– British Film Festival –
Screening from 27 October 2015
Presented by Palace, the BBC First British Film Festival returns for its third year with a standout selection of Festival favourites and box office hits from the British Isles. The 2015 program will open nationally with the highly anticipated YOUTH. Fresh from its premiere at Cannes Film Festival and starring veteran British actor Michael Caine, it is Academy Award winning director Paolo Sorrentino’s second English-language film. Other highlights include 45 YEARS, winner of best British feature film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and starring Charlotte Rampling; BFI London Film Festival 2015 Opening Night film SUFFRAGETTE starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham-Carter and Meryl Streep; and British writer Nick Hornby’s (An Education) BROOKLYN, the tale of Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan, The Lovely Bones), a young Irish immigrant trying to make her way in 1950s Brooklyn, New York. We are also delighted to announce our 2015 retrospective, LOVE ACTUALLY-A CENTURY OF BRITISH ROMANCE which will feature 10 romantic gems representing each decade of the Twentieth Century.
For your chance to win, enter your details below and answer the following question:
Name the 2007 British film, directed by Joe Wright and co-starring Kiera Knightley, that first shot Saoirse Ronan to prominence.
Entries close 6 p.m. AEST on 30 October 2015
David Edwards is the editor of The Blurb and a contributor on film and television