By turns shocking, hilarious, violent and preposterous, the Oscar-nominated Wild Tales is one hell of a thrill ride. If you have ever been frustrated by…

Greta Gerwig has long been the darling of the American indie scene. Her graduation to more mainstream fare was inevitable, but she lost none of…

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple, on whom he is spying, will be murdered. The…

Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship. A landmark romantic…

A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in an old  church… in a place very similar to The Crypt, St. Giles Church, Camberwell Church Street…

Evelyn is a deeply personal film from Academy Award® winning filmmakers of The White Helmets and Virunga, first screened at the 2018 London Film Festival,…

  Our opening night film for this years festival is Spike Lee’s latest joint, the Oscar winning BLACKKKLANSMAN. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer…

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in2016,‘Inside Out’ made us all weep. When Riley’s family move to San Francisco, her life changes…

A story of stories is revealed to us by an injured movie stuntman, weaving beguiling threads of narratives for a small girl who he befriends…

Manga meets Chinese myth in Big Fish & Begonia, a beautifully realised animated feature film for all ages, screening at William Booth College (Salvation Army)…

After the end of all botanical life on Earth, ecologist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) maintains a greenhouse on a space station in order to preserve…

Outdoor bike-powered screening with Electric pedals https://www.electricpedals.com/Based on a true story, this is a hilarious film about Nacho (Jack Black), a monastery cook, who spends…

For the final night of our festival this year we will be hosting our first ever OUTDOOR SCREENING in the park area outside the West…

Regarded as the best concert movie ever made, the film captures Talking Heads live over three days in 1983 at Hollywood’s Pantage Theater. ‘Stop Making…

From executive producer Angelina Jolie and the creators of the Academy Award nominated ‘The Secret of Kells’ and ‘Song of the Sea’, comes the highly-anticipated…

    An innocent and unsophisticated Guyanan immigrant is exposed to the hustlin’ way of life of the Brixton ghetto. Starring Norman Beaton, Trevor Thomas,Dawn…

A beautiful stop motion animation, ‘Ma Vie de Courgette’ (‘My Life as a Courgette’) follows a young boy, nicknamed Courgette, who is sent to a…

In 2019. At 8PM. On 29 April. At The Commercial. £2 entry. The Herne Hill Free Film Festival is pressing detonate on a quizzical first…

In ‘Cinema Voyage,’Decolonising The Archive (DTA) teams up with the New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival to explore the themes of Migration, reconciliation, Afro…

Join us as we dig out the best china and mix up a cocktail or two at the magnificent Little Nan’s Bar and step inside…

Food and farming is in crisis. In just over a decade we’ve lost more than 33,000 farms from our countryside, and alongside this, bad diet…

After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitch-hikes to…

‘Daily Bread’ dramatises an episode from the book, ’50 Years of Silence’ written by the filmmaker’s grandmother, Jan Ruff O’Herne. Jan, a Dutch prisoner of…

‘The Many Faces of Freelancing’ is a a documentary series exploring lives of the creatives – the anti nine-to-fivers who deserve a special mention, and…

Christine “Lady Bird” MacPherson is a high school senior from the “wrong side of the tracks.” She longs for adventure, sophistication, and opportunity, but finds…

These are two tales of defiance against authority, proving that growing up can happen at any age. Both films feature young protagonists and more than…

  Set within the deteriorating coal mining industry of northern England, the Grimley Colliery Brass band is as old as the mine itself. But the…

Darkroom presents a free curated evening of short film, documentaries, experimental works and audio-visual performance. This is the second edition of this event, collaborating with…

‘The Duke of Bachata’ is a documentary film about Joan Soriano, a Bachata Musician from the Dominican Republic, as he struggles to reach his goal…

After his first two big-cat related superhero films – Pink Tiger and Burgundy Leopard – flopped at the box office director Ryan Coogler almost threw…

Please join Save Reginald Save Tidemill campaign. On  the green next to the now demolished beautiful Tidemill garden for an outdoor pedalled powered screening of…

  A folk horror wrapped inside a documentary archive film. Director, Paul Wright, pieces together an often unexpectedly sinister country collage with a potent, multifaceted…

In one of the greatest road movies of all time, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon ride to everlasting fame as two women who embark on…

When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, a 16-year-old girl in small-town Minnesota decides to give her baby to the “perfect”couple she locates from the classified ads-only…

Decades after her original visit, everyone’s favourite magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael’s children through a difficult time in their lives….

Outdoor screening with Electric Pedals  https://www.electricpedals.com/ Ralph Breaks the Internet’ is a 2018 American animated comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios Join Ralph…

The Herne Hill Free Film Festival’s 48 Hour Film Challenge is back for its seventh year. Over the years we’ve had well over a hundred…

  Since ancient times, stories of epic battles and mystical legends have been passed through the generations across the rugged and mysterious Highlands of Scotland….

Winner of the Art Cinema Award at the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, CLIMAX, Gaspar’s Noé’s latest daring odyssey into the intoxicating…

  Help us celebrate International Star Wars Day on May the 4th as we find out where it all began for the most lovable rogue…

‘The Italian Job’ is the quintessential British heist film of the 1960’s, famous for its Britannia style and its car chase of Mini Coopers. Caine…

Also known as The Story of Elzéard Bouffier, The Most Extraordinary Character I Ever Met, and The Man Who Planted Hope and Reaped Happiness this…

May the 4th be with you! Fun in the park for all with Electric Pedals https://www.electricpedals.com/ A band of resistance fighters unite for a daring…

Permaculture offers a glimmer of hope with its ecologically sustainable, economically viable and socially equitable solutions. Accessible to all, it can be implemented everywhere. Today,…

A classic Disney animated film, loosely based on Rudyard Kipling’s book of the same name,‘TheJungle Book’ tells the story of a young boy Mowgli who…

A definitive 1980s comedy classic, ‘Trading Places’ tells the story of a one-dollar bet between two powerful and manipulative Wall Street elders, to see what…

A documentary, directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, about capturing humanity. The Salt of the Earth follows the career of photographer and ethnologist…

Pride is inspired by an extraordinary true story. It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is…

Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story was one of our favourite screenings at the London Film Festival last year, and to say we’re ecstatic to…

The Herne Hill Free Film Festival’s 48 Hour Film Challenge is back for its seventh year. Over the years we’ve had well over a hundred…

A renowned poet. An unknown policeman. Revolution vs regime, Communism vs the establishment. The arrest warrant is issued, and the chase is on. Chile’s greatest…

The beautiful and strange debut from Zambian-born Wales-raised writer/director Rungano Nyoni is an African satire about beliefs in sorcery, revolving around a young girl who…

A box office slow burner but a critically acclaimed horror, The Babadook is a chilling feature that marks the directorial debut of Australian actor Jennifer…

Fed up with the daily grind back in 2013 Olie Hunter Smart has spent the last 6 years living a more adventurous life, whilst dipping…

Intimately depicting the deprivations of post-war Italy while simultaneously transcending them with a universal story of hope, despair and raw human emotion, Bicycle Thieves graces…

The incredible and anxiety inducing, “true story” of four alienated young men in Kentucky who plot to commit a multi million dollar book heist from…

From poetry to perceptions of perfection, we explore some of the least expected ways people are finding to deal with their mental health and wellbeing….

A product of Netflix’s monumental content-producing machine and Winner of the Audience Award for US Documentary at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Chasing Coral is…

In the atmospheric surroundings of All Saints Church, we’re delighted to present The Passion of Joan of Arc. A classic of the late silent era, Carl…

Ralph’s first outing in 2012 – described as a Who Framed Roger Rabbit for the joystick generation – became a surprise treat, combining strolls down…

The apocalypse has happened. Giant reptiles stalk the land, preying on humans. The good news is they can’t see you. The bad news is they…

The Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses provide a perfect backdrop for this post-apocalyptic sci-fi starring Bruce Dern as the original eco-warrior. Originally released in 1972 with…

On 23 May our Short Film Night returns for its 6th outing to showcase the wealth of film-making talent we have in Herne Hill. All…

We’ll be scaramouching and fandangoing on 24 May at Judith Kerr Primary School as we bring the 2019 Oscar winner Bohemian Rhapsody to our (previously)…

In celebration of all Herne Hill hounds, we bring Wes Anderson’s award winning stop-motion animated Isle of Dogs to Brockwell Park for this year’s biggest…

The Herne Hill Free Film Festival’s 48 Hour Film Challenge is back for its seventh year. Over the years we’ve had well over a hundred…

The ponds at Hampstead Heath are packed through summer, but there is also a hardcore group who swim throughout the year. In this uplifting film,…

Swinging its way to an Oscar for best animated feature in 2018, Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse marks the latest film featuring everyone’s favourite arachnid superhero….

WW2 RAF pilot Peter Carter should have died that night. As his burnt up Lancaster bomber plummeted to its end over the English Channel, the…

“London, he says, is a city under siege from a suburban government which uses homelessness, pollution, crime, and the most expensive and run down public…

Our night at Station Square has been one of the highlights of the Herne Hill Free Film Festival every year since we launched. We wheel…