Tricia Tuttle is to step down as BFI festivals director after 10 years at the organisation, it has been announced.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro’s upcoming film Pinocchio will have its world premiere at the 66th BFI London Film Festival.

The BFI London Film Festival returns to the capital and cinemas around the UK on Wednesday, in what organisers are expecting to be an “emotional” return to the big screen.

Kristen Stewart’s performance as Diana, Princess of Wales in Spencer, Sir Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical movie Belfast and the European premiere of the third series of Succession will all screen at the BFI London Film Festival in 2021.

The world premiere of Jeymes Samuel’s film The Harder They Fall will open the London Film Festival. The Netflix movie will be shown at the Royal Festival Hall in London in October.

The winners of the inaugural BFI Virtual London Film Festival Audience Awards have been announced. Another Round, directed by Thomas Vinterberg, was named best film.

Director Sir Steve McQueen and stars Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby, Rochenda Sandall and Shaun Parkes posed for socially distanced photos on the opening night of the BFI London Film Festival.

The BFI London Film Festival will open today and will be “the most exciting, most accessible, most creative version” possible, the festival director has said.

Films focusing on social justice will be at the centre of a “different kind of” BFI London Film Festival, it has been announced. The line-up of 58 films includes new projects by directors Spike Lee, Miranda July and Garrett Bradley.

A drama about the love affair between an acclaimed palaeontologist and a young woman recovering from tragedy starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan will close the BFI London Film Festival.

Mangrove, which stars Letitia Wright, Shaun Parkes and Malachi Kirby, will receive its European premiere on October 7