The entire lineup of the BFI London Film Festival includes films starring Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Elton John, Andrew Garfield, and Saoirse Ronan.

The 68th BFI London Film Festival has revealed its star-studded 2024 lineup, which includes 253 feature, short, series, and immersive works and includes 39 world premieres and 12 international premieres. Notable attendees include Saoirse Ronan, Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh, Elton John, and Daniel Craig.

Several prestigious films will be screened at the festival’s main event gala screenings. The festival begins with the world premiere of Steve McQueen’s “Blitz,” starring Ronan, and ends with Morgan Neville’s “Piece by Piece.”

Additional gala screenings include “Elton John: Never Too Late” starring R.J. Cutler and David Furnish, “Anora” by Sean Baker, “The Apprentice” by Ali Abbasi starring Sebastian Stan, “Bird” by Andrea Arnold, “Conclave” by Edward Berger starring Ralph Fiennes, “Emilia Pérez” by Jacques Audiard, “Hard Truths” by Mike Leigh, “Joy” by Ben Taylor, “Maria” starring Jolie, “Nightbitch” by Marielle Heller starring Amy Adams, “The Room Next Door” by Pedro Almodóvar starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, “That Christmas” by Simon Otto and John Crowley’s “We Live in Time” starring Pugh and Garfield.

The Irish comedy “Four Mothers” by Darren Thornton, the Bulgarian drama “Tarika” by Milko Lazarov, and the documentary “Endurance” by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin are among the other world premieres. “Thank You for Banking with Us” by Laila Abbas, “The Shadow Scholars” by Eloise King, “The Way We Talk” by Adam Wong Sau-Ping, “Treading Water” by Gino Evans, and a restoration of Martin Rosen’s “Watership Down”

A Nice Indian Boy by Roshan Sethi, starring Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff, Sadie Frost’s documentary “Twiggy,” Kimberly Reed’s “I’m Your Venus,” and Jane Mingay’s “Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story” are among the films having their international premieres.

The festival will feature special presentations of “All We Imagine as Light” by Payal Kapadia and “The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire” by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich. The songs “Dahomey” by Mati Diop, “Harvest” by Athina Rachel Tsangari, “I’m Still Here” by Walter Salles, and “Nickel Boys” by RaMell Ross “Queer” by Luca Guadagnino starring Craig, “A Real Pain” by Jesse Eisenberg, and “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” by Mohammad Rasoulof.

In-depth interviews with notable figures in modern film, such as Andrea Arnold, Steve McQueen, Mike Leigh, Denis Villeneuve, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Lupita Nyong’o, Zoe Saldaña, and Daniel Kaluuya, will also be featured in the festival’s Screen Talks section.

The feature film program of the festival is arranged into thematic strands in an effort to promote exploration and attract new viewers. Love, Debate, Laugh, Dare, Thrill, Cult, Journey, Create, Experimenta, Family, and Treasures are some of these strands.

From October 9 to 20, the festival will present films in 63 languages from 79 different countries. Of the films, 44% are directed by female and non-binary filmmakers.

“Cinematic ideas materialize in many forms, and this year artists have taken us to some giddy highs and poked at our tender underbelly,” stated Kristy Matheson, director of the BFI London Film Festival.

“The real joy of LFF for me is seeing the hard work of so many talented filmmakers come to life and given the prominence and noise that they deserve,” added Ben Roberts, chief executive of the BFI.

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