Jane Campion, from left, Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst pose for photographers on the red carpet of the film 'The Power Of The Dog' at the 78th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Thursday, September 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Movies from 77 countries will screen at the 2021 London Film Festival, as Britain's leading cinema showcase welcomes mass audiences back to movie theatres after a pandemic-disrupted year.
The festival program, announced Tuesday, includes 158 features, down from 225 during its last pre-pandemic edition in 2019. The 2020 festival was a curtailed collection of 58 films, most screened online.
This year, mask-wearing, full-capacity audiences will be able to attend gala screenings at London's riverside Southbank Centre, with many of the premieres screened simultaneously at movie theatres across the UK.
About 37 per cent of the features are directed by women — not yet parity, but up from a quarter four years ago and "heading in the right direction," festival director Tricia Tuttle said.
The festival opens October 6 with the world premiere of "The Harder They Fall" — a Western from British director Jeymes Samuel with a Black-led cast — and closes October 17 with the European premiere of Joel Coen's "The Tragedy of Macbeth," starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand as Shakespeare's murderous Scottish royals.
The lineup includes 21 world premieres alongside prize-winners and headline-grabbers from the Cannes and...
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