Emma Corrin, Maika Monroe and Felicity Jones closed the 69th BFI London Film Festival with Julia Jackman’s fairytale 100 Nights of Hero.
Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero closed the 69th BFI London Film Festival at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank on Sunday 19 October 2025. Emma Corrin, Golden Globe winner for The Crown, led Maika Monroe and Felicity Jones on the carpet.
Jackman was born in Edmonton, Alberta. Her first feature, Bonus Track, premiered at this festival in 2023.
Her second adapts Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel and borrows the frame of the Thousand and One Nights. A neglectful husband leaves his wife, Cherry, alone for a hundred days to test her fidelity. Her maid Hero holds off the visitor he sends with a story every night.
Corrin, who plays Hero, was born in Royal Tunbridge Wells in 1995 and studied at St John’s College, Cambridge. On stage, Anna X brought an Olivier nomination.
The closing night was the film’s UK premiere, after Critics’ Week at Venice in September. Vue Lumière released it in British cinemas on 6 February 2026.
Monroe made her name in the horror film It Follows and went on to Longlegs. Amir El-Masry, Richard E. Grant, Nicholas Galitzine and Charli XCX are also in the cast.