Welcome to openDemocracy’s London Film Festival 2005 blog. openDemocracy has been reviewing films from the festival for the last three years. This year the selection of films on show has been so expansive that we have set up a special blog to cover it. With over 180 films from nine different strands to watch we have sent out openDemocracy staff , writers and friends to report back to us what they thought.

See also Colin MacCabe’s history of the festival for an introduction to the philosophy behind it.

If you have been to a festival film and would like to blog your thoughts please email Charlie Devereux at [email protected]