Returning for its third year, the BBC First British Film Festival showcases the best and brightest in films from the British Isles. Featuring 31 titles, the program captures the magic, unique humour, romance, traditions and new age vitality of British culture.
Highlights of the program include Paolo Sorrentino’s highly anticipated film, Youth, as well as The Man Who Knew Infinity – the retelling of mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan’s life – which will close the festival. Spooks: The Greater Good gives the BBC spy thriller series the big screen treatment, biopic The Program delves into the controversy surrounding cyclist Lance Armstrong, Suffragette offers an intense drama tracking the fight for women’s voting rights,and Brooklyn provides a sweeping romance about a young Irish immigrant trying to make her way in 1950s New York.
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