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London Film Festival 2025: The best of the rest of the fest

Here’s our roundup of the best movies from this year’s London Film Festival that we didn’t have time to cover in full.

Têtes Brûlées – BFI London Film Festival Review

12 year-old Eya’s (Safa Gharboui) favourite person in the whole world is her older brother…

High Wire – BFI London Film Festival Review

Go-Wing (Isabella Wei) works in her dad’s (Dominic Lam Kah-Wah) Chinese takeaway in the middle…

Love Me Tender – BFI London Film Festival Review

Lawyer-turned-writer Clémence (Vicky Krieps) has been amicably separated from her husband Laurent (Antoine Reinartz) for…

Love, Brooklyn – BFI London Film Festival Review

Roger’s (André Holland) life revolves around two women. First there’s Casey (Nicole Beharie), a gallery…

Fwends – BFI London Film Festival Review

Em (Emmanuelle Mattana) is a young Sydney lawyer who’s just experienced harassment at work. She…

Docu-fiction at London Film Festival: Little Girl Blue and Ramona

Acting is becoming someone else and inhabiting them convincingly. Rarely do we see that process…

In Camera – BFI London Film Festival Review

Aden (Nabhaan Rizwan) is a young actor who’s been struggling through audition after audition with…

Bye Bye Tiberias – BFI London Film Festival Review

Though she has been a mainstay of TV and film for more than twenty-five years,…

Power Alley – BFI London Film Festival Review

Sofia (Ayomi Domenica Dias) is the star player on her high-school volleyball team, under pressure…

London Film Festival 2022: The best of the rest of the fest

Here’s a rundown of some of the other hidden gems from this year’s London Film…

Emily the Criminal – BFI London Film Festival Review

Emily (Aubrey Plaza) never intended to be delivering food to get by at this stage…