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BFI London Film Festival


Genre: All genre

Presented by the British Film Institute, this long-running festival with a 45-year history, screens over 300 films in 10 sections. After the 16-day event in London, the festival then tours to seven cities across the United Kingdom.

 

Only UK feature films are eligible for open submission. Short films are open to international entries.


Awards

2019 - Nominated - Child - Short Film Award

2019 - Nominated - Babyteeth - The Sutherland Award - First Feature Competition

2019 - Nominated - Mystify: Michael Hutchence - The Grierson Award - Documentary Competition

2017 - Nominated - Sweet Country - Official Competition

2015 - Won - Sherpa - Best Documentary

2011 - Nominated - Snowtown - The Sutherland Award

2009 - Nominated - Balibo - Best Film

2009 - Nominated - Bright Star - Best Film

2009 - Nominated - Samson & Delilah - The Sutherland Trophy

1988 - Won - Navigator, The: A Medieval Odyssey - Best Film

1987 - Won - Malcolm - Golden Sprocket Award

1987 - Won - Malcolm - Most Popular Film with Festival Audience

Screenings

2025 - Candy Bar

2025 - Fwends

2024 - Audrey

2024 - Memoir of a Snail

2024 - Surfer, The

2024 - Wolves Always Come at Night, The

2023 - Foe

2023 - Royal Hotel, The

2023 - Late Night with the Devil

2023 - New Boy, The

2023 - Shayda

2023 - This Is Going To Be Big

2023 - Night Fishing with Ancestors

2023 - Hafekasi

2022 - Bellysaurus

2022 - Blaze

2022 - Stranger, The

2022 - You Won't Be Alone

2022 - Bucket in the Forest

2021 - Power of the Dog, The

2021 - Fires

2021 - Nitram

2020 - Relic

2020 - Cheaters, The

2020 - Chicken

2019 - Judy & Punch

2019 - Babyteeth

2019 - Mystify: Michael Hutchence

2019 - Australian Dream, The

2019 - Chlorine

2019 - Little Monsters

2019 - Child

2019 - Blackwood

2018 - BOYTIME

2018 - 'I Used to be Normal': A Boyband Fangirl Story

2018 - Sammy the Salmon

2018 - Fitting

2018 - Celeste

2017 - 1%

2017 - Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time

2017 - David Stratton: A Cinematic Life

2017 - Mountain

2017 - Roller Dreams

2017 - Sweet Country

2017 - -everyman

2017 - Family Happiness

2017 - Fysh

2017 - Silica

2016 - Highway

2016 - Chasing Asylum

2016 - Down Under

2016 - Goldstone

2016 - Lion

2016 - Trespass

2016 - Motown

2016 - Orchestra, The

2015 - Daughter, The

2015 - Ernie Biscuit

2015 - Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose

2015 - Face of Ukraine, The: Casting Oksana Baiul

2015 - Gayby Baby

2015 - Let's Dance: Bowie Down Under

2015 - Partisan

2015 - Observance

2015 - Sherpa

2015 - Ruben Guthrie

2015 - Slingshot

2015 - Smut Hounds

2015 - Tanna

2014 - Blood Pulls a Gun

2014 - Charlie's Country

2014 - Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films

2014 - Ghost Train

2014 - Kill Me Three Times

2014 - Little Death, The

2014 - Magic Miles

2014 - Mule, The

2014 - Son of a Gun

2014 - Tender

2014 - Lost Aviator, The

2014 - Unmoving Mountain, The

2013 - Mystery Road

2013 - Tracks

2013 - Ukraine is Not a Brothel

2013 - Adoration

2013 - Last Impresario, The

2013 - Aboriginal HeArt

2013 - Rocket, The

2012 - Sapphires, The

2012 - Dead Europe

2012 - Lore

2012 - Save Your Legs!

2012 - Wish You Were Here

2012 - Missing Key, The

2012 - Strange Face

2012 - Bino

2012 - Faraways

2012 - Underground - The Julian Assange Story

2011 - Snowtown

2011 - Bear

2011 - Father, The

2010 - Lost Thing, The

2010 - Fur

2010 - Bit

2010 - Muscles

2010 - Via Gori

2009 - Boys are Back, The

2009 - Bright Star

2009 - Balibo

2009 - Samson & Delilah

2009 - Blessed

2009 - Mandarin Peel

2009 - Hawker

2009 - Cicada

2008 - One Shoe Short

2008 - Jerrycan

2008 - Chainsaw

2008 - Buses and Trains

2008 - Lakemba

2008 - Advantage

2008 - My Rabbit Hoppy

2008 - I Love Sarah Jane

2006 - Candy

2006 - Sexy Thing

2006 - Goggles

2005 - Proposition, The

2005 - Stranded

2005 - Sentimental Bloke, The

2005 - Green Bush

2005 - Pirate

2005 - Mechanicals, The

2004 - Soar

2004 - Birthday Boy

2004 - Marco Solo

2004 - Lucky For Some

2003 - Ward 13

2003 - Japanese Story

2003 - Rotting Woman, The

2003 - Excursion

2003 - Flaming Brain, The

2002 - Mr Wasinski's Song

2002 - Pitch, The

2002 - Wednesday

2002 - They Shoot Hostages, Don't They?

2002 - Black and White

2002 - Roundabout

2002 - Placement

2002 - One Shot Wonder

2001 - La Spagnola

2001 - Inja

2001 - Bank, The

2001 - In Search of Mike

2000 - Stop

2000 - Triple Word Score

2000 - Goddess of 1967, The

2000 - Dish, The

2000 - better than sex

2000 - Diplomat, The

1999 - Tears

1999 - Tulip

1999 - Feeling Sexy

1999 - Two Hands

1999 - Paradise

1999 - Flower Girl

1999 - Bangers

1999 - My Journey, My Islam

1998 - Welcome to Woop Woop

1998 - Second Thoughts

1998 - Fetch

1998 - Picture Woman, The

1998 - Dance Me to My Song

1998 - I Want You

1998 - Tangerine Dream

1998 - Interview, The

1998 - Radiance

1998 - Dead Letter Office

1998 - In The Winter Dark

1997 - Stupid Piano, The

1997 - Cabbie of the Year

1997 - Freestyle

1997 - Urban Fairytale

1997 - Christmas Cake, The

1997 - At Sea

1997 - Sapphire Room

1997 - Doing Time for Patsy Cline

1997 - Kiss or Kill

1997 - Heaven's Burning

1997 - Birthday, The

1997 - Castle, The

1996 - Century of Cinema: 40,000 Years of Dreaming, The

1996 - Shine

1996 - Fistful of Flies

1996 - Web, The: Spider - Amazon

1996 - Quiet Room, The

1996 - Love and Other Catastrophes

1996 - Film Noir

1996 - Life

1996 - This Film is a Dog

1996 - Love Serenade

1996 - Floating Life

1996 - Mr Reliable

1996 - Miniskirted Dynamo, The

1996 - Dead Heart

1996 - River Street

1996 - Cosi

1995 - Great Moments in Science - Falling Cats

1995 - Writer's Block

1995 - Despondent Divorcee

1995 - Hayride to Hell

1995 - Babe

1994 - Total Recession

1994 - Talk

1994 - Electricity

1994 - Michelle's Third Novel

1994 - Universal Appliance Co.

1994 - Only The Brave

1994 - Muriel's Wedding

1994 - Dallas Doll

1994 - Spider and Rose

1994 - That Eye, The Sky

1994 - Lucky Break

1994 - Midday Crisis

1994 - Prickly Heat

1993 - Illustrated Auschwitz, The

1993 - Amelia Rose Towers

1993 - Desire

1993 - Secrets of the City

1993 - Just Desserts

1993 - Memories and Dreams

1993 - Say a Little Prayer

1993 - Pale Black

1993 - Journey, The

1993 - Excursion To The Bridge Of Friendship

1993 - Bedevil

1993 - In Loving Memory

1993 - Body Melt

1993 - Rocky Star

1993 - Exchange Lifeguards

1993 - Gross Misconduct

1993 - Sunday

1993 - Range Of Experience

1993 - Black River

1993 - His Master's Voice

1993 - Bad Boy Bubby

1993 - Turbulence

1993 - Bilderbuch Fur Ernst Will: A Euro Rebus

1993 - Exquisite Mechanism of Shivers

1992 - Sacred Vandals

1992 - Jam

1992 - Last Days Of Chez Nous, The

1992 - Romper Stomper

1992 - Cat's Cradle

1992 - Serendipity

1992 - Greenkeeping

1992 - Redheads

1992 - Collectors

1992 - Nun and the Bandit, The

1992 - Ambient Alphabet (C of Meaning)

1991 - EG

1991 - Canto A La Vida

1991 - Good Woman Of Bangkok, The

1991 - Ancestor Worship

1991 - Stan and George's New Life

1991 - Dusty Hearts

1991 - Horse With Stripes, A

1991 - Kafka's Sister's Castle

1991 - Ens

1991 - Deadly

1991 - Woman's Tale, A

1991 - Proof

1991 - Dead to the World

1991 - Resonance

1991 - Bad Day

1991 - Waiting

1991 - Breathing Under Water

1991 - Flitters

1991 - Spotswood

1991 - Techno/Dumb/Show

1991 - Till There Was You

1991 - Cyber Dada Manifesto

1991 - Reference In Passing, A

1991 - Spur Of The Moment

1991 - Uranus

1991 - Kilometres

1991 - Little Things, The

1991 - Musical Four Letters

1991 - Pravda Krapel

1991 - Sense of Place

1991 - Crowdseen

1991 - Supermarket Psychosis

1990 - Raw Nerve

1990 - What the Moon Saw

1990 - Space Between the Door and the Floor, The

1990 - Golden Braid

1990 - Night Cries - A Rural Tragedy

1990 - Hang Up

1990 - Blood Oath

1990 - Struck by Lightning

1990 - Big Steal, The

1990 - Aya

1990 - Let Me Rescue You Before Someone Else Does

1990 - Death in Brunswick

1990 - Neo Geo: An American Purchase

1990 - Last Crop, The

1990 - Eternity

1989 - Bonza

1989 - Sweetie

1989 - Malpractice

1989 - Celia

1989 - Crack in the Curtains

1989 - Sex Rules

1989 - Shadow Panic

1989 - Mull

1989 - Island

1989 - Captain Johnno

1989 - Devil's Hill

1989 - Dead Calm

1988 - Navigator, The: A Medieval Odyssey

1988 - Mapantsula

1988 - Phobia

1988 - Rabbit On The Moon

1988 - Rikky and Pete

1988 - Shame

1988 - Year My Voice Broke, The

1988 - Ghosts...of the Civil Dead

1988 - High Tide

1987 - Australian Summer, An

1987 - Backlash

1987 - Cactus

1987 - Kangaroo

1987 - Malcolm

1987 - Malcolm

1987 - More Things Change, The

1987 - Palisade

1987 - Devil in the Flesh

1987 - Pieta

1987 - Tale of Ruby Rose, The

1987 - Ten Years After, Ten Years Older

1987 - Two Friends

1987 - Feathers

1987 - Friends And Enemies

1987 - High Tide

1987 - Nice Coloured Girls

1987 - Place at the Coast, The

1987 - Frog Dreaming

1986 - Camera Natura

1986 - Passionless Moments

1986 - Peel

1986 - Fifty Fifty

1985 - Street to Die, A

1985 - Bliss

1985 - Don't Call Me Girlie

1985 - Pianoforte

1985 - Red Matildas

1985 - Unfinished Business

1985 - Women of Utopia

1985 - Fran

1985 - Half Life

1985 - Boy Who Had Everything, The

1983 - Wrong Side of the Road

1979 - Night the Prowler, The

1979 - Money Matters

1979 - My Brilliant Career

Website:
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Start:
8/10/2025
End:
19/10/2025

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