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About

The Marginal Film Festival is the London edition of Brazil's Mostra do Filme Marginal, a festival of independent film founded in 2017 that describes itself as “not competitive; it aims at integration”. It first came to London in 2025 and returns for five evenings of screenings across East, Central and South London.

The programme centres films about marginalised people and the struggles they face. The Mostra's sixth edition in Brazil is themed “Cinema and Environmental Emergency: Images of a Possible Future”, and the London sessions follow it, pairing shorts and features on mining, land rights and colonial legacies across Brazil and Angola. Screenings are free, with Pay What You Can and solidarity tickets.


Films at The Marginal Film Festival

See these films in the catalogue
Marginal Film Session II: The Names They Tried to Erase

Marginal Film Session II: The Names They Tried to Erase

Marginal Film Session III: Taking Back the Land

Marginal Film Session III: Taking Back the Land

The Marginal Film Festival – Opening Night: Water, Mining and the Cost of Extraction

The Marginal Film Festival – Opening Night: Water, Mining and the Cost of Extraction