Portobello celebrates 30 years in 2025 as
the FREE UK Alternative Culture Film and Arts 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. Portobello are very proud to welcome Ralph Steadman as this year’s poster designer and exhibition of works at The Muse Gallery for the duration of the festival.
Entry to all films is free. Just turn up any time. The Muse has a licensed bar. Highlights this year include a Ralph Steadman doc on the opening night, a retrospective of local hero Robina Rose, films from Iran, America, Spain and Franc,.brand new UK movies - dramas, docs, comedies, a film on Sufi mystic Idris Shah, a bio of a man who took on Escobar (Lara); this is the frontline future of film today - over 200 independent films.
Full programme below. Regular updates on our Portobello Film Festival Facebook page
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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Entry Free to All Events.
Entry FREE and unticketed - just turn up- for all the other shows (except the Gate).
Programmes start at 6pm.
Download full programme
THU 28 AUG
THE GATE CINEMA
8 PM
Gala Opening Party at The Gate Notting Hill. For No Good Reason (Charlie Paul)
The life and work of Ralph Steadman with Johnny Depp and Terry Gilliam. PG 80 mins
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FRI 29 AUG
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
Nightshift (Robina Rose)
featuring Jordan Mooney filmed at Portobello Hotel plus her moving record of natural childbirth Birth Rite (and possibly a screening of Ulysses by Joseph Strike, James Joyces
portrait of Dublin. PG
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SAT 30 AUG
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
World Cinema 1
full
programme
SUN 31 AUG
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
Local London Films 1
full
programme
MON 1 SEPT
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
Films From Iran
full
programme
TUE 2 SEPT
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
World Documentaries 1
full
programme
WED 3 SEPT
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
German & Austrian Films
full
programme
THU 4 SEPT
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
Private View Opening Ralph Steadman Once Upon A Line Retrospective Art Exhibition
full
programme
FRI 5 SEPT
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
Local London Films 2
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VENUES
The Gate Picturehouse
87 Notting Hill Gate
W11 3JZ
The Muse
269 Portobello Road
W11 1LR
SAT 6 SEPT
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
The Best Things In Life Are Free.
Remembering the Free scene of the 70s, 80s and 90s featuring Free Party: A Folk History Of The Free Party Movement, One Pair Of Eyes: Idries Shah the Sufi mystic,, and Here & Now Floating Anarchy, Spiral Tribe and World Domination Enterprises.
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programme
SUN 7 SEPT
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
Spanish Films
full
programme
MON 8 SEPT
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
Films from Asia
full
programme
TUE 9 SEPT
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
Local London & UK Films 3
full
programme
WED 10 SEPT
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
World Documentaries 2
full
programme
THU 11 SEPT
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
World Cinema 2
full
programme
FRI 12 SEPT
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
Local London Films 4
full
programme
SAT 13 SEPT
THE MUSE
6-10.30 PM
Films from France
full
programme
SUN 14 SEPT
THE MUSE
6 PM
The Boy Crisis:Cancel Warren Farrell Hannah Gal & Q&A
8 PM
Awards Ceremony
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