Festivals

The UK's music documentary film festival, celebrating underground music culture across London cinemas

A London weekend of new independent and restoration premieres, blending in-house curation with guest programmers from across the city's film collectives

The first edition of London's festival of Latin American cinema, with sixty features and shorts from across Latin America and its diasporas

A BIFA-qualifying festival of new British short films from Short Sighted Cinema, now in its 12th year

A volunteer-run festival in its 17th year of bringing completely free films to communities across SE15, part of the Free Film Festivals network

Three weeks of free, volunteer-powered cinema across Streatham in its 11th edition, part of the Free Film Festivals network

A volunteer-led week of free new releases, classics, documentaries and shorts across Raynes Park SW20, part of the Free Film Festivals network

Barbican year-long animation series exploring love and connection through world cinema

A diaspora-led festival of Hong Kong and East and Southeast Asian cinema, screening across London

A BIFA-qualifying festival of narrative and documentary shorts by emerging filmmakers, across London venues

The Ukrainian Institute London's annual celebration of contemporary and classic Ukrainian cinema at Curzon Soho

London's first festival of shorts by D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent filmmakers, celebrating disability, neurodiversity and mental health

London's volunteer-run DIY queer film and arts festival, celebrating LGBTIQA+ stories since 2011

One of the world's few festivals devoted to martial arts and action cinema, screening in London and Birmingham since 2016

The not-for-profit official film festival of South London, showcasing filmmakers from around the world at the Ritzy in Brixton

The only film festival featuring contemporary Tibetan cinema, showcasing films made by Tibetans in Tibet and in the diaspora

The UK's No.1 horror and fantasy film festival, taking over Leicester Square across the August bank holiday weekend since 2000

The UK's biggest film event, running every October since 1957 and now bringing more than 250 new films to the South Bank and the West End