The 67th BFI London Film Festival wrapped on Sunday October 15th with the World Premiere of Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya’s The Kitchen.
The Festival announced the winners of this year’s LFF Audience Awards, with George Amponsah’s high-octane thriller Gassed Up, in which a group of London teenage boys turn to motorbike crime for survival, taking the Best Feature Award.
Chloe Abrahams’ debut The Taste of Mango won Best Documentary and follows three generations of women spanning Sri Lanka to London.
Festival of Slaps won best British Work and is a short film, set in the UK from Director/Screenwriter Abdou Cisse, in which a Nigerian mother’s slap triggers a humorous reflection on cultural stereotypes. Murals, presented in the LFF Expanded program from artists Alex Topaller, Daniel Shapiro and Artem Ivanenko wins Best Immersive/XR and is an immersive work showing the devastation of war in Ukraine juxtaposed with Banksy’s murals.
BFI London Film Festival Director Kristy Matheson, marking her first year in the role, said: “It was an absolute joy seeing audiences enthusiastically connecting to this year’s program which was beautifully handcrafted by our talented festival team. Over 12 days we saw audiences coming together and being rewarded for their curiosity and fandom across the full breadth of what the moving image has to offer. UK artists shone bright across the whole program, alongside some of international cinema’s greatest legends and exciting new talents; our sincere thanks to them for sharing their supreme creativity with us all.”
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