Pick of Black Films at London Film Festival 2019 (2 Oct-13 Oct)

Culture Features September 10, 2019 we are best 0

The London Film Festival 2019 is back again, bigger and better. We thought last year was great, but this year they’ve managed to curate an amazing array of films to suits all tastes and genres.

Although we’ve picked out what we think are the must-see Black films, there’s a vast amount of other titles to enjoy. We suggest you visit: https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp and browse through as there are tons of shorts, children films etc that we’ve not even listed.

In the meantime enjoy our selection and remember to GET YOUR TICKETS EARLY as they sell out pretty, pretty quickly.

MY FRIEND FELA
An outstanding documentary that unravels with skill and precision the life of an extraordinary man whose myth and music has endured long after his death.

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LITTLE MONSTERS
Lupita Nyong’o shines in a delirious zom-com that guarantees you’ll never listen to Taylor Swift in the same way again.

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MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL

All that jazz (and so much more): 20th century music’s trumpet-playing prince of darkness receives the candid documentary his controversial genius deserves

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BURNING CANE

Winner of the top prize at the Tribeca Film Festival, contemporary Southern gothic Burning Cane heralds 19-year-old director Phillip Youmans as a serious new talent.

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RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT

The taped crusader: VHS nerds, media scholars and archive enthusiasts will appreciate this documentary about the African-American activist who recorded 30 years of TV news.

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CLEMENCY

Alfre Woodard is quietly devastating as a weary prison warden presiding over her twelfth execution, in this Sundance-winning death row drama.

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THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO

Director Joe Talbot and writer-performer Jimmie Fails create a gorgeous, inventive meditation on art, architecture, black culture and gentrification in California’s Bay Area.

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ROCKS

This is a vibrant and hugely engaging portrait of female friendship and growing up in London from director Sarah Gavron (Brick Lane, Suffragette) and writers Theresa Ikoko and Claire Wilson.

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ATLANTICS

Director and actor Mati Diop (35 Shots of Rum) delivers a hypnotic, genre-shifting portrait of a girl’s awakening.

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PREMATURE

Budding writer Ayanna’s life is transformed over the course of one hot Harlem summer, when a handsome and mysterious stranger walks into her life.

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REAL

Aki Omoshaybi’s earnest debut explores the love between two people who work hard to keep their romance on track while struggling to manage personal hardship

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THE AUSTRALIAN DREAM

A thought-provoking documentary about the Australian Rules football star Adam Goodes that raises crucial questions about casual racism.

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DESRANCES

Civil war looms in Abidjan and relations begin to fray within a family in this tense and atmospheric thriller.

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LUCE

This gripping psychological thriller about subjectivity and code-switching in modern America marks Julius Onah (The Cloverfield Paradox) as one of cinema’s most thrilling emerging voices.

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STAFF ONLY (EL VIATGE DE LA MARTA)

Neus Ballús’ second feature (after docudrama The Plague) follows a Spanish teenager who is forced to consider her whiteness on a family holiday in Senegal.

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VITALINA VARELA

Portuguese maestro Pedro Costa returns with another poetic portrait of Lisbon’s Cape Verdean community, focusing on one woman’s sorrows and survivor spirit.

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ZOMBI CHILD

The latest provocation from Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama, LFF 2016) splices Haitian history and folklore with contemporary life at an elite girls’ boarding school in Paris.

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