Official Selection

London Film Week showcases one short film and one feature film per evening, for one week.

Tuesday 04 December 2018 | 8.55pm

Opening Gala - Preview Screening

COLETTE

A radiant Keira Knightley (Atonement, Anna Karenina) gives a career-best performance in this exhilarating, entertaining and timely film about the life of groundbreaking French novelist Colette

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The Opening Gala will start with animation short SELFIES.

Wednesday 05 December 2018 | 8.30pm

European Premiere

TEJANO

Desperate for money to save his sick Grandfather, a South Texas farmhand resorts to the extreme: He breaks his own arm to smuggle a cast made of cocaine across the Mexican border.

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TEJANO will screen after narrative short film SHADIN.

Thursday 06 December 2018 | 8.55pm

UK Premiere

SIBEL

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey's Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area.

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SIBEL will screen after narrative short film MERCURY.

Friday 07 December 2018 | 8.30pm

Preview Screening

SINK OR SWIM

French director Gilles Lellouche made a splash at this year’s Cannes festival with a hugely entertaining and moving comedy about dreams that can come true even if we don’t dare believe in them.

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SINK OR SWIM will screen after narrative short ONE
CAMBODIAN FAMILY PLEASE FOR MY PLEASURE.

Saturday 08 December 2018 | 8.45pm

European Premiere

ARE YOU GLAD I'M HERE

A millennial American girl befriends a Lebanese housewife and disrupts her ordered life; one night they become accidental partners-in-crime.

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ARE YOU GLAD I'M HERE will screen after animation short film THREE CENTIMETRES.

Sunday 09 December 2018 | 8.30pm

UK Premiere

M

When he was a kid, Menahem Lang was known for his kindness, his commitment to Talmud school and especially his golden voice, which made him a renowned performer of liturgical chants. But he was hiding a secret: for years, he was raped by members of the community that worshipped him.

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M will screen after animation short film NEGATIVE SPACE.

Monday 10 December 2018 | 8.10pm

Closing Gala - Preview Screening

Closing Gala:
BURNING

After lighting Cannes on fire earlier this year — where it topped IndieWire’s critics poll as the best film of the festival, and landed the highest score in the long history of Screen Daily’s annual critics grid — Lee Chang-dong’s “Burning” is set to Premiere at London Film Week.

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BURNING will screen after narrative short film FIGHTER.