|Jesse Eisenberg

|United States, Poland

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

|دانه‌ی انجیر معابد

|Mohammad Rasoulof

|Iran, Germany, France

colspan="2" |Silent Sherlock (1921–1923)

|Maurice Elvey, George Ridgwell

|United Kingdom

colspan="2" |The Summer Book

|Charlie McDowell

|Finland, United Kingdom

colspan="2" |The Wild Robot

|Chris Sanders

|United States

= In Competition =

There were four competition sections, each with a different selection of films and different juries.

== Official Competition ==

The following films competed for the Best Film Award:

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English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
colspan="2" \|April \|Dea Kulumbegashvili \|France, Italy, Georgia
colspan="2" \|Bring Them Down \|Christopher Andrews \|Ireland, United Kingdom, Belgium
colspan="2" \|The Extraordinary Miss Flower \|Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard \|United Kingdom
colspan="2" \|Four Mothers \|Colin Thornton, Darren Thornton \|Ireland, United Kingdom
Living in Two Worlds \|ぼくが生きてる、ふたつの世界 \|Mipo O \|Japan
style="background:#E7CD00;" \| colspan="2" \|Memoir of a Snail \|Adam Elliot \|Australia
colspan="2" \|On Becoming a Guinea Fowl \|Rungano Nyoni \|Zambia, United Kingdom, Ireland
colspan="2" \|Thank You for Banking With Us \|Laila Abbas \|Palestine, Germany
Under the Volcano \|Pod wulkanem \|Damian Kocur \|Poland
colspan="2" \|Vermiglio \|Maura Delpero \|Italy, France, Belgium
The Wolves Always Come at Night \|Чоно үүр шөнөөр ирдэг \|Gabrielle Brady \|Australia, Mongolia, Germany

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English Title

! Original Title

! Director(s)

! Production Country

colspan="2" |April

|Dea Kulumbegashvili

|France, Italy, Georgia

colspan="2" |Bring Them Down

|Christopher Andrews

|Ireland, United Kingdom, Belgium

colspan="2" |The Extraordinary Miss Flower

|Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard

|United Kingdom

colspan="2" |Four Mothers

|Colin Thornton, Darren Thornton

|Ireland, United Kingdom

Living in Two Worlds

|ぼくが生きてる、ふたつの世界

|Mipo O

|Japan

style="background:#E7CD00;"

| colspan="2" |Memoir of a Snail

|Adam Elliot

|Australia

colspan="2" |On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

|Rungano Nyoni

|Zambia, United Kingdom, Ireland

colspan="2" |Thank You for Banking With Us

|Laila Abbas

|Palestine, Germany

Under the Volcano

|Pod wulkanem

|Damian Kocur

|Poland

colspan="2" |Vermiglio

|Maura Delpero

|Italy, France, Belgium

The Wolves Always Come at Night

|Чоно үүр шөнөөр ирдэг

|Gabrielle Brady

|Australia, Mongolia, Germany

:Highlighted title indicates the section winner.

== First Feature Competition ==

The following films competed for the Sutherland Award, which is awarded to a directorial debut:

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English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
colspan="2" \|Crocodile Tears \|Tumpal Tampubolon \|Indonesia, France, Singapore, Germany
colspan="2" \|Hanami \|Denise Fernandes \|Switzerland, Portugal, Cape Verde
colspan="2" \|Happyend \|Neo Sora \|Japan, United States
colspan="2" \|Last Swim \|Sasha Nathwani \|United Kingdom
My Eternal Summer \|Min evige sommer \|Sylvia Le Fanu \|Denmark
Olivia & the Clouds \|Olivia & Las Nubes \|Tomás Pichardo Espaillat \|Dominican Republic
style="background:#E7CD00;" \| colspan="2" \|On Falling \|Laura Carreira \|United Kingdom, Portugal
colspan="2" \|Santosh \|Sandhya Suri \|United Kingdom, France, Germany
colspan="2" \|September Says \|Ariane Labed \|Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany
colspan="2" \|To a Land Unknown \|Mahdi Fleifel \|United Kingdom, Palestine, France, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
Who Do I Belong To \|ماء العين \|Meryam Joobeur \|Tunisia, France, Canada, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

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English Title

! Original Title

! Director(s)

! Production Country

colspan="2" |Crocodile Tears

|Tumpal Tampubolon

|Indonesia, France, Singapore, Germany

colspan="2" |Hanami

|Denise Fernandes

|Switzerland, Portugal, Cape Verde

colspan="2" |Happyend

|Neo Sora

|Japan, United States

colspan="2" |Last Swim

|Sasha Nathwani

|United Kingdom

My Eternal Summer

|Min evige sommer

|Sylvia Le Fanu

|Denmark

Olivia & the Clouds

|Olivia & Las Nubes

|Tomás Pichardo Espaillat

|Dominican Republic

style="background:#E7CD00;"

| colspan="2" |On Falling

|Laura Carreira

|United Kingdom, Portugal

colspan="2" |Santosh

|Sandhya Suri

|United Kingdom, France, Germany

colspan="2" |September Says

|Ariane Labed

|Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany

colspan="2" |To a Land Unknown

|Mahdi Fleifel

|United Kingdom, Palestine, France, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

Who Do I Belong To

|ماء العين

|Meryam Joobeur

|Tunisia, France, Canada, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

:Highlighted title indicates the section winner.

==Documentary Competition==

The following films competed for the Grierson Award, which is awarded to a feature-length documentary.

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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Collective Monologue	Monólogo colectivo	Jessica Sarah Rinland	Argentina, United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Holloway	Sophie Compton, Daisy-May Hudson	United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Kamay	Ilyas Yourish, Shahrokh Bikaran	Afghanistan, Belgium, France, Germany
style="background:#E7CD00;" \| colspan="2"\| Mother Vera	Cécile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson	United Kingdom
Rising Up at Night	Tongo Saa	Nelson Makengo	Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar
colspan="2"\| Seeking Mavis Beacon	Jazmin Renée Jones	United States
colspan="2"\| The Shadow Scholars	Eloise King	rowspan="2"\| United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Witches	Elizabeth Sankey

:Highlighted title indicates the section winner.

==Short Film Competition==

The following films competed for the Short Film Award.

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| Adura Baba Mi	Juliana Kasumu	rowspan="3"\| United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Cold Snap	Ellen Evans
colspan="2"\| Dragfox	Lisa Ott
colspan="2"\| I Don't Want to Be Just a Memory	Sarnt Utamachote	Germany
Magic Candies	Amedama	Nishio Daisuke	Japan
colspan="2"\| Mother's Day	Emily Burnett	rowspan="3"\| United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| See It, Say It	Nez Khammal
colspan="2"\| Stomach Bug	Matty Crawford
colspan="2"\| Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)	Suneil Sanzgiri	United States
style="background:#E7CD00;" \| colspan="2"\| Vibrations from Gaza	Rehab Nazzal	Palestine, Canada

:Highlighted title indicates the section winner.

=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
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colspan="2"\| All of You	William Bridges	United Kingdom
All Shall Be Well	從今以後	Ray Yeung	Hong Kong
At Averroès & Rosa Parks	Averroès & Rosa Parks	Nicolas Philibert	France
colspan="2"\| Grand Tour	Miguel Gomes	Portugal, Italy, France
colspan="2"\| I'm Your Venus	Kimberly Reed	United States
colspan="2"\| Motherboard	Victoria Mapplebeck	United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Patrice: The Movie	Ted Passon	rowspan="2"\| United States
colspan="2"\| Pavements	Alex Ross Perry
Queens of Drama	Les Reines du drame	Alexis Langlois	France, Belgium
colspan="2"\| Sex	Dag Johan Haugerud	Norway
Tarika	Stadoto	Milko Lazarov	Bulgaria, Germany, Luxembourg
Weightless	Sulla terra leggeri	Sara Fgaier	Italy
When Fall Is Coming	Quand vient l'automne	François Ozon	France
When the Light Breaks	Ljósbrot	Rúnar Rúnarsson	Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France

==Debate==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| 2073	Asif Kapadia	United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Black Box Diaries	Shiori Itō	Japan, United States, United Kingdom
The Cats of Gokogu Shrine	Gokōgu no Neko	Kazuhiro Soda	Japan, United States
Families like Ours	Familier som vores	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark, France, Sweden, Czechia, Belgium, Norway, Germany
I'm Nevenka	Soy Nevenka	Icíar Bollaín	Spain
colspan="2"\| The Invasion	Sergei Loznitsa	Netherlands, France, United States
colspan="2"\| Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989	Göran Hugo Olsson	Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Julie Keeps Quiet	Julie zwijgt	Leonardo Van Dijl	Belgium, Sweden
colspan="2"\| The Listeners	Jordan Tannahill	United Kingdom
Three Kilometres to the End of the World	Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii	Emanuel Pârvu	Romania
Youth (Homecoming)	青春	Wang Bing	France, Luxembourg, Netherlands

==Laugh==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| Audrey	Natalie Bailey	Australia
colspan="2"\| The Gutter	Yassir Lester, Isaiah Lester	United States
The Other Way Around	Volveréis	Jonás Trueba	Spain, France
colspan="2"\| Rumours	Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson	Germany, Canada
colspan="2"\| Sofa, So Good	Kyle Thiele, Eli Thiele, Cole Thiele	United States
A Traveler's Needs	여행자의 필요	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
Triumph	Триумф	Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov	Bulgaria, Greece
Universal Language	Une langue universelle / آواز بوقلمون	Matthew Rankin	Canada

==Dare==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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Bionico's Bachata	La bachata de Bionico	Yoel Morales	Dominican Republic
Caught by the Tides	风流一代	Jia Zhangke	China
colspan="2"\| Cidade; Campo	Juliana Rojas	Brazil, Germany, France
colspan="2"\| Diciannove	Giovanni Tortorici	Italy, United Kingdom
Don't Cry, Butterfly	Mu’a trên cánh bU’ó’m	Dương Diệu Linh	Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia
Eight Postcards from Utopia	Opt ilustrate din lumea ideală	Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz	Romania
colspan="2"\| Familiar Touch	Sarah Friedland	United States
Fire of Wind	Fogo do Vento	Marta Mateus	Portugal, Switzerland, France
My Stolen Planet	Sayyareye dozdide shodeye man	Farahnaz Sharifi	Germany, Iran
The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder	As Noites Ainda Cheiram a Pólvora	Inadelso Cossa	Mozambique, France, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, Norway
colspan="2"\| Pepe	Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias	Dominican Republic, Namibia, Germany, France
Formosa Beach	Praia Formosa	Julia de Simone	Portugal, Brazil
colspan="2"\| Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass	Brothers Quay	United Kingdom, Poland, Germany
colspan="2"\| Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat	Johan Grimonprez	Belgium, France, Netherlands
colspan="2"\| Sugar Island	Johanné Gómez Terrero	Dominican Republic, Spain
Việt and Nam	Trong lòng đất	Minh Quý Trương	Vietnam, Philippines, France, Singapore, Netherlands, Italy, Germany

==Thrill==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| Aïcha	Mehdi M. Barsaoui	Tunisia, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Qatar
colspan="2"\| Architecton	Viktor Kossakovsky	Germany, France
colspan="2"\| La cocina	Alonso Ruizpalacios	Mexico, United States
colspan="2"\| Eat the Night	Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel	France
Ghost Trail	Les Fantômes	Jonathan Millet	France, Germany, Belgium
colspan="2"\| Maldoror	Fabrice Du Welz	Belgium, France
Marco, the Invented Truth	Marco, la verdad inventada	Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño	Spain
Misericordia	Miséricorde	Alain Guiraudie	France, Spain, Portugal
colspan="2"\| Skincare	Austin Peters	United States
Stranger Eyes	默視錄	Yeo Siew Hua	Singapore, Taiwan, France, United States
colspan="2"\| A Thousand Blows	Steven Knight	United Kingdom

==Cult==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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The Balconettes	Les Femmes au balcon	Noémie Merlant	France
Bury Your Dead	Enterre Seus Mortos	Marco Dutra	Brazil
colspan="2"\| Chain Reactions	Alexandre O. Philippe	United States
colspan="2"\| Fréwaka	Aislinn Clarke	Ireland
colspan="2"\| Sister Midnight	Karan Kandhari	United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| The Surfer	Lorcan Finnegan	Australia, Ireland
The Wailing	El llanto	Pedro Martín-Calero	Spain, Argentina, France
colspan="2"\| The Weekend	Daniel Oriahi	Nigeria

==Journey==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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After the Long Rains	Baada Ya Masika	Damien Hauser	Kenya, Switzerland
colspan="2"\| The Assessment	Fleur Fortuné	United Kingdom, Germany, United States
colspan="2"\| Baby	Marcelo Caetano	Brazil
colspan="2"\| Eephus	Carson Lund	France, United States
colspan="2"\| Ellis Park	Justin Kurzel	Australia
colspan="2"\| The End	Joshua Oppenheimer	Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden
colspan="2"\| Flow	Gints Zilbalodis	Latvia, Belgium, France
colspan="2"\| Good One	India Donaldson	United States
colspan="2"\| Layla	Amrou Al-Kadhi	United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Look into My Eyes	Lana Wilson	United States
My Everything	Mon inséparable	Anne-Sophie Bailly	France
colspan="2"\| Sebastian	Mikko Mäkelä	United Kingdom, Belgium, Finland
colspan="2"\| Shambhala	Min Bahadur Bham	Nepal, France, Norway, Turkey, Hong Kong, Taiwan, United States, Qatar
colspan="2"\| Sujo	Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez	Mexico, United States, France
colspan="2"\| Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story	Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui	United Kingdom, United States
colspan="2"\| Treading Water	Gino Evans	United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| The Village Next to Paradise	Mo Harawe	Austria, France, Somalia

==Create==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| Abiding Nowhere	Tsai Ming-liang	Taiwan, United States
colspan="2"\| Ernest Cole: Lost and Found	Raoul Peck	United States, France
colspan="2"\| Grand Theft Hamlet	Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls	United Kingdom
It's Not Me	C'est pas moi	Leos Carax	France
colspan="2"\| One to One: John & Yoko	Kevin Macdonald	rowspan="3"\| United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story	Jane Mingay
colspan="2"\| The Stimming Pool	The Neurocultures Collective (Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker, Steven Eastwood)
colspan="2"\| Superboys of Malegaon	Reema Kagti	India
colspan="2"\| Twiggy	Sadie Frost	United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other	Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet	United Kingdom, Denmark, United States
colspan="2"\| The Way We Talk	Adam Wong Sau-Ping	Hong Kong

==Experimenta==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| The Treasury of Human Inheritance	Alexis Kyle Mitchell	Canada, United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Notes: Remembered and Found	Maria Anastassiou	United Kingdom, Cyprus
colspan="2"\| Direct Action	Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell	Germany, France
colspan="2"\| A Fidai Film	Kamal Aljafari	rowspan="2"\| Palestine
colspan="2"\| A Night We Held Between	Noor Abed
colspan="2"\| + No Exorcism Film	Komtouch Napattaloong	Thailand
colspan="2"\| Small Hours of the Night	Daniel Hui	Singapore

==Family==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| Blink	Edmund Stenson, Daniel Roher	United States
The Colors Within	きみの色	Naoko Yamada	Japan
Savages	Sauvages	Claude Barras	Switzerland, France, Belgium
colspan="2"\| Watership Down	Martin Rosen	United Kingdom

==Treasures==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| Manthan (1976)	Shyam Benegal	India
colspan="2"\| Manji (1964)	Yasuzō Masumura	Japan
colspan="2"\| María Candelaria (1943)	Emilio Fernández	Mexico
The Sealed Soil (1977)	Khake sar beh mohr	Marva Nabili	Iran
colspan="2"\| The Talk of the Town (1942)	George Stevens	United States

=Shorts=

The short film programme was divided into the following nine sections.

==Family Ties==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| Trouble	Sarah Blok	rowspan="5"\| United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Pigs	Julia Jackman
colspan="2"\| Us Four	Alex Peake
colspan="2"\| Space(s)	Luke "Frsh" Fannin
colspan="2"\| Two Minutes	Jamie Benyon

==Honouring Traditions==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| Midnight Rising	Aileen Ye	United Kingdom, Netherlands
colspan="2"\| Iranian Yellow Pages	Anna Snowball	rowspan="3"\| United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Irpinia	Jameisha Prescod
colspan="2"\| Travelling Home	Juliet Klottrup
colspan="2"\| Roots that Reach Toward the Sky	Jess X. Snow	United States, Canada
colspan="2"\| Red Soil	Joshua Ighodaro	rowspan="2"\| United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Salone Love	Tajana Tokyo

==I Don't Wanna Force a Smile==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| Not Surgery Hours	Tia Salisbury	rowspan="3"\| United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| The Nobody	Razan Madhoon
colspan="2"\| Happy Meat	Matt Green
colspan="2"\| Gender Reveal	Mo Matton	Canada
colspan="2"\| Bob's Funeral	Jack Dunphy	United States
colspan="2"\| The Real Thing	Charlie Fink	United Kingdom

==Sleepless Nights==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| Sylvia	Tárá Ayeni	United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Mosquito Lady	Kristine Gerolaga	United States
colspan="2"\| The Awakening	Al Campbell	rowspan="2"\| United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Outside Noise	Ethan Evans
colspan="2"\| Dream Creep	Carlos A. F. López	United States

==Trials and Tribulations==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| Hermit	Daniel Raggett	rowspan="5"\| United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Karavidhe	Eoin Doran
colspan="2"\| Rhoda	Alex Lawther
colspan="2"\| Fierce-ish Grace	Amaya Owen Rowlands
colspan="2"\| In Heat	Rory Fleck Byrne

==Wondering, Wandering==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| And Granny Would Dance	Maryam Mohajer	United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| A Short Film About Kids	Ibrahim Handal	Palestine
colspan="2"\| Dawn Every Day	Amir Youssef	Egypt
colspan="2"\| Liminal Roots	Aliyah Harfoot	rowspan="2"\| United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| What’s the Film About?	Poorva Bhat

==Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| Coo-rage	Alina Milkina	Netherlands
colspan="2"\| Love at First Waf	Louise Le Toullec, Helene Gouil	France
Who’s Wrong?	Vems Fel?	Stina Wirsén, Linda Hambäck	Sweden
colspan="2"\| The Brave Locomotive	Andrew Chesworth	United States
colspan="2"\| The Odd Carrot	Inese Pavēne	United Kingdom
colspan="2"\| Freelance	Luciano A. Muñoz Sessarego, Magnus I. Møller, Peter Smith	Denmark
colspan="2"\| Yuck!	Loïc Espuche	rowspan="2"\| France
The Child of the Waves	L'Enfant des vagues	Valentine Hilarin, Gaelle Bejjani, Yuhan Wang, Martin Gross, Noam Szwarc, Sofian Pourquery-de-Boisserin
Hello Summer	Ahoj leto	Martin Smatana, Veronika Zacharová	Slovakia, Czechia, France

==A Stream of Echoes==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| File No. 2304	A.S.M. Kobayashi	Canada, United States
colspan="2"\| At the Verge of Wordlessness	Alaa Abu Asad	Netherlands
Before Seriana	Avant Seriana	Samy Benammar	Canada, Algeria
Crocodile Nest	Nido de Cocodrilo	Jazmin Rojas Forero	Colombia, Germany

==Right in the Substance of Them a Trace of What Happened==

English Title ! Original Title ! Director(s) ! Production Country
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colspan="2"\| Non/Living	Müge Yildiz	Turkey, Finland
Two Stones	Rua Kōhatu	Noel Meek	New Zealand
colspan="2"\| Hexham Heads	Chloë Delanghe, Mattijs Driesen	Belgium
colspan="2"\| The Flesh of Language	Amanda Rice	Ireland
colspan="2"\| Hemel	Danielle Dean	United Kingdom
Our Lady Who Burns	Nossa Senhora Que Queima	Alice dos Reis	Portugal

=Surprise Film=

Saturday Night, dir. Jason Reitman

Awards

The following awards were presented:{{cite web|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/bfi-london-film-festival-unveils-2024-award-winners/5198327.article|title=Adam Elliot’s ‘Memoir Of A Snail’ heads BFI London Film Festival 2024 winners|website=ScreenDaily|first=Ben|last=Dalton|date=20 October 2024|accessdate=22 October 2024|archive-date=15 November 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241115122624/https://www.screendaily.com/news/bfi-london-film-festival-unveils-2024-award-winners/5198327.article|url-status=live}}

= In competition =

Best Film: Memoir of a Snail by Adam Elliot
Special Mention: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl by Rungano Nyoni
Best First Feature (Sutherland Award): On Falling by Laura Carreira
Special Mention: Olivia & the Clouds by Tomás Pichardo Espaillat
Best Documentary (Grierson Award): Mother Vera by Cécile Embleton & Alys Tomlinson
Special Mention: The Shadow Scholars by Eloise King
Best Short Film: Vibrations from Gaza by Rehab Nazzal
Special Mention: Dragfox by Lisa Ott

= Audience awards =

Voting for the audience awards closes on 23 October. Winners will be announced later in October.

References

BFI

Category:Film festivals in London

Category:2024 festivals in Europe

Category:October 2024 in the United Kingdom

Category:2024 in British cinema