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London-born director will open the festival for a third time
with the world premiere of his movie "Blitz" on Oct. 9.
It stars Saoirse Ronan as Rita, a London mother who sends her
young son George, played by newcomer Elliott Heffernan, to
safety in the countryside during the war. But George is
determined to return home despite the many dangers ahead.
Vatican-set thriller "Conclave" starring Ralph Fiennes and
Stanley Tucci, Daniel Craig's "Queer" in which the former James
Bond star plays a drug-addicted American living in 1950s Mexico,
and Cannes Festival winner "Anora" about an exotic dancer who
gets involved with a Russian oligarch's son are also on the
program.
Like Craig, Jolie premiered her film "Maria" at the Venice Film
Festival.
“We have a lot of wonderful films that have premiered throughout
the year at some of the biggest festivals in the world," BFI
Festivals director Kristy Matheson told Reuters on Wednesday.
"And then of course we have 39 world premiere films as well."
One of those is "Joy", starring Thomasin McKenzie, Bill Nighy
and James Norton in a retelling of the birth of the world's
first test tube baby in 1978.
"The Apprentice" about a young Donald Trump, Pedro Almodovar's
first English-language feature film "The Room Next Door"
starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore and "Nightbitch", in
which Amy Adams plays a stay-at-home mother who starts
exhibiting canine instincts, are also among the line-up.
Among documentaries screening will be "Elton John: Never Too
Late" about the musician's return to Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium
and "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story", which looks back
at the late actor's rise to fame as the superhero and his life
following a horse riding accident that left him paralyzed from
the neck down.
Pharrell Williams' Lego biopic "Piece by Piece" will close the
festival on Oct. 20
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Alison
Williams)
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