London Film Festival 2025 Lineup

Headline Galas

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery – Opening Night – Starring: DANIEL CRAIG, JOSH O’CONNOR, PAUL HILTON, NICOLA HUGHES

100 Nights Of Hero – Closing Night – Starring: FELICITY JONES, AMIR EL-MASRY, TOM STOURTON. Producer: HELEN SIMMONS

After The Hunt – Starring: THADDEA GRAHAM

Blue Moon – Costume Designer: CONSOLATA BOYLE

Bugonia – Sound Mixer: NADINE RICHARDSON

The Choral – Starring: ROGER ALLAM, SHAUN THOMAS, AMARA OKEREKE, SHAUN THOMAS, RON COOK, MARK ADDY

Die, My Love – Director of Photography: SEAMUS MCGARVEY. Casting Director: LUCY PARDEE

Frankenstein – Starring: FELIX KAMMERER

H Is For Hawk – Starring: CLAIRE FOY

Hamnet – Starring: JACOBI JUPE, EMILY WATSON, JOE ALWYN, MATTHEW TENNYSON

The History Of Sound – Starring: JOSH O’CONNOR

Jay Kelly – Starring: ALAÏS LAWSON, THADDEA GRAHAM, JIM BROADBENT, LOUIS PARTRIDGE, TUWAINE BARRETT, PATSY FERRAN, LUCAS AURELIO, ANNABEL MULLION. Executive Producer: DONALD SABOURIN. Hair & Make Designer: IVANA PRIMORAC. Editor: RACHEL DURANCE

The Mastermind – Starring: JOSH O’CONNOR

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (US) – Starring: STEPHEN GRAHAM

Special Presentations

The Death Of Bunny Munro, eps 1 & 2 – Starring: DAVID THRELFALL, RAFAEL MATHÉ. Producer: MATTHEW MULOT. Line Producer: PAULA WATKINS

Official Competition

Bad Apples – Starring: JACOB ANDERSON. Casting: FIONA WEIR

Hedda – Starring: MIRREN MACK, NICHOLAS PINNOCK

The Testament Of Ann Lee – Starring: STACY MARTIN

First Feature Competition

Ish – Director of Photography: JERMAINE EDWARDS

My Father’s Shadow – Writer and EP: WALE DAVIES. Director of Photography: JERMAINE EDWARDS

Thematic Strands

Love

& Sons – Starring: BILL NIGHY

A Sad And Beautiful World – Writer-Director: CYRIL ARIS

The Thing With Feathers – Writer-Director: DYLAN SOUTHERN. 1st AD: JESSICA LAWS. Starring: DWANE WALCOTT

Debate

Mother – Starring: SYLVIA HOEKS

Saipan – Starring: STEVE COOGAN, NIALL MCNAMEE, ALICE LOWE

Train Dreams – Starring: FELICITY JONES

Dare

Anemone – Starring: SEAN BEAN, HOLLY RHYS

Good Boy – Starring: STEPHEN GRAHAM, ANDREA RISEBOROUGH. Director: JAN KOMASA

Hamlet – Director of Photography: STUART BENTLEY. Starring: JOE ALWYN

The Chronology Of Water – Starring: ESMÉ CREED-MILES

Thrill

Giant – Starring: AMIR EL-MASRY (World Premiere)

Wasteman – Writer and EP: HUNTER ANDREWS. Starring: PAUL HILTON, NEIL LINPOW. Costume Designer: LAUREN MILLER. Sound Mixer: PAUL PARAGON. Executive Producer: PHILIP BARANTINI

Cult

Honey Bunch – Directors, Producers & Writers: MADELEINE SIMS-FEWER, DUSTY MANCINELLI. Starring: JASON ISAACS

Journey

Palestine 36 – Starring: LIAM CUNNINGHAM

The Son And The Sea – Director: STROMA CAIRNS

Create

Moss & Freud – Director: JAMES LUCAS. Starring: DEREK JACOBI, TIM DOWNIE (World Premiere)

Shorts

Mapped Out Futures

Original Sin – Director-screenwriter: AMROU AL-KADHI

Are You Kidding Programme

Mother Goose – Director of Photography: TOBY LLOYD

Party Animal – Director of Photography: LINDA WU

End of Play – Producer: DANIELLE GOFF

Pulling The Rug Out Programme

Flock – Director of Photography: LINDA WU