Our thoughts are with everybody affected by COVID-19.
BRIFF has been moved to 15-16 August 2020.
If a further delay is needed, we'll let you know ASAP.
Thanks for your support and understanding!

Brighton Rocks
International
​Film Festival
​(BRIFF)
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BRIFF launch festival (above) and
highlights from 2019 festival (left)
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Brighton Rocks is home to films that fit with the City of Brighton’s out-there creative universe. Brighton is a mecca for artists from all walks of life. It is also a state of mind, an attitude, a spirit – one that dares to be itself. Are you ready to see if your film belongs here?​
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Festival Director's Message

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​​Brighton Rocks International Film Festival (BRIFF) welcomes submissions for the third year running.​​ ​We screened over 100 films at our two events last year - 2020 promises to be even bigger. ​Brighton Rocks is a young festival with big ambitions: to give maximum support to emerging filmmakers and to become the UK’s main forum for indie and underground cinema. If your film embodies our attitudes and aspirations and fits into one or more of our categories, we want to help you get the recognition it deserves! 
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                   Screening Events

Brighton Rocks festival will be held at RIALTO on 15-16 August 2020
Our sister event, Byline Festival, will be held 28-31 August 2021

"REMAIN SITTING AT YOUR TABLE AND LISTEN - the world will roll in ecstasy at your feet" (Franz Kafka)

Brighton Rocks Festival 2019 was delighted to host the world premiere of this sublime audiovisual installation by international photographer and filmmaker Mark Nelson. Landscapes and cityscapes of multilayered photography appear through a cross fading, generative process which allows the images to transmute creating a previously unseen virtual world. The accompanying soundscape is a gentle platform for experiential reflection, and the whole piece is a meditation on the dream landscape of the present moment.

Festival Partners