MUBI Announces 10 Films To Receive Their UK Premieres At This Year’s BFI London Film Festival

MUBI’s entries into this year’s BFI London Film Festival include the UK premieres of Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind.

MUBI, the film distributor, global streaming service, and production company, is proud to announce its slate of world-class auteur-led cinema headed to this year’s 69th BFI London Film Festival.

The festival will see ten UK premieres – BAFTA-winner Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love. Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind. BAFTA-nominated Akinola Davies Jr.’s directional debut, My Father’s Shadow. BAFTA-winner Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, South Korea’s Oscar contender for International Feature. Mascha Schilinski’s German Oscar contender for International Feature, The Sound of Falling. Academy Award and BAFTA-winner László Nemes’s Orphan. Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother. Cannes Best Director-winner Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent. Palme d’Or Award-winner Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident. And Oscar-nominated Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, Norway’s Oscar contender for International Feature, which received a 19-minute standing ovation at Cannes.

DIE MY LOVE

Headline Gala

Premiere Date: Friday 17 October – Royal Festival Hall

Director: Lynne Ramsay

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Lakeith Stanfield and Nick Nolte

Set in a remote, forgotten area in rural America, Die My Love is a portrait of a mother (Jennifer Lawrence) who struggles to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis.

FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER

Love

Premiere Date: Saturday 18 October – BFI Southbank NFT1

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps, Charlotte Rampling

A feature film in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other.

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

Headline Gala

Premiere Date: Saturday 11th October – Royal Festival Hall

Director: Jafar Panahi

Cast: Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi and Hadis Pakbaten

Vahid, an Azerbaijani auto mechanic, was once imprisoned by Iranian authorities. During his sentence, he was interrogated blindfolded. One day, a man named Eghbal enters his workshop. His prosthetic leg creaks, and Vahid thinks he recognises one of his former torturers.

MY FATHER’S SHADOW

Sutherland Competition

Premiere Date: Friday, 17 October – BFI Southbank NFT1

Director: Akinola Davies Jr.

Cast: Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Godwin Egbo and Chibuike Marvelous Egbo

The film is a semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in the Nigerian metropolis of Lagos during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis. The story follows a father, estranged from his two young sons, as they travel through the massive city while political unrest threatens their journey home.

NO OTHER CHOICE

Headline Gala

Premiere Date: Wednesday 15 October – Royal Festival Hall

Director: Park Chan-wook

Cast: Lee Byung-Hun, Son Ye-Jin, Park Hee-Soon and Lee Sung-Min

Based on Donald E. Westlake’s novel The Ax, the story of No Other Choice follows a middle-aged man named Man-su who embarks on a determined job hunt after being unexpectedly fired from the paper company that he worked for 25 years. “If there is no opening for me, I’ll just have to get hired by creating one. I have no other choice.”

ORPHAN

Journey

Premiere Date: Tuesday 14 October – Curzon Mayfair

Director: László Nemes

Cast: Gyorgy Bojtik, Andrea Waskovics

A young boy, after the Hungarian uprising of 1956, raised by his mother with the tale of an idealised dead father, is confronted with a brutish man who claims to be his real father.

SENTIMENTAL VALUE

Headline Gala

Premiere Date: Sunday 12th October – Royal Festival Hall

Director: Joachim Trier

Cast: Renate Reinsve, Elle Fanning, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Stellan Skarsgård

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.

SOUND OF FALLING

Dare

Premiere Date: Saturday 11th October – Curzon Soho 1

Director: Mascha Schillinski

Cast: Lena Urzendowsky, Hanna Heckt, Susanne Wuest, and Luise Heyer,

“A remote German farm harbours generations of secrets. Four women, separated by decades but united by trauma, uncover the truth behind its weathered walls.”

THE MASTERMIND

Headline Gala

Premiere Date: Friday 11 October – Royal Festival Hall

Director: Kelly Reichardt

Cast: Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, Josh Magaro, Hope Davis, Gaby Hoffman and Amanda Plummer.

“In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor), an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels”

THE SECRET AGENT

Thrill

Premiere Date: Tuesday 14th October – BFI Southbank NFT1

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho

Cast: Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Candido, Gabriel Leone and Hermila Guedes

A university professor travels from São Paulo to the seaside city of Recife during Carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son. He soon finds out he’s been tailed and spied on by neighbours in his new refuge, leaving him no possible escape from the tentacles of corruption.

The 69th BFI London Film Festival takes place from 8-19 October.

 

 

 

 

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