The 12 days of the BFI London Film Festival (9-20 Oct) are jam-packed with the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling, and everyone is invited. This is your chance to delight in the undiscovered, as all feature films and series are being shown in the UK for the first (and sometimes only) time.
Across the whole programme, the Festival includes screenings with descriptive subtitles (DS), audio description (AD), relaxed screenings for neurodivergent audiences and their companions, and BSL interpreted and live captioned introductions, Q&As and events – from the World Premiere of Steve McQueen’s Blitz and the first UK screenings of Elton John: Never Too Late, to Screen Talks with Zoe Saldaña and Denis Villeneuve.
This year’s programme also features several films highlighting Disabled experiences of joy, community and solidarity, from moving documentaries to creative narrative storytelling.
- Patrice: The Movie paints a portrait of the magnetic Patrice Jetter, a crossing guard, artist, figure skater, and disability activist who wants to marry her partner without losing access to her benefits.
- In My Everything, the renowned French actress Laure Calamy portrays the mother of a disabled son, both of whom face a confronting turn in their relationship.
- Mipo O’s sixth feature Living in Two Worlds follows the complex inner journey of Dai, a Child of Deaf Adults (CODA), as he looks for independence whilst navigating his close bond with his parents.
- The Way We Talk is a superb drama exploring the complex lives of three deaf twenty-somethings in Hong Kong. The film interrogates societal norms and reimagines possible alternative linguistic identities.
- A rapturous National Geographic documentary, Blink, chronicles the remarkable Pelletier family who, in light of a devastating diagnosis, leave their lives behind to travel the world.
- In The Stimming Pool, director Steven Eastwood and the Neurocultures Collective invite you to experience the oscillating beat of the neurodiverse experience through a singular visual project.
How to book
Tickets start from £10 for all screenings and events in London, with concessions available for many screenings. If you’re aged 16 to 25, you can sign up for a 25 & Under account to get £5 tickets.
You can find the full list of accessible Festival screenings here. Access tickets for accessible screenings are kept aside even if general tickets for a screening are sold out.
To book access tickets, please contact the Festival’s dedicated Box Office.
Telephone: 020 7960 2102 (lines open 10:00am to 8:30pm daily)
Email: box.office@bfi.org.uk and quote ACCESS
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