Date: October 15- 30
With screening over 300 films from 60 countries, the Times BFI London Film Festival is the UK’s largest public film event. It is held every year by the British Film Institute. This year it is celebrating its 52nd year and is currently sponsored by The Times Newspaper. With an extensive schedule of industry and public forums, education events, lectures and celebrity interviews, the Festival presents selected new films from the full spectrum of world cinema.
In 1956, the first London Film Festival was conceived by the then BFI Director James Quinn and took place from October 16-26 at the NFT.
Covering different areas of interest the festival is divided into themes. In 2007 these are: Galas and Special Screenings, Film on the Square, New British Cinema, French Revolutions, Cinema Europa, World Cinema, Experimenta, Treasures from the Archives, Short Cuts and Animation. Around Leicester Square and the NFT in central London were the festival focused in 2007, and used 18 venues around central London for their screenings.
Venue:
Various locations in London.
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