The London Film Festival has added a number of titles to this year’s programming, including Paolo Sorrentino Grace.
Grace will arrive in London after a first arc in Venice. The film follows Mariano de Santis, a fictitious president of the Italian Republic. Widowed and Catholic, he has a daughter, Dorotea, a legal scholar like him. While his mandate derives an end, over the days without incident, two final functions arise: decide on two delicate petitions for presidential pardon. The real moral dilemmas, which become tangled in a way that seems impossible to collapse, with his private life. Pushed by doubt, he will have to decide. And, with a deep sense of responsibility, this is exactly what this Italian president will do.
The photo features Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti. The film is produced by Fremantle’s apartment in combination with number 10 and Piperfilm. Mubi will release the film.
LFF also added The fenceThe latest feature by the French filmmaker Claire Denis. The film goes to London after its first screening in Toronto. Located on a construction site with whites in West Africa, a daring and closely injured foreman is impatiently awaiting his bride. His presence is encountered by a resistance of a cocksure engineer who clings to the status quo of the hyper-masculine world in which he resides. But it is the arrival of another foreigner who finally upset the fragile world in which they all exist. The film is adapted from the play by Bernard-Marie Koltès Black Battles with dogs.
LFF will take place from October 8 to 9. The festival will open with the third of Rian Johnson Knives Flick and close with Julia Jackman 100 nights of heroes.
See the complete list of additions below.
Grace
Sunday October 19 2:30 p.m. at the Royal Hall Festival in the Southbank Center
Paolo Sorrentino Director-Screenwriter. With Toni Servillo, Anna Ferzetti, Orlando Cinque, Massimo Venturiello, Milvia Marigliano. Italy 2025. 131min. With the kind permission of MUBI. Italian language. With English subtitles.
The Oscar -winning director, Paolo Sorrentino, is gathered with the actor of great beauty, Toni Servillo, who plays a fictitious president reaching the end of their last mandate.
President Mariano de Santis reflects on his past as he struggles with the next chapter of his life. Crying the loss of his wife, he saw an isolated existence in the great presidential palace, finding comfort in his confidant and listening to hip hop. Carefully exploring power, love and heritage, Sorrentino brings his great vision and his customary rocket to this convincing chamber drama. Isabel Moir
LADY
Thursday October 16 6:15 pm and Sunday October 19 6:05 pm vision’s screen 5
Director Samuel Abrahams. The scriptwriters Samuel Abrahams, Miranda Campbell Bowling. With Sian Clifford, Laurie Kynaston, Juliet Cowan. United Kingdom 2025. 97min. With the kind authorization of Metfilm Studio. Language
English.
Sian Clifford gives a greater than life performance as a narcissistic insistocrat who hires a filmmaker in difficulty to record each movement, in the eccentric model of Samuel Abraham.
Lady Isabella aspires to be under the spotlight and the spectacle of local talents “Stary Stars” offers her the break she has long wanted. Although it revels in the presence of the camera on its large area, the pressures are high and things end up taking a surrealist turn when it begins to lose its sense of self. The beginnings of Abraham, which present a remarkable performance by Clifford de Fleabag, intelligently mixes satirical humor with magical realism, exploring our deep need for human connection and to be seen. Isabel Moir
The blower
Thursday, October 16, 8:25 PM at the NFT3 of BFI Southbank / Sunday October 19 19:55 at the NFT2 of BFI Southbank
Director Gaston Solnicki. The writers Julia Niemann, Gaston Solnicki. With Belem Dafoe, Lilly
Lindner, Stéphanie Argerich. Austria-Argentina 2025. 78 minutes. With the kind authorization of Magnificent. English, German, Spanish, Italian languages. With English subtitles
William Defoe excels as director of a luxury hotel who decides to sabotage the plans of the Argentinian developer who acquired it.
The Intercontinental Glamor Hotel in Vienna has just been sold to a property developer who plans to demolish it. However, he had not negotiated on Lucious Glantz, the director of the hotel, who is not willing to leave the building that he devoted his life to be demolished without fighting. Unfortunately, his obsession is starting to affect the hotel’s effective race. This dark and multilingual comedy is imbued with absurd theatricality and has badly performances. Maria Delgado
The fence
Saturday October 18 12:00 pm vision’s screen 7 / Sunday 19 October 8:30 pm visionary’s Screen 5
Director Claire Denis. The writers Andrew Litvack, Suzanne Lindon, Claire Denis. With Isaach de
Bankole, Matt Dillon, Mia McKenna-Bruce. France 2025.107min. With the kind authorization of GoodFellas. English language, Yoruba. With English subtitles
The tense room of the French maestro Claire Denis is simmering with dark secrets and emotional tensions in his portrait of a suffocating community of the relentless grip of colonialism.
On a construction site with whites in West Africa, a daring and closely injured foreman look forward to his bride. His presence is encountered by a resistance of a cocksure engineer who clings to the status quo of the hyper-masculine world in which he resides. But it is the arrival of another foreigner who finally upset the fragile world in which they all exist. Adapted from the play by Bernard -Marie Koltès “ Black Battles with Dogs ”, the riveted drama that Denis gives primacy to its actors – their dialogues expressing interior desires and articulating the wider societal inequalities which prevail between those who reside on each side of the fence. The stars of Rising Uk Mia McKenna-Bruce and Tom Blyth are both superb, corresponding to the power of the stars and the expert performance of Matt Dillon and Isaach de Bankole. Kristy Matheson
