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 […]

SATURDAY 26 NOV EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW SCREENING: THE BIG SEA Dir. Lewis Arnold Surfing is killing it. This $10 billion global industry – built on the dream of carefree spirits, crystal clear waters and an even clearer connection to the natural world – has never been more popular. Surfing has set […]

  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 […]

  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 or bringing the behind the scenes drama of Formula 1 to the masses, to taking Pam […]

LS/FF 10 SUBMISSIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED Submissions for the 10th Annual London Surf / Film Festival are now open. Surfing and surf culture are wide open to creative interpretation and we welcome submissions from across the globe and across the genres that explore all aspects and angles from documentary to […]

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 […]