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The programme for this year’s festival has been announced and there are a number of literature-based films including the Opening Night Gala Never Let Me Go, Closing Night Gala 127 Hours and the provocative ‘Muslim punks’ film The Taqwacores.

With so many films in this year’s Lff programme having their origins in printed form, a discussion panel is also being held on 25th October, with a number of screenwriters discussing their adaptations in the Hollywood Reporter-sponsored event A Novel Idea: Adapting Books for the Screen.

Below a selection of the films with a literary connection screening at this year’s London Film Festival:

Literary Feature Films:

127 Hours; Dir. Danny Boyle – Gripping, adventurous film making and headline grabbing drama from Oscar winning director Danny Boyle, based on Aron Ralston’s book Between a Rock and A Hard Place (set for re-release in January).

The American; Dir. Anton Corbijn – George Clooney...

Garrick Hamm'S short film The Man Who Married Himself was selected for two prestigious Us film festivals this summer - and won at both of them.

The 14-minute production, starring Richard E Grant (pictured above), was winner of Best Comedy at the La International Short Film Festival 2010 in July. The event is officially recognised by the Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences, with many films going on to get Oscar nominations, some of them winning the coveted statue.

The Man Who Married Himself also won Best Comedy at the Rhode Island International Film Festival 2010, held in August.

Hamm financed the project himself, shooting it over 14 weekends. It took 18 months to complete and is his second short film.

Richard E. Grant plays Oliver Parker who, in the throes of a mid-life crisis and after a series of failed relationships, decided to get married - to himself.

Despite his parents' disapproval,...

Six shorts filmmakers take a step closer to a coveted Oscar nomination after winning jury prizes in the 2010 L.A. Shorts Feat at Laemmle’s Sunset 5 Theatre in West Hollywood, CA. Winners include director Vicky Mather for “Stanley Picle (Best Experimental); Christopher Kezelos for “Zero” (Best Animation), Garrick Hamm for “The Man Who Married Himself (Best Comedy), York-Fabian Raabe for “Between Heaven and earth” (Best Foreign Film) and Phillip Montgomery for “The Activist” (Best of Fest). Juros included producer Paula Wagner and True Blood actresses Carrie Preston and Mariana Klaveno. Just wrapping its 14th edition, the Ls Shorts Fest continues to be the world’s largest short film festival with 260 screenings, panels and most of all the chance for producers to meet and sign emerging talent.

On a rainy Tuesday night in the great metropolis that is London, I was invited to see a new short film starring Richard E. Grant. Garrick Hamm’s The Man Who Married Himself is the story of a man who marries himself. Like Ronsil wood varnish, this film says what it does on the tin. These kinds of soirees can be fun. You see lots of media types schmoozing, air kissing, networking and hear them call each other “darling”. It’s enough to make one run for the bar…and so.

There was beer, wine and snacks on offer. Did I partake? Fill my boots? Get trashed? Turn from newshound to boozehound in the blink of a film frame then throw myself into a well cushioned seat in the screening room with a newspaper over my head? The answer would be no. I have something in common Mr. Richard E. Grant...