BFI London Film Festival
The BFI London Film Festival is an annual film festival held in London, England, in collaboration with the British Film Institute. The festival runs for two weeks every October. In 2016, the BFI estimated that around 240 feature films and 150 short films from more than 70 countries are screened at the festival each year.[1]
Location
Surprise film[edit]
Derek Malcolm introduced a screening of an unannounced film during the festival each year.[26]
Surprise films have included A Chorus Line (1985), The Color of Money (1986),[26] Sideways (2004), Capitalism: A Love Story (2009), Silver Linings Playbook (2012),[70] The Grandmaster (2013), Birdman (2014), Anomalisa (2015),[70] Sully (2016),[71] Lady Bird (2017),[72] Green Book (2018)[73] Uncut Gems (2019),[74] C’mon C’mon (2021),[75] and The Menu (2022).[76] With the most recent being Ferrari (2023).[77]
For the 50th anniversary of the festival, rather than one surprise film, there were 50 screenings of a surprise film around London.[43]