The 66th BFI London Film Festival, in partnership with American Express, has today revealed the immense line-up of talent who will be attending the Galas and Special Presentations at this year’s event.
But, it doesn’t end there as the full programme talent attendance will be announced this coming October 3rd, so keep watching this space.
From the 5th through to the 16th of October, the LFF will return to its flagship venues in the heart of London – BFI Southbank and the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, which between them will play host to Galas, Special Presentations and Official Competition. Films and series from all strands of the Festival will screen in many of central London’s iconic cinemas with a curated selection of features showcased at 10 partner venues across the UK.
The full programme features films, series and immersive artworks from over 63 countries with 41% of the programme made by female and non-binary directors/creators or co-directors/creators and 34% made by ethnically diverse directors/creators.
In the meanwhile, to keep you busy until the full attendance list is released, we’ll leave you with all the guests confirmed to attend the festival’s Galas and Special Presentations below:
HEADLINE GALAS
ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL
Matthew Warchus; Cast Emma Thompson; Alisha Weir; Lashana Lynch; Stephen Graham; Sindhu Vee; Tim Minchin; Dennis Kelly; Tim Bevan; Eric Fellner; Jon Finn; Luke Kelly
GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY
Rian Johnson; Ram Bergman; Daniel Craig; Janelle Monae; Edward Norton; Kathryn Hahn; Madelyn Cline; Kate Hudson; Leslie Odom Jr.; Jessica Henwick; Dave Bautista
EMPIRE OF LIGHT
Sam Mendes; Olivia Colman; Micheal Ward; Colin Firth; Toby Jones; Tom Brooke; Tanya Moodie; Crystal Clarke; Hannah Onslow; Pippa Harris
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
Martin McDonagh; Brendan Gleeson; Colin Farrell; Barry Keoghan; Graham Broadbent
BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS
Alejandro González Iñárritu; Daniel Giménez Cacho; Griselda Siciliani; Ximena Lamadrid; Iker Solano; Karla Luna Cantu; Stacy Perskie Kaniss; Darius Khondji
DECISION TO LEAVE
Park Chan-wook; Park-Hae il
LIVING
Oliver Hermanus; Stephen Woolley; Bill Nighy; Aimee Lou Wood; Kazuo Ishiguro
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO
Guillermo del Toro; Mark Gustafson; David Bradley; Gregory Mann; Cate Blanchett; Christoph Waltz; Burn Gorman; Gary Ungar; Corey Campodonico; Alex Bulkley
SHE SAID
Maria Schrader; Carey Mulligan; Dede Gardner; Jeremy Kleiner; Megan Twohey; Jodi Kantor; Rebecca Lenkiewicz
THE SON
Florian Zeller; Vanessa Kirby
TILL
Chinonye Chukwu; Jalyn Hall; Danielle Deadwyler; Tosin Cole; John Douglas Thompson; Hayley Bennet; Barbara Broccoli; Keith Beauchamp
THE WHALE
Darren Aronofsky; Samuel D Hunter; Brendan Fraser
WHITE NOISE
Noah Baumbach; Greta Gerwig; Jodie Turner-Smith; Raffey Cassidy; David Heyman; Uri Singer; Leslie Converse
THE WONDER
Sebastián Lelio; Florence Pugh; Niamh Algar; Elaine Cassidy; Kila Lord Cassidy; Toby Jones; Tessa Ross; Emma Donoghue; Mathew Herbert
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS AND SPECIAL SCREENINGS
ALLELUJAH
Richard Eyre; Jennifer Saunders; Judi Dench; Bally Gill; Gerard Horan; Lorraine Ashbourne; Louis Serkis-Ashbourne; Jesse Akele; Ross Tomlinson
BONES & ALL
Luca Guadagnino; Timothee Chalamet; Taylor Russell; David Kajganich; Theresa Park; Francesco Melzi d’Eril; Lorenzo Mieli; Marco Morabito; Peter Spears
CAUSEWAY
Lila Neugebauer; Jennifer Lawrence; Justine Ciarrocchi
THE ENGLISH
Hugo Blick; Greg Brenman; Colin Wratten; Emily Blunt; Chaske Spencer; Tom Hughes; Steve Wall; Stephen Rea
THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER
Joanna Hogg; Tilda Swinton; Carly Sophia-Davies; Joseph Mydell
HOLY SPIDER
Ali Abbasi; Zar Amir-Ebrahimi
MY POLICEMAN
Michael Grandage; Emma Corrin; David Dawson; Rupert Everett; Linus Roache; Gina McKee; Philip Herd; Robbie Rogers; Cora Palfrey; Bethan Roberts
NANNY
Nikyatu Jusu; Anna Diop; Michelle Monaghan; Nikkia Moulterie; Rina Yang
NIL BY MOUTH
Ray Winstone
THE SWIMMERS
Sally El Hoisaini; Nathalie Issa; Manal Issa; Matthias Schweighöfe; Ahmed Malek; Yusra Mardini; Sven Spannenkrebs; Ali Jaafar; Eric Fellner; Stephen Daldry
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
Ruben Östlund; Dolly De Leon
WOMEN TALKING
Sarah Polley; Claire Foy; Rooney Mara; Dede Gardner; Jeremy Kleiner
THE INSPECTION
Elegance Bratton; Chester Algernal Gordon
PIAFFE
Ann Oren; Kristof Gerega; Bjørn Melhus; Samuel Eschmann
THE GOOD NURSE
Tobias Lindholm; Eddie Redmayne; Jessica Chastain; Scott Franklin; Krysty Wilson-Cairns; Amy Loughren
