Chloé Zhao’s latest feature, Hamnet , has won the London Film Festival Audience Award.

The Maggie O’Farrell adaptation was announced as the Audience Award winner this week by the BFI . The film screened as the Mayor of London Gala during the LFF , with Zhao in attendance alongside her leads Jesse Buckley and Paul Mescal and producers, including Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes.

Elsewhere, Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story , the latest work by Yemi Bamiro, won the Audience Award for Best British Discovery. The film is described as “a touching tribute to the forgotten photographer, freedom fighter and activist, who helped popularise the transformative Black is Beautiful movement.”

This year’s London Film Festival featured 252 titles hailing from 79 countries. All f

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