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Friday, December 4, 2020

Firmly established at the forefront of UK film, BBC Film has an ambitious slate featuring many of themost exciting filmmakers working today.BBC Film has a number of films world premiering in Autumn 2024, including Athina Rachel Tsangari’s HARVEST starring Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling and Rosy McEwen which screens In Competition at Venice Film Festival, while ON FALLING, from writer-director Laura Carreira, and THE SALT PATH based on the best-selling novel by Raynor Winn, directed by Marianne Elliott and starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, will both premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. Short film STOMACH BUG, directed by Matty Crawford, will also world premiere at TIFF and then go on to play at LFF, alongside screenings of four BBC Film features that previously screened in Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival 2024,including: BIRD, from award-winning writer-director Andrea Arnold (Cow, Fish Tank); Rungano Nyoni’s (I am Not a Witch) second feature ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL; SEPTEMBER SAYS, the feature directorial debut from Ariane Labed based on the novel ‘Sisters’ by Daisy Johnson; and SANTOSH, the narrative feature debut from writer-director Sandhya Suri (I For India).

BBC Film’s recent cinema releases include: THE OUTRUN directed by Nora Fingscheidt, based on Amy Liptrot’s best-selling memoir and starring Saoirse Ronan and Paapa Essiedu; Daniel Kokotajlo’s second film, STARVE ACRE starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark; Naqqash Khalid’s IN CAMERA, starring Nabhaan Rizwan, Amir El-Masry and Rory Fleck Byrne; ONE LIFE directed by James Hawes starring Anthony Hopkins; HOARD from Luna Carmoon, starring Saura Lightfoot Leon and Joseph Quinn which took three prizes at Venice Critics’ Week 2023;THE IRON CLAW from Sean Durkin (The Nest) starring Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson; Mahalia Belo’s THE END WE START FROM, written by Alice Birch and based on the novel by Megan Hunter, starring Jodie Comer; Martin Scorsese narrated documentary MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER directed by David Hinton; and 2023’s top grossing UK independent film THE GREAT ESCAPER from Oliver Parker, starring Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson.

Upcoming BBC Film titles include: Harry Lighton’s debut PILLION starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgard; Joachim Trier’s SENTIMENTAL VALUE starring Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Cory Michael Smith and Elle Fanning; the directorial debut of actor Harris Dickinson, produced by Archie Peach and Scott O’Donnell; Aneil Karia’s HAMLET starring Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark and Joe Alywn; Daisy May Hudson’s LOLLIPOP starring Posy Sterling; and THE CHORAL written by Alan Bennett, directed by Nicholas Hytner and starring Ralph Fiennes, Simon Russell Beale, Nathan Hall and Amara Okereke.

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