Portobello Film Festival 2017
31 August – 17 SepTember –
Admission Free To All Events
The 22nd annual free Portobello Film and Arts Festival opens at the Westbank bar, 3 – 5 Thorpe Close, London W10 5XL, on Thursday 31 August from 6.30 with films on Mick Jones from the Clash, Banksy at Dismaland, and Iain Sinclair’s London Overground- a mystical walk around London.
The next day (1 September) Portobello Festival celebrates the best arts of where we are based, Notting Dale, with a programme of spoken word, music, and comedy featuring JC 101, Courttia Newland, and Tony Allen in honour of the neighbourhood of Grenfell Tower, at the Maxilla Club, 2 Maxilla Walk, London W106NQ. Also showing On The Ground At Grenfell a powerful film by local people about the tragedy and its aftermath.
NB don’t use satnav for these venues if you are driving as both are directly underneath the Westway.
The Festival continues for the next two weeks with International film shows every evening at The Muse, 269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR, and weekday evening West London and UK movie shows at the Westbank.
Highlights at the Westbank include a screening of The Boyfriend by Ken Russell introduced by his daughter Vicki and Doctors Of Madness frontman Richard Strange.
An art exhibition featuring posters designed for Portobello Film Festival over the years by Blek Le Rat, Ralph Steadman, Pure Evil, Lucy Sparrow, Dotmasters, Andrew Logan, Jamie Hewlett, and Sickboy opens at The Muse on 7 September.
The Festival comes to a climax with the Golden Heart Trellick Award Ceremony in Tavistock Square, where the Westway crosses Portobello, from 6.30 on Sunday 17 September.
Expect non stop international, UK and London films for 18 days all for free in the heart of countercultural London, Portobello Road and North Kensington.
This year the Festival also remembers the dynamic cinematic history of the area in the brochure and on walls around Portobello with Tom Vague’s Portobello Movie Map.
VENUES
The Muse Art Gallery
269 Portobello Road W11 1LR
Maxilla Hall Social Club
2 Maxilla Walk, London, W10 6NQ
Westbank
3-5 Thorpe Cl, London W10 5XL
Portobello Road/
Tavistock Square
London W11 1AN
FULL PROGRAMME BELOW
FILMs ARE SHOWN IN ORDER LISTED
6.30 - 10pm
download full programme (pdf)
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THU 31 AUG
WESTBANK
6.30-10 PM
Opening Ceremony
with London Overground &
Iain Sinclair
full programme
FRI 1 SEPT
THE MUSE
6.30-10 PM
A night of French Films
full programme
MAXILLA HALL SOCIAL CLUB
6.30-10 PM
A Song For Notting Dale
The art of W10 with Tony Allen, Princess Emmanuelle, JC 101, and Courttia Newland. In honour of the Grenfell neighbourhood.
full programme
SAT 2 SEPT
THE MUSE
6.30-10 PM
A Night Of Russian /
Eastern European Films
full programme
SUN 3 SEPT
THE MUSE
6.30-10 PM
Documentary Films
full programme
MON 4 SEPT
WESTBANK
6.30-10 PM
West London Film Network presents movies from West London
full programme
TUE 5 SEPT
THE MUSE
6.30-10 PM
International Films
full programme
WESTBANK
6.30-10 PM
Octavia Foundation, Art Movies, and Bristol Film & Video Society.
full programme
WED 6 SEPT
THE MUSE
6.30-10 PM
A Night Of German Films
full programme
THU 7 SEPT
THE MUSE
6-11 PM
22 Years of
Portobello Film Festival
Opening Night! Free Entry, Frontline Films, and Street Art
full programme
WESTBANK
6.30-10 PM
NFTS BFI Young People's
Film Academy
plus London Film Makers Convention
full programme
FRI 8 SEPT
THE MUSE
6.30-10 PM
Films From North America:
Canada & USA
full programme
WESTBANK
6.30-10 PM
2 Dream and London Film Makers Convention continued
full programme
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SUN 10 SEPT
THE MUSE
6.30-10 PM
Animation
full programme
MON 11 SEPT
THE MUSE
6.30-10 PM
Night of Documentary Films
full programme
WESTBANK
6.30-10 PM
Common People and
London Calling
full programme
TUE 12 SEPT
THE MUSE
6.30-10 PM
A Night Of Drama
full programme
WESTBANK
6.30-10 PM
Mr Rudolph’s Jubilee
and Indy Comedy
full programme
WED 13 SEPT
THE MUSE
6-11 PM
Films from France &
Switzerland
full programme
THU 14 SEPT
THE MUSE
6.30-10 PM
Spanish Films
full programme
WESTBANK
6.30-10 PM
UK Independents Day
full programme
FRI 15 SEPT
THE MUSE
6.30-10 PM
A Night Of Dutch Films/
Certified Dead
full programme
WESTBANK
6.30-10 PM
The Boyfriend Remembered
with Vicki Russell and
Richard Strange
full programme
SUN 17 SEPT
LIVE IN PORTOBELLO ROAD/
TAVISTOCK SQUARE
6.30-10 PM
Grand Portobello Film
Festival Golden Heart
Awards Ceremony
The Portobello Film Festival has great pleasure in presenting this year’s Prizes crafted in finest felt by the celebrated Lucy Sparrow to our favourite films.
Expect thrills, spills, free drinks, and the future of the British and International film Industry.
Still all free after 22 years. All welcome. The film party of the year.
full programme
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©Tom Vague & Mark Jackson
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Best Drama - Drift 
