The BFI London Film Festival has announced its complete 2021 program, including the Headline Galas and Special Presentations lineups. Fortunately, women directors are better represented than the fest’s Official Competition, which features just one woman-directed offering this year, Harry Wootliff’s “True Things.”

Eleven features are screening as Headline Galas, and five of them, or around 45 percent, are directed or co-directed by women. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s feature directorial debut, an adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s “The Lost Daughter,” is among the films set to screen. The Olivia Colman-starrer made its world premiere at Venice last week to rave reviews. Other Headline Galas include “The Souvenir: Part II,” a sequel to Joanna Hogg’s coming-of-age drama about film student, and, as previously announced, “The Power of the Dog,” Jane Campion’s Western about brothers who run a Montana ranch and the local widow who marries one of them.

The Special Presentations section comprises 12 titles, three of which are helmed by women, amounting to 25 percent of the lineup. This year’s Palme d’Or winner, Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” the story of a dancer, model, and serial killer with a sexual attraction to cars, is part of the program.

As for the fest’s overall numbers, “39% of films are from female and non-binary directors/creators or co-directors/creators with 40% made by ethnically diverse directors/creators, the BFI said today,” per Deadline.

The 2021 BFI London Film Festival runs from October 6-17. Check out all of the Headline Galas and Special Presentations directed and co-directed by women below.

LFF Headline Galas
THE POWER OF THE DOG (d. Jane Campion)
MOTHERING SUNDAY (d. Eva Husson)
THE LOST DAUGHTER (d. Maggie Gyllenhaal)
THE SOUVENIR: PART II (d. Joanna Hogg)
RON’S GONE WRONG (d. Sarah Smith, Jean Philippe-Vine)

LFF Special Presentations
ALI & AVA (d. Clio Barnard)
TITANE (d. Julia Ducournau)
NEPTUNE FROST (d. Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman)