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UK trailer released for Suffragette

The UK trailer has been released for Suffragette, the first feature film to tell the story of the ordinary British women at the turn of the last century who risked everything in the fight for equality and the right to vote.

The film has been confirmed for the opening night of the 59th BFI London Film Festival. Suffragette will receive its European premiere on Wednesday 7 October at the Odeon Leicester Square, attended by the filmmakers and stellar cast, with a live cinecast from the red carpet and simultaneous screenings taking place at cinemas across the UK.

Suffragette stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw and Meryl Streep. It is directed by LFF alumna Sarah Gavron, who returns to the Festival for a third time, reteaming with her Brick Lane screenwriter Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady).

The film is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fought for the right to vote, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalised and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality – their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives. The character of Maud, played by Carey Mulligan, is one such foot soldier. The story of her fight for dignity is both heart-breaking and inspirational.

Clare Stewart, BFI London Film Festival Director, says, ā€œWe are proud to announce that the much anticipated SUFFRAGETTE will be this yearā€™s BFI London Film Festival Opening Night gala. SUFFRAGETTE is an urgent and compelling film ā€“ made by British women, about British women who changed the course of history and it is, quite simply, a film that everyone must see.ā€

The 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express runs from Wednesday 7 October-Sunday 18 October 2015. The full programme for the Festival will be announced on Tuesday 1 September 2015.

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