Tina Ghavari’s Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day will world premiere at SXSW London this June as the opening film with the director and key cast in attendance.
It is among a second wave of feature films unveiled on Monday for the Screen Program, a key pole of the UK SXSW spin-off, which will unfold in and around the city’s Shoreditch neighborhood from June 1 to 6. They join 17 titles announced at the end of March.
The opening film is adapted by Ghavari, with screenwriter Justine Waddell, from Virginia Woolf’s 1919 novel revolving around the life of Katharine Hilbery, a high-born young woman who challenges the patriarchal society of the time to pursue her love of astronomy and life on her own terms.
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Haley Bennett stars as Hilbery and is joined in the cast by Jack Whitehall, Jennifer Saunders,
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