{"id":486561,"date":"2025-10-09T20:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/486561\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T20:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:39:11","slug":"london-film-festival-2025-surprise-movie-tuner-with-leo-woodall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/486561\/","title":{"rendered":"London Film Festival 2025 Surprise Movie: ‘Tuner’ With Leo Woodall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDrumroll, please. The BFI London Film Festival<\/a>\u2018s surprise film for 2025 is\u2026 Tuner, starring Leo Woodall<\/a> and Dustin Hoffman. Director Daniel Roher<\/a> and London hometown star Woodall even showed up on stage at the city\u2019s Royal Festival Hall to much applause.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe heist\u00a0thriller, from a screenplay by Roher and Robert Ramsey, also features\u00a0Havana Rose Liu,\u00a0Jean Reno,\u00a0Lior Raz, and\u00a0Tovah Feldshuh. The movie, the narrative debut from Oscar-winning documentarian Roher (Navalny), had its world premiere at Telluride in August.<\/p>\n

\n\tTuner\u00a0follows an apprentice piano tuner, Niki (Woodall), with an auditory condition that proves useful as he tries to ease the financial burdens of his mentor (Hoffman) by moonlighting as a safecracker. Liu plays Ruthie, a driven music composition graduate student who starts a relationship with Niki.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe feature is a late addition to an impressive LFF lineup this year: Rian Johnson, Daniel Craig and the cast of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery ushered in this year\u2019s edition at the opening night gala on Wednesday. Johnson told The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet<\/a> that it\u2019s his \u201cmost personal\u201d murder mystery yet.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Friday, George Clooney and Noah Baumbach will present another Netflix film,\u00a0Jay Kelly, and Emma Stone will reteam with Yorgos Lanthimos and Jesse Plemons for the U.K. premiere of\u00a0Bugonia.<\/p>\n

\n\tSaturday, the BFI will host Chloe Zhao, Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley for their critically-acclaimed Hamnet, and Luca Guadagnino will present After The Hunt alongside Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield. A host of nightly premieres complement a prestigious Film Talks selection as Zhao, Jon M. Chu, Lynne Ramsay, Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Linklater and Tessa Thompson host industry-focused sessions.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this week, BFI London Film Fest director Kristy Matheson unpacked her ambitious 2025 program with THR. \u201cWe\u2019re all struck by how formally daring cinema is this year,\u201d said Matheson about the overarching themes she\u2019s picked up on. \u201cThere have been so many examples of filmmakers really working to sort of stretch the medium to new and interesting places. That\u2019s really exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe BFI London Film Festival<\/a> 2025 runs Oct. 8-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drumroll, please. The BFI London Film Festival\u2018s surprise film for 2025 is\u2026 Tuner, starring Leo Woodall and Dustin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[121444,127516,748,393,4884,522,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-486561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-bfi-london-film-festival","9":"tag-bfi-london-film-festival-2025","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-international","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115346143039676389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}