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Wednesday, 15 October
Daily Programme
Films
The Smashing Machine
12:00 PM
Dwayne Johnson plays legendary mixed martial arts fighter Mark Kerr, whose meteoric rise is haunted by addiction and personal strife in Benny Safdie's knock out sports biopic.
Exhibitions
Tanoa Sasraku: Morale Patch
Morale Patch is an exhibition of new work by Tanoa Sasraku (b. 1995, Plymouth) examining the seductive and destructive power of oil – its ties to war and national identity – through a meditation on emblems and mementos.
Exhibitions
Frieze × ICA Artists' Film Programme 2025
From ancestral memory to digital desire, from queer ecologies to fragile landscapes, ten artists’ films explore resistance, love and transformation in the present tense. 
Films
A House of Dynamite
12:20 PM
6:20 PM
An unattributed nuclear missile is launched at the US, igniting a chain response to identify the responsible party and to decide on how the nation will respond, in Kathryn Bigelow's latest.
Films
A Want In Her
2:20 PM
When her mother goes missing somewhere in Ireland, artist Myrid Carten returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house; and a history that threatens to take everyone down, including herself.
Films
BFI London Film Festival 2025
Island of the Winds
3:00 PM
Hsu Ya-Ting’s poignant documentary follows the lives of residents at Taiwan’s Lesheng Sanatorium, where leprosy patients have been confined since the 1950s.
Films
Urchin
4:20 PM
Harris Dickinson’s debut, featuring Frank Dilane in a career-defining role, is a lyrical portrait of youth, loss and fragile resilience though the experience of rough sleeper in London.
Films
BFI London Film Festival 2025
A Useful Ghost
5:45 PM
The wife of a factory owner returns from the dead to haunt a vacuum cleaner in Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s wildly inventive and wonderfully original film.
Live
In the Round: Milkweed
7:30 PM
What do we know of Milkweed? Enough, and nearly nothing. They are a duo. They use voice, guitar and banjo. They describe their sound as slacker-trad, which is both true and somehow insufficient. They perform as part of our in-the-round spatial series this October.
Films
Perfect Blue (4K Restoration)
8:30 PM
After leaving her pop idol group and starting a new life as an actress, Mima soon finds herself overwhelmed by a wave of provocative roles that go against her wishes. Before long, a string of murders begins to unfold, targeting those around her…
Films
BFI London Film Festival 2025
The Assistant
8:40 PM
Celebrated visual artists and filmmaking duo Wilhelm and Anka Sasnal adapt Robert Walser’s novel about an unskilled clerk serving a disgraced inventor.