BFIFF 2019
Film from the 2019 British Film Festival that I really wanted to see
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- DirectorOk-seop YiStarsLee Joo-youngKoo Kyo-hwanMoon So-riShe wants to believe for everything.
- DirectorAbe ForsytheStarsLupita Nyong'oAlexander EnglandJosh GadA washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids'-show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.
- DirectorStéphane DemoustierStarsRoschdy ZemChiara MastroianniMelissa GuersA teenager stands trial for murdering her best friend.
- DirectorMichael Caton-JonesStarsAbigail LawrieRona MorisonMarli SiuIn 1990s Scotland, a group of Catholic school girls get an opportunity to go into Edinburgh for a choir competition, but they're more interested in drinking, partying and hooking up than winning the competition.
- DirectorMichael Angelo CovinoStarsKyle MarvinMichael Angelo CovinoGayle RankinA look at the friendship between two guys that spans over many years.
- DirectorSasie SealyStarsTsai ChinHsiao-Yuan HaMichael TowSet in New York City's Chinatown, an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese grandma goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck - and in the middle of a gang war.
- DirectorJohannes NyholmStarsLeif EdlundYlva GallonKatarina JacobsonAs a couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other, a sideshow artist and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick.
- DirectorTaika WaititiStarsRoman Griffin DavisThomasin McKenzieScarlett JohanssonA young German boy in the Hitler Youth whose hero and imaginary friend is the country's dictator is shocked to discover that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
- DirectorRobert EggersStarsRobert PattinsonWillem DafoeValeriia KaramanTwo lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
- DirectorNoah BaumbachStarsAdam DriverScarlett JohanssonJulia GreerNoah Baumbach's incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.
- DirectorAlma Har'elStarsShia LaBeoufLucas HedgesNoah JupeA young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health.
- DirectorMehdi BarsaouiStarsSami BouajilaNajla Ben AbdallahYoussef Khemiri11 year old Aziz needs a liver transplant after being seriously injured during a terrorist ambush while on holiday in 2011. At the hospital a family secret will be revealed.
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsIngvar SigurdssonÍda Mekkín HlynsdóttirHilmir Snær GuðnasonAn off duty police begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his recently dead wife. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.
- DirectorTom HarperStarsFelicity JonesEddie RedmayneHimesh PatelA balloon pilot and a scientist find themselves in a fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a gas balloon in the 1860s.
- DirectorAmp WongJi ZhaoStarsKaiji TangJames SieFaye MataA love story between a snake spirit and a snake hunter.
- DirectorRian JohnsonStarsDaniel CraigChris EvansAna de ArmasA detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.
- DirectorJayro BustamanteStarsMaría Mercedes CoroySabrina De La HozMargarita KenéficAn aging paranoid war criminal, protected by his faithful wife, faces death while being haunted by the ghosts of his past.
- DirectorLorcan FinneganStarsImogen PootsDanielle RyanMolly McCannA young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.
- DirectorChristophe HonoréStarsChiara MastroianniBenjamin BiolayVincent LacosteAfter 20 years of marriage, Maria decides to leave. She moves to the room 212 of the hotel opposite her marital home. From there, Maria can scrutinize her apartment, her husband, her wedding. She wonders if she has made the right decision.
- DirectorThomas ClayStarsMaxine PeakeCharles DanceFreddie FoxFanny lives in an English farmhouse in 1657 when militant Puritans rule. Two fugitives with radical new ideas arrive. When the sheriff arrives, things deteriorate badly prompting Fanny to make drastic decisions about her life.
- DirectorFabrice du WelzStarsThomas GioriaFantine HarduinBenoît PoelvoordeLove and mental illness know no bounds.
- DirectorGerard JohnsonStarsCraig FairbrassPolly MaberlySinead MatthewsBuild him up. Tear him apart.
- DirectorQuentin DupieuxStarsJean DujardinAdèle HaenelAlbert DelpyA man's obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime.
- DirectorSeverin FialaVeronika FranzStarsRiley KeoughJaeden MartellLia McHughA soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.
- DirectorMirrah FoulkesStarsDaisy AxonDon BridgesMichael PapasSeaside (nowhere near the sea), puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show in an an anarchic town on the brink of mob rule.
- DirectorKang Hyo-jinStarsPark Sung-woongJung JinyoungRa Mi-ranA weak high school student and a mighty gangster exchange their bodies accidentally.
- DirectorJennifer KentStarsAisling FranciosiMaya ChristieBaykali GanambarrSet in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
- DirectorWash WestmorelandStarsAlicia VikanderKiki SukezaneKenichi MasudaAn enigmatic translator with a dark past is brought in for questioning after an ex-pat friend, who came between her and her photographer boyfriend, ends up missing and presumed dead.
- DirectorJill CultonTodd WildermanStarsChloe BennetAlbert TsaiTenzing Norgay TrainorThree teenagers must help a Yeti return to his family while avoiding a wealthy man and a zoologist who want him for their own needs.