Dates & venue to be announced
Essay The future of cinema is a dark room full of strangers The Editors / 5 min read Streaming did not kill the cinema. It reminded us what the cinema is actually for. For a while the story seemed obvious. Screens got better, sofas got more comfortable, and the whole ritual of leaving the house…
Essay Why small festivals matter more than ever The Editors / 5 min read In an age of endless feeds and enormous festivals, the boutique festival has a quieter and much harder job: to put strangers in a room and let a film surprise them. There has never been more film available and never been…
Essay What Italy still teaches the rest of cinema The Editors / 6 min read Long after the movement itself ended, Italian cinema keeps returning to a single stubborn idea: that ordinary life, looked at closely enough, is worth a cinema screen. It is easy to reduce Italy to postcards, and its cinema is not…
From our founder A letter from our founder Giorgia Cecconi, Founder and Artistic Director / 6 min read When I started the West London Film Festival, I was trying to create the room I wished I’d found years earlier. Giorgia Cecconi, 2025 Before becoming a festival founder, I was, and still am, an actor, filmmaker…
Looking back A reflection on the festival so far West London Film Festival / 5 min read Two editions in, it is worth looking back honestly at what this festival has actually been, and what we want to carry into the third. We began in October 2024, across three days at The Chiswick Cinema. Opening…