11:45am, Thursday 6 October 2022, The Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre – now sold out
As part of the 66th BFI London Film Festival and fresh from its Opening Night Gala world premiere, we invite you to be the first young people to see Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (Director Matthew Warcus, 2022) at a special film festival matinee screening at the The Royal Festival at London’s Southbank Centre.
Matilda Wormwood (Alisha Weir) is a little girl with big curiosity, a sharp mind and a vivid imagination – and the worst parents in the world. While her parents (Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough) content themselves with trashy TV and dodgy money-making schemes, she loves to lose herself in the pages of her beloved books. Where they are loud, selfish and unkind she is a quiet observer, thinking up small and cheeky acts of rebellion and revenge. Starring Academy Award winner Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Sindhu Vee and introducing Alisha Weir as the eponymous Matilda.
Directed by Tony Award-winning director Matthew Warchus, who also developed and directed the stage show for both London’s West End and Broadway, the film is produced by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner for Working Title, Jon Finn and Luke Kelly of The Roald Dahl Story Company. Screenwriter Dennis Kelly adapts the Tony Award and Olivier Award-winning, Royal Shakespeare Company’s production for the big screen, with original music and lyrics by Tim Minchin.
This film has been certified PG. The film contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
The full run time of the film is 117 minutes.
This is a BFI London Film Festival screening in partnership with Into Film.
A learning resource will accompany this film and will be available by Wednesday 28 September.
Booking information
Tickets are now sold out for this screening. If you would like to join the waiting list in case any places become available please visit the Into Film booking page.
For any questions about this screening please email our Film Festival Education programmer: kirsten.geekie@bfi.org.uk
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