London Film Festival: Steve McQueen, Denis Villeneuve, Sean Baker & Lupita Nyong’o Among Names Set For Screen Talk Sessions

The BFI’s London Film Festival has set an impressive lineup of starry names including Academy Award winners Steve McQueen, Denis Villeneuve, Lupita Nyong’o, and recent Palme d’Or winner Sean Baker for this year’s screen talk Q&A sessions. Scroll down for the entire screen talks programme. 

This year’s London Film Festival runs from 9 October – 20 October. The festival will open with Steve McQueen’s latest feature Blitz, an exploration of London during World War 2, on opening night at this year’s London Film Festival. The pic will screen as a world premiere. 

Directed, produced, and written by McQueen, the film follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. The Synopsis reads: George, defiant and determined to return home to Rita and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, ensues on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son. Blitz marks McQueen’s first sole feature screenwriting credit. 

The festival has said McQueen will discuss Blitz during his screen talk session alongside his big and small screen work, from Hunger and 12 Years a Slave to Widows, Small Axe, and Occupied City.

LFF will screen 11 films in competition this year. Titles include Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili’s latest April and Bring Them Down, starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbot.

Screen Talks

Andrea Arnold

Saturday 19th October, 12:30 – BFI Southbank NFT1

Sean Baker

Saturday 12th October, 13:30 – Curzon Soho Screen 1

Daniel Kaluuya

Wednesday 9th October, 11:30 – Picturehouse Central

Mike Leigh

Sunday 20th October, 15:15 – BFI Southbank NFT1

Steve McQueen

Wednesday 9th October, 14:00 – BFI Southbank NFT1

Lupita Nyong’o

Monday 14th October, 12:30 – BFI Southbank NFT1

Zoe Saldaña

Saturday 12th October, 15:00 – BFI Southbank NFT1

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin

Sunday 13th October, 15:00 – BFI Southbank NFT3

Denis Villeneuve

Saturday 12th October, 11:30 – Southbank Centre

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