2025 UK Film Festival London - cinemabang.com

This year’s UK Film Festival London will take place from Wednesday 19th to Sunday 23rd November, and will once again offer London audiences a unique chance to catch the latest award-winning short films from around the world on the big screen, alongside a selection of impressive features and documentaries by talented newcomers.

In Alec Griffen Roth’s Billy Knight (UK and European premiere), Al Pacino leads a stellar cast, including Charlie Heaton, whose discovery through Stranger Things and its recent revival has catapulted him into the limelight. Another feature film highlight is Zhao Shuo’s masterpiece Reborn in Love, a stunningly cinematic love story set in the mountains of Tibet. 

(Philippines), following their success at the Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals, as well as the multi-award winning Two Black Boys in Paradise by Baz Sells (UK), a movingly tender stop-motion animation based on Dean Atta's acclaimed poem

Another gem is the touching and little-known short film, Going Down by Aella Jordan Edge (UK), in which two sex workers (Lucy Jane Rae and Anais Lone) booked for a threesome meet for the first time in a hotel elevator. 

This year’s cutting-edge documentaries include Solitary Road by Johan Palmgren, which covers the ups and downs of a community in Northern Sweden, cut off from the world due to a connection to the main road system never being completed back in 1955. Another poignant title is the thought-provoking Living in my Car by Oisin Byrne, in which main protagonist Jon is left homeless and forced to live in his car, caught between a rent boom and the UK’s worsening cost-of-living crisis. Abu Jabal, by Bisan Owda, follows a mother and child who return to the wreck of their house in Gaza, grieving for their son and brother, who was killed on the first 

day of the conflict. 

Films will be screened to the public every evening at two London venues: the Soho Hotel, and Close-Up Cinema. Many screenings will be followed by Q&A sessions, after which there will also be an opportunity for informal discussion with the filmmakers. The 2025 programme has once again been curated by the twice Berlinale winning director Petros Silvestros, with the help of an international jury panel. 

The festival also offers candidates prestigious awards in a variety of categories, including Best Short Film, Best British Short, Best Feature Film, Best Documentary, Best Animation and Best Music Video. 

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