Gugu Mbatha-Raw has joined the jury for The 60th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express. She will judge alongside Athina Rachel Tsangari, whose Chevalier won the main award in 2016 and is Greece’s entry for next year’s Oscars foreign-language category, director Anthony Chen (Ilo Ilo), and screenwriter Abi Morgan, whoseSuffragette opened last year’s festival.
Mbatha-Raw recently wrapped production for Star Wars: Episode VII, and was last seen on the big screen this summer in Free State of Jones, opposite Matthew McConaughey. Mbatha-Raw is also set to star in Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast, and was recently cast in An Untamed State, a Fox Searchlight film to be directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (Beyond the Lights).
The 60th BFI London Film Festival takes place from Wednesday October 5th to Sunday October 16th, and is Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s best and most established film festivals. This year, A United Kingdom, directed by Amma Asante (Belle), will open the Festival on October 5th. The Festival will also screen Queen of Katwe starring Lupita Nyong’o and the critically acclaimed film Moonlight directed by Barry Jenkins. In addition to these films, 193 fiction and 52 documentary features, including 18 World Premieres, 8 International Premieres, 39 European Premieres will take place at the Festival. There will also be screenings of 144 short films, including documentary, live action and animated works (view complete list below).
This year the festival will also incorporate a Symposium event titled BFI Black Star. This event is dedicated to celebrating black actors in film and television, and will ask questions that address the under-representation of black actors on screen, probing why opportunities for black actors in the US and the UK remain limited and aiming to drive forward a progressive agenda by spotlighting and exploring key issues for the film industry. The BFI Black Star Symposium will be the UK’s largest celebration of black actors.
OFFICIAL COMPETITION
· Martin Koolhoven, BRIMSTONE
· Kelly Reichardt, CERTAIN WOMEN
· Mohamed Diab, CLASH
· Paul Verhoeven, ELLE
· François Ozon, FRANTZ
· Ivan Sen, GOLDSTONE (European Premiere)
· Mijke de Jong, LAYLA M. (European Premiere)
· Barry Jenkins, MOONLIGHT (European Premiere)
· Pablo Larraín, NERUDA
· Terence Davies, A QUIET PASSION
· Benedict Andrews, UNA (European Premiere)
· Makoto Shinkai, YOUR NAME
FIRST FEATURE COMPETITION
· Jorge Riquelme Serrano, CHAMELEON (International Premiere)
· Darren Thornton, A DATE FOR MAD MARY
· Houda Benyamina, DIVINES
· Johannes Nyholm, THE GIANT
· Mohamed Ben Attia, HEDI
· William Oldroyd, LADY MACBETH
· Hope Dickson Leach, THE LEVELLING (European Premiere)
· Claude Barras, MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE
· Bartosz M. Kowalski, PLAYGROUND
· Gabe Klinger, PORTO
· Julia Ducournau, RAW
· Wang Yichun, WHAT’S IN THE DARKNESS
· Daouda Coulibaly, WÙLU
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
· Jenny Gage, ALL THIS PANIC (European Premiere)
· Eva Orner, CHASING ASYLUM (European Premiere)
· Jon Nguyen, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE
· Claire Simon, THE GRADUATION
· Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla, AN INSIGNIFICANT MAN (European Premiere)
· Alma Har’el, LOVETRUE
· Alice Diop, ON CALL
· Ulrich Seidl, SAFARI
· Marco Del Fiol, THE SPACE IN BETWEEN – MARINA ABRAMOVIC AND BRAZIL
· Mehrdad Oskouei, STARLESS DREAMS
· Keith Maitland, TOWER
· Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon, THE WAR SHOW
SHORT FILM AWARD
· Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan, THE SEND OFF
· Réka Bucsi, LOVE
· João Paulo Miranda Maria, THE GIRL WHO DANCED WITH THE DEVIL
· Issa Touma, Thomas Vroe§ge, Floor van der Meulen, 9 DAYS – FROM MY WINDOW IN ALEPPO
· Patrick Tarrant, THE TREMBLING GIANT
· Anna Maguire, YOUR MOTHER AND I
· Kevin Jerome Everson, EARS, NOSE AND THROAT
· Ena Sendijarevic, IMPORT
· Amy Nicholson, PICKLE
· Ali Asgari, Farnoosh Samadi, THE SILENCE
· Jed Hart, CANDY FLOSS
· Ana Vaz, THERE IS LAND!
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