London Film Festival Director on Why the Event Has Become Awards Season’s Unofficial Starter Gun: ‘The Whole World Is Here’

Variety - Oct 6, 2026

With its positioning in October after the likes of Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Toronto and Telluride have helped anoint most of the year’s buzziest and most talked about films, the BFI London Film Festival has long been an event where many of these films come together in one place for the first time. This year’s LFF […]

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