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London Film Festival: Steve McQueen, Denis Villeneuve, Sean Baker & Lupita Nyong’o Among Names Set For Screen Talk Sessions


Denis Villeneuve, Sean Baker, and Lupita Nyong’o are also taking part in onstage Q&As.

The BFI’s London Film Festival has set an impressive lineup of starry names including Academy Award winners Steve McQueen, Denis Villeneuve, Lupita Nyong’o, and recent Palme d’Or winner Sean Baker for this year’s screen talk Q&A sessions. Directed, produced, and written by McQueen, the film follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. The Synopsis reads: George, defiant and determined to return home to Rita and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, ensues on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.

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