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- The programme for the 55th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express launched today by Artistic Director Sandra Hebron, celebrates the imagination and excellence of international filmmaking from both established and emerging talent. Over 16 days the Festival will screen a total of 204 fiction and documentary features, including 13 World Premieres, 18 International Premieres and 22 European Premieres . There will also be screenings of 110 live action and animated shorts. Many of the films will be presented by their directors, cast members and crew, some of whom will also take part in career interviews, masterclasses, and other special events. The 55th BFI London Film Festival will run from 12-27 October. Special Screenings Opening the festival is Fernando Meirelles' 360, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz. Weisz is also the star of Terence Davies' closing night film, The Deep Blue Sea, alongside a cast which includes Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hiddleston.
- A short experimental film about bullfighting. A narrator tells of faith in an obsession with love and problems in a macho society. The title derives from words painted on a dilapidated house in the desert on the way to bullfights in Mexico.
- Follows the investigation into a hoax caller who convinced managers to strip-search employees at fast food businesses across the United States.
- Lee Hwan is out of professional baseball after being involved in match fixing. He is recruited by gangster boss Jung Sang Ha to work for him as a loan shark. Over time Lee Hwan climbs the ranks of Jung Sang Ha's company as the game becomes one of blood, money and sex.
- A Survival 'special' about the Nile Crocodile that showed, for the first time, the wildebeest hunting abilities of the enormous crocodiles of the Grumeti river in Serengeti, Tanzania. This contrasts with the extraordinary level of maternal care shown by the crocodile mothers to their hatchlings, including protecting their eggs from monitor lizards and baboons. The documentary received the highest audience viewing figures for a wildlife film at the time - 12.25 million. It was released in the US under the title: Crocodile: Here be Dragons. It was awarded 'Best of Festival' at the inaugural Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival in 1991.
- Lonely Planet Six Degrees explores 16 cities around the world from a somewhat different perspective.
- It's about a group of thieves who get more than they bargained for when they break into the wrong house. It's protected by an entity who has taken on the form of a little girl that died in the same house one year earlier.
- Toni reveals details from her past relationship with Micah; interventionist Ken Seeley meets with Allen's sister to hear more about his past; Heather Hayes and Candy Finnigan switch gears in their triple intervention of Tiffany, Billy and Tracey.
- The Dunderheads are an eccentric Montana family who've been in the mountains for far too long. Now one step ahead of the law, matriarch Grandma Ira flees to Canada with her two wildly dysfunctional teenage grand kids, across the American West into a comic collision with the mainstream world. Montana Amazon is a both funny and poignant fable on the nature of the human family.
- An award-winning documentary about the underwater habitats and marine life of Cornwall's Fal Estuary. It was the first time that cuttlefish mating and egg laying had been filmed in British waters. It was Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble's first film and was instrumental in preventing a container port being built in the Fal Estuary. It was the first British underwater wildlife film to treat the underwater world the same as topside when it came to cinematography and sequence building and was the start of the husband and wife team's 20 year association with Survival Anglia.