For the full list of the BFI’s London Film Festival award winners, you can look here. But we did like the Best Film winner, Hit the Road by Panah Panahi. Set in 1970s Iran (or Persia at the time), this is a road trip film about family and life, and it’s full of great music and visuals that are just perfect for a projector experience.
A must-watch for fans of breathtaking 4K visuals is Becoming Cousteau by Liz Garbus. This is a documentary dedicated to the adventures of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and features rare footage from many of his exploratory missions over the decades. If you love the majestic beauty of nature and want insight into the lives of people that wish to study and understand the world better, this documentary is a treasure.
Finally, in the Audience Award category, we liked Costa Brava, Lebanon. This is an interesting and beautiful movie from Mounia Akl that’s set in Lebanon, a part of the world we don’t get to see very often in movies. This is a shame because it’s gorgeous and sadly famous mostly for politics and violence. In the movie, a family decides to leave the big city in an attempt to start their dream home in the mountains, and of course, there’s a lot that goes on after they get there. The visuals are quite stunning as is the acting, a perfect match for a good home projector.