London Film Festival | Iris Prize | Edinburgh Spanish Film FestivalWith Carey Mulligan’s Suffragette leading the way, this is “the year of the strong woman”, declares festival director Clare Stewart, and the higher-profile titles at least go some way to correcting cinema’s big gender problem. At one end of the age spectrum you’ve got Saoirse Ronan in US-Irish immigrant drama Brooklyn, and a new documentary on Malala Yousafzai; at the other there’s Maggie Smith as Alan Bennett’s The Lady In The Van.