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The film will receive its UK premiere on Wednesday 12 October at London’s Odeon Leicester Square, with Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman expected to attend. | ||||||||||||
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The 60th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® is thrilled to announce that Lion starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman will be the American Express Gala at this year’s Festival. Directed by Garth Davis, and adapted from Saroo Brierley’s engrossing memoir “A Long Way Home”, Lion tells the true story of how a wrong train takes a five-year-old Indian boy hundreds of miles from home; he survives many challenges before being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, haunted by memories of his childhood, he learns of a new technology called Google Earth, and sets out to find his lost family. BFI London Film Festival Director, Clare Stewart says: “We are delighted Garth Davis' Lion will be this year's American Express Gala. This sweeping adaptation is a rousing tribute to the tenacity of the human spirit, and is more intricate in its texture, and more astounding in its narrative twists than most works of fiction.” Festival programme revealed: Thu 01 Sep | ||||||||||||
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