Weeks in the West End

2018, 87 minutes

A lifelong film lover traverses the 2017 London Film Festival reflecting on his life, career and relationship with cinema.

A modern-day Diary of Samuel Pepys from the bottom rungs of the media ladder, Ian Mantgani's monochrome 16mm documentary charts one filmmaker's personal journey as a passholder at the 2017 London Film Festival. From the euphoria of great cinematic discovery to the mundanity of routine, in a time beset by strikes, Brexit, nuclear brinkmanship and Hollywood sexual scandal, Weeks in the West End is a conflicted love letter to London and a consideration of how and why we return to the same places time and again.