BFI London Film Festival unveils 11-strong competition line-up

Thank You For Banking With Us, 4 Moms and The Extraordinary Miss Flower are to world premiere at BFI London Movie Competition (October 9-20) as a part of the 11-strong competitors line-up.

Scroll down for the total record of LFF 2024 competitors titles

Palestinian filmmaker Laila Abbas’ function debut, Thank You For Banking With Us, follows two sisters in a race towards time to guarantee their inheritance as a patriarchal system makes an attempt to get of their approach.

Additionally world premiering is UK biographical movie The Extraordinary Miss Flower, directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the crew behind Sundance 2014 title 20,000 Days On Earth. When Geraldine Flower handed away, her household uncovered a secret cache of letters containing declarations of affection from suitors across the globe, hinting at the potential for a lifetime of espionage.

It’s a sturdy 12 months within the LFF competitors for Irish titles, with world premiere 4 Moms, alongside Christopher Andrews’ Toronto title Deliver Them Down and Cannes Un Sure Regard movie On Changing into A Guinea Fowl all with Irish producers.

Darren Thornton’s comedy drama 4 Moms is an Eire-set adaptation of Gianni Di Gregorio’s 2008 LFF winner Mid-August Lunch. A queer, up-and-coming novelist pressured to steadiness press commitments with caring for his growing old mom. The UK’s Portobello Movies and Tv and Eire’s Port Footage produce. 

Display screen Star of Tomorrow 2017 Rungano Nyoni’s sophomore function On Changing into A Guinea Fowl is produced by Eire-UK firm Factor Footage with backing from BBC Movie and A24. The surrealist drama is ready in Zambia, and explores themes of custom, abuse and power inside a household. Nyoni’s debut, I Am Not A Witch, additionally screened at LFF in 2017.

Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbot headline Display screen Star of Tomorrow 2019 Andrews’ debut function, Deliver Them Down, a couple of man pressured to take management of his household’s farm owing to the ailing well being of his father that attracts him into an extended battle with a rival shepherding household. Producers embody Ivana MacKinnon of the UK’s Wild Swim, whose title How To Have Intercourse performed at BFI LFF final 12 months, and Eire’s Tailor-made Movies, with assist from Mubi.

The winner is to be chosen by a yet-to-be-announced jury and revealed on October 20. Latest winners of the most effective movie award embody Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist in 2023 and Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage in 2022.

“We’re immensely proud to have many UK and Irish filmmakers represented alongside movies from throughout the globe,” mentioned BFI LFF director Kristy Matheson, now main her second version.

The complete LFF programme will likely be set on September 4. 

LFF 2024 competitors titles

*denotes world premiere 

April (Fr-Geo-It)

Dir. Dea Kulumbegashvili

Deliver Them Down (Ire-UK-Belg) 

Dir. Christopher Andrews

The Extraordinary Miss Flower* (UK)

Dirs. Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard

4 Moms* (Ire-UK)
Dir. Darren Thornton

Residing In Two Worlds (Japan)

Dir. Mipo O

Memoir Of A Snail (Australia)

Dir. Adam Elliot

On Changing into A Guinea Fowl (Zambia-UK-Ire) 

Dir. Rungano Nyoni

Thank You For Banking With Us* (Palestine-Ger)
Dir. Laila Abbas

The Wolves All the time Come At Evening (Australia-Mong-Ger)

Dir. Gabrielle Brady

Underneath The Volcano (Poland) 

Dir. Damian Kocur

Vermiglio (It-Fr-Belg)

Dir. Maura Delpero