BFI London Film Festival announces 70th LFF Award winners

The 70th BFI London Film Festival has announced the winners of its annual LFF Awards across several competition categories.

Sergei Loznitsa’s documentary ‘Imperium’ received the Best Film Award in the Official Competition. The film utilizes archival footage to examine Soviet history through the perspective of Italian cameramen from the early 1970s.

Other major winners include: • Sompot Chidgasornpongse won the Sutherland Award in the First Feature Competition for ‘9 Temples to Heaven’, a family drama centered on a pilgrimage. • Asmahan Bkerat won the Grierson Award in the Documentary Competition for ‘Concrete Land’, which follows a Bedouin family in Jordan. • Rahul Roye won the Short Film Award for ‘Aman’, a narrative concerning a trans man’s identity.

Voting for the LFF Audience Awards remains open until Wednesday, 21 October, with the Best Feature Film and Best British Discovery winners to be announced later.