Bristol Radical Film Festival

12/09/2025

Saturday October 4th, 5pm: The Diary of a Sky + Return to Al-Ma’in. The Diary of a Sky unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and the hum of generators during blackouts.
Al-Ma’in was the birthplace of Salman Abu Sitta (b. 1937), the foremost chronicler of the ongoing Nakba and an advocate for the Palestinian right of return. From his home in Kuwait, and from the offices of the Palestine Land Society in Beirut and London, Salman has dedicated his life to compiling a comprehensive Atlas of Palestine. His research on the history of his hometown was published in his memoir Mapping my Return.
Tickets available via link in bio.

11/09/2025

Saturday October 4th, 2pm. London Recruits is a compelling journey into the heart of apartheid South Africa. Ronnie Karrils and a small cell of fellow exiles from South Africa turn to the ordinary young people of London for help. So begins a series of ever more daring undercover missions that send shock waves through the Apartheid regime.
A potent mix of never before seen archive footage, action packed drama and candid testimony from the recruits, eyewitnesses and secret police. Tickets available via link in bio.

10/09/2025

October 4th, 11am: Miners’ Strike: A Frontline Story, the story of the year-long conflict combining archive footage with deeply personal testimony from striking and working miners, their families and the police. Among other events, the film retells the events of 18 June 1984, the Battle of Orgreave. Tickets available via link in bio.

09/09/2025

Bristol Radical Film Festival returns to October 4th-5th! Tickets available via link in bio.

04/09/2025

From our friends of Cables and Cameras:

Cables & Cameras presents A.T.L.A.N— an evening of short films and Q&A about South Africa's new emerging filmmakers' talent from Durban.
join us for A.T.L.A.N. (Africans Transforming Lives And Narratives), an evening dedicated to celebrating the rich legacy of African storytelling in cinema.
This special programme features an exciting selection of short films and a Q&A about new emerging filmmakers from Durban, South Africa. TBC
Hosted by Bristol’s film & TV critic iambingegod. Watch this space for more details soon.
The full film programme and more details about the evening will be announced next week.
This event is brought to you in partnership with Screen Corner Podcast and Dante Languages from Durban, South Africa.

Book tickets now : https://hdfst.uk/e136038

Supported by Bristol Commonwealth Society

03/09/2025

The programme for the 2025 festival is now live!!
Visit our website: https://www.brff.org.uk/
Tickets via Headfirst: https://hdfst.uk/bristol-radical-film-festival-2025

20/06/2025

Important announcement: we are now on Bluesky! Please follow us there, our handle is bristolradfilmfest.bsky.social or here's a handy link.

The Bristol Radical Film Festival showcases a radically different kind of cinema. dates to be announced soon…

15/05/2025

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨

Bristol Radical Film Festival Returns in Autumn 2025, and our short film submission page is now LIVE! More info and link in stories. Please share!

15/05/2025

Our call for submissions of short films (up to 15 minutes) for our annual International Showcase Session is now open.

Submit via FilmFreeway:
https://filmfreeway.com/BristolRadicalFilmFestival

13/05/2025

07/02/2025

Taking as its starting point the famous European folktale of The Musicians of Bremen, first published in Germany in 1819 by the Brothers Grimm, How I Became a Communist uses this old story to reflect on the decline of a unified left wing political movement in Europe since the suppression of the Paris Commune in 1871.
The film also depicts the daily life of an elderly woman running a farm in the Irish countryside on the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic is observed in a portrait marked by stillness and a meticulous chronicling of the everyday.

31/01/2025