The full BFI London Film Festival program for 2020 has been released and includes pixar Soul animation, Ammonite with Kate Winslet as a “strong theme” of social injustice.
The annual occasion will begin on October 7 with a total of 58 films, adding new projects through managers such as Spike Lee and Miranda July.
This year, the festival will be more available online because the coronavirus pandemic restricts the number of other people in theaters.
However, viewers will have the opportunity to see Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan on screen when the drama of the expected era, Ammonite, premiers in theaters.
Twelve other films are also expected to gain advantages from BFI Southbank’s theatrical experience, adding Steve McQueen’s Mangrove, a component of his BBC anthology Small Axe.
Mangrove focuses on Notting Hill’s famous dining spot when police brutality and harassment intensified in the 1960s. The place to eat has a place of resistance that led to the unjust arrest for inciting riots by nine local activists, adding Altheia Jones-LeCointe (Letitia Wright) and Darcus Howe (Malachi Kirby).
She joins a number of other films in the Festival Debate category, while Tricia Tuttle, director of BFI Festivals, promised that it would be “another type of festival this year”.
“Social justice is a strong theme of the program. We’re going to grow and hope to succeed in a lot of people,” he said.
Other films in the lineup come with Supernova, starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci as a couple who settle for the immediate progression of dementia; the new Pixar Soul film, starring Jamie Foxx; Shirley, with Elisabeth Moss; and Mogul Mowgli, with Riz Ahmed, who also co-wrote the script.
Other movies will get virtual previews in BFI Player, and audiences will also have access to loose interviews with filmmakers and stars.
Hollywood’s film industry has been severely affected by the pandemic, however, the release of Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster, Tenet, has revitalized the box after raising nearly $150 million (114 million pounds) in a week.
The BFI London Film Festival runs from October 7-18.
For the full program, visit the BFI London Film Festival website.
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