# 2024 BFI London Film Festival

The 68th BFI London Film Festival was a film festival that took place from 9–20 October 2024. The competition films were announced on 29 August 2024 while the films for the galas and the strands were revealed on 4 September 2024.
Steve McQueen's historical drama Blitz opened the festival on 9 October 2024, being the third film by McQueen to do so after Widows in 2018 and Mangrove in 2020. Morgan Neville's animated documentary film Piece by Piece closed the festival on 20 October 2024.

## Juries

The jury members were as follows:

### Main Competition

* Alexandre O. Philippe, Swiss film director – Jury president
* Manori Ravindran, English trade journalist
* Reinaldo Marcus Green, American filmmaker

### First Feature Competition (Sutherland Award)

* Dionne Edwards, British filmmaker – Jury president
* Julia Weigl, artistic co-director of the Munich Film Festival
* Bernardo Rondeau, curator of Film Programs at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and former Senior Director of Film Programs for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

### Documentary Competition (Grierson Award)

* June Givanni, Guyanese-British curator, archivist, and founder of the June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive – Jury president
* Ella Glendining, British writer and director
* Raul Niño Zambrano, creative director of Sheffield DocFest

### Short Film Competition

* Chloe Abrahams, Sri Lankan-British writer and director – Jury president
* Simisolaoluwa Akande, British director
* George Jaques, British filmmaker

## Venues

The partner venues for the festival included:

## Official Selection
### Galas

The following films were selected for the Galas section, which screens world, European, and British premieres:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Opening Night Gala ||||
| Blitz | Blitz | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom, United States |
| Closing Night Gala ||||
| Piece by Piece | Piece by Piece | Morgan Neville | United States |
| American Express Gala ||||
| Elton John: Never Too Late | Elton John: Never Too Late | R.J. Cutler, David Furnish | United States |
| Mayor of London's Gala ||||
| We Live in Time | We Live in Time | John Crowley | United Kingdom, France |
| Cunard Gala ||||
| Joy | Joy | Ben Taylor | United Kingdom |
| BFI Patron's Gala ||||
| Hard Truths | Hard Truths | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom, Spain |
| Family Gala ||||
| That Christmas | That Christmas | Simon Otto | United Kingdom United States |
| Headline Gala ||||
| Anora | Anora | Sean Baker | United States |
| The Apprentice | The Apprentice | Ali Abbasi | Canada, Denmark, Ireland |
| Bird | Bird | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom, France, Germany, United States |
| Conclave | Conclave | Edward Berger | United Kingdom, United States |
| Emilia Pérez | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | France |
| Maria | Maria | Pablo Larraín | Italy, Germany, United States |
| Nightbitch | Nightbitch | Marielle Heller | United States |
| The Room Next Door | La habitación de al lado | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |

### Special Presentations

The following films were selected for the Special Presentations section:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| All We Imagine As Light | All We Imagine As Light | Payal Kapadia | France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg |
| The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire | The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire | Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich | United States |
| Dahomey | Dahomey | Mati Diop | France, Senegal, Benin |
| Endurance | Endurance | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Natalie Hewit | United Kingdom, United States |
| Harvest | Harvest | Athina Rachel Tsangari | United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France, United States |
| I’m Still Here | Ainda Estou Aqui | Walter Salles | Brazil, France |
| A Nice Indian Boy (BFI Flare Special Presentation) | A Nice Indian Boy (BFI Flare Special Presentation) | Roshan Sethi | United States, Canada |
| Nickel Boys | Nickel Boys | RaMell Ross | United States |
| The Piano Lesson | The Piano Lesson | Malcolm Washington | United States |
| Queer | Queer | Luca Guadagnino | Italy, United States |
| A Real Pain | A Real Pain | Jesse Eisenberg | United States, Poland |
| The Seed of the Sacred Fig | دانه‌ی انجیر معابد | Mohammad Rasoulof | Iran, Germany, France |
| Silent Sherlock (1921–1923) | Silent Sherlock (1921–1923) | Maurice Elvey, George Ridgwell | United Kingdom |
| The Summer Book | The Summer Book | Charlie McDowell | Finland, United Kingdom |
| The Wild Robot | The Wild Robot | Chris Sanders | United States |

### In Competition

There were four competition sections, each with a different selection of films and different juries.

#### Official Competition

The following films competed for the Best Film Award:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| April | April | Dea Kulumbegashvili | France, Italy, Georgia |
| Bring Them Down | Bring Them Down | Christopher Andrews | Ireland, United Kingdom, Belgium |
| The Extraordinary Miss Flower | The Extraordinary Miss Flower | Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard | United Kingdom |
| Four Mothers | Four Mothers | Colin Thornton, Darren Thornton | Ireland, United Kingdom |
| Living in Two Worlds | ぼくが生きてる、ふたつの世界 | Mipo O | Japan |
| Memoir of a Snail | Memoir of a Snail | Adam Elliot | Australia |
| On Becoming a Guinea Fowl | On Becoming a Guinea Fowl | Rungano Nyoni | Zambia, United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Thank You for Banking With Us | Thank You for Banking With Us | Laila Abbas | Palestine, Germany |
| Under the Volcano | Pod wulkanem | Damian Kocur | Poland |
| Vermiglio | Vermiglio | Maura Delpero | Italy, France, Belgium |
| The Wolves Always Come at Night | Чоно үүр шөнөөр ирдэг | Gabrielle Brady | Australia, Mongolia, Germany |
    Highlighted title indicates the section winner.

#### First Feature Competition

The following films competed for the Sutherland Award, which is awarded to a directorial debut:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Crocodile Tears | Crocodile Tears | Tumpal Tampubolon | Indonesia, France, Singapore, Germany |
| Hanami | Hanami | Denise Fernandes | Switzerland, Portugal, Cape Verde |
| Happyend | Happyend | Neo Sora | Japan, United States |
| Last Swim | Last Swim | Sasha Nathwani | United Kingdom |
| My Eternal Summer | Min evige sommer | Sylvia Le Fanu | Denmark |
| Olivia & the Clouds | Olivia & Las Nubes | Tomás Pichardo Espaillat | Dominican Republic |
| On Falling | On Falling | Laura Carreira | United Kingdom, Portugal |
| Santosh | Santosh | Sandhya Suri | United Kingdom, France, Germany |
| September Says | September Says | Ariane Labed | Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany |
| To a Land Unknown | To a Land Unknown | Mahdi Fleifel | United Kingdom, Palestine, France, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia |
| Who Do I Belong To | ماء العين | Meryam Joobeur | Tunisia, France, Canada, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia |
    Highlighted title indicates the section winner.

#### Documentary Competition

The following films competed for the Grierson Award, which is awarded to a feature-length documentary.
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Collective Monologue | Monólogo colectivo | Jessica Sarah Rinland | Argentina, United Kingdom |
| Holloway | Holloway | Sophie Compton, Daisy-May Hudson | United Kingdom |
| Kamay | Kamay | Ilyas Yourish, Shahrokh Bikaran | Afghanistan, Belgium, France, Germany |
| Mother Vera | Mother Vera | Cécile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson | United Kingdom |
| Rising Up at Night | Tongo Saa | Nelson Makengo | Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar |
| Seeking Mavis Beacon | Seeking Mavis Beacon | Jazmin Renée Jones | United States |
| The Shadow Scholars | The Shadow Scholars | Eloise King | United Kingdom |
| Witches | Witches | Elizabeth Sankey | United Kingdom |
    Highlighted title indicates the section winner.

#### Short Film Competition

The following films competed for the Short Film Award.
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Adura Baba Mi | Adura Baba Mi | Juliana Kasumu | United Kingdom |
| Cold Snap | Cold Snap | Ellen Evans | United Kingdom |
| Dragfox | Dragfox | Lisa Ott | United Kingdom |
| I Don't Want to Be Just a Memory | I Don't Want to Be Just a Memory | Sarnt Utamachote | Germany |
| Magic Candies | Amedama | Nishio Daisuke | Japan |
| Mother's Day | Mother's Day | Emily Burnett | United Kingdom |
| See It, Say It | See It, Say It | Nez Khammal | United Kingdom |
| Stomach Bug | Stomach Bug | Matty Crawford | United Kingdom |
| Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?) | Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?) | Suneil Sanzgiri | United States |
| Vibrations from Gaza | Vibrations from Gaza | Rehab Nazzal | Palestine, Canada |
    Highlighted title indicates the section winner.

### Strands

Most of the out-of-competition films have been organised into strands, each based on a different mood or emotion.

#### Love

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| All of You | All of You | William Bridges | United Kingdom |
| All Shall Be Well | 從今以後 | Ray Yeung | Hong Kong |
| At Averroès & Rosa Parks | Averroès & Rosa Parks | Nicolas Philibert | France |
| Grand Tour | Grand Tour | Miguel Gomes | Portugal, Italy, France |
| I'm Your Venus | I'm Your Venus | Kimberly Reed | United States |
| Motherboard | Motherboard | Victoria Mapplebeck | United Kingdom |
| Patrice: The Movie | Patrice: The Movie | Ted Passon | United States |
| Pavements | Pavements | Alex Ross Perry | United States |
| Queens of Drama | Les Reines du drame | Alexis Langlois | France, Belgium |
| Sex | Sex | Dag Johan Haugerud | Norway |
| Tarika | Stadoto | Milko Lazarov | Bulgaria, Germany, Luxembourg |
| Weightless | Sulla terra leggeri | Sara Fgaier | Italy |
| When Fall Is Coming | Quand vient l'automne | François Ozon | France |
| When the Light Breaks | Ljósbrot | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France |

#### Debate

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 2073 | 2073 | Asif Kapadia | United Kingdom |
| Black Box Diaries | Black Box Diaries | Shiori Itō | Japan, United States, United Kingdom |
| The Cats of Gokogu Shrine | Gokōgu no Neko | Kazuhiro Soda | Japan, United States |
| Families like Ours | Familier som vores | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark, France, Sweden, Czechia, Belgium, Norway, Germany |
| I'm Nevenka | Soy Nevenka | Icíar Bollaín | Spain |
| The Invasion | The Invasion | Sergei Loznitsa | Netherlands, France, United States |
| Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 | Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 | Göran Hugo Olsson | Sweden, Finland, Denmark |
| Julie Keeps Quiet | Julie zwijgt | Leonardo Van Dijl | Belgium, Sweden |
| The Listeners | The Listeners | Jordan Tannahill | United Kingdom |
| Three Kilometres to the End of the World | Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii | Emanuel Pârvu | Romania |
| Youth (Homecoming) | 青春 | Wang Bing | France, Luxembourg, Netherlands |

#### Laugh

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Audrey | Audrey | Natalie Bailey | Australia |
| The Gutter | The Gutter | Yassir Lester, Isaiah Lester | United States |
| The Other Way Around | Volveréis | Jonás Trueba | Spain, France |
| Rumours | Rumours | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | Germany, Canada |
| Sofa, So Good | Sofa, So Good | Kyle Thiele, Eli Thiele, Cole Thiele | United States |
| A Traveler's Needs | 여행자의 필요 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| Triumph | Триумф | Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov | Bulgaria, Greece |
| Universal Language | Une langue universelle / آواز بوقلمون | Matthew Rankin | Canada |

#### Dare

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Bionico's Bachata | La bachata de Bionico | Yoel Morales | Dominican Republic |
| Caught by the Tides | 风流一代 | Jia Zhangke | China |
| Cidade; Campo | Cidade; Campo | Juliana Rojas | Brazil, Germany, France |
| Diciannove | Diciannove | Giovanni Tortorici | Italy, United Kingdom |
| Don't Cry, Butterfly | Mu’a trên cánh bU’ó’m | Dương Diệu Linh | Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia |
| Eight Postcards from Utopia | Opt ilustrate din lumea ideală | Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz | Romania |
| Familiar Touch | Familiar Touch | Sarah Friedland | United States |
| Fire of Wind | Fogo do Vento | Marta Mateus | Portugal, Switzerland, France |
| My Stolen Planet | Sayyareye dozdide shodeye man | Farahnaz Sharifi | Germany, Iran |
| The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder | As Noites Ainda Cheiram a Pólvora | Inadelso Cossa | Mozambique, France, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, Norway |
| Pepe | Pepe | Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias | Dominican Republic, Namibia, Germany, France |
| Formosa Beach | Praia Formosa | Julia de Simone | Portugal, Brazil |
| Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass | Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass | Brothers Quay | United Kingdom, Poland, Germany |
| Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat | Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat | Johan Grimonprez | Belgium, France, Netherlands |
| Sugar Island | Sugar Island | Johanné Gómez Terrero | Dominican Republic, Spain |
| Việt and Nam | Trong lòng đất | Minh Quý Trương | Vietnam, Philippines, France, Singapore, Netherlands, Italy, Germany |

#### Thrill

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Aïcha | Aïcha | Mehdi M. Barsaoui | Tunisia, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Qatar |
| Architecton | Architecton | Viktor Kossakovsky | Germany, France |
| La cocina | La cocina | Alonso Ruizpalacios | Mexico, United States |
| Eat the Night | Eat the Night | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel | France |
| Ghost Trail | Les Fantômes | Jonathan Millet | France, Germany, Belgium |
| Maldoror | Maldoror | Fabrice Du Welz | Belgium, France |
| Marco, the Invented Truth | Marco, la verdad inventada | Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño | Spain |
| Misericordia | Miséricorde | Alain Guiraudie | France, Spain, Portugal |
| Skincare | Skincare | Austin Peters | United States |
| Stranger Eyes | 默視錄 | Yeo Siew Hua | Singapore, Taiwan, France, United States |
| A Thousand Blows | A Thousand Blows | Steven Knight | United Kingdom |

#### Cult

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| The Balconettes | Les Femmes au balcon | Noémie Merlant | France |
| Bury Your Dead | Enterre Seus Mortos | Marco Dutra | Brazil |
| Chain Reactions | Chain Reactions | Alexandre O. Philippe | United States |
| Fréwaka | Fréwaka | Aislinn Clarke | Ireland |
| Sister Midnight | Sister Midnight | Karan Kandhari | United Kingdom |
| The Surfer | The Surfer | Lorcan Finnegan | Australia, Ireland |
| The Wailing | El llanto | Pedro Martín-Calero | Spain, Argentina, France |
| The Weekend | The Weekend | Daniel Oriahi | Nigeria |

#### Journey

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| After the Long Rains | Baada Ya Masika | Damien Hauser | Kenya, Switzerland |
| The Assessment | The Assessment | Fleur Fortuné | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Baby | Baby | Marcelo Caetano | Brazil |
| Eephus | Eephus | Carson Lund | France, United States |
| Ellis Park | Ellis Park | Justin Kurzel | Australia |
| The End | The End | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden |
| Flow | Flow | Gints Zilbalodis | Latvia, Belgium, France |
| Good One | Good One | India Donaldson | United States |
| Layla | Layla | Amrou Al-Kadhi | United Kingdom |
| Look into My Eyes | Look into My Eyes | Lana Wilson | United States |
| My Everything | Mon inséparable | Anne-Sophie Bailly | France |
| Sebastian | Sebastian | Mikko Mäkelä | United Kingdom, Belgium, Finland |
| Shambhala | Shambhala | Min Bahadur Bham | Nepal, France, Norway, Turkey, Hong Kong, Taiwan, United States, Qatar |
| Sujo | Sujo | Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez | Mexico, United States, France |
| Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui | United Kingdom, United States |
| Treading Water | Treading Water | Gino Evans | United Kingdom |
| The Village Next to Paradise | The Village Next to Paradise | Mo Harawe | Austria, France, Somalia |

#### Create

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Abiding Nowhere | Abiding Nowhere | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan, United States |
| Ernest Cole: Lost and Found | Ernest Cole: Lost and Found | Raoul Peck | United States, France |
| Grand Theft Hamlet | Grand Theft Hamlet | Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls | United Kingdom |
| It's Not Me | C'est pas moi | Leos Carax | France |
| One to One: John & Yoko | One to One: John & Yoko | Kevin Macdonald | United Kingdom |
| Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story | Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story | Jane Mingay | United Kingdom |
| The Stimming Pool | The Stimming Pool | The Neurocultures Collective (Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker, Steven Eastwood) | United Kingdom |
| Superboys of Malegaon | Superboys of Malegaon | Reema Kagti | India |
| Twiggy | Twiggy | Sadie Frost | United Kingdom |
| Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other | Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other | Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet | United Kingdom, Denmark, United States |
| The Way We Talk | The Way We Talk | Adam Wong Sau-Ping | Hong Kong |

#### Experimenta

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| The Treasury of Human Inheritance | The Treasury of Human Inheritance | Alexis Kyle Mitchell | Canada, United Kingdom |
| Notes: Remembered and Found | Notes: Remembered and Found | Maria Anastassiou | United Kingdom, Cyprus |
| Direct Action | Direct Action | Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell | Germany, France |
| A Fidai Film | A Fidai Film | Kamal Aljafari | Palestine |
| A Night We Held Between | A Night We Held Between | Noor Abed | Palestine |
| + No Exorcism Film | + No Exorcism Film | Komtouch Napattaloong | Thailand |
| Small Hours of the Night | Small Hours of the Night | Daniel Hui | Singapore |

#### Family

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Blink | Blink | Edmund Stenson, Daniel Roher | United States |
| The Colors Within | きみの色 | Naoko Yamada | Japan |
| Savages | Sauvages | Claude Barras | Switzerland, France, Belgium |
| Watership Down | Watership Down | Martin Rosen | United Kingdom |

#### Treasures

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Manthan (1976) | Manthan (1976) | Shyam Benegal | India |
| Manji (1964) | Manji (1964) | Yasuzō Masumura | Japan |
| María Candelaria (1943) | María Candelaria (1943) | Emilio Fernández | Mexico |
| The Sealed Soil (1977) | Khake sar beh mohr | Marva Nabili | Iran |
| The Talk of the Town (1942) | The Talk of the Town (1942) | George Stevens | United States |

### Shorts

The short film programme was divided into the following nine sections.

#### Family Ties

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Trouble | Trouble | Sarah Blok | United Kingdom |
| Pigs | Pigs | Julia Jackman | United Kingdom |
| Us Four | Us Four | Alex Peake | United Kingdom |
| Space(s) | Space(s) | Luke "Frsh" Fannin | United Kingdom |
| Two Minutes | Two Minutes | Jamie Benyon | United Kingdom |

#### Honouring Traditions

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Midnight Rising | Midnight Rising | Aileen Ye | United Kingdom, Netherlands |
| Iranian Yellow Pages | Iranian Yellow Pages | Anna Snowball | United Kingdom |
| Irpinia | Irpinia | Jameisha Prescod | United Kingdom |
| Travelling Home | Travelling Home | Juliet Klottrup | United Kingdom |
| Roots that Reach Toward the Sky | Roots that Reach Toward the Sky | Jess X. Snow | United States, Canada |
| Red Soil | Red Soil | Joshua Ighodaro | United Kingdom |
| Salone Love | Salone Love | Tajana Tokyo | United Kingdom |

#### I Don't Wanna Force a Smile

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Not Surgery Hours | Not Surgery Hours | Tia Salisbury | United Kingdom |
| The Nobody | The Nobody | Razan Madhoon | United Kingdom |
| Happy Meat | Happy Meat | Matt Green | United Kingdom |
| Gender Reveal | Gender Reveal | Mo Matton | Canada |
| Bob's Funeral | Bob's Funeral | Jack Dunphy | United States |
| The Real Thing | The Real Thing | Charlie Fink | United Kingdom |

#### Sleepless Nights

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Sylvia | Sylvia | Tárá Ayeni | United Kingdom |
| Mosquito Lady | Mosquito Lady | Kristine Gerolaga | United States |
| The Awakening | The Awakening | Al Campbell | United Kingdom |
| Outside Noise | Outside Noise | Ethan Evans | United Kingdom |
| Dream Creep | Dream Creep | Carlos A. F. López | United States |

#### Trials and Tribulations

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Hermit | Hermit | Daniel Raggett | United Kingdom |
| Karavidhe | Karavidhe | Eoin Doran | United Kingdom |
| Rhoda | Rhoda | Alex Lawther | United Kingdom |
| Fierce-ish Grace | Fierce-ish Grace | Amaya Owen Rowlands | United Kingdom |
| In Heat | In Heat | Rory Fleck Byrne | United Kingdom |

#### Wondering, Wandering

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| And Granny Would Dance | And Granny Would Dance | Maryam Mohajer | United Kingdom |
| A Short Film About Kids | A Short Film About Kids | Ibrahim Handal | Palestine |
| Dawn Every Day | Dawn Every Day | Amir Youssef | Egypt |
| Liminal Roots | Liminal Roots | Aliyah Harfoot | United Kingdom |
| What’s the Film About? | What’s the Film About? | Poorva Bhat | United Kingdom |

#### Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Coo-rage | Coo-rage | Alina Milkina | Netherlands |
| Love at First Waf | Love at First Waf | Louise Le Toullec, Helene Gouil | France |
| Who’s Wrong? | Vems Fel? | Stina Wirsén, Linda Hambäck | Sweden |
| The Brave Locomotive | The Brave Locomotive | Andrew Chesworth | United States |
| The Odd Carrot | The Odd Carrot | Inese Pavēne | United Kingdom |
| Freelance | Freelance | Luciano A. Muñoz Sessarego, Magnus I. Møller, Peter Smith | Denmark |
| Yuck! | Yuck! | Loïc Espuche | France |
| The Child of the Waves | L'Enfant des vagues | Valentine Hilarin, Gaelle Bejjani, Yuhan Wang, Martin Gross, Noam Szwarc, Sofian Pourquery-de-Boisserin | France |
| Hello Summer | Ahoj leto | Martin Smatana, Veronika Zacharová | Slovakia, Czechia, France |

#### A Stream of Echoes

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| File No. 2304 | File No. 2304 | A.S.M. Kobayashi | Canada, United States |
| At the Verge of Wordlessness | At the Verge of Wordlessness | Alaa Abu Asad | Netherlands |
| Before Seriana | Avant Seriana | Samy Benammar | Canada, Algeria |
| Crocodile Nest | Nido de Cocodrilo | Jazmin Rojas Forero | Colombia, Germany |

#### Right in the Substance of Them a Trace of What Happened

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Non/Living | Non/Living | Müge Yildiz | Turkey, Finland |
| Two Stones | Rua Kōhatu | Noel Meek | New Zealand |
| Hexham Heads | Hexham Heads | Chloë Delanghe, Mattijs Driesen | Belgium |
| The Flesh of Language | The Flesh of Language | Amanda Rice | Ireland |
| Hemel | Hemel | Danielle Dean | United Kingdom |
| Our Lady Who Burns | Nossa Senhora Que Queima | Alice dos Reis | Portugal |

### Surprise Film

Saturday Night, dir. Jason Reitman

## Awards

The following awards were presented:

### In competition

* Best Film: Memoir of a Snail by Adam Elliot
** Special Mention: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl by Rungano Nyoni
* Best First Feature (Sutherland Award): On Falling by Laura Carreira
** Special Mention: Olivia & the Clouds by Tomás Pichardo Espaillat
* Best Documentary (Grierson Award): Mother Vera by Cécile Embleton & Alys Tomlinson
** Special Mention: The Shadow Scholars by Eloise King
* Best Short Film: Vibrations from Gaza by Rehab Nazzal
** Special Mention: Dragfox by Lisa Ott

### Audience awards

Voting for the audience awards closes on 23 October. Winners will be announced later in October.