BFI London Film Festival 2024: What we're looking forward to

Three Kilometres to the End of the World

Director: Emanuel Pârvu (Better This Way)
Runtime: 105 min

A tale all too depressingly common. If being the victim of a homophobic attack wasn’t bad enough for Romanian teenager Adi, the assault reveals his sexuality to the rest of the community. Cue the usual victim-blaming, police cover-ups, and a bizarre attempt to exorcise the gay out of him, courtesy of his own mother.

A Fidai Film

Director: Kamal Aljafari (Port of Memory, An Unusual Summer)
Runtime: 78 min

Aljafari transforms fragments of footage, seized from the Palestine Research Centre in Beirut by the IDF in 1982, into a cinematic collage telling the story of the life and struggles of the people of the “Land of Sad Oranges”. Not merely a film to be so much as an experience, heartrending from start to finish.

The Assessment

Director: Fleur Fortuné
Runtime: 114 min

The anti-government-overreach movie. Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel play a couple living in the post-apocalyptic future and looking to start a family – but they must first pass a state-mandated, week-long evaluation directed by a very scrutinising assessor (Alicia Vikander).

Holloway

Directors: Sophie Compton (Another Body), Daisy-May Hudson (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande)
Runtime: 86 min

Six women, former inmates at HMP Holloway, return to the now-closed prison and reflect on their time there, as well as their lives post-release.