The Global South at the London Film Festival - your starter for £10

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London Film Festival 2024, 9-20 October

The programme

The 12 days of the BFI London Film Festival are jam-packed with the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling – and you don’t have to work in film to be a part of it.

This is your chance to delight in the undiscovered, as all feature films and series are being shown in the UK for the first (and sometimes only) time.

Tickets start from £10 for all screenings and events in London, with concessions available for many screenings.

If you're aged 16 to 25, you can sign up for a 25 & Under account to get £5 tickets.

All works from the Global South in the Festival by country:

Afghanistan

• Kamay

Algeria

• Avant Seriana, in the programme A Stream of Echoes

Argentina

• Collective Monologue

• The Wailing

Benin

• Dahomey

Brazil

• Baby

• Bury Your Dead

• Cidade; Campo

• I’m Still Here

• Praia Formosa

Burkina Faso

• Rising Up at Night

Cape Verde

• Hanami

China

• Caught by the Tides

Colombia

• Nido de Crocodilo, in the programme A Stream of Echoes

Democratic Republic of Congo

• Rising Up at Night

Egypt

• Dawn Every Day, in the programme Wondering, Wandering

Hong Kong (S.A.R of China)

• All Shall Be Well

• Shambhala

• The Way We Talk

India

• All We Imagine As Light

• The Churning

• Holy Curse, in the programme Films of Resistance

• Superboys of Malegaon

Indonesia

• Crocodile Tears

• Don’t Cry, Butterfly

Iran

• A Move, in the programme Films of Resistance

• My Stolen Planet

• Razeh-del, screening with A Night We Held Between and No Exorcism Film

• The Sealed Soil

• The Seed of the Sacred Fig

• Kenya

• After the Long Rains

Kyrgyzstan

• Burul, in the programme Films of Resistance

Latvia

• Flow

Mexico

• La Cocina

• Maria Candelaria

• Sujo

Mongolia

• The Wolves Always Come at Night

Mozambique

• The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder

Namibia

• Pepe

Nepal

• Shambhala

Nigeria

• The Weekend

Palestine

• A Fidai Film

• A Night We Held Between, screening with No Exorcism Film and Razeh-del

• Shattered Memory, in the programme Films of Resistance

• A Short Film About Kids, in the programme Wondering, Wandering

• Thank You for Banking With Us

• To a Land Unknown

• UNDR, screening with A Fidai Film

• Vibrations from Gaza, in the programme Wondering, Wandering

Philippines

• Don’t Cry, Butterfly

• The River That Never Ends, in the programme The Treasury of Human Inheritance

• Viet and Nam

Qatar

• Aicha

• Rising Up at Night

• Shambhala

• To a Land Unknown

Saudi Arabia

• Aicha

• To a Land Unknown

Senegal

• Dahomey

Singapore

• Crocodile Tears

• Don’t Cry, Butterfly

• Small Hours of the Night

• Stranger Eyes

• Viet and Nam

Somalia

• The Village Next to Paradise

South Korea

• A Traveler’s Needs

Taiwan

• Abiding Nowhere

• Shambhala

• Stranger Eyes

Thailand

• No Exorcism Film, screening with A Night We Held Between and Razeh-del

Tunisia

• Aicha

• Who Do I Belong To

Vietnam

• Don’t Cry, Butterfly

• Viet and Nam

Zambia

• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

London cinemas

• BFI Southbank

• BFI IMAX

• Curzon Mayfair

• Curzon Soho

• Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)

• Prince Charles Cinema

• Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall

• Vue West End

Expanded – XR and immersive art

• Bargehouse at Oxo Tower Wharf

• Outernet

• Theatre Avenue

• Additional venues across London

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