Vision at London Film Festival 2025

The full programme for BFI’s London Film Festival has been released and Vision’s extremely talented Nick Morris, Luciana Riso and Frances de Havas have work being shown. 

Nick Morris is Cinematographer for Harry Lighton’s Pillion. Winner of the Screenplay Award, Un Certain Regard at Festival de Cannes, and nominated for Golden Camera and Queer palm, Harry Lighton’s, the film is adapted from the 2020 novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones and follows Colin, a quiet, unassuming man with supportive parents whose world is rocked when he enters a dom-sub relationship with towering, attractive biker Ray. Explore more from Nick Morris here.

Luciana Riso’s ‘Retreat’ directed by Ted Evans follows the story of Eva, who after leaving the hearing world for ‘the village’, feels she can truly be herself in a place where sign language is the only form of communication. However, it is not long before cracks start to show in this seemingly perfect world. Evans’ bold debut, which features an all-Deaf principal cast, articulately questions notions of identity and the longing for community. Check out her work here.

Hair and Makeup Artist Frances de Havas has Luca Guadagnino’s gripping psychological drama ‘After the Hunt’, which features an all-star cast and a career-best performance from Julia Roberts, playing a college professor whose life begins to unravel. Check out some of Frances’ other work here.

Also showing for Frances is ‘Lady’, directed by Samuel Abraham. Sian Clifford gives a larger-than-life performance as a narcissistic aristocrat who hires a struggling filmmaker to record her every move, in Samuel Abraham’s eccentric mockumentary.

You can explore the London Film Festival Programme here.