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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261019
SUMMARY:BFI London Film Festival — 70th edition
LOCATION:BFI Southbank and venues across central London\, London\, Unite
 d Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:Britain's largest public film festival: twelve October days\
 , around 240 features\, shown in cinemas across central London.\nhttps:
 //globalsocialseason.com/events/bfi-london-film-festival\nDates: The 70
 th BFI London Film Festival runs Wednesday 7 October to Sunday 18 Octob
 er 2026\; the BFI's own festival site carries the dates in its page tit
 le. The full programme was announced on 2 September 2026 with six furth
 er titles added on 7 September. Simon Stone's Elsinore opens the festiv
 al in its European premiere and Jesse Eisenberg's The Debut closes it i
 n a UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall on 18 October. Seven London 
 venues are in use: BFI Southbank\, BFI IMAX\, the Institute of Contempo
 rary Arts\, the Prince Charles Cinema\, the Royal Festival Hall\, Vue W
 est End and Curzon Soho.
URL:https://globalsocialseason.com/events/bfi-london-film-festival
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271006
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271018
SUMMARY:BFI London Film Festival — 71st edition (expected)
LOCATION:BFI Southbank and venues across central London\, London\, Unite
 d Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:Britain's largest public film festival: twelve October days\
 , around 240 features\, shown in cinemas across central London.\nhttps:
 //globalsocialseason.com/events/bfi-london-film-festival\nDates: Not ye
 t announced. The BFI had published nothing on the 71st edition at the t
 ime of writing\, with the 70th still to open. The estimate is a fifty-t
 wo-week shift from the 2026 dates\, which preserves the festival's fixe
 d Wednesday-to-Sunday shape over twelve days in the first half of Octob
 er (2024: 9-20 October\; 2025: 8-19 October\; 2026: 7-18 October). Repl
 ace when the BFI publishes\, normally in the spring.
URL:https://globalsocialseason.com/events/bfi-london-film-festival
STATUS:TENTATIVE
CATEGORIES:Film
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