REVIEW OF 2016 - BEST SCREENPLAY

1. Maren Ade (TONI ERDMANN)

2. Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese (SILENCE)

3. Claude Barras, Morgan Navarro, Celine Sciamma and Germano Zullo (MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE)

4. Lav Diaz (THE WOMAN WHO LEFT)

5. David Harrower (UNA)

6. Thierry Lounas and Albert Serra (THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV)

7. Whit Stillman (LOVE & FRIENDSHIP)

8. Dane Komljen (ALL THE CITIES OF THE NORTH)

9. Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (MOONLIGHT)

10. August Wilson (FENCES)

TONI ERDMANN WINS FIVE ICS AWARDS

We've slogged through awards season for a fairly dull three months now, almost, and it's likely to end with nothing short of crushing ignominy with this weekend's Oscars. Can't it just end now? The International Cinephile Society award nominations were worth that slog, and their actual awards now are equally worth it. Just stare at this bright spot until your eyes go blind.

Best Picture
1. Toni Erdmann
2. Elle
3. Moonlight
4. Things to Come
5. Manchester by the Sea
6. Silence
7. Julieta
8. Cemetery of Splendour
9. Certain Women
10. Jackie

Best Director
1. Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann)
2. Paul Verhoeven (Elle)

Best Actress
1. Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
2. Sandra Huller (Toni Erdmann)

Best Actor
1. Peter Simonischek (Toni Erdmann)
2. Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)

Best Supporting Actress
1. Lily Gladstone (Certain Women)
2. Sandrine Kiberlain (Being 17)

Best Supporting Actor
1. Andre Holland (Moonlight)
2. Tom Bennett (Love & Friendship)

Best Original Screenplay
1. Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann)
2. Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)

Best Adapted Screenplay
1. David Birke (Elle)
2. Whit Stillman (Love & Friendship)

Best Cinematography
1. David Gallego (Embrace of the Serpent)
2. Rodrigo Prieto (Elle)

Best Editing
1. Job ter Burg (Elle)
2. Joe Walker (Arrival)

Best Production Design
1. Ryu Seong Hee (The Handmaiden)
2. Dante Ferretti (Silence)

Best Score
1. Mica Levi (Jackie)
2. Cliff Martinez (The Neon Demon)

Best Ensemble
1. Moonlight
2. Certain Women

Best Animated Film
1. The Red Turtle
2. My Life as a Courgette

Best Documentary
1. Fire at Sea
2. No Home Movie

Best Film Not in the English Language
1. Toni Erdmann
2. Elle
3. Things to Come
4. Julieta
5. Cemetery of Splendour
6. Embrace of the Serpent
7. Being 17
8. Aquarius
9. Mountains May Depart
10. Cosmos
11. The Handmaiden

SCREEN ANARCHY NAMES TONI ERDMANN THE BEST FILM OF 2016

...and they're not far wrong in doing so. Just another triumph for Maren Ade's groundbreaking comedy Toni Erdmann, which tops Screen Anarchy's poll of the best films of 2016. It's an... interesting list? Full of smart choices and equally full of questionable ones. Check it out:

Best Film

1. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)

2. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)

3. The Wailing (Na Hong Jin)

4. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)

5. Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)

=  The Handmaiden (Park Chan Wook)

7. American Honey (Andrea Arnold)

8. O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)

9. The Nice Guys (Shane Black)

10. The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn)

11. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)

12. Hell or High Water (David MacKenzie)

13. Swiss Army Man (Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)

14. 10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg)

15. La La Land (Damien Chazelle)

16. Train to Busan (Yeon Sang Ho)

17. I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck)

18. Happy Hour (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)

19. Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)

20. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)

FILM COMMENT JOINS THE CROWD, NAMES TONI ERDMANN THE BEST FILM OF THE YEAR

No surprise in guessing what yet another film publication has decided upon in its poll of the best of 2016. Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann tops Film Comment's list, which is chock full of masterpieces, many of which have also turned up on other publications' polls, and following on from Slant, is also lacking a certain Oscar-tipped musical. Nice work, folks. A second list includes Film Comment's favourite 2016 films that have as yet not received US distribution.

Best Films Released in 2016

1. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)

2. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)

3. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)

4. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

5. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)

6. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)

7. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)

8. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonca Filho)

9. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Love)

10. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)

11. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)

12. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang Soo)

13. Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)

14. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)

15. Kaili Blues (Bi Gan)

16. The Handmaiden (Park Chan Wook)

17. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)

18. The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer)

19. Neruda (Pablo Larrain)

20. The Other Side (Roberto Minervini)

Best Films Without Distribution in 2016

1. Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)

2. Hermia & Helena (Matias Pineiro)

3. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)

4. The Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec)

5. Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang Soo)

6. Kekszakallu (Solnicki Gaston)

7. By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong)

8. Scarred Hearts (Radu Jude)

9. The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz)

10. Austerlitz (Sergey Loznitsa)

11. Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo)

12. The Rehearsal (Alison MacLean)

13. Safari (Ulrich Seidl)

14. Everything Else (Natalia Almada)

15. All the Cities of the North (Dane Komljen)

16. Happy Times Will Come Soon (Alessandro Comodin)

17. Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison)

18. Suite Armoricaine (Pascale Breton)

19. Women Who Kill (Ingrid Jungermann)

20. Le Parc (Damien Manivel)

2016 TORONTO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS: MOONLIGHT AND TONI ERDMANN TRIUMPH

Moonlight's roll through the early stage of awards season continues, utterly undisturbed here by La La Land, due to the Toronto Film Critics Association's considerable preference for several other offerings. Toni Erdmann puts up a very strong showing with the TFCA too, winning three prizes. We'll have to wait until the 10th of January to find out the winners of the Best Canadian Film award, when they're revealed during the gala ceremony.

Best Picture

1. Moonlight

2. Manchester by the Sea

=  Toni Erdmann

Best Director

1. Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann)

2. Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

=  Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Best Actress

1. Sandra Huller (Toni Erdmann)

2. Rebecca Hall (Christine)

=  Isabelle Huppert (Elle)

=  Natalie Portman (Jackie)

Best Actor

1. Adam Driver (Paterson)

2. Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)

=  Peter Simonischek (Toni Erdmann)

Best Supporting Actress

1. Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)

2. Viola Davis (Fences)

=  Naomie Harris (Moonlight)

Best Supporting Actor

1. Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)

2. Ralph Fiennes (A Bigger Splash)

=  Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals)

Best Screenplay, Adapted or Original

1. Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)

2. Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann)

=  Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Best Animated Feature

1. Zootopia

2. Kubo and the Two Strings

=  The Red Turtle

Canadian Tire Allan King Documentary Film Award

1. Cameraperson

2. Fire at Sea

=  The Stairs

Best Foreign-Language Film

1. Toni Erdmann

2. Elle

=  The Handmaiden

Best First Feature

1. The Witch (Robert Eggers)

2. The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig)

=  Swiss Army Man (Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)

Rogers Best Canadian Film

How Heavy This Hammer

Operation Avalanche

The Stairs

Technicolour Clyde Gilmour Award

Alanis Obomsawin

TONI ERDMANN SWEEPS 2016 EFAS

This is exactly how you do it. Maren Ade makes history by becoming the first woman to direct the Best European Film prize at the prestigious European Film Awards. Toni Erdmann won not only the top award at tonight's ceremony in Wroclaw, it also took home Director, Actress, Actor and Screenplay awards, winning in every one of its categories. Alongside a win for My Life as a Courgette, the EFA's choices this year make me very pleased indeed. Check out the nominations at this link, and the award winners in full below.

European Film 2016

Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski and Michel Merkt)

European Director 2016

Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann)

European Actress 2016

Sandra Huller (Toni Erdmann)

European Actor 2016

Peter Simonischek (Toni Erdmann)

European Screenplay 2016

Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann)

Prix Carlo di Palma - European Cinematographer 2016

Camilla Hjelm Knudsen (Land of Mine)

European Editor 2016

Janus Billeskov Jansen and Anne Osterud (The Commune)

European Production Designer 2016

Alice Normington (Suffragette)

European Costume Designer 2016

Stefanie Bieker (Land of Mine)

European Sound Designer 2016

Radoslaw Ochnio (11 Minutes)

European Hair & Make-Up Artist 2016

Barbara Kreuzer (Land of Mine)

European Composer 2016

Ilya Demutsky (The Student)European Animated Feature Film 2016

My Life as a Courgette (Claude Barras and Max Karli)

European Documentary 2016

Fire at Sea (Roberto Cicutto, Paolo del Brocco, Camille Laemle, Serge Lalou, Donatella Palermo, Olivier Pere, Gianfranco Rosi and Martine Saade)

European Comedy 2016

A Man Called Ove (Annica Bellander Rune, Hannes Holm and Nicklas Wikstrom Nicastro)

European Short Film 2016

9 Days - From My Window in Aleppo (Jos de Putter, Issa Touma, Floor van der Meulen and Thomas Vroege)

FIPRESCI Prize for European Discovery

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki (Juho Kuosmanen and Jussi Rantamaki)

People's Choice Award

Body (Malgorzata Szumowska)

European Co-Production Award

Leontine Petit

Lifetime Achievement Award

Jean-Claude Carriere

Honorary Award - European Achievement in World Cinema

Pierce Brosnan

Honorary Award of the EFA President and Board

Andrzej Wajda

THE TOP 50 (AND BOTTOM 20) FILMS OF 2016 FROM SLANT

No surprises here! Except, in fact, the absence of La La Land in the entire top 50 of 2016 list from Slant Magazine! Not that I'm complaining... Toni Erdmann leads a diverse list of major awards contenders and international arthouse favourites from both this year and last, altogether comprising one of the best lists you'll see this year. Stay tuned for updates on other year-end lists from Slant over the coming days and weeks.

*Updated to include the Best Performances, the Top 20 Best Scenes and the Top 20 Worst Films

Best Film
1. Toni Erdmann

2. O.J.: Made in America

3. Happy Hour

4. Cemetery of Splendour

5. Elle

6. Paterson

7. Moonlight

8. Cameraperson

9. Manchester by the Sea

10. The Treasure

11. Right Now, Wrong Then

12. No Home Movie

13. Knight of Cups

14. Sunset Song

15. The Love Witch

16. Certain Women

17. Everybody Wants Some!!

18. Love & Friendship

19. The Illinois Parables

20. Homo Sapiens

21. Kate Plays Christine

22. The Academy of Muses

23. Fire at Sea

24. Homeland: Iraq Year Zero

25. The Neon Demon

26. Kaili Blues

27. In the Shadow of Women

28. Aquarius

29. Neon Bull

30. Hail, Caesar!

31. The Other Side

32. The Lobster

33. Wiener-Dog

34. 20th Century Women

35. Mia Madre

36. Aferim!

37. The Fits

38. Midnight Special

39. Little Men

40. Cosmos

41. Henry Gamble's Birthday Party

42. Do Not Resist

43. The Handmaiden

44. Mountain May Depart

45. Demon

46. Creepy

47. Things to Come

48. I Am Not Madame Bovary

49. 13th

50. Fort Buchanan

Best Performance
Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
Kate Beckinsale (Love & Friendship)
Tom Bennett (Love & Friendship)
Sonia Braga (Aquarius)
Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)
Margherita Buy (Mia Madre)
Christopher Matthew Cooke (Dog Eat Dog)
Willem Dafoe (Dog Eat Dog)
Viola Davis (Fences)
Danny de Vito (Wiener-Dog)
Adam Driver (Paterson)
Ralph Fiennes (A Bigger Splash)
Lily Gladstone (Certain Women)
Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea)
Andre Holland (Moonlight)
Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
Nicole Kidman (Lion)
Tracy Letts (Indignation / Wiener-Dog)
Vincent Lindon (The Measure of a Man)
Dev Patel (Lion)
Glen Powell (Everybody Wants Some!!)
Michael Shannon (Elvis & Nixon / Midnight Special / Nocturnal Animals)
Kate Lyn Sheil (Kate Plays Christine)
Peter Simonischek (Toni Erdmann)
John Turturro (Mia Madre)

Best Scene
'Black Philip speaks' (The Witch)
'The boxer' (Cameraperson)
'The bridge dance' (The Fits)
'Crash and rescue' (Sully)
'The disappearance' (Valley of Love)
'Driving to Kevin's' (Moonlight)
'"Emotional rescue"' (A Bigger Splash)
'Final confrontation' (Hell or High Water)
'First contact' (Arrival)
'"The Greatest Love Of All"' (Toni Erdmann)
'Horse ride' (Certain Women)
'"It's all bullshit"' (Kate Plays Christine)
'Linguistic nonsense' (Cosmos)
'Orgy' (Sausage Party)
'Pregnant sex scene' (Neon Bull)
'The run' (O.J.: Made in America)
'The storm' (Elle)
'Termite revenge' (Aquarius)
'Warehouse party' (The Neon Demon)
'The workshop' (Happy Hour)

Worst Film
Ben-Hur
Captain Fantastic
Creative Control
Equals
The Eyes of My Mother
The Girl on the Train
Green Room
Hacksaw Ridge
Hillary's America
Independence Day: Resurgence
Ithaca
Jackie
Keeping Up with the Joneses
King Cobra
Lazy Eye
Life, Animated
Man Down
Mr. Church
The Unspoken
Yoga Hosers

TONI ERDMANN CLAIMS #1 ON SIGHT & SOUND 2016 POLL

After taking first place on Cahiers du Cinema's 2016 poll, Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann does it again, occupying the same position on Sight & Sound's. The respected British publication's list goes beyond CDC's 10 - they've revealed a top 30, which is rich with diversity of offerings, and just look at the inclusion of four female directors in the top eight alone! Check it all out below, a list of which I thoroughly approve.

1. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)

2. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)

3. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)

4. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)

5. American Honey (Andrea Arnold)

6. I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)

7. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)

8. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Love)

9. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)

10. The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)

11. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)

=   Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)

13. Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi)

=   Julieta (Pedro Almodovar)

=   Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)

16. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)

=   La La Land (Damien Chazelle)

18. Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)

19. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonca Filho)

=   Victoria (Sebastian Schipper)

21. Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)

=   Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)

=   Evolution (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)

=   Hell or High Water (David MacKenzie)

=   O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)

26. Beyonce: Lemonade (Jonas Akerlund, Kahlil Joseph, Beyonce Knowles, Melina Matsoukas, Dikayl Rimmasch, Mark Romanek and Tod Tourso)

=   Neruda (Pablo Larrain)

=   Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)

=   The Ornithologist (Joao Pedro Rodrigues)

=   Raw (Julia Ducournau)

CAHIERS DU CINEMA CROWNS TONI ERDMANN THE BEST FILM OF 2016

The leak was correct! Cahiers du Cinema, that most prestigious of centres of film criticism, has unveiled its choices for its ever-anticipated year-end poll, and they're precisely as yesterday's leaked list suggested. It looks like failing to win over George Miller's Cannes jury might have been the best thing to happen to Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann, as it can add first place on this poll to its already-hefty roster of accolades, including a FIPRESCI Grand Prix. Indeed, the entire top seven here is comprised of Cannes competition entries, not one of which claimed a jury award at the festival in May. Check it all out below, and, if you haven't seen any (or even some) of the films in this top ten, make sure to check them out too!

1. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)

2. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)

3. The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn)

4. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonca Filho)

5. Slack Bay (Bruno Dumont)

6. Julieta (Pedro Almodovar)

7. Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)

8. La Loi de la Jungle (Antonin Peretjatko)

9. Carol (Todd Haynes)

10. The Woods Dreams Are Made Of (Claire Simon)

TONI ERDMANN LEADS 29TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARD NOMINATIONS

Cannes competitors dominate in the nominations for the 29th European Film Awards. Four of the Best European Film nominees showed in competition on the Croisette in May, including Palme d'Or recipient I, Daniel Blake, and FIPRESCI Prize (and Grand Prix) recipient Toni Erdmann, which leads all films with five mentions. In all, the contenders for seven new categories joined the previously-announced lineups in Best European Animated Feature and Best European Comedy. Wroclaw will host the ceremony on the 10th of December. All the nominees are listed below.

Best European Film

Elle (Paul Verhoeven)

I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)

Julieta (Pedro Almodovar)

Room (Lenny Abrahamson)

Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)

Best European Director

Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann)

Pedro Almodovar (Julieta)

Ken Loach (I, Daniel Blake)

Cristian Mungiu (Graduation)

Paul Verhoeven (Elle)

Best European Actor
Javier Camara (Truman)

Hugh Grant (Florence Foster Jenkins)

Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake)

Burghart Klaussner (The People vs. Fritz Bauer)

Rolf Lassgard (A Man Called Ove)

Peter Simonischek (Toni Erdmann)

Best European Actress

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Like Crazy)

Trine Dyrholm (The Commune)

Sandra Huller (Toni Erdmann)

Isabelle Huppert (Elle)

Emma Suarez and Adriana Ugarte (Julieta)

Best European Screenwriter

Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann)

Emma Donoghue (Room)

Paul Laverty (I, Daniel Blake)

Cristian Mungiu (Graduation)

Tomasz Wasilewski (United States of Love)

Best European Animated Feature

My Life as a Courgette (Claude Barras)

Psychonauts, The Forgotten Children (Pedro Rivero and Alberto Vazquez)

The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit)

Best European Documentary

21 x New York (Piotr Stasik)

A Family Affair (Tom Fassaert)

Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi)

Mr. Gaga (Tomer Heymann)

S Is for Stanley (Alex Infascelli)

The Land of the Enlightened (Pieter-Jan de Pue)

Best European Comedy

A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm)

Look Who's Back (David Wnendt)

One Man and His Cow (Mohamed Hamidi)

Best European Discovery - FIPRESCI Prize

Dogs (Bogdan Mirica)

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki (Juho Kuosmanen)

Liebmann (Jules Herrmann)

Sand Storm (Elite Zexer)

Thirst (Svetla Tsotsorkova)

Best European Short Film
9 Days - From My Window in Aleppo (Issa Touma, Floor van der Meulen and Thomas Vroege)
90 Degrees North (Detsky Graffam)
Amalimbo (Juan Pablo Libossart)
Edmond (Nina Gantz)
The Fullness of Time (Manon Coubia)
The Goodbye (Clara Roquet)
Home (Daniel Mulloy)
I'm Not From Here (Maite Alberdi and Giedre Zickyte)
In the Distance (Florian Grolig)
Limbo (Konstantina Kotzamani)
A Man Returned (Mahdi Fleifel)
Shooting Star (Lyubo Yonchev)
Small Talk (Lisa Brooke Hansen and Even Hafnor)
The Wall (Samuel Lampaert)
We All Love the Seashore (Keina Espineira)

LFF 2016 REVIEW - TONI ERDMANN (MAREN ADE)

What is humour if not a coping mechanism, and that alone? Whether it is ours or theirs is irrelevant in Maren Ade's bracing, absurd Toni Erdmann, a boisterous and generous film that utterly defies classification. It presents to us solemn tragedy, spoken through silence, and winning, ameliorative comedy, spoken, shown, performed as much for the characters in the film as for the viewers watching it. With a notable resistance to stylistic intrusion, Ade establishes a vividly plausible mise-en-scene, an environment that's wholly our own, and only builds and builds her dramaturgy upon it, tier after tier of complimentary complexity. The comedy is sporadic but overt, and never at the expense of our confidence in the film's essential realism. There's a humanistic, socialist outlook to the corporate satire, and a particular potency to it given the film's setting, largely in Romania. Ade understands the Romanian societal situation, as well as she does the dynamics between her characters - excellently defined in her subtly precise control of physical space - and even the dog who makes a brief appearance in the first act. Could you call it a first act? Does Toni Erdmann even have acts? It rambles on and on, audacious and profound and sensitive and engrossing for every last moment. By its climax, the human race has been reduced to naked beasts at the command of those it has neglected to consider in its ruthless plans for relentless development; elaborate, meaningless forms of communication are abandoned, and concise, honest declarations of emotion are made that pierce far deeper. And yet Toni Erdmann lacks resolution, closing on its most trenchant observation yet: can we really be trusted to do what's best for ourselves even once aware of it, to accept a new, yet ancient, conception of responsibility? This shocking, amazing film leaves us there, alongside its characters, united in thought.

LFF 2016 PREVIEW: TONI ERDMANN

A narrative feature that's as potent as one could hope to find in contemporary cinema

Jordan Cronk, Reverse Shot

A work of great beauty, great feeling and great cinema

Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

Toni Erdmann is filled with grand comic inventions, and it encompasses so many strands of experience that it eats the material of several decades of movies for breakfast

Kent Jones, Film Comment

No film set the Croisette alight this May quite like Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann. Building upon the acclaim for her first two features, the 2-hour 42-minute German comedy was the toast of Cannes, drawing in unanimous praise from critics, and even recording the highest score in the history of Screen International's Critics Poll. It won the FIPRESCI prize at the festival, before progressing to the FIPRESCI Grand Prix for 2015-16. It marks a must-see for all cinephiles offered the chance, which, for me, will first arrive at the London Film Festival in October. Release dates, indicating Oscar hopes, are on their way: Christmas Day stateside and the 3rd of February in the UK.

60TH BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 383-STRONG 2016 LINEUP

The biggest event of SOS' film calendar each year is the London Film Festival each October. And the British Film Institute has today revealed the full lineup of titles set to screen in its 2016 edition, the 60th year of the festival. Major festival hits from earlier in the year (Toni Erdmann, Paterson and Elle among many other Cannes titles) and more recently (Arrival, La La Land and Voyage of Time: Life's Journey) join lesser-known films and some hotly-anticipated world premieres. Take a look at the full slate below, and don't forget to check out SOS' LFF coverage from previous years, including last year.

*Amended to include Michael Winterbottom's On the Road to the Sonic strand, 09/09/16, and both Lav Diaz's The Woman Who Left to the Journey strand and Errol Morris' The B Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography to the Love strand, 22/09/16.

Official Competition

Brimstone (Martin Koolhoven)

Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)

Clash (Mohamed Diab)

Elle (Paul Verhoeven)

Frantz (Francois Ozon)

Goldstone (Ivan Sen)

Layla M. (Mijke de Jong)

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)

Neruda (Pablo Larrain)

A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)

Una (Benedict Andrews)

Your Name (Shinkai Makoto)

Headline Galas / Special Presentations

13th (Ava DuVernay) - documentary special presentation in association with Time Out
American Honey (Andrea Arnold) - festival special presentation

Arrival (Denis Villeneuve) - Royal Bank of Canada gala

The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker)

Free Fire (Ben Wheatley) - closing night gala

It's Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan) - BFI Flare special presentation

La La Land (Damien Chazelle)

Lion (Garth Davis) - American Express gala

Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)

A Monster Calls (J. A. Bayona) - The May Fair Hotel gala

Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)

Queen of Katwe (Mira Nair) - Virgin Atlantic gala

Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) - The Mayor of London's gala

A United Kingdom (Amma Asante) - opening night gala

First Feature, Documentary and Short Film competitions after the cut, alongside all the LFF's many strands, including several more galas and special presentations!