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 directorial deb

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