Prize performers

While the London Film Festival is not a competitive event, it annually presents a number of awards.

The Sutherland Trophy is given to "the most original and imaginative first feature" in the festival, and this year's well-deserved winner was Andrea Arnold for her gripping psychological thriller, Red Road.

The Satyajit Ray Award, named after the great Indian film-maker and presented to the first-time director whose film "best captures the artistry, compassion and humanity of Ray's vision", was presented to German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck for his chilling picture of life in 1980s East Germany in The Lives of Others.

The Grierson Award for best documentary, named after pioneering Scottish director John Grierson, was given to Lauren Greenfield for Thin, which chronicles the experiences of four young women who have restricted their consumption of food to life-threatening extremes.

The Fipresci award, presented by a jury of international film critics, went to Spanish director Javier Lebollo for Lola, in which a lonely man lives with his bedridden mother, takes pleasure in reading other people's mail, and becomes obsessed with the woman who is his new neighbour.