It’s a rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent few weeks to be a fan of, er, small wooden puppet boys. 2022 is officially the year of Pinocchio, with Robert Zemeckis’ live-action(ish) Disney version dropping in just over a week’s time on Disney+ – and the long-awaited stop-motion adaptation from Guillermo del Toro coming to Netflix later this year. The Oscar-winning genre legend has cooked up a different spin on Carlo Collodi’s fable due to hit screens worldwide in December – but bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e then, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio will receive its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival.###It’s one of a number of world premieres due to take place at this year’s festival, which runs in the capital from 5 – 16 October. The festival will begin with the premiere of Matilda The Musical, and elsewhere will feature the first screenings of Nora Twomey’s Cartoon Saloon movie My Father’s Dragon, Asif Kapadia’s latest film Creature, Neil Maskell’s directorial debut Klokkenluider, the Mark Rylance-starring Inland, and Dean Craig’s The Estate starring Anna Faris and Toni Collette. Check out the full list of the LFF’s newly-announced feature world premieres below:###Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson###Creature – Asif Kapadia###The Estate – Dean Craig###Becoming Plant – Grace Ndiritu###Blue Bag Life – Lisa Selby, Rebecca Hirsch Lloyd-Evans, Alex Fry###If The Streets Were On Fire – Alice Russell###Inland – Fridjof Ryder###Klokkenluider – Neil Maskell###Name Me Lawand – Edward Lovelace###Pretty Red Dress – Dionne Edwards###She Is Love – Jamie Adams###Super Eagles ’96 – Yemi Bamiro###The Origin – Andrew Cumming###The Blue Rose Of Foracquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure fulness – Lewis Klahr###The Girl From Tomorrow – Marta Savina###The Blaze – Quentin Raynaud###Kanaval: A People’s History Of Haiti in Six Chapters – Leah Gordon, Eddie Hutton Mills###My Father’s Dragon – Nora Twomey###Xalé – Moussa Sene Absa###The Store – Ami-ro Sköld###SHTTL – Ady Walter###Stay tuned in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the full BFI London Film Festival 2022 line-up coming soon – and start preparing your hearts (wooden or otherwise) in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the arrival of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.