11th Edition of London Surf / Film Festival  25 November – 2 December – across the capital, across 2 weeks 25 – 26 November 2022 // The Riverside Studios, W6 >> TICKETS & PASSES ON SALE NOW VIA RIVERSIDE STUDIOS >> HERE 2 December 2022 // The Genesis Cinema […]

Short films are a central pillar of modern surf culture, a creative outlet for sharing stories and inspiring stoke. This 11th Edition of  LS/FF Shorties presented by Surfdome was as hotly contested as ever with entries from the best established and up and coming homegrown talents serving up inspiration from […]

The promise of Autumn with its crisp mornings, groomed lines and off shores, is knocking on the door. Before it arrives in earnest we’re delighted to serve up a fresh dose of inspiration for the season with The Shorties x Surfdome! Voting on the longlisted entries is closed for 2022. […]

Filmmaking Workshop: In Conversation With Director Stacy Peralta – SOLD OUT! Stacy Peralta is a former pro surfer and pro skater, pioneer, industry icon, entrepreneur and one of the most influential skateboarders of all time. He’s a multi award winning documentary filmmaker. His documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys won Best Director […]

 Thanks for joining us for the sell out screening and UK Premiere of ‘THE YIN & YANG OF GERRY LOPEZ’ Dir. Stacy Peralta! ABOUT THE FILM THE YIN & YANG OF GERRY LOPEZ’ Dir. Stacy Peralta The path to enlightenment begins at the world’s deadliest wave. From multi award-winning […]

Glass V01 from award winning surf creative Lewis Arnold has just landed on the mat and it’s a thing of beauty. The book is a love poem of sorts celebrating the North Sea in all its guises, written in the language of those that call these fickle waters home – […]

When ‘Dark Side of the Lens,’ the multi-award winning short from Mickey Smith cracked the horizon more than a decade ago it reframed surf cinema. It’s not a hyperbolic statement. It’s just a simple statement of fact. In six minutes the film from this West Penwith waterman, who’d cut his […]

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, […]

London Surf / Film Festival Shorties x Surfdome We’re delighted to announce that the winner of LS/FF 10 Shortie of the Year x Surfdome is Director Seth Hughes with his film Window featuring Stanley Norman. As well the accolades, the triumph and the glory, marking our 10th anniversary, Seth walks […]

  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 hit 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 […]

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 […]