The 68th BFI London Film Festival (LFF) will end on Sunday evening little by littlethe animated LEGO biopic of Pharrell Williams produced by Morgan Neville (Don’t you want to be my neighbor?, 20 feet from the star) Following the announcement of this year’s various competition winners for Adam Elliot’s claymation feature Memoirs of a Snail.
The film, set in 1970s Australia, has already won the animation-focused Annecy Film Festival and stars successionSarah Snook stars as Grace Pudel, a shy girl born with a cleft palate, and her wild and occasionally arsonist twin brother Gilbert (Kody Smith) McPhee) but eventually became a lonely hoarder of ornamental snails. Her only friend is a wild octogenarian named Pinky (Jacki Weaver). Eric Bana, Dominique Pinon and Nick Cave provide voice work.
Memoirs of a Snail Named the best of LFF’s 11 official competition films, the jury hailed it as “an extraordinary achievement in filmmaking”, adding: “Emotionally resonant and constantly surprising, Memoirs Addressing pertinent issues such as bullying, loneliness and grief head-on, creating important and universal conversations in a way that only animation can.
Zambian family drama receives Special Jury Mention in main competition become a guinea fowl Created by Rungano Nyoni and premiered in Cannes.
mother veraThe film directed by Cécile Embleton and Alys Tomlinson won the LFF Grierson Award in the LFF Documentary Competition. This is the story of a young Orthodox nun who must confront her past while confronting her desires and uncertain future.
Special mention in the PhD competition goes to Eloise King’s shadow scholarwhich reveals the global multi-billion dollar academic essay writing underworld in which “overqualified and underemployed young Kenyans write essays for students around the world.”
Meanwhile, the Sutherland Prize in the first feature film competition was awarded to Laura Carreira when fallinga portrait of a young Portuguese warehouse employee in Scotland. Thomas Pichardo Espelat Olivia and the cloudsearned a special mention in the same category for blurring the lines between memory and reality while exploring a range of animation styles.
and Shock from GazaDirector Rehab Nazar’s documentary about deaf-mute Palestinian children in Gaza won the best short film honor. Particularly worth mentioning is the stop-motion animation de la fox Written by Lisa Ott, this is the story of a child struggling with her identity and a charismatic fox who learns to embrace her differences.
Last year Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s Evil will not retreat Won the highest film award in the main competition unit, Mike Gustafson (Mike Gustafson) heaven is burning Winner of the Sutherland Award in the inaugural feature film competition, Goodbye Tiberias Lina Soualem wins Grierson Award in documentary competition Archives: Queer Nigeria Won the Best Short Film Award.
The LFF weekend got off to a rocky start. The organizer pulled Undercover: Exposing the Far Righta documentary directed by Havana Mark (Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies and Online Attacks, kleptocrat) story about far-right activists in the UK, a weekend program from the 68th BFI London Film Festival (LFF) was cut short at the last minute due to concerns for the safety and well-being of staff, security and audiences.
The LFF Audience Awards will be announced later in October and will allow viewers to vote for their favorite work, whether it be fiction, documentary, short film or immersive. Three awards were presented for Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary Feature, and Best Short Film.
The 68th LFF screened more than 250 films, incorporating highlights from this year’s touring film festival, including Sean Baker’s Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix win. AnoraJacques Audiard emilia perezPablo Larrain MariaMike Leigh’s cruel truthMarielle Heller’s night bitchAli Abbasi apprentice and Edward Berger’s secret meetingapproximately 40 world premieres. This year’s expansion plans to add video games to the immersive installation and experience.
