WINNER: LS/FF 10 BEST DOCUMENTARY presented by Arbor WATER GET NO ENEMY Dir: Arthur Bourbon & Damien Castera Fifteen years after the civil war which ravaged the whole country, Liberia is slowly rising from the ashes and growing towards a bold new future. Professional surf adventurers and filmmakers Damien Castera […]

WINNER: LS/FF 10 SPIRIT OF THE FESTIVAL presented by Aluna Coconut Rum BIG vs SMALL Dir. Minna Dufton Nazare is one of the most dangerous, challenging surf spots on the planet. Even in small swells the waves are powerful and unpredictable – but when huge Atlantic storms pulse up through […]

SATURDAY 4TH DECEMBER // LS/FF GALA CLOSING NIGHT >> BUY EVENING PASS  >> Saturday 4th December >>   HERE The LS/FF 10 gala closing night is a celebration of home and away, a journey though the awe-inspiring into the sublime. We’re stoked to present the UK Premiere of the inspiring and intimate Undone […]

  FRIDAY 3RD DECEMBER // LS/FF FROTH FRIDAY >> BUY EVENING PASS  >>  Friday 3rd December >> HERE The LS/FF 10 big Friday is a celebration of surf, travel and the spirit of adventure  at heart of it all. We’re stoked to present the much anticipated World Premier of Sweet Adventure from […]

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 […]

We are stoked to have an awesome Cord 6’10 Sawn Off Surfboard in Rioja Red to give away at this year’s festival, hand crafted by Cord shaper and Cornish charger Markie Lascelles. Cord Surfboards has been in and around some of the most exciting and innovative moments in the evolution […]

Here at LS/FF we’re proud to work with a core crew of partners that we believe in. We’ve know Finisterre founder Tom Kay for some 15 years – we were living a few doors apart when he was launching his brand and we were writing our first surf book. Finisterre […]

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 […]