The lineup for the 56th BFI London Film Festival was unveiled Wednesday with 225 fiction and documentary features set for the event, including 14 World, 15 International and 34 European Premieres. The lineup also includes a gala for the world premiere of Crossfire Hurricane , a documentary celebrating 50 years of The Rolling Stones, who are expected to attend the event. As announced earlier, the European Premiere of Tim Burton’s 3-D animation Frankenweenie will open LFF on October 10th. The festival will close withMike Newell’s Great Expectations with Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes. Other gala highlights include Toronto titles such as Ben Affleck’s political thriller Argo , Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut Quartet as well as Roger Michell’s Hyde Park On Hudson , which will screen as the London Film Festival’s Centerpiece. And drama The Sessions is set, starring John Hawkes, Helen Hunt and William H. Macy. The London Film Festival’s 2012 Competition Slate: Official Competition European Premieres: Michael Winterbottom’s Everyday Sally Potter’s Ginger and Rosa Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths UK Premieres Michel Franco’s After Lucia David Ayer’s End of Watch Rama Burshtein’s Fill the Void Daniele Ciprì’s It Was the Son François Ozon’s In the House Cate Shortland’s Lore Pablo Larraín’s No Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone First Feature Competition (recognizing an original and imaginative directorial debut): 3 European premieres Masaaki Akahori’s The Samurai that Night Anand Gandhi’s Ship of Theseus Barry Berk’s Sleeper’s Wake 9 UK premieres Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild Tom Shkolnik’s The Comedian Maja Miloš’ Clip Gabriela Pichler’s Eat Sleep Die Sally El Hosaini’s My Brother the Devil Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Neighbouring Sounds Scott Graham’s Shell Andrey Gryazev’s Tomorrow Haifaa Al Mansour’s Wadjda Documentary Competition Categories : 4 World Premieres Charlie Paul’s For No Good Reason Nick Ryan’s The Summit Sarah Gavron’s Village at the End of the World Greg Olliver’s Turned Towards the Sun 1 International Premiere Sébastien Lifshitz’s Les Invisibles 4 European Premieres Jay Bulger’s Beware of Mr Baker Shola Lynch’s Free Angela and All Political Prisoners Alex Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God Amy Berg’s West of Memphis 3 UK Premieres Katja Gauriloff’s Canned Dreams Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns’ The Central Park Five Ulises Rosell’s The Ethnographer The nominees for “Best British Newcomer”: Rowan Athale – director/screenwriter Wasteland Sally El Hosaini – director/screenwriter My Brother the Devil Fady Elsayed – actor My Brother the Devil Scott Graham – director/screenwriter Shell Eloise Laurence – actor Broken Rufus Norris – director Broken Chloe Pirrie actor Shell Tom Shkolnik – director/screenwriter The Comedian
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London Film Festival Sets Premieres And Rolling Stones For 56th Event
