15th London Surf / Film Festival line-up announced
The London Surf / Film Festival returns to Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, west London, from 5 to 7 November 2026. Organisers have announced the programme for the 15th edition, presented with Finisterre, and women lead many of this year's films on both sides of the camera.
LS/FF has just dropped the line up for the 15th Annual London Surf / Film Festival x Finisterre hosted 5-7 November 2026 at the iconic Riverside Studios, and it’s an epic celebration serving up 3 nights of the ultimate in cinematic surf inspiration accompanied by talks, icons, change, culture, community good times and more.
“Since founding LS/FF in 2011, it’s been a welcome evolution to see the ongoing strength in representation from women on both sides of the lens,” says award-winning filmmaker and Festival Director Demi Taylor of the hand-picked programme that brings to the UK the very best surf films from across the globe. “This year is no exception with women shining a light on incredible stories from Africa, Canada, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Ireland, UK, USA and beyond.”
There are documentaries to inspire, travel to stir the wanderlust as well as cinematography, stories and surfing that redefine the very bounds of possibility. Seeking out big waves, big adventures and big stories from the frigid fringes to the desert south, celebrating craft and tradition while embracing all that is fresh and fun and new, overcoming the odds and exploring our relationship with the world around us, meeting underground characters that embody the spirit of our culture, and all the while finding new waves in the most unexpected places it’s all about connection, fresh perspectives, new line-ups and the very pinnacle of creativity in the here and now.
With screenings accompanied by Q+A’s and ‘Audiences with…’ some of the world’s most relevant and exciting surfers and creatives from multi hyphenate Australian surfer and artist Jaleesa Vincent, to big wave charger Noah Lane, Scotland’s Phoebe Strachan and Brittany’s Ian Fontaine plus a raft of game changing filmmakers like Luke Pilbeam, Luka Raubenheimer, Joya Berrow, Owen Le Goff, Bellaray Bertrand-Webb, Rory Sutherland and Emmy award winning Mikey Corker, plus good times and more…you’re not going to want to miss this!
Check out the full line up here.
LS/FF 2026 line-up includes
Photo: Language of Water, dir. Joya Berrow
World premiere: Language of Water, dir. Joya Berrow
How do you explain the sound of the ocean to someone who has never heard it? Surfer and professional photographer Lily Bertrand-Webb has always felt like she exists in the liminal space between two worlds. One of the first children in the UK to receive a life-changing cochlear implant, her camera, from an early age, became her way of capturing and communicating with the world. Winner of the LS/FF X Finisterre Women of the Sea Film Fund this is a beautiful and life-affirming portrait of two sisters exploring previously uncharted waters around the duality of their lives and the very nature of sound. Accompanied by a special Q+A with Lily and filmmakers Joya Berrow and Bellaray Bertrand-Webb.
Photo: Vampires Surf, dir. Jaleesa Vincent and Luka Raubenheimer
UK premiere: Vampires Surf, dir. Jaleesa Vincent & Luka Raubenheimer
From multi-hyphenate Australian surf creative Jaleesa Vincent and snake wrangling filmmaker Luka Raubenheimer comes this must-see, riotous romp of a fantasy surf film which combines stand out surfing from the likes of Jaleesa, Caity Simmers, Frankie Harrer & Kobe Hughes with creativity in equal measure. Spooky, funny and heartfelt, Vampires Surf is a timeless tale of surfing, friendship and following your destiny—even if it takes an eternity. Accompanied by a very special Q&A with Jaleesa Vincent & Luka Raubenheimer.
Photo: Paladino
European premiere: Kinder, dir. Nate Laverty
Tofino surfers Mathea and Sanoa Olin grew up chasing some of Canada’s finest cold water waves together. This short celebrates the different paths each has followed – in motherhood and professional surfing in their first cinematic reunion for the hard charging sisters since childhood.
Photo: ProCasual, dir. Jack Coleman
European premiere: ProCasual, dir. Jack Coleman
Stylistic polymath Jack Coleman presents his hotly anticipated new masterpiece of surf filmmaking creativity, ‘ProCasual’, fresh out of the edit suite and onto the big screen at LS/FF. Jack brings his trade mark sideways look at the celluloid world of wave sliding featuring the smoothest surfers on his blue planet, including Steph Gilmore, Caity Simmers, Bryce Young, Ryan Burch, Derrick Disney, Leah Dawson Lopez, Tosh Tudor and Jaleesa Vincent in this joyous ode to all that is good in surfing.
Photo: Into The Light, dir. Mikey Corker
UK premiere: Into The Light, dir. Mikey Corker
From Emmy Award winning filmmaker Mikey Corker this must-see documentary follows two young South African surfers Indiphile Indi Osinachi and Ntando Biggie Msibi whose dreams, against all odds, carry them across an ocean they were never meant to touch. Fuelled by possibility, the story illuminates the belief that sport and education can bridge divides. More than a surf story this is about stability measured week by week. About education as resistance. About reclaiming spaces once denied. About belonging.
Accompanied by a special Q+A with Mikey Corker
Photo: Guts, dir. Patrizia Bruno
UK premiere: Guts, dir. Patrizia Bruno
What happens when you abandon rules? Surfers Patrizia and Marie left everything behind to embark on a five-month, 20,000 km off-road adventure from France to Guinea-Bissau in an old car, with four surfboards, and a mission: to capture the stories of inspiring women redefining their place in society across Northwest Africa. Meeting Morocco’s first female mountain guide, a women’s rights activist in Nouakchott and the young surf collective in Dakar, it’s a raw and empowering celebration of just what happens when women break free of conventions and dare to listen to their guts!
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