PLEASE NOTE:  We are having a free afternoon of film screenings at the Natural History Museum from 2.30pm-5pm on Friday 12th June 2026. Due to a change in submissions, this year's festival has been postponed until November 2026.

12th June 2.30pm-5pm London Nature Films at the Natural History Museum.

Something is growing in urban nature filmmaking - and this is where you come in. Join the London Nature Films during the Grow Urban Festival to see film extracts, honest conversation, and a first look at what's coming later this year. This isn't the full festival - it's the warm-up. A chance to see the kind of work being made, meet the people making it, and find out how you can be part of it.

With film submissions tripling in just three years, the LNFF is tapping into something real: a groundswell of rewilders, growers, gardeners, and nature lovers picking up cameras and telling their own stories about the city. Affordable 4K has changed who gets to make nature films — and we're here for it.

On the afternoon: Films exploring London's parks, wildlife, waterways, and overlooked green spaces.

Q&A and open conversation about the festival and what's ahead

An honest conversation about fundraising - and how you can help make it happen

Ages 16+ ·

Free to attend

Founded in 2024, London Nature Films (LNF) serves as a dissemination platform for urban nature communication, using film to spark dialogue, creativity and action around the city’s natural environments. In an era of digital and remote communication, LNF provides organisations and communities with a vital in-person context for screening, discussion, and exchange.

We run London’s only film festival dedicated to urban nature, showcasing how everyday encounters with the living world, from vegetable gardens to parakeets, shapes the experience of being a city dweller. A city perpetually consumes resources; nature, and we explore not just plants and animals but the city as a living organism.

Our annual two-day event brings together filmmakers, artists, conservationists, youth and community organisations for screenings, Q&As, and discussions. With film entries tripling in our third year, we are witnessing a groundswell of interest from rewilders, growers, listeners, and nature lovers of all backgrounds. As the availability of affordable 4K cameras increases, our aim is to encourage new voices in urban nature filmmaking, while keeping the experience of the shared big screen at the heart of our work. The London Nature Film Festival is now accepting submissions for films that explore our connection with nature in the city. Whether your work focuses on parks, urban wildlife, community projects, gardening, conservation, or any aspect of London's natural landscape, we want to see how you interact with or interpret London’s natural spaces. Your film will be showcased during the Great Big Green Week, taking place from June 7 to 15, an event highlighting initiatives in climate action.

Submissions are open to everyone—you don’t need to be a professional filmmaker! We welcome films and animations from all ages and media abilities, so if you have a story to tell, this is your chance to share it.

We are also partnering with the art organisation ProRadix put on LUMINOX, curated quarterly film screenings on the equinoxes - exploring resilience & reciprocity with the more than human. Themes include engagement, dialogue, inspiration, restoration, spoken word and shared food with filmmakers, artists and change makers. LUMINOX takes place in the atmospheric Greatorex Gallery in Greatorex Street, WHitechapel, London.