The Official Programme for the Raindance 2024 is now live! Join us from 19–28 June 2024 as we bask in the radiance of summer with a programme of relevant, radical, and glorious premieres. Want it all? Get your all-inclusive Festival Pass now
Since 1993 Raindance has been bringing the brightest and best independent film to London. You don’t need to be serious about filmmaking or serious about independent film . You do need to have the desire to discover the newest and freshest new film. Come and celebrate the best in independent film from around the world.
Our students made our brand new advert:
7 Reasons To Attend Raindance Film Festival 2024
2 Ways To Attend Raindance Film Festival 2024:
1) with a Raindance Festival Pass
2) select your film and buy an individual ticket from £10 – £15
1. Attend the Indie Film Forum
Raindance Indie Film Forum is a place where you can discover an exciting collection of independent filmmaking workshops, panels and masterclasses presented by top level industry professionals to help you get to where you want to go.
Hosted at The House of Raindance at Wonderville, Haymarket from Weds 19 -28 June. There will be over 25 sessions covering topics from VR to screenwriting to raising cash for your film.
Don’t forget the networking and the parties in the evening.
2. Want to watch movies?
Take a first timer suffering from a plethora of networking nerves, add in one of Europe’s busiest networking locations, sprinkle on a few quid of cash bar drinks and PRESTO – the opportunity to meet new collaborators of a lifetime.
You can buy individual tickets now but’s a lot cheaper to attend Raindance Film Festival 2024 with a Festival Pass.
3. Amazing German Films
We have a collection of the top bold, innovative and fresh German films available to screen in western Europe – and it’s probably the most interesting and diverse group of films from Germany.
Join us from 19–28 June 2024 as we bask in the radiance of summer with a programme of relevant, radical, and glorious premieres. Want it all? Get your all-inclusive Festival Pass now screening in Britain this year.
German films at Raindance:
- Cuckoo (Opening Night) 19 Jun 2024 18:30 – Thu, includes Icon Award
- Eternal You June 21, 2024 |8:40 pm | Curzon Soho
- Falling Into Place June 20, 2024 | 9:00 pm | Curzon Soho
- It’s Burning June 20, 2024 | 8:30 pm | Genesis
- What You See Of Me June 21, 2024 | 8:30 pm | Genesis
- The White Ribbon (Heritage screening) June 22, 2024 | 5:00 pm | Curzon Soho
- German Shorts June 22, 2024 | 3:00 pm | Genesis
4. Feature Films at Raindance 2024
Raindance films are genre agnostic. Everything from horror to the buddy movies.
Browse the wide array of feature films and feature documentaries at Raindance. These are the films that herald social change, they are the voices of the whistle-blowers. They are films that are truly independent, and nothing like Hollywood!
From documentary to narrative, from live action to animated, from drama to horror, Raindance 2023 has something for everyone to enjoy.
Browse our programme of features here
5. Shorts Programmes
Shorts are the laboratory of cinema. Raindance takes short films very seriously. There are 9 shorts programmes comprised of the very best we could find. they are from every country in the world. For every short we are showing we passed over dozens of others.
One of our shorts will automatically qualify for the Oscar shortlist.
Read all about the shorts programme here.
6. Live!Ammunition!
This is it! Your chance to pitch your idea for a movie directly to the people that matter: the people that decide which films get made and which get chosen to screen in cinemas and on TV.
Put a fiver in the hat and you get up to 2 minutes to convince the panel that yours is the next big thing. If you are boring they can and will gong you off. But they have to give you two good reasons why.
A tense and emotionally charged event that has launched many movies in it’s history, including Meet The Parents.
Check out the Live!Ammunition! Here
7. Opening Night Gala: Cuckoo + Summer Drinks
Raindance Film Festival will open with the U.K. premiere of Tilman Singer’s “Cuckoo”, a horror feature starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens, playing at the grand Curzon Mayfair.
Q&A with Director Tilman Singer moderated by Finn Halligan
***Also, witness the 2024 Icon Award presentation at the cinema.
Doors Open: 18:30 PM | All Seated by: 19:00 PM | After-Party (Wonderville): 21:00 PM
Nominated for Best International Feature
Buy Opening Night Tickets
2 Ways To Attend Raindance Film Festival 2024:
1) with a Raindance Festival Pass
2) select your film and buy an individual ticket from £10 – £17.50
Photo Credit: Bertie Watson
I founded Raindance Film Festival in 1993 because the British film industry was closed, polite, and congratulating itself while shutting new filmmakers out.
I co-founded the British Independent Film Awards in 1998 because British indie film deserved more than a shrug, a pat on the head, and a Tuesday night screening.
Raindance didn’t start as a brand. It started as a rebellion: film training without gatekeepers, a festival without permission, and a community built by filmmakers who weren’t waiting to be invited in.
Later, we took it global: Toronto, Vancouver, New York, LA, Berlin, and Brussels, because independent film doesn’t belong to one city, one class, or one accent.
I’ve produced 700+ short films and seven features, including Deadly Virtues (2014) and ALICE, which won the SXSW Grand Jury Prize (2019) not because someone “discovered” us, but because the work earned its place.
I’ve written three books used by filmmakers worldwide because too many courses taught compliance instead of survival.
In 2009, I was awarded a PhD for services to film education, ironic, given that most of my career has been about tearing down the rules that education insisted you follow.
I don’t believe in waiting for permission.I believe in making work, building systems, and forcing the industry to catch up.
Specialties: Independent Film (the real kind) · Producing · Writing · Film Education · Festivals · Breaking Broken Systems
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