From compelling true stories and literary adaptations to biographies and documentaries, this year’s British Film Festival will be screening exceptional talent from November 3 to December 1 across participating venues: Luna Leederville, Luna Luna SX, The Windsor and Palace Raine Square. We have compiled a list of the trailers for your viewing pleasure.
https://youtu.be/2B2bxcnt4S4
The Duke
The Duke is a highly entertaining and uplifting true story about a good man who set out to change the world while trying to save his marriage.
https://vimeo.com/470235147
It Snows in Benidorm
It Snows in Benidorm, a boring routine man goes searching for his hedonistic and burlesque club owning brother.
https://youtu.be/lXVoQWzlAxw
To Olivia
To Olivia, set between New York, England and Los Angeles, chronicles Dahl's struggles while writing some of his most famous works.
https://youtu.be/43037dKDMuQ
The Last Bus
The Last Bus, a recent widower living in Scotland plans one giant bus trip in the heartwarming adventure tale.
https://youtu.be/o9QrcE2-yu0
Ali & Ava
Ali & Ava, a British Pakistani working-class landlord who forges close bonds with his tenants in this working-class love story.
https://youtu.be/U82heDabn5k
Stardust
Stardust follows David Bowie’s first US publicity tour - a road trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
https://youtu.be/tEJ90S8lhUg
Nowhere Special
Nowhere Special, a 35-year-old window cleaner, devotes his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth.
https://youtu.be/DDMeV4TIPtI
Miss Marx
Miss Marx is an audacious retelling of the life of Eleanor Marx, Karl Marx’s youngest daughter, from Italian director Susanna Nicchiarelli.
https://youtu.be/13ixGoK_MgY
Best Sellers
Best Sellers, a cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher. The feature directorial debut of Canadian actor Lina Roessler (Lost Girl), based on Anthony Grieco’s award-winning original screenplay, Sir Michael Caine stars alongside Aubrey Plaza in this rollicking literary comedy.
https://youtu.be/0Ppe1YYATQY
Last Night in Soho
Last Night In Soho, a young woman is transported back to the 1960s in acclaimed director Edgar Wright’s (Baby Driver, Shaun of the Dead) time-travelling psychological thriller, Last Night in Soho.
https://youtu.be/COVK1LQ2XoI
Eric Clapton: Lockdown Sessions
Eric Clapton: Lockdown Sessions, this documentary presents one of the most intimate and authentic performances of Clapton’s career, offering real insight into the make-up of his indelible catalogue.
https://youtu.be/Ogph8SELS98
Falling for Figaro
Falling for Figaro. From award-winning director Ben Lewin (The Sessions, The Catcher Was A Spy), Falling For Figaro is an entertaining romantic comedy set in the fierce world of opera singing competitions.
https://youtu.be/BPWdqR8p3Yo
Quadropheniahe
Quadropheniahe - The Who’s 1973 classic rock opera Quadrophenia was the basis for this invigorating coming-of-age tale and depiction of the defiant, drug-fueled mod subculture of early 1960s London.
https://youtu.be/YQ7ZXOXHZ20
Operation Mincemeat
Operation Mincemeat - A stranger than fiction true story set during WWII 2 starring Colin Firth (BFF20 Supernova, The King’s Speech) and Matthew Macfadyen (Pride & Prejudice), depicting the deception effort by the Allies to keep the invasion of Italy hidden.
https://youtu.be/YbbIyze_Z0Q
Off the Rails
Off the Rails is a feel good comedy that follows four women travelling through France, Spain and Italy, to finally complete a European odyssey and fulfil their friend’s dying wish.
https://youtu.be/Zcf6GtNvMCQ
Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday - An intimate period drama exploring a creative awakening steeped in books, love and loss, a terrific extended cast make this a must-see.
https://youtu.be/T54uZPI4Z8A
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange - Celebrating its 50th anniversary and presented in a stunning 4K restoration, Stanley Kubrick’s cult classic A Clockwork Orange is a disturbing and thought-provoking sci-fi film adapted from Anthony Burgess’ 1962 novel. In a dystopian future England, sadistic gang leader Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it does not go as planned.
https://youtu.be/Rkxz3uethFQ
Boiling Point
Boiling Point - An emotionally scarred London chef struggles to keep it together in this heated single-take thriller, set in and around a restaurant during a single evening.
https://youtu.be/Xq-TIzlSwuo
Benediction
Benediction - A splendid and tender portrait from revered filmmaker Terence Davies (A Quiet Passion), Benediction explores the turbulent life of 20th-century English poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon.
https://youtu.be/kIXpp0lhe5U
Sparkling: The Story of Champagne
Sparkling: The Story of Champagne - A love letter to the joys and pleasures of Champagne, this sparkling documentary shares inside perspectives from the A-list Champagne houses and features a host of A-list talent.
https://youtu.be/zd_lPWY1Dp8
The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica
The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica - Timothy Spall (also in The Last Bus and It Snows in Benidorm) and Peter Stormare star as a cantankerous architect and an eccentric billionaire in this intriguing homage to Peter Greenaway from Australian writer-director Daniel Graham.
https://youtu.be/YTilweeucKI
The War Below
The War Below - A spirited film about the tunnelling and sabotage efforts at the battle of Messines during the First World War, The War Below is a fascinating drama based on true events.
https://youtu.be/THGzCbbFvdY
My Father and Me
My Father and Me - Amongst the foremost names in documentary filmmaking for decades, Nick Broomfield (Tracking Down Maggie, Biggie and Tupac) has never made a film more distinctly personal than this complex and tender snapshot of his father’s life.
https://youtu.be/nyFMfDVZqhc
Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story
Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story takes viewers on an immersive journey through the trailblazing life of novelist Jackie Collins. Spinning together fact and fiction, this feature documentary reveals the untold story of a ground-breaking author and her mission to build a one-woman literary empire.
https://youtu.be/Ja3PPOnJQ2k
Belfast
Belfast - From lauded director Kenneth Branagh (Murder on the Orient Express) and starring an acclaimed ensemble cast, Belfast is a poignant and joyful coming-of-age drama set in late 1960s Northern Ireland.
https://youtu.be/ZZMgVg_xqIo
The Railway Children
The Railway Children - A wonderful family film adapted from Edith Nesbit's much-loved 1906 novel, The Railway Children follows the adventures of the Waterbury Children after the enforced absence of their father.
https://youtu.be/A_Y0l5lMiqE
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain - An eccentric artist introduces Victorian London to the delights of cats in this enlightening biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch
https://youtu.be/XjPSGuJskxM
Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon - An Irish rogue (Ryan O’Neal) wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England in Stanley Kubrick’s sumptuous version of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel. Cynical, ironic, and suffused with seductive natural lighting, Barry Lyndon is a complex character piece of a hapless man doomed by Georgian society.
https://youtu.be/yXkqGVfm1mo
Straw Dogs
Straw Dogs - A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment in this psychological thriller directed by Sam Peckinpah. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, Straw Dogs is a viscerally impactful adaptation of Gordon Williams’ novel ‘The Siege of Trencher’s Farm’ that stars Dustin Hoffman and Susan George.
https://youtu.be/JUeAddmoHzM
The Go-Between
The Go-Between - A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside, adapted for the screen by Harold Pinter from the 1953 novel by L. P. Hartley, Julie Christie and Alan Bates star in this award-winning film that follows the romance between a young woman of the aristocracy and a lowly farmer. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, Joseph Losey’s The Go-Between is presented in a new 4K restoration.
https://youtu.be/YLYLasLqII4
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday - Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin (Murray Head), fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch). A revelation in its day, Sunday Bloody Sunday is an intelligent, multi textured film about the complexities of romantic relationships, that celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2021.
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