12h00 - 19h00
The Haven Surf Film Fest presented by VANS returns for its 4th edition on Sunday, May 11th, at the renowned Zuiderpershuis in Antwerp. Join us for a day of surf films, music, Q&As, food, drinks, and an exhibition featuring work from surf photographers and a shaper. This year, we celebrate female surfing and the French surf scene, and we’re excited to share our first confirmed films.
Surfing is killing it. This $10 billion global industry – built on a clean, green dream – has never been more popular. But surfing has a dirty secret, and people are dying. From filmmakers Lewis Arnold and Chris Nelson, The Big Sea is the award-winning documentary exposing surfing’s hidden links to Cancer Alley and the devastating impact of the wetsuit world’s toxic addition to Neoprene. Through the lens of surfing and unwrapping issues of social justice, environmental racism, greenwashing, corporate responsibility and more, this life and death tale of two seemingly unconnected communities explores the power we have as individuals to effect change. The screening of the movie will be followed by a Q&A with the creators.
"The film that changed an industry." Ian Stewart, CMO Xcel Wetsuits
“So powerful. So well told. So poetic. The engine-message-activism that drives the film is so important, but it's also very beautiful, with stellar, arresting cinematography.” Jamie Brisick, Award winning filmmaker
“The most focussed 70 minutes of environmental and social campaigning by surfers ever.” Chris Hines MBE, Surfers Against Sewage Co-Founder
In a small village in Liberia, a West African country scarred by 20 years of civil war, local surfers are striving to change their destiny and that of their village through the creation of a surf club. Five years after the documentary "Water Get No Enemy", surfer and filmmaker Arthur Bourbon returns to Liberia to reconnect with his friends and document the evolution of surfing in the village.
Directed by Yentl Touboul, this 42-minute visual portrait follows Adrien Toyon through the eyes of friends and influential board shapers. Supported by Vans and Sun Bun and filmed over two years across Reunion Island, Australia, the Basque Country, and Western Ireland, the film captures Adrien’s journey into alternative surfboard designs.
Some Like It Classic - 16mm surf film documentary about long boarding and its hotdogging origin narrated by Robert "Wingnut" Weaver Some Like It Classic is an independent feature surf film entirely shot in beautiful 16 mm colour film over 7 years, documenting long boarding and the beginning of Hotdogging through some of the most influential surfboard evolution designs and some surfing pioneers history. Filmed in Southern California, Hawaii, Mexico and France, this film is also a journey showing some fun, stylish, effortless and smooth surfing as well as some timeless surf culture. A tribute to the 1965 surf film "Some Like It Wet”
Every Friday morning, the Granny Grommets meet at Middleton Beach to catch a wave, turning the tide on what becomes expected of us as we age. The Granny Grommets, a nearly 90 strong group of women, come from all walks of life and with all the life experiences that an older person brings with them, to bodyboard at Middleton beach in Albany in Western Australia. United by their love of the ocean, the group serves as much more than simply a weekly exercise class, for some it’s an escape from caring responsibilities and others a place to feel a sense of identity. This film ultimately reflects on the healing and transformative power community and friendship provide for us later in life.
PRACTICAL INFO
Sunday 26 May - 12h00 > 19h00
Zuiderpershuis
Waalsekaai 14
2000 Antwerpen
www.zuiderpershuis.be
Detailed timings will be communicated soon
