WINNER: BEST SOUNDTRACK  TAN MADONNA Dir. Alex Knost Blending cutting edge waveriding with an art house, analogue overlay, artist /surfer/ musician Alex Knost views the smooth lines of Michael February, Lee Ann Curren, Harry Bryant & Karina Rozunko through a fresh lense. Captured on HD Digital, Super 16mm & Super […]

WINNER: YEEEEEW FACTOR AWARD  WHITE RHINO Dir. Brent Storm Combining dazzling cinematography, vivid insight, and mind bending waveriding, this multi award-winning movie is an immersive story captured from the perspective of big wave surfers and photographers who witnessed the largest surf ever ridden – Bruce Irons, Nathan Fletcher, Mark Healey, […]

WINNER: BEST FILM AWARD ZONE FREQUENCY Dir. Jack Coleman Hotly anticipated, visually spectacular curation of surfing from the boundaries of waveriding and beyond. Prepare to have your mind expanded by the most radical and stylish surfing from the planet’s most innovative wave sliding talents… Bryce Young, Ryan Burch, Derrick Disney, […]

WINNER: SPIRIT OF THE FESTIVAL AWARD SPOONS – A SANTA BARBARA STORY Dir. Wyatt Daily A small corner of coastal California has produced some of the world’s most talented surfers and innovators. The groomed lines that wrap around the cobblestone point at Rincon have provided the proving ground for many […]

WINNER: BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD   A CORNER OF THE EARTH Dir. Spencer Frost Captured during a frigid exploration of the North Atlantic, this sumptuously filmed tale follows Fraser Dovell’s transition from the hard grind of the QS to letting go of the dream and ‘getting a real job’. He embarks […]

UK PREMIERE: AND 2 IF BY SEA DirJustin Purser UK PREMIERE: Highly anticipated and critically acclaimed tale of two of the most iconic surfers of the professional era – identical twins CJ and Damien Hobgood. Imagine the scenario: your DNA is virtually identical, you’ve got the same friends, the same […]

WINNER: BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD  SATORI Dir. Rick Wall UK PREMIERE: Multi award winning documentary exploring the tight-knit crew of big wave surfers who have dedicated their lives to riding the huge waves off the shores of Cape Town, South Africa – Dougal Patterson, Grant Twiggy Baker, Chris Bertish & crew. […]

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT 2018: RAIL ROAD Dir: Gustavo Imigrante Nic Von Rupp embarks on an ethereal surf lapse around Europe, traversing the continent on night trains, branch lines and intercity expresses, finding stirring landscapes and time to contemplate, between stalking sickeningly shallow slabs with Mick Fanning and mind warpingly huge waves […]

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 2018: Beyond The Noise Dir: Andrew Kaineder From multi award winning Director Andrew Kaineder comes this highly anticipated feature-length ode to an Irish Winter, when snow dusted the high grounds and low edges and deep depressions spiralled in the raging North Atlantic, featuring Noah Lane and Harrison Roach. Distracted […]

  SPIRIT OF THE FESTIVAL AWARD 2018: IT’S NOT ABOUT WAVES Dir: Kepa Acero Kepa Acero is one of our favourite surf adventurers, his solo missions to some of the best waves across the planet have been stirring our wanderlust and keeping us stoked for the best part of a decade. […]

UK PREMIERE: A LAND SHAPED BY WOMEN Dir: Anne-Flore Marxer Anne-Flore Marxer and Aline Bock journey across Iceland, surfing and snowboarding under the spectacular northern lights.  Along the way they meet a raft of inspirational Icelandic women – from Vilborg Arna Gissurardóttir the first Icelander to reach the summit of Mount […]

HONOURABLE MENTION 2018: EOS Dir: Bruce Muller Kassia Meador is one of the most stylish surfers on the planet, blurring the line between surfer and artist, inspiring a generation. Invoking ethereal metaphors of, “The Hero’s Journey”, through homage of ancient eastern philosophies and archetypal phenomena, and mirrored by the masterful […]

UK PREMIERE: EMOCEAN Dir. Tony Harrington Emocean started out as a surf film but quickly turned into something so much more. Featuring icon of Australian surf culture, Paul Witzig whose films captured the shortboard revolution through surfers like Wayne Lynch, Pipeline photographer Brent Bielmann, Hawaiian watermen Dave Kalama and Jamie […]

UK PREMIERE: PAIGE Dir: Bjarne Salen Paige Alms is a ground breaking waverider, XXL award winning charger and pioneer of women’s big wave surfing. This insightful documentary takes you inside Paige’s world, journeying to her home island of Maui where she trains, mentally and physically preparing for the rigours of a […]

EUROPEAN PREMIERE: Trouble: The Lisa Andersen Story Dir. Chas Smith Lisa Anderson changed surf culture and youth culture forever. Her combination of style, power, drive and attitude ushered in a new framing for female surfing: 4 Time World Champion she was the first woman on the cover of Surfer magazine, six time […]

 YEEEEW FACTOR AWARD FOR BEST SURF SECTION 2018: The Electric Acid Surfboard Test Dir: Ashton Goggans What happens when you bring Dane Reynolds and 10 tripped out surfboards, hand-shaped by some of the most radical hands dabbling in foam and fibreglass, for a ten-day mind-melter at Mexico’s loveliest sand […]