London Film Festival announces line-up - with social justice 'a strong theme'

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Steve McQueen's Mangrove will open the festival, while Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, will close the event.

restrictions, it will have an expanded online presence and regional screenings when it takes place in October.Steve McQueen's Mangrove - which tells the true story of the Mangrove 9, the group of black activists who clashed with police in London during a protest march in 1970 - will open the festival, while Ammonite, Francis Lee's follow-up to God's Own Country, starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, will close.

These will be among 13 films which will screen at cinemas around the country, and at the BFI Southbank in London.Tricia Tuttle, director of BFI Festivals, promised this year's event will be"a different kind of festival" as details were announced, saying:"Social justice is a strong theme throughout the programme."

She admitted there won't be the usual glitz and glam of the red carpets this year, but says film fans won't be disappointed.

 

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