London Film Festival has an edge on Cannes and Venice in that it’s a festival for the public, Sandra Hebron told us at the event. ‘The hope is that Londoners will come out and enjoy the festival’.

This year a record number of people came to the screenings, exceeding last year’s figure of 113,000. The Festival opened with Disney’s new film Enchanted, and closed with Wes Anderson’s Darjeeling Ltd, starring Adrien Brody, Jazon Schwartzman and Owen Wilson.