Baltimore, the latest film from directing duo Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, has been selected for the 67th BFI London Film Festival.
Baltimore, starring Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Fingernails, starring Jessie Buckley, and Evil Does Not Exist from Japanese auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car), are among the eleven titles in official competition for the best film award.
The festival has also announced the eleven titles screening in the fest’s first feature competition, eight titles in the documentary competition, and ten titles competing for the short film award.
“The films represented in each of these competitive strands offer audiences an exciting array of U.K. and global filmmaking voices and cinematic forms,” said Kristy Matheson, BFI London Film Festival director. “We’re so proud to be showcasing each of these films and thank all the filmmaking teams in competition for sharing their films with us.”
The full list of officially selected films is available below:
Competition
Baltimore (directors-screenwriters Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor)
Dear Jassi (director Tarsem Singh Dhandwar)
Europa (director-screenwriter Sudabeh Mortezai)
Evil Does Not Exist (director-screenwriter Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
Fingernails (director-screenwriter Christos Nikou)
Gasoline Rainbow (directors-screenwriters Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross)
I Am Sirat (director: a collaboration between Deepa Mehta and Sirat Taneja)
The Royal Hotel (director-screenwriter Kitty Green)
Self Portrait: 47 KM 2020 (director Zhang Mengqi)
Starve Acre (director-screenwriter Daniel Kokotajlo)
Together 99 (director-screenwriter Lukas Moodysson)
First Feature Competition
Black Dog (director-screenwriter George Jaques)
Earth Mama (director-screenwriter Savanah Leaf)
Hoard (director-screenwriter Luna Carmoon)
In Camera (director-screenwriter Naqqash Khalid)
Mambar Pierrette (director-screenwriter Rosine Mbakam)
Paradise Is Burning (director-screenwriter Mika Gustafson)
Penal Cordillera (director-screenwriter Felipe Carmona)
The Queen of My Dreams (director-screenwriter Fawzia Mirza)
Sky Peals (director-screenwriter Moin Hussain)
Tiger Stripes (director-screenwriter Amanda Nell Eu)
Tuesday (director-screenwriter Daina O. Pusić)
Documentary Competition
Bye Bye Tiberias (director-screenwriter Lina Soualem)
Celluloid Underground (director Ehsan Khoshbakht)
Chasing Chasing Amy (director Sav Rodgers)
A Common Sequence (directors Mary Helena Clark and Mike Gibisser)
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano (director-screenwriter Cyril Aris)
The Klezmer Project (directors-screenwriters Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann)
Queendom (director Agniia Galdanova)
The Taste of Mango (director Chloe Abrahams)
Short Film Competition
The Archive: Queer Nigerians (director Simisolaoluwa Akande)
Area Boy (director Iggy London)
Boat People (directors Thao Lam and Kjell Boersma)
Essex Girls (director Yero Timi-Biu)
The Goose’s Excuse (directors Mahdy Abo Bahat and Abdo Zin Eldin)
Khabur (director Nafis Fathollahzadeh)
Onset (directors Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich)
The Singer (director Cora Bissett)
The Walk (director Michael Jobling)
Wells of Despair (director Sata Taas)
