Daniel Day-Lewis in 'Anemone'. BFI London Film Festival Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Linklater, Yorgos Lanthimos and Tessa Thompson are among the stars set to participate in the BFI London Film Festival's Screen Talks program this year. Celebrated filmmakers Jafar Panahi, Lynne Ramsay and Chloé Zhao will also join for sessions at the 2025 festival, opening Oct. 8 with Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Day-Lewis, the only person to win three best actor Oscars, is best known for his era-defining roles in such diverse films as My Beautiful Laundrette, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, My Left Foot, The Age of Innocence, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln and Phantom Thread. He is due to make his return to acting in the upcoming film Anemone, which also serves as his son Ronan's directorial debut. Related Stories Movies 'Waking Hours' Takes Us on a Nocturnal Journey With Afghan People Smugglers (Exclusive Venice Teaser) Movies Telluride Awards Analysis: 'Hamnet,' Chloé Zhao's Pic About the Shakespeares' Love and Loss, Is Talk of Fest Lanthimos' work has established him as one of the most renowned directors of the 21st century. His frequent collaborators include Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone, who star in the recently premiered Venice feature Bugonia. Among his most famous projects is Poor Things, The Favourite, The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Dogtooth. Linklater will make an appearance at LFF to discuss his wide-ranging filmography, from Dazed and Confused, Me and Orson Welles and Everybody Wants Some to the comedies School of Rock, Bad News Bears, and Hit Man and the beloved Before trilogy. His latest film, the Cannes feature Nouvelle Vague, follows the making of Jean-Luc Godard's 1959 Breathless, one of the first projects to usher in the wave of experimental French cinema. Panahi, whose body of work has critiqued Iranian society and had a real-world impact on his life, will be welcomed to discuss his classics The White Balloon, The Circle and Offside, as well as more recent films including Taxi, No Bears and Closed Curtain. Since her 1999 feature debut Ratcatcher, Ramsay has produced Morvern Caller, We Need to Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here followed. She debuted her latest film, Die, My Love with Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Thompson will be best known for her stint in the MCU, especially in Thor: Ragnarok. She's also starred in Veronica Mars, Westworld, and Sorry to Bother You, and was nominated for a BAFTA for her turn in Passing. She will discuss her wide-ranging career at the LFF event in October. Zhao is an Oscar winner for her work on the Frances McDormand-starring Nomadland and comes to the festival to talk about portfolio so far, including on Marvel's Eternals. She premieres Hamnet with Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley at TIFF this year, lauded by THR as "a tremendously acted heartbreaker." The Emma Corrin and Charli xcx-starring 100 Nights of Hero will close the BFI London Film Festival 2025. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up Venice Film Festival 2025 Dwayne Johnson Gets Choked Up Discussing 'The Smashing Machine': "This Transformation Was Something I Was Really Hungry to Do" Venice Film Festival 2025 Amanda Seyfried on Going Feral to Play Shakers Founder Ann Lee: "I've Never Been Let Loose" Venice Film Festival Mayra Hermosillo's 'Vanilla' Explores Family and Identity in an All-Female Household (Exclusive Venice Trailer) Venice Film Festival 'Waking Hours' Takes Us on a Nocturnal Journey With Afghan People Smugglers (Exclusive Venice Teaser) The Fien Print 'This Is Not a Drill' Review: Climate Activism Doc Feels Stuck in a More Hopeful Past Snoop Dogg Snoop Dogg's Rep Says Comments Addressing Backlash Over His Criticism of LGBTQ Representation Are "Fake" Venice Film Festival 2025 Dwayne Johnson Gets Choked Up Discussing 'The Smashing Machine': "This Transformation Was Something I Was Really Hungry to Do" Venice Film Festival 2025 Amanda Seyfried on Going Feral to Play Shakers Founder Ann Lee: "I've Never Been Let Loose" Venice Film Festival Mayra Hermosillo's 'Vanilla' Explores Family and Identity in an All-Female Household (Exclusive Venice Trailer) Venice Film Festival 'Waking Hours' Takes Us on a Nocturnal Journey With Afghan People Smugglers (Exclusive Venice Teaser) The Fien Print 'This Is Not a Drill' Review: Climate Activism Doc Feels Stuck in a More Hopeful Past Snoop Dogg Snoop Dogg's Rep Says Comments Addressing Backlash Over His Criticism of LGBTQ Representation Are "Fake"