The London Motorcycle Film Festival (LMFF) is London's only film festival dedicated to screening short films about motorcycles and motorcycle culture.

The inaugaral London Motorcycle Film Festival will take place on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th September, 2025..

The festival will screen the best dramatic, documentary and short films, that reveal the passion of riders and the soul behind riding motorcycles.

Submit Your Film

Whilst many of the films screened at LMFF are by special invitation, we'd love for as many people as possible to submit their films. Submissions are open to film makers from any country and those films selected for screening can look forward to the following benefits...

• Screening of your film in our exclusive pop-up cinema.
• Promotion of your film via the LMFF website as well as via Instagram & Facebook.
• A landing page for your film on the LMFF website together with film synopsis and trailer (if one is available).
• A vastly multi-cultural London audience that loves motorcycles, movies and has a vibrant and fast growing motorcycle community.

Awards & Prizes

We’ll be awarding a small number of awards to participating films in the following categories…

Best UK Film
Best Original Film
Best Short Documentary
Best Editing
Best Dramatic Film

Award categories may be added or removed depending on the overall number and type of films entered.

All awards are chosen by our LMFF judging panel which is made up of local and international motorcycle, media and film industry professionals.

Rules & Terms

GENERAL RULES

The 1st London Motorcycle Film Festival (LMFF) will take place on Fri 12 & Sat 13 September 2025.

Submissions will only be accepted by agreeing, in full, to the following Terms and Conditions.

1. All films entered in The London Motorcycle Film Festival (LMFF) must feature motorcycles or motorcycle culture as a key component or theme.

2. All films must be under 10 minutes in duration with the 'sweet spot' being 5-6 mins.

3. All films must be in English and/or contain English subtitles.

4. You guarantee that you have the right and/or authorization to submit the film to the London Motorcycle Film Festival as your own work or on behalf of the films creators.

5. You guarantee that all rights and licenses have been cleared or approved, including but not limited to, music, copyright, trademark, royalty and credits, before submitting it to the London Motorcycle Film Festival.

6. You give permission for the London Motorcycle Film Festival to use short excerpts, including but not limited to, stills, titles, screen-grabs and/or information from the film for promotional purposes, online and in any print media or campaigns connected with the London Motorcycle Film Festival. This includes brochures/programs, printed media magazines/newspapers and online.

7. You give permission for the London Motorcycle Film Festival to screen the film any number of times, at any time and at their sole discretion during the festival.

8. You understand and agree that London Motorcycle Film Festival shall not be held responsible or liable for any losses or damages resulting from failure to screen submissions accepted into the festival.

9. All submissions to the London Motorcycle Film Festival are reviewed by the LMFF programming team. The applicants whose film(s) have been selected for inclusion in the film festival will be notified via email.

10. Submission of your film does not guarantee acceptance into the London Motorcycle Film Festival. Selection is at the sole discretion of LMFF.

11. You understand and agree that film submissions may not be withdrawn from LMFF once submitted and/or your participation has been confirmed, except at the discretion of the London Motorcycle Film Festival.