SUBMISSIONS
The 9th edition of London Migration Film Festival will take place from 20-27 November 2024 at venues across London. Submissions are now open for this edition of London Migration Film Festival!
Submit your film on FilmFreeway here
We accept films of all lengths, genres, and locations provided it involves themes of migration, asylum, displacement or intersecting issues. If you have any trouble with the submission fee, please get in touch to ask for a waiver :)
call for papers
In addition, as part of the 9th festival edition, there will be a symposium held in partnership with the HOMELandS (Hub on Migration, Exile, Languages and Spaces) Research Centre at University of Westminster called ‘Beyond the Spectacle: Exploring the Nexus of Art, Migration, and the Law’
This symposium will bring together scholars, artists, legal experts, and activists to delve into the interconnected themes of art, migration and law, with the aim of facilitating interdisciplinary dialogue, collaboration, and ultimately change. The call for papers, which can be downloaded here, is now open. Feel free to drop us an email for further information or with any questions.
Submission Deadline: 1 July 2024
Notification of Acceptance: 30 July 2024
Symposium Date: 28 November 2024
additional screenings / consultation
While the 2023 festival contained a number of UK premieres, some of the films shown have had disappointingly few screenings. With your help, we want to change that. Please contact us if you would like to arrange a screening of a film contained in the 2023 (or previous editions) of the festival!
Although we cannot offer financial support, we can offer advice on arranging a film screening, co-curate a film selection, assist with the practical side of putting on an event, and more. Please email us at: themigrationcollective[at] gmail.com or themigrationcollective[at]protonmail.com with your ideas!
our programming
The 8th edition of London Migration Film Festival took place from 22-29 Nov 2023. It featured 8 days, 10 venues, and 24 events packed full with films, workshops, discussions, poetry, and more.
Check out the 2023 programme now
London Migration Film Festival includes fiction, short and documentary films focussing on the intersection of migration with themes such as climate emergency, integration, parenthood, race, gender, and mortality (the list could go on).
With the aim of portraying the diversity and humanity of migration, our film selection deliberately reflects the many forms in which migration takes place.
We include films directly contributing to today’s debates: from the intersection between migration and climate emergency to the experience of members of the LGBTQI+ community fleeing dictatorships; from second generation young people trying to reconcile multiple identities to deep dives into the link between race and migration, we are showcasing stories that portray the vast humanity inbuilt within migration.
The festival’s programme includes light-hearted films, that remind us that there is happiness in movement, and we intentionally choose films focusing on diverse parts of the world and migratory routes, in order to challenge the expectation that most people move from the Global South to the Global North.
London Migration Film Festival includes both films by established artists and directors as well as films by less known filmmakers who use new perspectives to analyse migration and refugee issues. In order to raise the profile and provide a platform for migrant filmmakers, we include films that were directed, produced and starred in by migrants.
Not the first time around
If you want to know more about past editions of LMFF, please check out:
close to you
In the past years we have learned a thing or two: we love nothing more than live events, chatting with festival-goers after the screenings, developing projects and events in collaboration with venue managers all over London, and showcasing the amazing work of filmmakers from all over the world.
We have also learned that digital can help us connect with people who wouldn't come to the cinema: we are thinking of the thousands of people who visited our online pages and programmes since March 2020, many of whom from as far away from London as the imagination can get.
Therefore, London Migration Film Festival includes two main selections: in-person events across London venues, accompanied by two weeks of online screening and a dedicated online programme accessible across the world.
