As in previous years a number of Austrian films will be screened at the 2018 BFI London Film Festival including Joy by director Sudabeh Mortezai which will be featured in the Best Film competition.
Joy
Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 October
Sudabeh Mortezai (Macondo, LFF 2014) presents a vital and hugely
affecting drama that tackles the vicious cycle of sex trafficking in
modern Europe.
*Featured in the Best Film Competition
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Angelo
Wednesday 17 & Thursday 18 October
The powerful story of Angelo Soliman, a forced Europeanised African who
makes his way through Viennese society in the early 18th century without
ever belonging.
*Featured in the Debate programme
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Styx
Thursday 11 & Saturday 13 October
A woman’s solo sailing journey turns into a deadly serious ethical dilemma in this unusual and taut political allegory.
*Germany-Austria co-production
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Twenty-Two Hours
Tuesday 16 October
Bouchra Khalili’s meditation on revolutionary histories considers the
poet Jean Genet’s secret 1970 visit to the United States at the
invitation of the Black Panther Party.
*Germany-USA-Norway-Austria co-production
Screened in conjunction with Promised Lands, directed by Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa. Austria-Germany-Uganda 2018. 19min
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Yomeddine
Thursday 18, Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 October
Egyptian filmmaker A.B. Shawky makes his feature debut with this utterly
unique road movie which charts the friendship between a leper and a
young orphan.
Egypt-Austria co-production
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Short Film Programme:
Maria Lassnig: New York Films 1970- 1980
Sunday 14 October
A rare chance to see the personal, intimate and newly restored films of
the internationally celebrated Austrian portrait painter Maria Lassnig,
who died in 2014.
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Morgenmensch, directed by Ozgur Anil - Part of the Lust to Love and In Between programme
Friday 12 & Sunday 14 October
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Operation Jane Walk by, directed by Leonhard Mullner - Part of the Amazing and Astounding programme
Thursday 18 & Sunday 21 October
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