The 2015 BBC First British Film Festival

NSW: Oct 27 &ndash Nov 18 Palace Verona, Palace Norton Street
VIC: Oct 28 &ndash Nov 18 Palace Cinema Como, Palace Balwyn and Palace Brighton Bay
SA: Oct 28 &ndash Nov 18 Palace Nova Eastend
ACT: Oct 29 &ndash Nov 18 Palace Electric
WA: Oct 28 &ndash Nov 18 Cinema Paradiso, Luna on SX and The Windsor
QLD: Oct 29 &ndash Nov 18 Palace Barracks & Palace Centro

Presented by Palace, the BBC First British Film Festival returns for its third year with a standout selection of Festival favourites and box office hits from the British Isles. BBC First is the home of premium, original British drama on Foxtel and Fetch TV and has come on board as naming sponsor for the first time in 2015.

The 2015 program will open nationally with the highly anticipated Youth. Fresh from its premiere at Cannes Film Festival and starring veteran British actor Michael Caine, it is director Paolo Sorrentino's second English-language film and the follow-up to his Academy Award-winning film The Great Beauty (2013).

For more than 20 years, Fred Ballinger (Caine) has been going to a resort in at the foot of the Alps in Switzerland. Now retired after decades of worldwide success conducting orchestras in London, New York and Venice, the composer is approached by a Buckingham Palace emissary (Alex MacQueen): The Queen is offering a knighthood, and wants him to conduct his most famous composition, &ldquoSimple Songs.&rdquo Fred refuses citing &ldquopersonal reasons.&rdquo With a large ensemble cast populating the glorious location including Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, and Jane Fonda, Youth is at its essence a wry buddy comedy with wise reflections on life and regret.