Opening film | Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery |
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Closing film | 100 Nights of Hero |
Location | London, United Kingdom |
Founded | 1957 |
No. of films | 247 |
Festival date | 8–19 October 2025 |
Website | whatson |
The 69th BFI London Film Festival will take place from 8 to 19 October 2025. [1] The competition films were announced on 21 August 2025 while the films for the galas and the strands were revealed on 3 September 2025. The festival will showcase 247 film from 79 countries and open with the 2025 American mystery film Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery , written and directed by Rian Johnson and close with the 2025 historical fantasy film 100 Nights of Hero written and directed by Julia Jackman. [2]
The jury members were as follows: [3]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Afterlives | Kevin B. Lee | Germany, Belgium, France | |
Broken English | Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard | United Kingdom | |
The Death of Bunny Munro (series; ep. 1–2) | Isabella Eklöf | United Kingdom | |
Maspalomas | Aitor Arregi, Jose Mari Goenaga | Spain | |
Now Is When We Are (The Stars) | Andrew Schneider | United States | |
Sholay (director's cut) | Ramesh Sippy | India |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Bad Apples | Jonatan Etzler | United Kingdom | |
Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story | Yemi Bamiro | United Kingdom, United States | |
Black Rabbit, White Rabbit | Shahram Mokri | Tajikistan, United Arab Emirates | |
Hair, Paper, Water... | Tóc, giấy và nước... | Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý | Belgium, France, Vietnam |
Hedda | Nia DaCosta | United States | |
Landmarks | Nuestra tierra | Lucrecia Martel | Argentina, United States, Mexico, France, Netherlands |
Rose of Nevada | Mark Jenkin | United Kingdom | |
The Testament of Ann Lee | Mona Fastvold | United Kingdom | |
The Voice of Hind Rajab | صوت هند رجب | Kaouther Ben Hania | Tunisia, France |
The World of Love | 세계의 주인 | Yoon Ga-eun | South Korea |
The following films competed for the Sutherland Award, which is awarded to a directorial debut:
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Becoming Human | Chiet Chea Manusa | Polen Ly | Cambodia, United States |
Diamonds in the Sand | 孤獨大叔出走中 | Janus Victoria | Japan, Malaysia, Philippines |
Dreamers | Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor | United Kingdom | |
Ish | Imran Perretta | United Kingdom | |
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) | Joel Alfonso Vargas | United States | |
My Father's Shadow | Akinola Davies Jr. | United Kingdom, Nigeria | |
One Woman One Bra | Vincho Nchogu | Kenya, Nigeria | |
Sink | Zain Duraie | Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, France | |
Songs of Forgotten Trees | Anuparna Roy | India | |
A Useful Ghost | ผีใช้ได้ค่ะ | Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke | Thailand, France, Singapore, Germany |
The following films will compete for the Grierson Awards, which is awarded to the Best Documentary of the competition. [4]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Always | 从来 | Deming Chen | United States, China |
The Eyes of Ghana | Ben Proudfoot | United States | |
Life After | Reid Davenport | United States | |
Only on Earth | Sólo en la tierra | Robin Petré | Denmark, Spain |
Seeds | Brittany Shyne | United States | |
Singing Wings | Hemen Khaledi | Iran, Georgia, Belgium | |
Super Nature | Ed Sayers | United Kingdom | |
The Travellers | Les Voyageurs | David Bingong | Cameroon, Spain |
The following films will compete for the Short Film award.
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Capybaras | Los Carpinchos | Alfredo Soderguit | France, Uruguay, Chile |
Coyotes | Said Zagha | Palestine, United Kingdom, France, Jordan | |
Elephant Families | Elena Escalante | United Kingdom, Spain | |
Happiness | Firat Yücel | Netherlands, Turkey | |
Hope is Lost | Eno Enefiok | United Kingdom, North Macedonia | |
Ka Ba Ddi: A Breath, a Move, a Game | Alia Syed | United Kingdom | |
Magid / Zafar | Luís Hindman | United Kingdom | |
Nostalgie | Kathryn Ferguson | United Kingdom | |
We Had Fun | Linda Lô | France | |
Womb | Ira Hetaraka | New Zealand | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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& Sons | Pablo Trapero | United Kingdom, Canada | |
Calle Málaga | Maryam Touzani | Morocco, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium | |
D is for Distance | Christopher Petit, Emma Matthews | Finland | |
Endless Cookie | Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver | Canada | |
Father Mother Sister Brother | Jim Jarmusch | United States, Ireland, France, Italy, Japan | |
Human Resource | Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit | Thailand | |
Kim Novak's Vertigo | Alexandre O. Philippe | United States | |
Left-Handed Girl | 左撇子女孩 | Shih-Ching Tsou | United States, United Kingdom, France, Taiwan |
Love, Brooklyn | Rachael Abigail Holder | United States | |
Love Me Tender | Anna Cazenave Cambet | France | |
The Love That Remains | Ástin Sem Eftir Er | Hlynur Pálmason | Iceland, Denmark, France, Finland, Sweden |
Resurrection | 狂野时代 | Bi Gan | China, France |
Romería | Carla Simón | Spain, Germany | |
A Sad and Beautiful World | نجوم الأمل و الألم | Cyril Aris | Lebanon, United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar |
The Souffleur | Gastón Solnicki | Austria, Argentina | |
The Thing with Feathers | Dylan Southern | United Kingdom | |
Train Dreams | Clint Bentley | United States | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Cover-Up | Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus | United States | |
The Deal | Jean-Stéphane Bron | Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium | |
Island of the Winds | 大風之島 | Hsu Ya-Ting | Taiwan, Japan, France |
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office | Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens | United States | |
Kontinental '25 | Radu Jude | Romania, Brazil, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Luxembourg | |
Love+War | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | United States | |
Mother | Мајка | Teona Strugar Mitevska | North Macedonia, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina, India |
Orwell: 2+2=5 | Raoul Peck | United States, France | |
Saipan | Glenn Leyburn, Lisa Barros D'Sa | United Kingdom, Ireland | |
Silent Friend | Stille Freundin | Ildikó Enyedi | Germany, France, Hungary |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Fwends | Sophie Somerville | Australia | |
The Kidnapping of Arabella | Il rapimento di Arabella | Carolina Cavalli | Italy |
More Life | Bradley Banton | United Kingdom, Denmark | |
Olmo | Fernando Eimbcke | United States, Mexico | |
She's the He | Siobhán McCarthy | United States | |
Twinless | James Sweeney | United States | |
Untamable | Thomas Ngijol | France | |
What Marielle Knows | Was Marielle weiß | Frédéric Hambalek | Germany |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Alpha | Julia Ducournau | France, Belgium | |
Anemone | Ronan Day-Lewis | United Kingdom, United States | |
The Assistant | Człowiek do wszystkiego | Wilhelm Sasnal, Anka Sasnal | Poland, United Kingdom |
Blue Heron | Sophy Romvari | Canada, Hungary | |
The Chronology of Water | Kristen Stewart | France, Latvia, United Kingdom, United States | |
The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box) | El Diablo Fuma (y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja) | Ernesto Martínez Bucio | Mexico |
Dreams | Michel Franco | United States, Mexico | |
Dry Leaf | ხმელი ფოთოლი | Alexandre Koberidze | Germany, Georgia |
The Fence | Le Cri des Gardes | Claire Denis | France |
Good Boy | Jan Komasa | Poland, United Kingdom | |
Hamlet | Aneil Karia | United Kingdom | |
The Ice Tower | La Tour de glace | Lucile Hadžihalilović | France, Germany, Italy |
Lady | Samuel Abrahams | United Kingdom | |
Magellan | Magalhães | Lav Diaz | Portugal, Spain, Philippines, France, Taiwan |
Memory of Princess Mumbi | Damien Hauser | Kenya, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia | |
Short Summer | Nastia Korkia | Germany, France, Serbia | |
Sirāt | Óliver Laxe | Spain, France | |
Sound of Falling | In die Sonne schauen | Mascha Schilinski | Germany |
Straight Circle | Oscar Hudson | United States, United Kingdom, South Africa | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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At the Place of Ghosts | Sk+te’kmujue’katik | Bretten Hannam | Canada, Belgium |
Balearic | Ion de Sosa | Spain, France | |
Giant | Rowan Athale | United Kingdom, United States | |
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You | Mary Bronstein | United States | |
Lurker | Alex Russell | United States | |
Miroirs No. 3 | Christian Petzold | Germany | |
A Private Life | Vie privée | Rebecca Zlotowski | France |
Retreat | Ted Evans | United Kingdom | |
The Secret Agent | O Agente Secreto | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil |
Ultras | Ragnhild Ekner | Sweden, Denmark, Finland | |
Wasteman | Cal McMau | United Kingdom | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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ChaO | チァオ | Yasuhiro Aoki | Japan |
Decorado | Alberto Vázquez | Spain, Portugal | |
Exit 8 | 8番出口 | Genki Kawamura | Japan |
Fucktoys | Annapurna Sriram | United States | |
The Holy Boy | La valle dei sorrisi | Paolo Strippoli | Italy, Slovenia |
Honey Bunch | Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli | Canada | |
Reflection in a Dead Diamond | Reflet dans un diamant mort | Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, France |
The Vile | Majid Al Ansari | United Arab Emirates, United States | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Below the Clouds | Sotto le nuvole | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy |
The Blue Trail | O Último Azul | Gabriel Mascaro | Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Netherlands |
Enzo | Robin Campillo | France | |
La grazia | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy | |
High Wire | Calif Chong | United Kingdom | |
Lucky Lu | Lloyd Lee Choi | Canada, United States | |
Orphan | Árva | László Nemes | Hungary, France, Germany, United Kingdom |
A Pale View of Hills | Kei Ishikawa | United Kingdom, Japan, Poland | |
Palestine 36 | فلسطين ٣٦ | Annemarie Jacir | Palestine, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan |
Portobello (Two episodes) | Marco Bellocchio | Italy, France | |
The President's Cake | مملكة القصب | Hasan Hadi | Iraq, United States, Qatar |
Promised Sky | Promis le ciel | Erige Sehiri | France, Tunisia, Qatar |
Redoubt | Värn | John Skoog | Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland, Finland, United Kingdom, Switzerland |
The Son and the Sea | Stroma Cairns | United Kingdom, United States | |
Têtes Brûlées | Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama | Belgium | |
Two Prosecutors | Sergei Loznitsa | France, Germany, Romania, Latvia, Netherlands, Lithuania | |
Weightless | Vægtløs | Emilie Thalund | Denmark |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Ariel | Lois Patiño | Spain, Portugal | |
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions | Kahlil Joseph | United States | |
DJ Ahmet | Georgi M. Unkovski | North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia | |
Duse | Pietro Marcello | Italy, France | |
Future Botanica | Marcel van Brakel, Hazal Ertürkan | Netherlands | |
Khartoum | الخرطوم | Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Philip Cox | Sudan, United Kingdom, Germany, Qatar |
Mare's Nest | Ben Rivers | United Kingdom, France, Canada | |
Moss & Freud | James Lucas | United Kingdom, New Zealand | |
Peter Hujar's Day | Ira Sachs | United States | |
The Stranger | L'Étranger | François Ozon | France, Belgium |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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The Memory of Butterflies | La memoria de las mariposas | Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski | Peru, Portugal |
With Hasan in Gaza | Kamal Aljafari | Germany, Palestine, France, Qatar | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Animal Farm | Andy Serkis | Canada, United Kingdom, United States | |
Finding Optel | Jesse Brown, Mikayla Joy Brown | South Africa | |
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain | Amélie et la métaphysique des tubes | Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han | France, Belgium |
The Songbird’s Secret | Le Secret des Mésanges | Antoine Lanciaux | France |
Whispers in the Woods | Le Chant des forêts | Vincent Munier | France |
The short film programme was divided into the following sections. Short films already mentioned within the Short Films competition are not included.
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Little Monsters | Les Petits Monstres | Pablo Léridon | France |
Candy Bar | Nash Edgerton | Australia | |
Crab No. 7 | Victor Nauwynck, Shir Ariya | United Kingdom | |
Mother Goose | Joanna Vymeris | United Kingdom | |
The Wasp or The Sheer Beauty of Accepting Yourself | Cass Virdee | United Kingdom | |
Party Animal | Ali Gill | United Kingdom | |
End of Play | Edem Wornoo | United Kingdom | |
Whitch | Hoku Uchiyama | United States | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Ackee and Saltfish | Jasmin Nunes | United Kingdom | |
Seventeen | Ajuan Isaac-George | ||
So Here We Are | Warren Mendy, Mahaila Palmer | ||
I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash | Mark Jenkin | ||
Under the Wave Off Little Dragon | Luo Jian | ||
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Forgotten Routes | Varta Arutiunian | United Kingdom | |
My Blood is Palestinian | Jay Scanlan-Oumow, Omar Ismail | ||
Baby | Simisolaoluwa Akande | ||
Original Sin | Amrou Al-Kadhi | ||
Highway to the Moon | Letitia Wright | ||
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Chimera | Eamonn Hearns | United Kingdom | |
Flock | Mac Nixon | United Kingdom | |
Speak with the Dead | Stephanie Paris | United States | |
Shiny Precious Things | Villő Krisztics | United Kingdom | |
God is Shy | Jocelyn Charles | France | |
Grandma is Thirsty | Kris Carr | United Kingdom | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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You Can Call Me Lou | Georgia Zeta Gkoka | United Kingdom, Greece | |
Beyond the Rush | Niyadre | United Kingdom | |
Chikha | Zahoua Raji, Ayoub Layoussifi | France, Morocco | |
Dust to Dreams | Idris Elba | Nigeria | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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The Devil and the Bicycle | Sharon Hakim | France | |
22+1 | Pippa Bennett-Warner | United Kingdom | |
Red Egg & Ginger | Olivia Owyeung | United Kingdom | |
Sweet Talkin’ Guy | Dylan Wardwell, Spencer Wardwell | United Kingdom | |
Crusts | India Sleem | United Kingdom | |
Dark Skin Bruises Differently | Susan Wokoma | United Kingdom | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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The House Was There Before Me | Elian Mikkola | Canada | |
Fugue Notes | Selina Ershadi | New Zealand | |
Radius Catastrophe | Jad Youssef | Lebanon | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Border as Interface | Petra Szemán | United Kingdom, Japan | |
Nsala | Mickael-sltan Mbanza | Congo | |
The Conjured Ones | Los Conjurados | Humberto González Bustillo | Venezuela, Argentina |
Terror Element | Anna Engelhardt, Mark Cinkevich | United Kingdom, Netherlands | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Daria's Night Flowers | Maryam Tafakory | Iran, United Kingdom, France | |
New Territories (Spectacle is King) | Rhea Storr | United Kingdom | |
Tuktuit: Caribou | Lindsay McIntyre | Canada | |
Another Other | Bex Oluwatoyin Thompson | United States | |
Morning Circle | Basma al-Sharif | Germany, Canada, United Arab Emirates | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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The Early Sun, Red as a Hunter's Moon | Adam Piron | United States | |
She's Waiting for the Sunset | Martyna Ratnik | Lithuania | |
Nothing Out of the Island: Bridges | Nada fuera de la Isla: Puentes | Dalissa Montes de Oca Mosquea | Dominican Republic, United States |
Half Memory | Ufuoma Essi | United Kingdom, United States, France | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Primate Visions; Macaque Macabre | Natasha Tontey | Indonesia, Switzerland | |
Hedgehog Cakes: Sweet Weapon of Terror | Zhenia Stepanenko | Ukraine | |
Fragments for Venus | Alice Diop | Italy, France | |
Resurrect Me as a Parasite | Gabi Dao, Lou Lou Sainsbury | United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Mushroom's Life | Sēnes dzīve | Ēvalds Lācis | Latvia |
Cardboard | J.P. Vine | United Kingdom | |
Snow Bear | Aaron Blaise | United States | |
The Naughty Seat | David Johnson | United Kingdom | |
House Trap | George Hampshire | Netherlands | |
The Big Bad Wolf | Leo Wright | United Kingdom | |
ForeverGreen | Nathan Engelhardt, Jeremy Spears | United States | |
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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The Girls (1978) | ගැහැණු ළමයි | Sumitra Peries | Sri Lanka |
Hotel London (1987) | Ahmed Alauddin Jamal | United Kingdom | |
La Paga (1962) | Ciro Durán | Colombia, Venezuela | |
Mortu Nega (1988) | Flora Gomes | Guinea-Bissau | |
Wild Style (1982) | Charlie Ahearn | United States | |
The following awards were presented: [5]