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Portobello 30.
Now taking films.


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Portobello celebrates 30 years in 2025 as
the FREE UK Alternative Culture Film and Arts Festival.
We are now taking entries for this year's Festival.
Portobello Film Festival 2025 - 28 August - 14 September

Portobello Film & Art Festival showcases the best new movies: independent, hot off the edit suite, often low budget, fresh ideas uncompromised by corporate protocols. We do our best to screen all films submitted and give them a glamorous send off in London’s sexy Portobello Road.

Previous debutants at the Festival have included Guy Ritchie, Sarah Gavron, and Shane Meadows. Terry Gilliam, John Malkovich, Hanif Kureishi, Julien Temple, Anita Pallenberg, and Chris Cunningham have all introduced their work and offered masterclasses to the public.

The films are complimented by new work from top street artists like Inkie, Joe Rush, Eine, Nick Reynolds, Lucy Sparrow, Sickboy, and Dotmasters.


Film submission and entry to all events is free.
The Festival also presents free events throughout the year under Video Café banner. (www.pptv.co.uk)

“Forget Cannes, Portobello is the place for cinematic schmooze”
The Independent



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Portobello Film Festival 2024
Golden T-Shirt AWARDS


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Best Film
20
Winner
Jama The Dandy (Olivia Rutherford)



Shortlist
Gino (Peter Richardson)
This Is Not A Rock Doc (Steve Parsons)
Never Mind The Baubles (Juien Temple)
On Resistance Street (Richard David)
Ground Zero: Self Portrait Of An Ocean Abuser (David Gaspar)
Fake It Till You Make It (Laura Petrone)
Bye Bye Bowser (Jasmin Baumgartner)
Cults (David Padilla)
Unparallel World (Mohamad Yaraghi)
Reprieve (Hani Salamani)
The Companions (Jose Maria Flores)
Birthmarked (Mehrshad Golkarian)


Best Documentary
20
Winner
Impact-Dick Gregory (Jordan Stone)



Shortlist
In Your Head (Nick Fletcher)
In My World, In Your Eyes (Pablo Trujillo)
A Cross To Bear (Josef Morgan)
Tell Me Europa (Merel Groels)
Creases (Cesar Cardenas)
Togoland Projections (Jurgen Ellinghaus)
Crossing Points (Joanna Izowska)
We Power On For Men’s Mental Health (Alex Jordan Connor)


Best Comedy
20
Winner
Cults (David Padilla)

Shortlist
No Budget No Script No Permission (Ash Mahmood)
The Ballad Of Bobby Shine (Gavin Irvine)
Terror Pins (Molly Brown)
Sky(Pe) (Ricardo Menicatti & Bruno Ugioli)
Bad News (Peter Richardson)
Pequeño (Meka Ribera & Alvaro Company)


Best Animation/Art
20
Winner
The Parable Of The Tenants (Andree Pengilly)

Shortlist
Pina (Jeremy Depuydt)
The World Is On Fire (Jeff Cousins)
The Legend Of Goldhorn (Lea Vucko)
How The Wooden Structures Survived In My Mind (Thadeusz Tischbein)
A Palette Perspective (Luca Czerwinski)
Westway. Under/Over (Matt Tromans)
Doom (Bill Thorpe)
A Man Waiting For The Leaves To Fall (Judee Tan)






Hosted by Jenny Runacre



Best Local

20
Winners
Portobello In Crescendo (Therese Mendiguren)
Tribute To George’s Portobello Fish Bar (Flower Veronica’s Daughter)

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Shortlist
Lily’s Carnival (Lily King)
Trellick Tour-The Movie (Chad Lelong)
The Suitcase (Myrna Shoa)


Best Drama
20
Winner
The Companions (Jose Maria Flores)

Shortlist
Castus (Klajdi Ymeri)
Purchasing Officer (Ali Tavakoli)
Recurrence (Ali Alizadeh)
Reprieve (Hani Salamani)
Breaking Through (Siham Bel)
Black Samphire (Alexander Vanegas)
Birthmarked (Mehrshad Golkarian)


Best Short
20
Winner
Our Soho (Toulouse Sasha MacDonnel)



Shortlist

La Noche Dentro (Antonio Cuesta)
It Comes Closer (Harper Cunningham)
Paqueno (Mika Ribera &Alvaro Company)
Emilia (Rafa Arroyo)
Cruella The Musical Chair (Joe Whitney)
Trellick Tour-The Movie (Chad Lelong)
Whodunnit (Sasha List)


Best World
20
Winner
Unparallel World (Mohamad Yaraghi)

Shortlist
See You Elisa (Elanit Rubelcava)
Birthmarked (Mershad Golkarian)
My Heart Backward (Sarah Gouret)
A La Fontaine (Phillipe Berthelet)
C’est Dangereux La Mort (Marianne Beliveau)
Kenny (Stacey Stone & Diane Mellen)
The Dinner (Jesus Martinez)
Cerises Au Marasqui (Vincent Paquette)



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Portobello People's TV.

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Free streaming channel of the best of independent film from the past 25 years.
Portobello Film Festival are currently digitising their entire archive of state of the art counterculture media of over 10,000 films.
You Tube taster online already inc. David Hockney, Banksy, Joe Strummer, Grenfell, Dread Broadcasting Corp,Charlie Phillips, Joe Rush and Lenny Henry.


https://www.youtube.com/@portobellopeoplestv5540/videos


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PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL 1996 - 2025. FRONTLINE FILM, FREE ADMISSION AND STREET ART FOR 30 YEARS.























































 

 


   

Hollywood W10/W11:
Portobello Film Psychogeography
By Tom Vague
talking pictures




Installation on Portobello Rd featuring local films and cover artworks from over the years festivals




 

 



   

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