Additional films announced for 68th BFI London Film Festival

Hot on the heels of the 68th BFI London Film Festival programme launch announcement, the festival is delighted to announce additional films which will feature in this year’s programme. 

Screening as an LFF Special Presentation will be the world premiere of The Summer Book, Charlie McDowell’s delicately beautiful adaptation of Moomins creator Tove Jansson’s classic novel starring Glenn Close and Anders Danielsen Lie; the international premiere of Justin Kurzel’s first non-fiction film, Ellis Park, a moving and intimate portrait of Warren Ellis, and his journey to the wildlife sanctuary he co-founded in Indonesia; the European premiere of acclaimed music video director Fleur Fortuné’s feature debut The Assessment, a taut sci-fi chamber piece featuring striking performances by Elizabeth Olsen, Himesh Patel and Alicia Vikander.

UK premieres announced today are Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End, set in a post-apocalyptic world where a family and their companions live in harmony until the arrival of a stranger cracks their strictly organised world wide open, starring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram and Michael Shannon; Good Manners director Marco Dutra returns with Bury Your Dead, an exciting genre-bending tale, full of twists and violent delights, which unfolds in a moody, dystopian future; Giovanni Tortorici’s Dicianovve, a thought-provoking daring and intoxicating debut, that explores what it means to become an adult starring Manfredi Marini, Vittoria Planeta and Dana Giuliano; and Marta Meteus’s beguiling debut feature Fire of Wind, which speaks to the absences that disturb the serenity of a Portuguese village, starring Soraia Prudêncio, Maria Catarina Sapata and Safir Eizner.  

Tickets go on sale 17 September. BFI Members book early from 10 September and American Express Cardmembers can access presale from 13 to 17 September.