Montrose LandxSea Film Fest

24/10/2026

08/10/2026

🎉 🎬 HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY, MONTROSE PLAYHOUSE! 💙✨

Five years of film, community, creativity and a whole lot of cinema magic!

We're so incredibly proud to call the beautiful The Montrose Playhouse our festival home. From the very beginning, the Playhouse welcomed LandxSea with open arms (and oars! 🚣‍♀️), enthusiastically jumping aboard our slightly ambitious idea to launch Angus's first film festival.

And what a home it's been!

There's something truly special about this place. A gorgeous cinema, an extraordinary community spirit, and a team who go above and beyond to make everyone feel welcome. Visiting filmmakers fall in love with it, audiences make it their own, and every September we're reminded just how lucky we are to bring people together here for films, ideas and conversations.

LandxSea simply wouldn't be the festival it is without the Playhouse, its wonderful staff, volunteers and the community who made this cinema a reality.

Here's to five fabulous years, and many, many more stories on the big screen, unforgettable conversations, new friendships and adventures together.

Happy birthday to our beautiful festival home! 🥳 💚

With love from all of us at LandxSea 🌊

02/10/2026

🪿 Honk if you’re excited — GooseFest is here!

Until 11 October, our friends at the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Montrose Basin Wildlife Reserve and Visitor Centre are celebrating the return of tens of thousands of pink-footed geese to Montrose Basin.

The programme includes guided walks, family activities, wildlife watching, creative workshops and events across Montrose , all celebrating one of our most spectacular signs of autumn.

Some activities require advance booking, so take a gander at the full programme:
👉 https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do/wildlife-events/goosefest-2026/

01/10/2026

Missed the fantastic Scottish Premiere of DEREK VS DEREK on Opening Night at LandxSea?

Good news – you can catch it on the big screen nationwide from this weekend! 🎬🌱

Find a screening near you 👇

In cinemas across the UK from TOMORROW 🥳

We can’t actually believe it! 🤯

The latest cinema listings are up on our website derekvsderek.com/cinemalistings - link in our bio 🎟️

We’re thinking about starting a Linda fan club, who’s in? 😀

30/09/2026

Big news for Montrose, and another chapter in the changing story of the North Sea.

Montrose Port is set to become one of the world’s largest offshore wind operations and maintenance hubs, with Berwick Bank B joining Seagreen and Inch Cape at the port.

For LandxSea, this is part of what makes Montrose such a fascinating and important place to hold an environmental film festival: a coastal community where questions of energy transition, jobs, industry, nature and our relationship with the sea are playing out in real time.

A significant moment for the town, and for the conversations about just transition and possible futures that we bring to the screen each year.

Montrose port to become 'biggest in world' after Berwick Bank boost

19/09/2026

We loved opening LandxSea 2026 with the Scottish Premiere of Derek vs Derek, and it’s wonderful to see the film getting some love in The Guardian as it heads out into UK cinemas. 🌱🎬

If you missed it in Montrose, keep an eye out for a screening near you!

“A unexpectedly heartwarming doc about farmers at war” — The Guardian

18/09/2026

It's not LandxSea without a beach dook! 🌊

Thanks to The Montrose Polar Bears Swim Club for the badges and cheering us on! 🐻‍❄

17/09/2026

Have your say in our audience survey! LandxSea wouldn't exist without you, the audience and the incredible filmmakers who join us and share your work and stories with us each year. 🙏

Your voice matters. Your feedback helps us understand what you loved, which experiences stood out for you, what we still need to work on and what you'd like to see more of in the future.

If you joined us at this year's festival, we'd be very grateful if you could take a few minutes to complete our 2026 audience survey.

You'll find the survey via www.bit.ly/LandxSeaSurvey

📸 Photo by Dylan Drummond

16/09/2026

Congratulations to HOPE IS A WORD by filmmaker Maria Galliani Dyrvik and producer Anita Vedå which scooped our 2026 LandxSea Audience Award!

A powerful and inspiring documentary, Hope is a Word follows Nigerian poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey, who has spent decades advocating for communities affected by oil exploitation in the Niger Delta, through non-violent protest, human rights work and poetry as a tool and a means to give voice to the oppressed.

We watch him as he nurtures a new generation of writers and poets, raising hope and encouraging expression and action so that his legacy and fight might continue even when all seems overwhelming.

We were delighted that both Maria and Anita were able to join us at the festival, here displaying their award, hand-crafted by Irene Hughes of Montrose pottery studio Clay Half!

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Archive footage by Erabanabari Kobah
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15/09/2026

Congratulations to COMMUNITY THEATRE by Lewis Baillie, the North Light Award-winning film of LandxSea 2026!

This documentary short is shot in the Fife town of Buckhaven, where a community theatre project brings local stories, memories and voices to the stage. Through three generations of working-class experience, Community Theatre celebrates shared heritage, resilience and the enduring spirit of place.

Our annual juried North Light Award shines a light on bold Scottish filmmaking that reimagines our relationship with the natural world and the environment around us. With a £500 cash prize, it honours originality, impact, and creative vision in environmental storytelling.

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Licensed Music
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‘Every Night’ by VXL
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Production & Festival Manager - Alexandra Colta
Production Coordinator - Milda Valiulyte
Finance Manager - Colleen Henry
Executive Producer - Flore Cosquer
Executive Producer for Screen Scotland - Mark Thomas

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