The 2024 Russell Hobbs British Film Festival has returned to cinemas in Adelaide this November in Prospect and CBD with a star-studded lineup.

The specially curated program features tender dramas, action-packed thrillers, comedy, documentaries and retrospectives, starring some of Britain’s most well-known faces, including Saoirse Ronan, Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh, Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law and Tim Roth.

Steve McQueen’s visually stunning period drama opened this year’s festival with the Australian premiere of Blitz, and closing the Festival is another exciting exclusive, the premiere of the highly anticipated We Live in Time. With beautifully nuanced performances from Oscar nominees Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, this heart-rendering romance delves into the profound question of how to make the most of the time we have in this world.

The 2024 Festival Centrepiece is Mike Leigh’s latest film Hard Truth’s, which reunites him with the brilliant Marianne Jean-Baptiste in a darkly humorous and insightful exploration of family dynamics. The film examines a hypersensitive woman’s impact on her family, blending compassion with Leigh’s signature attention to detail.

For this year only the Film Festival is also hosting a special music themed sidebar ‘Brit Rock to Brit Pop’, renowned documentarian Nick Broomfield uncovers the true story of Brian Jones, the creative force and heartbreaker behind what would become the world’s greatest rock band The Rolling Stones in The Stones and Brian Jones; Iconic rock band Led Zeppelin’s electrifying 1973 Madison Square Garden performances are captured in The Songs Remain the Same, interwoven with surreal fantasy sequences reflecting the band members’ personas. Fast forward to the Brit Pop era with Blur: Live at the Wemberly Stadium, an epic two-hour concert film immortalising Blur’s historic 2023 show at Wembley Stadium which saw the band perform their iconic and much-loved songs for 150,000 adoring fans plus doco Blur: To The End, depicting the most recent chapter in the band’s story, captured during the period in which they made a surprise – and emotional – return with their first record in 8 years, the critically acclaimed #1 album The Ballad of Darren.

Other highlights include British/French co-production Widow Cliquot, which tells a rousing true story offering an effervescent portrait of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin, the “Grande Dame of Champagne,” otherwise known as Veuve Clicquot.

Pierce Brosnan and Helena Bonham Carter lead a commanding ensemble cast in Four Letters of Love, Polly Steele’s tender story of Nicholas and Isabel who are destined for each other, but their path to true love is anything but straightforward.

There are so many movies to select from this British Film Festival, for the whole program and more information visit the website: http://www.britishfilmfestival.com.au

The festival is running from Adelaide: 6 Nov – 8 Dec, Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas, Palace Nova Prospect Cinemas

Tickets are now on sale!