7 – 9 August 2026
The Final Film Festival is a multi-venue event comprising new independent releases from across the world, exciting and unusual repertory presentations, and emerging artists from the UK and beyond.
The Final Film Festival is a multi-venue event comprising new independent releases from across the world, exciting and unusual repertory presentations, and emerging artists from the UK and beyond.
TFFF was created by independent film programmers Jack Hewitt and Kit Ramsay. For more information, including the full programme, please visit tfffestival.co.uk or follow @TFF_Festival on Instagram.
Programme
Friday 7 August, 6pm
UK PREMIERE
Camping du Lac + Q&A
Éléonore drives West. Her car breaks down in the middle of Brittany, France. She rents a bungalow on a campsite with a view of the lake, in which, it is said, lives a legendary beast. From mobile home to mobile home, she observes the present, summons the past and lets herself be invaded by fiction.
Friday 7 August, 8pm
Personal Problems +Intro
A raw, improvisational “meta–soap opera” directed by Bill Gunn (Ganja & Hess) that captures Black working-class life in late-1970s Harlem with startling intimacy.
Friday 7 August, 8.30pm
A Collection of Short Films by Richard Heslop + Intro
This special programme brings together four shorts from between 1984 – 1992 by music video director Richard Heslop with an intro from archivist Nicole Atkinson.
Saturday 8 August, 12pm
Herostratus + Intro
Siren Screen presents Herostratus, a 1967 British experimental psychological drama named after a legend of a man who burned down the Temple of Artemis to achieve immortal fame. It follows Michael Gothard as a young poet who proposes to a marketing firm that they turn his suicide into a mass media spectacle.
Saturday 8 August, 3pm
UK PREMIERE
Women as Lovers + Q&A
The lovers are trade fair hostess Brigitte (Johanna Wokalek) and young Paula (Hannah Schiller). Faced with the shrinking market value of her femininity, Brigitte makes wealthy Heinz (Ben Mün-chow) her lover. She just manages to make her way to the top, while Paula has yet to learn the hardships of life.
Saturday 8 August, 5.30pm
UK PREMIERE
You Sorta Know It's Gonna End + Q&A
From staples of the independent Canadian scene, filmmakers Kalil Haddad and Ryan Steel present the UK premiere of their new shorts cycle You Sorta Know It’s Gonna End. Conceived as a video mixtape, this hour-long compendium echoes the era of VHS rips, featuring ten classic shorts from both directors, alongside the new collaboration ‘BAND PRACTICE’.
Saturday 8 August, 8pm
UK PREMIERE
Drinking and Driving + Q&A
Early twenties Iris (Jillian Frank) and Palmer (Avalon Fast) never left their hometown. They work at the same restaurant, share the same bed, and both have a habit of drinking and driving.
Sunday 9 August, 12.30pm
UK PREMIERE
Pola X
The UK Premiere of the 4K Restoration of Leos Carax's 1999 postmodern adaptation of Herman Melville’s controversial Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852).
Sunday 9 August, 6pm
UK PREMIERE
A. Rimbaud + Q&A
The improbable life of French poet Arthur Rimbaud unfolds with all the shock and playfulness of his poetry in the latest film from Patrick Wang.
Friday 7 August, 6pm
UK PREMIERE
Camping du Lac + Q&A
Éléonore drives West. Her car breaks down in the middle of Brittany, France. She rents a bungalow on a campsite with a view of the lake, in which, it is said, lives a legendary beast. From mobile home to mobile home, she observes the present, summons the past and lets herself be invaded by fiction.
Friday 7 August, 8pm
Personal Problems +Intro
A raw, improvisational “meta–soap opera” directed by Bill Gunn (Ganja & Hess) that captures Black working-class life in late-1970s Harlem with startling intimacy.
Friday 7 August, 8.30pm
A Collection of Short Films by Richard Heslop + Intro
This special programme brings together four shorts from between 1984 – 1992 by music video director Richard Heslop with an intro from archivist Nicole Atkinson.
Saturday 8 August, 12pm
Herostratus + Intro
Siren Screen presents Herostratus, a 1967 British experimental psychological drama named after a legend of a man who burned down the Temple of Artemis to achieve immortal fame. It follows Michael Gothard as a young poet who proposes to a marketing firm that they turn his suicide into a mass media spectacle.
Saturday 8 August, 3pm
UK PREMIERE
Women as Lovers + Q&A
The lovers are trade fair hostess Brigitte (Johanna Wokalek) and young Paula (Hannah Schiller). Faced with the shrinking market value of her femininity, Brigitte makes wealthy Heinz (Ben Mün-chow) her lover. She just manages to make her way to the top, while Paula has yet to learn the hardships of life.
Saturday 8 August, 5.30pm
UK PREMIERE
You Sorta Know It's Gonna End + Q&A
From staples of the independent Canadian scene, filmmakers Kalil Haddad and Ryan Steel present the UK premiere of their new shorts cycle You Sorta Know It’s Gonna End. Conceived as a video mixtape, this hour-long compendium echoes the era of VHS rips, featuring ten classic shorts from both directors, alongside the new collaboration ‘BAND PRACTICE’.
Saturday 8 August, 8pm
UK PREMIERE
Drinking and Driving + Q&A
Early twenties Iris (Jillian Frank) and Palmer (Avalon Fast) never left their hometown. They work at the same restaurant, share the same bed, and both have a habit of drinking and driving.
Sunday 9 August, 12.30pm
UK PREMIERE
Pola X
The UK Premiere of the 4K Restoration of Leos Carax's 1999 postmodern adaptation of Herman Melville’s controversial Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852).
Sunday 9 August, 6pm
UK PREMIERE
A. Rimbaud + Q&A
The improbable life of French poet Arthur Rimbaud unfolds with all the shock and playfulness of his poetry in the latest film from Patrick Wang.
