WINNER: VIEWERS CHOICE AWARD WORLD PREMIERE: ARNOW Dir. Jack Whitefield A stylised and stylish cinematic portrait of enigmatic big wave surfer Tom Lowe. From unlikely beginnings in a small, Cornish fishing town to charging some of the biggest waves in the world – just who is Tom Lowe and what […]

WINNER: BEST FILM AND BEST SOUNDTRACK  EUROPEAN PREMIERE: HAIL MARY Dir. Ben Gulliver  From multi-award winning filmmaker Ben Gulliver comes this hotly anticipated, cinematically stunning biopic. ‘Hail Mary’ charts the humble beginnings of ground breaking surfer Balaram Stack from his boyhood in NY to his journey to become one of […]

WINNER: BEST DOCUMENTARY AND BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY UK PREMIERE: FACING MONSTERS Dir. Bentley Dean  “The surfing version of Free Solo.” Letterboxd “The best movie about a surfer ever made.” Nick Carroll, Surfline “As hardcore and honest and mindblowing as they come.” Stab This multi award-winning documentary digs deep into the psyche […]

  WINNER: BEST BRITISH FILM  LONDON PREMIERE: SAVAGE WATERS Dir. Mikey Corker A 19th century treasure-hunter’s journal inspires a journey in search of a mythical wave in some of the most dangerous waters of the Atlantic Ocean. How far would you go searching for something that may not exist? For […]

  EUROPEAN PREMIERE: ISLAND X Dir. Ben Weiland From multi award-winning filmmaker Ben Weiland, the much anticipated “Island X” is a journey to the edge of the surf map and beyond. After losing his entire life’s work in a fire, renowned photographer Mark McInnis assembles a team of surfers, well […]

LS/FF GALA OPENING NIGHT PASS Friday 25th November at LS/FF – celebration of the art of adventure, a journey though the awe-inspiring into the sublime. >> BUY EVENING PASS  >> Friday 25th November >>   HERE – SOLD OUT A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THE FRIDAY 25TH NOVEMBER  EUROPEAN […]

LONDON SURF / FILM FESTIVAL 2018 SCHEDULE Hosted 10 – 13 October 2018 at London’s iconic Regent Street Cinema we’re bringing to the UK a handpicked line up representing the pinnacle of contemporary surfing – documentaries to inspire, travelogues to stir up the wanderlust and of course some of the most mind blowing surfing accompanied by […]

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 […]

BEST DOCUMENTARY 2018: Momentum Generation Dir: Jeff Zimbalist & Michael Zimbalist A very special screening presented by surf icon: Rob Machado!! In the 1990s a group of fresh faced teens, including Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, Shane Dorian, Taylor Knox, Benji Weatherley, Kalani Robb, Ross Williams, Taylor Steele, and Pat O’Connell,  drifted […]