Yorgos Lanthimos Screen Talk | BFI London Film Festival 2025

Yorgos Lanthimos sits down with Succession creator Jesse Armstrong to reveal the secret ingredients that underpin his uniquely weird brand of satire.

Since his 2009 international breakthrough with Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos has forged a unique path in contemporary cinema. Initially associated with films examining Greek society in the aftermath of the 2009 economic crisis, Lanthimos set his focus on a larger canvas, producing a series of films that satirically examined contemporary life, often through the upending of genres and societal norms.

Equally at ease working on other writers’ screenplays as he is developing his own with regular collaborator Efthimis Filippou, Lanthimos has created such fantastic visions of the world as The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Favourite, Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness. In this screen talk from the 2025 BFI London Film Festival, he discusses these films alongside his new, darkly comic thriller Bugonia, with Succession creator Jesse Armstrong.