Tickets on sale for Slow Film Festival 2023! BOOK HERE

The Slow Film Festival is moving from Mayfield to East London! We hope that this move will make the festival more accessible without losing the elements that made it special and so, whilst we are moving to London, we have selected a venue that is right next to Wanstead Flats, on the tail end of Epping Forest, so that you can get your nature fix in between screenings. The Slow Film Festival aims to create a space where makers, curators, writers and avid viewers are able to connect in person and so we have continued with the tradition of holding the festival across a single weekend with all screenings taking place in a single location. It’s an intense blast of slowness but allows people the opportunity to get to know each other and chat about film (if you want to, mingling is totally optional).

The full program will be announced early September and tickets will go on sale at the same time.

Islands, a Taiwan / UK moving image festival, will take place in August via newsletter. Every week a programme of films and letters will be emailed straight to audiences in the UK and Taiwan. Subscribe to the festival on the homepage.

Taiwan and the United Kingdom are island nations. Despite a 7-hour time difference, despite a distance of 6,069 miles, and despite the English Channel, the Taiwan Strait and all the intervening seas and oceans, both nations share a certain sensibility. Their identities are formed by their ‘islandness’, whether that be through their peripherality, or maritime culture, or their contentious relations with continental neighbours. During these strange times of isolation, our own sense of island-living has come to the fore; so too has our need to communicate. Through this programme we invite you, therefore, to embark on journeys to the islands of others and to share in an exchange with people and cultures next door and on the far side of the world.

A seminar series run by SFF for Picturehouse Cinemas.