LS/FF 2021 x VANS AWARDS Sometimes you have to take stock. Sometimes you need take a minute to breathe, to sit out back after a perfect set wave or to just appreciate the moment. Or to look across a sea of heads and back over ten years of community gatherings, […]

LS/FF X Vans ‘Find Your Line’ Creative Panel Talk presented by Arbor Story telling is at the heart of everything that we do at LS/FF. The best films take you on a journey -whether through the writer’s story arc, the scriptwriter’s interactions of characters, the cinematographer’s eye, the composer’s score, […]

  LS/FF10 x Vans Viewer’s Choice Award   LS/FF is all about community and we need you to help decide on our LS/FF 10 Viewer’s Choice Award – and there’s a £200 Surfdome voucher up for grabs! Our Jury is comprised of individuals with a passion for surfing and film […]

The 10th Edition London Surf / Film Festival x Vans hits the capital 2-4 December 2021, bringing to the UK a handpicked line-up of the very best surf films from across the globe – hotly anticipated premieres, documentaries to inspire, travelogues to stir the wanderlust and mind blowing surfing. Accompanied […]

10th Edition of London Surf / Film Festival x VANS 2- 4 December 2021 // The Genesis Cinema E1 >> TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW VIA GENESIS CINEMA >> HERE You can buy a ticket to an individual screening or snag one of our ever-popular evening passes to enjoy a […]

Community is everything. That feeling of drawing together with those people who get you, to share ideas, to share waves, to talk story, to talk late into the night, to connect, to debate, to collaborate, to unpick everything and put it back together again… that’s where the magic lies. And […]

Not to put too fine a point on it, print matters. Always has, always will. It’s a well-documented fact. My specific relationship with ink and paper is an intimate one. From those hard-won, imported periodicals that fed my nascent appetite for surf,  culture, stories, travel as a northern lad growing […]

Short films are a central pillar of modern surf culture, a creative outlet for sharing stories and inspiring stoke. Here at the LS/FF we wanted to celebrate the short and give homegrown filmmaking talent a platform to bring their visions to the surf world, so in 2011 we established The […]

London Surf / Film Festival Shorties x Surfdome Go Live! Swell is in bound, there’s a chill in the air, Autumn is afoot. To coincide with this, the most glorious time of the surfing calendar, we’ve just revealed our longlist of Shorties. 13 of the very best shorts from the […]

LS/FF 10 IS ON 2 – 4 DECEMBER 2021 We’ve missed you. We’ve missed ‘us’ – the getting together, sharing the good times, the films, the stoke, the stories, the community, so we’re super stoked to announce that the 10th Edition of London Surf / Film Festival x VANS is […]

ENTRIES TO THE SHORTIES 10 ARE NOW CLOSED The 10th Edition LS/FF is on 2-4 DECEMBER 2021. Short films are a central pillar of modern surf culture, a creative outlet for sharing stories and inspiring stoke. Here at the London Surf / Film Festival we wanted to celebrate the short […]

We’re long time pals of super talented musician and songwriter Colin Macleod. We first met at the London Surf / Film Festival in 2013.  He’d just flown in from a gig in Norway, guitar in hand to support friend and Scottish filmmaker Jim Hope with his premiere at the festival. […]

There’s something about the North Sea fringes that breeds a special kind of creativity within its surfing tribes. Perhaps it’s the fickle persona of the waves, their all or nothing nature, the long spells of down-time followed by the full bore intensity of a fleeting Arctic groundswell. Perhaps it’s the […]