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The OffBeat Folk Film Festival
The OffBeat Folk Film Festival is a new celebration of British folk and working-class culture through film. Building on the success of OffBeat Folk Film Club, this festival brings together archive content and contemporary storytelling to help contribute to a living archive of British culture, traditions, and communities.
The OffBeat Folk Film Festival is the first of its kind in the UK. We are looking for the best films about heritage, folk and working culture in Britain. We welcome emerging and established filmmakers to apply and are looking for documentary, narrative, experimental or music videos that take a closer look at underground British culture.
This could be a film about the Mari Lywd to a profile of your local pub. If you’ve been to one of our screenings in Walthamstow you know we love archival documentaries, so we welcome old films as well as new.
The Festival will take place from the 12th-18th of May in London at venues including the Mildmay Club in Newington Green, and the Walthamstow Trades Hall. Among the film screenings, we will also host talks, performances and a Q&A with some of the filmmakers.
Submit your film now via FilmFreeway
(Tickets to the screenings will go on sale in the Spring of 2025)
Submit Your Film
12th to the 18th of May 2025