Many of the hit films from LIFF 2019 are now available to view online, across platforms including Netflix, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, Amazon Prime and Vimeo. We're keeping you updated with a guide to the latest as they become available, also including selections that have featured in our LIFF Presents programme of year-round screenings...
This week's highlighted film is Days of the Bagnold Summer. Librarian Sue (Monica Dolan) and her heavy metal-loving teenage son (Earl Cave, son of singer-songwriter Nick Cave) navigate differences, dreams and disappointments over the course of a long British summer. Unexpectedly finding themselves thrown together for six weeks, tensions rise in a carefully observed coming-of-age comedy. Featuring a stellar cast (Alice Lowe, Rob Brydon, Tamsin Greig) this poignant and mature directorial debut from Inbetweeners alumni Simon Bird tenderly portrays a mother-son relationship, finding humour, tragedy and occasional common ground. Watch the trailer
'Simon Bird’s first feature as director is a gentle coming-of-ager that acts as love-letter to single mums, introverts, suburbia and the great British summer.' BFI review by Katherine McLaughlin
Days of the Bagnold Summer is now available to stream on Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, Google Play, iTunes & Sky Store.
Here are some other great LIFF 2019 films now available for streaming on various platforms:
Netflix
Scorsese’s epic crime drama The Irishman, Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce in The Two Popes, Mati Diop’s dreamlike Dakar love story Atlantics, Irish exorcist comedy Extra Ordinary and the wildly inventive French animated fantasy I Lost My Body.
iTunes
Brooding Irish crime drama Calm With Horses, Gripping Spanish political thriller The Candidate, dark comedy thriller Come to Daddy, Naomi Watts and Tim Roth in Luce, zombie comedy Little Monsters, inventive indie sci-fi Vivarium, wild South Korean action thriller The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil and surreal black comedy Greener Grass.
BFI Player
Passionate drama about a foster child pushing the system to its limits, System Crasher, Romantic French time-travel comedy La Belle Époque, two powerful relationship dramas, with Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson starring as a couple coping with a cancer diagnosis in Ordinary Love and Tom Cullen's intense and intimate directorial debut Pink Wall, fascinating Imelda Marcos documentary The Kingmaker and the heartfelt Sudanese love letter to cinema Talking About Trees.
Curzon Home Cinema
The Whistlers, a playful noir thriller from one of the masters of the Romanian New Wave, Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest), the documentary The Atom: A Love Affair, a tale of scientific passion and political intrigue about the West's love-hate relationship with nuclear power, hard-hitting South African LGBTIQ+ drama Moffie, essential doc on fearless crime photographer Letizia Battaglia, Shooting the Mafia, Celine Sciamma's arthouse hit Portrait of a Lady on Fire, sex-positive Finnish romcom Dogs Don't Wear Pants and The Street, which documents the divisive gentrification of a London district.
Amazon Prime
Oliver Laxe's winner of the Un Certain Regard jury prize at Cannes Film Festival, magnificently shot on 16mm, Fire Will Come, and The Report, with Adam Driver on excellent form, are available to subscribers alongside various other titles for individual rental.
BBC iPlayer
An essential watch for fans and newcomers alike, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool is available to stream on BBC iPlayer, free to watch with a UK TV licence.
Peccadillo Player
One of the LGBTIQ+ highlights of the film year, And Then We Danced is an intense love story set in the dynamic but ultra-conservative world of traditional Georgian dance.
Click here to explore the full list of LIFF 2019 films now streaming.
