Elevation Film Festival

After a very successful second year, the third edition of Elevation Film Festival will be based at Real Ideas Organisation in Plymouth, along side artist installations and workshops running at Maker Heights across the water in Cornwall. The festival will take place on 2-4th October 2026. Elevation celebrates artistic, experimental, and expanded cinema across southwest England, the UK and internationally. We welcome filmmakers to showcase their work across a weekend of screenings, talks and workshops, connecting regional and international artists in a vibrant community celebration of moving image culture. We accept national and international submissions of artists' and experimental film, installation and expanded cinema performance, plus films of any genre made in Devon & Cornwall. Elevation is a volunteer-run festival organised by artists and film enthusiasts registered as Elevation Arts CIC. We are an inclusive, vibrant festival working closely with local communities, with a programming team strongly committed to principles of fairness, equality, and diversity.