The 66th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express today announces the line-up of filmmakers and stars attending Galas and Special Presentations at this year’s Festival. Full programme talent attendance will be announced on 3 October.
HEADLINE GALAS
ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL
Matthew Warchus; Cast Emma Thompson; Alisha Weir; Lashana Lynch; Stephen Graham; Sindhu Vee; Tim Minchin; Dennis Kelly; Tim Bevan; Eric Fellner; Jon Finn; Luke Kelly
GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY
Rian Johnson; Ram Bergman; Daniel Craig; Janelle Monae; Edward Norton; Kathryn Hahn; Madelyn Cline; Kate Hudson; Leslie Odom Jr.; Jessica Henwick; Dave Bautista
EMPIRE OF LIGHT
Sam Mendes; Olivia Colman; Micheal Ward; Colin Firth; Toby Jones; Tom Brooke; Tanya Moodie; Crystal Clarke; Hannah Onslow; Pippa Harris
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
Martin McDonagh; Brendan Gleeson; Colin Farrell; Barry Keoghan; Graham Broadbent
BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS
Alejandro González Iñárritu; Daniel Giménez Cacho; Griselda Siciliani; Ximena Lamadrid; Iker Solano; Karla Luna Cantu; Stacy Perskie Kaniss; Darius Khondji
DECISION TO LEAVE
Park Chan-wook; Park-Hae il
LIVING
Oliver Hermanus; Stephen Woolley; Bill Nighy; Aimee Lou Wood; Kazuo Ishiguro
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO
Guillermo del Toro; Mark Gustafson; David Bradley; Gregory Mann; Cate Blanchett; Christoph Waltz; Burn Gorman; Gary Ungar; Corey Campodonico; Alex Bulkley
SHE SAID
Maria Schrader; Carey Mulligan; Dede Gardner; Jeremy Kleiner; Megan Twohey; Jodi Kantor; Rebecca Lenkiewicz
THE SON
Florian Zeller; Vanessa Kirby
TILL
Chinonye Chukwu; Jalyn Hall; Danielle Deadwyler; Tosin Cole; John Douglas Thompson; Hayley Bennet; Barbara Broccoli; Keith Beauchamp
THE WHALE
Darren Aronofsky; Samuel D Hunter; Brendan Fraser
WHITE NOISE
Noah Baumbach; Greta Gerwig; Jodie Turner-Smith; Raffey Cassidy; David Heyman; Uri Singer; Leslie Converse
THE WONDER
Sebastián Lelio; Florence Pugh; Niamh Algar; Elaine Cassidy; Kila Lord Cassidy; Toby Jones; Tessa Ross; Emma Donoghue; Mathew Herbert
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS AND SPECIAL SCREENINGS
ALLELUJAH
Richard Eyre; Jennifer Saunders; Judi Dench; Bally Gill; Gerard Horan; Lorraine Ashbourne; Louis Serkis-Ashbourne; Jesse Akele; Ross Tomlinson
BONES & ALL
Luca Guadagnino; Timothee Chalamet; Taylor Russell; David Kajganich; Theresa Park; Francesco Melzi d’Eril; Lorenzo Mieli; Marco Morabito; Peter Spears
CAUSEWAY
Lila Neugebauer; Jennifer Lawrence; Justine Ciarrocchi
THE ENGLISH
Hugo Blick; Greg Brenman; Colin Wratten; Emily Blunt; Chaske Spencer; Tom Hughes; Steve Wall; Stephen Rea
THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER
Joanna Hogg; Tilda Swinton; Carly Sophia-Davies; Joseph Mydell
HOLY SPIDER
Ali Abbasi; Zar Amir-Ebrahimi
MY POLICEMAN
Michael Grandage; Emma Corrin; David Dawson; Rupert Everett; Linus Roache; Gina McKee; Philip Herd; Robbie Rogers; Cora Palfrey; Bethan Roberts
NANNY
Nikyatu Jusu; Anna Diop; Michelle Monaghan; Nikkia Moulterie; Rina Yang
NIL BY MOUTH
Ray Winstone
THE SWIMMERS
Sally El Hoisaini; Nathalie Issa; Manal Issa; Matthias Schweighöfe; Ahmed Malek; Yusra Mardini; Sven Spannenkrebs; Ali Jaafar; Eric Fellner; Stephen Daldry
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
Ruben Östlund; Dolly De Leon
WOMEN TALKING
Sarah Polley; Claire Foy; Rooney Mara; Dede Gardner; Jeremy Kleiner
THE INSPECTION
Elegance Bratton; Chester Algernal Gordon
PIAFFE
Ann Oren; Kristof Gerega; Bjørn Melhus; Samuel Eschmann
THE GOOD NURSE
Tobias Lindholm; Eddie Redmayne; Jessica Chastain; Scott Franklin; Krysty Wilson-Cairns; Amy Loughren
The 66th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express takes place from Wednesday 5 October – Sunday 16 October, 2022.
