World premieres, documentaries, True Spark, AI filmmaking, horror, filmmaker Q&As, Pitch Corner and the 2026 Awards are still to come as the London Rolling Film Festival heads into its weekend programme.

The London Rolling Film Festival 2026 rolls into the weekend with two packed days of screenings at Vue Piccadilly before concluding its industry programme at the Royal Society of Arts on Monday.

Saturday 19 September is the festival's biggest screening day, with two screens running simultaneously across the afternoon and evening.

Alongside the True Spark programme, audiences can discover documentaries, independent features, horror, AI-assisted filmmaking and three World Premieres, with many of the filmmakers joining audiences afterwards for Q&As.

Sunday brings another World Premiere, a UK Premiere, Pitch Corner and the 2026 Award Ceremony, before LRFF's industry programme concludes on Monday with a conversation about disability, class and queerness in film.

Here's what's still to come.

SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER

VUE PICCADILLY — SCREEN 1

13:00 — TRUE SPARK

LRFF's True Spark programme returns with a selection of inspirational and uplifting independent films:

Wild Horses at the Door — Carrie Lederer
Truckload — Aella Jordan-Edge
Final Performance of The Year — Gary Apple
25 Minutes — Tarik Ben Salah
Approval Needed — Karen Anstee (aka Kaz Anstee)

The filmmakers will join the festival on stage following the screenings.

15:00 — THE BRIDGE

Jimmy Hedger's documentary The Bridge, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

16:40 — BEYOND THE GAZE: JULE CAMPBELL’S SWIMSUIT ISSUE

Jill Campbell's documentary tells the story of Jule Campbell, the woman behind the creation of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

The film explores Campbell's career and legacy alongside the complicated conversations surrounding fashion, feminism, agency, body image and the gaze.

Friday's industry panel touched on the film as an example of a project whose deeper human story becomes apparent when audiences move beyond their assumptions about its subject.

Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

18:50 — THE ENGINEER

The Engineer, from Sam Reynard, combines British motorsport history with a deeply personal family story.

At 19, Reynard's father designed and built a motorcycle on which he broke a world land-speed record. Now 75, he's attempting it again.

Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

20:15 — THE MAN WHO SPOKE TWICE

Lawton Charman's The Man Who Spoke Twice closes Saturday's programme in Screen 1.

Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

VUE PICCADILLY — SCREEN 2

14:00 — THE BLACK CUBE: HUNTING

Vitali Pikalevsky's AI-assisted science-fiction short imagines a world controlled by artificial intelligence.

Pikalevsky explained during LRFF's opening press conference that the short represents a small part of a much larger science-fiction project he has been developing, with ambitions ultimately to combine real performers with AI-generated environments and locations.

Runtime: 4 mins 38 secs

14:10 — DREAMER

After Robbie Moffat's lively AI in Film discussion earlier in the festival, audiences now have the opportunity to see his approach on screen.

Moffat's Dreamer, screening out of competition, combines physical filmmaking and live performers with AI-generated material, using the technology to take its central character into worlds and situations that would have been extraordinarily difficult for an independent production to realise conventionally.

Followed by a Q&A.

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

16:20 — KNOCK KNOCK — SOLD OUT

Tyler Field's horror short Knock Knock.

Runtime: 8 mins 50 secs

16:30 — DAAL — WORLD PREMIERE — SOLD OUT

Richa Moitra's suspense feature DAAL receives its World Premiere at LRFF.

Set in Darjeeling, the film follows a woman tracking predators and abusers.

Followed by a Q&A.

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

18:45 — CONNECTED — WORLD PREMIERE

Deborah Hadfield's Connected receives its World Premiere.

Followed by a Q&A.

Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins

20:50 — THE DYING OF THE LIGHT

Ivan Perić and Alvaro Congosto's The Dying of the Light concludes Saturday's second screen.

Followed by a Q&A.

Runtime: 1 hr 7 mins

SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER

VUE PICCADILLY — SCREEN 1

13:00 — ROOTED OUT – CHAPTER 2 — WORLD PREMIERE

Freddie Hutton-Mills' Rooted Out – Chapter 2 receives its World Premiere.

Followed by a Q&A with the director.

Runtime: 1 hr 27 mins

15:00 — RIP — UK PREMIERE

Alessandro D'Ambrosi and Santa de Santis' RIP receives its UK Premiere.

Followed by a Q&A with the director.

Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins

17:10 — INNOVATION SECRETS – WILL INNOVATION SAVE US OR KILL US? — WORLD PREMIERE

Sindre Kaupang's Innovation Secrets – Will Innovation Save Us or Kill Us? receives its World Premiere.

Followed by a Q&A.

Runtime: 50 mins

18:20 — PITCH CORNER

Got a film that needs to be made?

Now explain why in 60 seconds.

LRFF's Pitch Corner gives filmmakers the opportunity to put their project in front of the room immediately before the awards.

And after two days of LRFF industry discussions repeatedly returning to the importance of relationships, purpose and communicating why a story matters, those 60 seconds could be considerably more important than they initially appear.

Friday's panel encouraged filmmakers to resist leading with awards, credentials and budgets and instead communicate the mission, message and human reason behind their project.

19:00 — LRFF 2026 AWARD CEREMONY

After the screenings, premieres and Q&As comes the London Rolling Film Festival 2026 Award Ceremony.

20:30 — WINNERS’ PHOTOCALL

Sunday concludes with the 2026 winners' photocall.

MONDAY 21 SEPTEMBER

11:00–13:00 — REPRESENTATION MATTERS: DISABILITY, CLASS AND QUEERNESS IN FILM

📍 Royal Society of Arts

The cinema programme may finish Sunday evening, but LRFF isn't quite finished.

The festival's industry programme concludes Monday with:

Representation Matters: Disability, Class and Queerness in Film

Featuring Helen Oakleigh, the discussion turns towards authentic representation and whose experiences and voices are being brought to the screen.

At LRFF's opening press conference, Oakleigh spoke about the importance of protecting authentic individual voices at a moment of rapid technological change within filmmaking.

Every filmmaker brings experiences nobody else has lived in precisely the same way.

And those experiences can become stories.

Spaces are limited.

The London Rolling Film Festival runs through Monday 21 September 2026.

There are still films to discover, filmmakers to meet, projects to pitch and conversations to have.

Connect. Inspire. Support.

Stay Focused and Keep Rolling.