UK PREMIERE: LA OLA SIN FRONTERAS Dir. Julian and Joaquin Azulay Julian and Joaquin Azulay, (Gauchos del Mar) have garnered a reputation as hardy, nomadic, waveriding adventurers. In this much anticipated, thought-provoking documentary they go searching for waves in the remote and under-explored Falkland Islands, an often inhospitable and inaccessible […]

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: 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 […]

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 […]

Rob Machado is one of the most stylish surfers in the world and a true icon of the waveriding tribe. He is also one of our all time favourite surfers, so we were suitably stoked to have Rob attend London Surf / Film Festival 2018 to host a very special […]

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 […]

WORLD PREMIERE: “LEWATLE: BLACK IS A COLOR Dir: Taylor Knox/Sal Masekela SATURDAY 13 OCT: Regent St Cinema, W1 // SESSION 1 // 7.00pm >> TICKETS << (Screening with TROUBLE: THE LISA ANDERSEN STORY) We are stoked to be able to host the World Premiere and a very special screening of the new movie Lewatle, an […]

Big Wata West Africa has a turbulent and violent past, a history marked by civil war, ravaged by disease. In a small corner of Sierra Leone, during an Ebola outbreak, a band of brothers find solace, escape and a new sense of identity through surfing. Director Gugi van der Velden […]

  Cassie has been writing, producing and directing documentaries for over 15 years and has a reputation for making the impossible, possible. From filming with remote tribes in the jungles of Papua New Guinea to taking Pam St Clements (AKA Pat Butcher) around America to ‘investigate’ marijuana on a psychedelic […]

UPDATE: Submissions for this year’s Shorties have now closed. Submissions to the 2018 London Surf / Film Festival x Reef Shorties short film competition are open. Now in its 8th year, this prestigious annual event has fast become the showcase for homegrown filmmakers. “While the main festival welcomes features from across the […]

TUESDAY 24th OCT, 71A Gallery, EC2A // 7pm >> TICKETS ARE FREE BUT LIMITED!! AVAILABLE >> HERE UK PREMIERE: Island Earth by Cyrus Sutton // We are stoked to be bringing this LS/FF x HUCK pop-up to 71a, with the UK Premiere of this highly anticipated film, with beers courtesy of […]

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Dirty Old Wedge Dir. Tim Burnham, 2016 (60 mins)  WINNER LS/FF 2016 The Wedge is a mythical man-made mutant.  Since its creation, people have flocked to stand and stare in awe as a tight crew of surfers and bodysurfers take on the monstrous waves where injuries are common and where deaths […]

EUROPEAN PREMIERE LS/FF 2016 : Fire & Water  Dir. Thomas Brookins, 2016 (73 mins)  From award wining documentary filmmaker Thomas Brookins comes the compelling tale of Fire & Water. In the late 1950’s Don Eichin and a small crew of pioneering NY surfers set out to make a life in Hawaii, testing their […]

UNCHARTED WATERS // WINNER BEST FILM & WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY // Directed by: Craig Griffin Groundbreaking and illuminating documentary from Director Craig Griffin telling the story of one of surfing’s most influential and enigmatic figures characters, Australian surf legend Wayne Lynch. Set against the backdrop of disaffected youth, the Vietnam […]

FISH: THE DOCUMENTARY // WINNER SPIRIT OF THE FESTIVAL AWARD // Directed by: Joseph Ryan, USA At a time when logs ruled the line-up, San Diego surfer Steve Lis came up with a design so radical it remained an underground sensation for years. With insightful contributions from a who’s who […]

THE SEARCH FOR FREEDOM // WINNER BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY // Directed by Jon Long, Can This visually spectacular feature celebrates the sheer joy of the ride and the pure stoke of going big. Packed full of pioneers from across the world of waveriding, plus skateboard and snowboard legends, this film is […]

THE WAVE I RIDE // Directed by Devyn Bisson, USA Female big wave charger Paige Alms charges the biggest and most terrifying waves on the planet – and not just tow surfing, paddling into these monsters. The women’s big wave surfing scene traditionally gets little of the media spotlight, leaving […]

OCEAN DRIVEN // Dir. Nadia Tarlow, USA Multi award winning documentary. Chris Bertish grew up in the cold, sharky waters of South Africa and developed a taste for big wave surfing at an early age. Soon he was paddling out at the challenging mountainous breaks around the southern tip of […]

HEADACHE // Dir. Felix Gänsicke, Ger Through stunning cinematography, this stylish travelogue reveals the harsh realities and golden rewards of chasing those northern hemisphere swells through the cold waters of the high latitudes taking in Germany, Denmark, Scotland and Iceland. This tight crew explore some of Europe’s most disparate and […]

WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY 2014: OUT IN THE LINE-UP. Dir. Ian Thomson This multi award-winning documentary lifts the lid on the taboo of homosexuality in surfing. After 20 years of silence, former state champion surfer David Wakefield feels ready to reveal a secret that could turn his life upside down. Despite […]