Being London’s only dedicated Fetish-focussed Film festival, London Fetich Film Festival provides some of the most daring, eclectic cinema as a celebration of kink, fetish, BDSM, sexual liberation and community where art intersects with pleasure and politics.
Now this year, in February, London Fetish Film Festival returns with renewed urgency at a time when artistic freedoms around erotic content remain contested and constrained, and beyond that, bodily autonomy, especially for women and trans people, is being increasingly thieved, puppeteered and erased.
What began as a small, passionate gathering of fetishists and filmmakers has grown into a vital platform for fearless cinema that illuminates what it means to desire beyond boundaries, and to resist cultural censorship through community-rooted creativity and gathering. As directors, we wish to promote a consent-based culture in the face of rising fascism; we want to give you real, human fixations, personal pleasures and communal joys.
LFFF was founded in 2019, from a simple but radical idea: that fetish culture – in all its hyper-faceted queerness and complexity – deserves serious artistic consideration and celebration. To be centred as a creative and instinctive force, one rooted in pleasure, radical self-expression and psychological discovery. To be explored beyond stereotypes as lived experience, cultural practice and a safe, nurturing space for the LGBTQIA+ community.
Across its programme, LFFF has consistently blurred the lines between arthouse and explicit, tender and transgressive, refusing easy categorisation and inviting audiences to question not just sexual norms but the very concept of fetishisation and paraphilia beyond assumptions and expectations.
This resistance to sanitisation is particularly important in the context of the UK’s ever un-evolving censorship laws, hand-in-hand with the discriminatory backtracking of queer and trans rights worldwide. In this landscape, a festival that centres consensual, binary-breaking adult sexual expression and bodily autonomy is more than celebration; it is political assertion.
Where mainstream cinema too often shies away from the erotic, or treats it as a heteronormative titillation at best and deviance at worst, LFFF embraces the full spectrum of fetishistic experience as human – aesthetic, psychological, sexual, and political. Films are not just screened; they’re discussed, interrogated, and contextualised alongside Q&As, artist talks, and community socials. This is work by the community, for the community – a space where creators and audiences converge to reclaim narratives around desire, embodiment, and freedom of expression.
In 2026, LFFF continues this legacy. The festival’s carefully curated programme will screen international features, shorts, animation, and documentary work that refuse to be silenced.
It will be supplemented by live discussions and gatherings designed to ignite critical conversations about representation, censorship, and the power of film to expand how we conceive pleasure and politics. It’s a timely reminder that, even in an era of increasing digitalpolicing and cultural conservatism, fetish remains a site of resistance, community, and expressive autonomy.
This year, LFFF collaborated for the first time with London’s only dedicated LGBTQIA+ cinema, The Arzner, screening ONLY queer-made films, narratives and LGBTQIA+ adjacent cinema exclusively and passionately – situated a short walk from London Bridge Station. A cinema that proudly hosts the festival within their public-facing programme, fully supporting and aligning with the ethos of creating and sustaining the production of content and events in demand by our communities.
As LFFF enters its seventh year, its political charge is clearer than ever: fetish on screen is not just erotic art; it is assertion and liberation.
London’s only dedicated annual fetish film festival takes place at the Arzner LGBTQIA+ Cinema 19 – 22 February 2026.
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