BFF26: Flavia

Australian premiere

Featuring an all-star ensemble including Martin Freeman, Jonathan Pryce and Toby Jones, this is a fun adventure mystery for the whole family, based on the book series by Alan Bradley.

1951. At a crumbling manor house outside a picturesque British village, where the de Luce family has resided for 500 years, a dead body lies in the cucumber patch.

Brilliant eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce (played by exciting newcomer Molly Belle Wright), a chemist whose specialty is poisons, stumbles upon the body in the middle of the night and discovers her true calling: sleuth. She is determined to figure out what happened, but when her father Havilland confesses to the murder, she must turn every trick in the detective manual to save him, keeping two steps ahead of the local constabulary and other watchful eyes.

Little does Flavia know that her intrepid investigating to free her remote, enigmatic father will unveil his deepest secrets, and lead to truths about her deceased mother Harriet, in whose footsteps Flavia is destined to follow.

OFFICIAL SELECTION | Miami Film Festival 2026