Bristol Radical Film Festival

Our annual call for short films (under 15 minutes), opened today. Submit your film via FilmFreeway now.

Our call for short films is now open. Submit your film via FilmFreeway here: https://filmfreeway.com/BristolRadicalFilmFestival

The festival will take place between the 6 and 8 November 2026.

Tomorrow, at The Cube.
"Our city’s very own outsider mecca takes a faaaar out trip through anti-establishment movements and alternative subcultures, with talks from activists, volunteers and local publishers. Explore counter culture’s definitions, origins, and crucial individual movements from ancient China to modern Britain, as well as the story behind Bristol’s uniquely nonconformist flavour."
tickets via headfirst, here: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the-cube/wed-15-apr-counter-culture-boundary-transgressions-that-change-history-151169

At St. Anne's house, Bristol.
Link to headfirst: https://hdfst.uk/e148996

Followed by a Q&A afterwards with the director.
This Saturday at The Cube.
A punk hybrid documentary that fuses archive footage, interviews, and bold re-enactments to revisit D’Annunzio’s audacious occupation of Fiume in 1919.

🙏 Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for and to our partner venue for giving us an annual home.

Radical cinema lives on.

Until next year… ✊

11.30 The Centre/Baldwin Street.

🎬 starts tomorrow!

A weekend of radical cinema, urgent stories and powerful conversations. Join us at this weekend and join the community.

🎟 More info and tickets in bio.

Bristol Radical Film Festival - Presents The Diary of a Sky + Return to Al -Ma'in
THE DIARY OF A SKY Saturday 4th October 5pm

The Diary of a Sky unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant illegal Israeli military flights and the hum of generators during blackouts. This 45-minute video essay plunges viewers into a chilling chronicle of daily life transformed by the weaponisation of the air, where the terror of repeated incursions becomes a disconcertingly banal backdrop. An inventive and astonishing piece of filmmaking and commentary.

RETURN TO AL-MA'IN
Return to al-Ma’in chronicles the collaboration between Forensic Architecture (FA) and Palestinian historian and Nakba survivor Salman Abu Sitta on the reconstruction of his birthplace, the lost village of al-Ma’in. Together they have used 3D technology to reconstruct al-Ma’in’s occupation by Zionist militias on 14 May 1948, its subsequent demolition, and the Israeli settlements constructed on its ruins. The movie looks to the present moment and the connections between the Israeli military’s conduct and appropriation of Palestinian land in 1948, and today in Gaza.

Tickets: https://www.brff.org.uk

Entry requirements: 18+