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As a team of emerging curators and grassroots organisers we’ve put together a festival of experimental and ethnographic film, art and thought by up-and-coming artists, researchers and makers.

This year’s festival will take place at Conway Hall in Central London, span across two days and engage with the theme “ENTANGLEMENTS”.

Together, we will explore multispecies encounters and relationships, and complicate the way we understand the keyword “nature”. 

ENTANGLEMENTS is a theme we’ve long looked forward to unpacking!

From microbial ecologies to interspecies care – from environmental collapse to queer kinship with non-human beings, KONTEKST Collective wants to showcase critical art that subverts the mechanised, hierarchical, sanitised constraints of our anthropocentric reality.

This year, we received over 250 submissions from across the world!

Our final programme entangles and disentangles relationships across species, the ever-underestimated complexity of our ecosystems, human forms of relational kinship that go under the radar, and global interconnection steeped in politics, technology and violence.

At the forefront of our event is connection, accessibility and a hope that you might leave the venue with a slightly different perspective than you came in with.

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KFF2026 Programme

18 - 19 July 2026 · Conway Hall, WC1R 4RL, London

= registration required at the door
Just show up = no registration needed
    • 13:00
      Doors Open
      Conway Hall
    • Tickets & Info Desk
      Grab your tickets, sign up for workshops and start your festival experience here! If at any point you feel unwell or require any kind of support, the welfare team member will be stationed here too.
      Community Notice Board
      We will have an allocated "community notice board" at the festival. If you are working on a new project, putting together an exciting event, looking for collaborators, or there is something you simply want others to know about - make sure to bring your posters, business cards, educational brochures, or anything and everything else you'd like to share with other guests and us!
      Resource Log
      We are curious what other projects, books, films and resources you want to share with us and others that relate to the festival's theme. Scan the QR code in the foyer and add your positions so that we can continue learning about the entanglements in the days and weeks following the festival!
      KONTEKST Shop
      Help us fundraise for running our platform and get yourself a limited edition KONTEKST t-shirt, tote bag or a sticker! All materials have been sourced ethically and the designs were created especially for this year's festival.
      Get Involved with KONTEKST! Booth
      Interested in the platform that we are building? Been thinking of joining a grassroots art collective? Pop by, ask questions, leave your details and come on board? :)
      brought by KONTEKST Collective
    • This year's KFF exhibition space explores the more-than-human entanglements through video, image, sounds and tactile installations. Come and learn about the entanglements through multiple senses.
      Featuring works by: Anouch Basbous (she/her), Anna Dossmann (they/he), Vianney Pétré (he/him), Snigda Rana (she/her), Nicola Renzi (he/him) & Mai Britt Utsi (she/her), Aria Danaparamita (they/them), Yunzhi/Melissa Li (she/her) and the Voicing Choir.
      Come back at 19:00 for a guided exhibition walk and meet the artists!
      Learn more →
    • Quiet Space & Archives
      Take a quiet moment in Conway Hall's Library, and explore some of the books, pamphlets and archival material in the Ethical Society's collection, which has been a home for radicals, political and social reformers and freethinkers since 1886.
      Electronic Flora
      The library hosts Conway Hall's archive and an installation of Lerin/Hystad's book Electronic Flora - which documents over 100 plants through drawings, text, and music; capturing plants' electrical currents and communicational networks in their own contextual environment.
      by Simon Torssell Lerin (he/him) & Bettina Hvidevold Hystad (she/her)
      Learn more →
      Please note: The library is on the first floor of the building and it is unfortunately not accessible to wheelchair users. If you'd like to engage with the exhibits presented, come to the welcome desk and let us know and we will bring them down. We can also help accommodate you with an alternative quiet space.
    • 1h screening + 30min discussion & feedback
      How can we nurture care, community and resistance within beyond-human ecologies, throughout processes of change? These films explore how land, identity, and community are all intertwined and entangled.
      Featuring:
      Um Verde Antigo (An Ancient Green) by Beatriz Urze (they/them) — no dialogue + English closed captions
      The Badgers by Xena Louise Stockley White (she/her) & Matthew Feurtado (he/him) — English audio + English closed captions
      How to Move Your Ancestors by Shuang Yu (she/her) — Chinese (Zhejiang dialect) audio + English closed captions
      Արmատ (Armat) by Anna Mkrtumyan (she/her) — English & Armenian audio + English subtitles

      Post-screening discussion facilitated by: Beatriz Urze (they/them), Tara Rafaty (she/her), Molly B. Thomas (she/her) and Clara Stephanie Schieber Lorenesi (she/her)
      Learn more →
    • 45-60min
      An exploration and sharing of collective knowledge on medicinal and edible plants in the city
      with Safiyyah Jackman-Williams (she/they)
      Learn more →
    • 45-60min
      An experimental participatory choral performance in and around the festival space
      with the Voicing choir, facilitated by softshock
      Learn more →
    • 45min, drop in anytime
      Microbe Sampling Lab invites visitors to sample surfaces around Conway Hall, capturing unseen microbial communities that surround us.
      Can't make it? The second workshop starts at 19:00 at the Brockway Room.
      Come back at 17:30 on Sunday 19th and check in with us on the bacteria cultures!
      with Yunzhi/Melissa Li (she/her)
      Learn more →
    • 45-60min
      Drawing from Ingrid Pollard's 'Pastoral Interluded, 1988', this workshop seeks to interrogate personhood in the face of land ownership and anarchist techniques to subverting land rights.
      with Drew Iheoma (they/them)
      Learn more →
    • 45-60min
      Engage with all of your senses in connecting with plants & exploring what it means to be kin
      with Safiyyah Jackman-Williams (she/they)
      Learn more →
    • 45min
      Take a relaxed moment in the Main Hall and enjoy the on-screen gaming performance combining live microscopy, video, sound, and game-based storytelling.
      with Xristina Sarli (they/them)
      Learn more →
    • 1h screening + 30min discussion & feedback
      How are more-than-human relationships shaped by hierarchies, exploitation and extraction? These films highlight methods for uncovering invisible violence and recognising hidden resistance.
      Featuring:
      Daisies by Yuliya Kohal (she/her) — no dialogue + English closed captions
      Dilli ki Sardi (Winter in Delhi) by Chitra Sangtani (she/her) — Hindi audio + English closed captions
      Mulberry توت by Anouch Basbous (she/her) — no dialogue + English closed captions
      Ubiquitous Noise by Guillem Serrahima (he/him) — English audio + English subtitles
      How It Begins by Chloé Wasp (she/her) — English audio + English subtitles

      Post-screening discussion facilitated by: Tatyana Nieves Brown (she/her), Susana Higueras (she/her) and Chitra Sangtani (she/her)
      Learn more →
    • 45-60min
      Flight Patterns engages critically with the 'snapshot' knowledge that birdwatching relies on: taking images, sounds, and videos of birds as prompts to explore issues of racialisation, stereotyping, and knowledge-production.
      with Pippa Sterk (they/them) · image credit: JY Mak
      Learn more →
    • 45min, drop in anytime
      Microbe Sampling Lab invites visitors to sample surfaces around Conway Hall, capturing unseen microbial communities that surround us.
      Come back at 17:30 on Sunday 19th and check in with us on the bacteria cultures!
      with Yunzhi/Melissa Li (she/her)
      Learn more →
    • 1h of artists in the house!
      Meet the artists and curators behind the KFF2026 exhibition space and hear about the showcase in their own words.
      Artists in attendance: Vianney Pétré (he/him), Snigda Rana (she/her), Natalia Mchedlishvili (she/her), Aria Danaparamita (they/them), Lian Ryan (she/they), softshock: Georgie Worth (she/her) and Júlia Polo (she/her), Voicing choir members.
      Explore this year's installations →
    • 1h screening + 30min discussion & feedback
      What place is there for translation and communication within multispecies ecologies? This block explores representation, honouring, miscommunication and confusion.
      Featuring:
      Survival Instincts by Lian Ryan (she/they) — no dialogue
      Sympathetic Fluids by Matthew Pagoaga (he/him) — English audio + English closed captions
      Lišaja (Lichenlike) by Brina Fekonja (she/her) — Slovenian audio + English subtitles
      >DiGi-Fungal_Bitr0t by Sam McNeil (he/him) — English audio + English closed captions
      Il Suono di Legno by Emelie Victoria (she/they) & Margherita Vita (she/they) — Italian audio + English closed captions

      Post-screening discussion facilitated by: Rossella Sette (she/her), Sam McNeil (he/him), Emelie Victoria (they/she)
      Learn more →
    • 45min
      Do plants listen to the water underground? In this performance, a soundscape emerges through a mix of live looping sounds from contact mics, and recorded sounds from around Conway Hall.
      with Prajvi Mandhani (she/her)
      Learn more →
    • 13:00
      Doors Open
      Conway Hall
    • Welcome Desk
      Grab your tickets, sign up for workshops and start your festival experience here! If at any point you feel unwell or require any kind of support, the welfare team member will be stationed here too.
      Community Notice Board
      We will have an allocated "community notice board" at the festival. If you are working on a new project, putting together an exciting event, looking for collaborators, or there is something you simply want others to know about - make sure to bring your posters, business cards, educational brochures, or anything and everything else you'd like to share with other guests and us!
      Resource Log
      We are curious what other projects, books, films and resources you want to share with us and others that relate to the festival's theme. Scan the QR code in the foyer and add your picks!
      KONTEKST Shop
      Help us fundraise for running our platform and get yourself a limited edition KONTEKST t-shirt, tote bag or a sticker! All materials have been sourced ethically.
      Get Involved with KONTEKST! Booth
      Interested in the platform that we are building? Been thinking of joining a grassroots art collective? Pop by, ask questions, leave your details and come on board? :)
      brought by KONTEKST Collective
    • This year's KFF exhibition space explores the more-than-human entanglements through video, image, sounds and tactile installations. Come and learn about the entanglements through multiple senses.
      Featuring works by: Anouch Basbous (she/her), Anna Dossmann (they/he), Vianney Pétré (he/him), Snigda Rana (she/her), Nicola Renzi (he/him) & Mai Britt Utsi (she/her), Aria Danaparamita (they/them), Yunzhi/Melissa Li (she/her) and the Voicing Choir.
      Learn more →
    • 1h
      A meditative encounter with a seasonal plant of our lands.
      with Rasheeqa Ahmad (she/her) from Community Apothecary
      Learn more →
    • 1h
      In this talk, the artist duo Lerin/Hystad meets KONTEKST's Emelie Victoria for a discussion on their practice and what interdisciplinary artistic collaboration on ecologically engaged topics can look like. The dialogue centres space for interaction with the audience.
      with Simon Torssell Lerin (he/him) & Bettina Hvidevold Hystad (she/her) and Emelie Victoria (she/they)
      Learn more →
    • 2.5h
      KONTEKST is publishing our first ever collection of texts! We call it Texts in KONTEKST, and this first volume deals with the theme Entanglement. Hear from some of the writers and engage with the volume beyond the page in our symposium consisting of conversations between authors.
      Joining in person: Ella Frost (they/them), Rand Abdalqader (she/her), Rossella Sette (she/her)
      Joining online: Xena White (she/her), Rosa Prosser (she/her), Anna R. Japaridze (she/her), Lauren Facey (she/her), Bichen Xu (she/her)

      Editors of the publication facilitating the conversations: Emelie Victoria, Beatriz Urze, Sam McNeil, Gabrielė Žukauskaitė, Elena Botts
      Learn more →
    • 30min
      End the festival with us by checking in how the bacteria cultures from yesterday's "microbe sampling labs" have grown!
      with Yunzhi/Melissa Li (she/her) and KONTEKST Collective
      Learn more →
    • Not ready to go home? Join us for the official afterparty of KONTEKST Film Festival at COVEN!
      6:30pm–midnight · Coven Headquarters, 30 Old Compton Street, Soho, W1D 4UR (only 13min walk from Conway Hall).
      Discounted £5 entry for KFF2026 ticket holders who pre-book online. Otherwise £10 on the door.
      On the decks: midnightswami, mimi, petru b, skye, polly chronic.
      Please note that the afterparty tickets are separate from the film festival tickets. To enter with the discount, please have your festival ticket or stamp ready to show when you arrive at Coven.
      Learn more →

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:

GENERAL:

  • KFF (KONTEKST Film Festival) is a grassroots film festival that aims to platform works specifically by first-time, emerging and early-career filmmakers, artists and researchers, and use these works as activations for discussions about contemporary reality.

    ETHOS:

    KFF’s goal is to disrupt academic exclusivity by presenting critical knowledge through multimodal artistic practices. We want to challenge institutional authority in favour of more horizontal, anti-expert modes of knowledge exchange, and to curate the kinds of festival spaces that function not just as sites of exhibition but also sites for dialogue and open-ended research.

    Audience’s interactions with the showcased work, providing feedback on it, and the collective reflections that the work generates will be at the core of the festival experience - which is why in the open call we were particularly interested in receiving submissions from those emerging thinkers and makers who want to make a social impact through their proposed works.

    The festival is intended to be a space where new ‘critical friendships’ are formed, so that we can help one another grow long-term.

    CONTEXT-FOCUSED CURATION:

    The festival is an exercise in applying radical approaches to production rather than just focusing on the content of what we showcase. Lessons from visual anthropology taught us the importance of recognising the context from which one makes sense of the world - we think seeing and watching are political acts.

    The festival’s objective is then to platform not just works - but rather works-in-context. We see artworks not only as objects displayed in a gallery but rather as results of social relations which are enmeshed in their processes of creation and circulation.

    In other words, as curators, we are interested not only in what the work shows but in what it does in the world – why and how it was made,  what impact it seeks to create,  and the contexts it emerges from and speaks to.

    By doing so we aim to foster alternative understandings of ‘radical art’ centred around the social relations that art activates rather than displaying ‘radical’ art objects in a vacuum.

    These were some of the things that we will take into account seriously when programming the festival.

    GRASSROOPTS PLATFORM:

    KFF is intended to specifically platform those who have previously not had an opportunity to show their works publicly or do not have a substantial history of exhibiting. The idea is to pass the mic to talented critically-minded people who are not platformed by major institutions or have had no previous access to a bigger audience.

    We hope that KFF can serve as catalyst for the emerging thinkers and makers for the future developments of their practices, all whilst making us and the festival audience question and re-think how we experience being in the world.

    When possible, we want to dedicate the platform to work by thinkers and makers from communities that historically have been anthropology's subjects, but our platform is here for anyone and everyone who uses media to foster a fairer, more open society.

    All platformed artists are long-term invited to join our collective and uprise this shared platform with us. By doing so, we want to explore the possibilities of creating spaces collectively and in a horizontal way, rather than ‘giving voice’ to others - the way that many institutions do.

    LONG-TERM FOCUS:

    Hosting festivals creates high visibility and a momentum for the experimental and open-ended platform we are building long-term, which hopefully gets us one step closer to establishing an accessible and free infrastructure for grassroots art and organising that will last a long time.

  • The theme we have chosen for our 3rd film festival is ENTANGLEMENTS.

    This year, in the face of the worsening climate emergency and the rise of techno-fascism and extraction, we are looking to platform work that challenges the nature-culture binaries; that shows how humans, animals, plants, technology, and material culture are entangled, shape and impact each other; and that uncovers how exerting control over natural environment is also a way of controlling those who inhabit it.

    We will be presenting work that plays with ideas of kinship beyond the human, questions our assumptions about nature, and/or reveals hidden relationships between life, technology and power; and by doing so explore the possibilities of a more-than-human society.

    ENTANGLEMENTS tells many stories: stories of fluid boundaries between species, shifting and blurring as they move through the world, making and unmaking each other, transforming and becoming their environments.

    We especially want to be able to have conversations around the ethical, aesthetic, philosophical and political implications of these entanglements:

    • What does it mean to attempt to translate the experience of other species?

    • What  responsibilities do we have towards each other?

    • How can we interrogate anthropocentric taxonomies, categorisations and enforced binaries?

    • In what ways does technology influence the how we see our place in the world and connection to what surrounds us?

    • In what ways can ecology intersect with violence?

    • How are the discourses around nature be mobilised as tools for discrimination, control, colonisation or genocide?

    • And most importantly, how can we use film and multimodal artistic interventions as mediums for stretching and expanding towards a perspective that goes beyond the human, and to campaign for climate justice?

  • Open call

    The works platformed at KFF2026 were all submitted to us through the open call which lasted from February 19th until April 12th 2026.

    This time, we received over 250 submissions from more than 50 countries!

    Reviewing Process

    Each submission was initially screened by 3 members of the programming team on their eligibility across 5 categories:

    1. Engagement — Does the artist demonstrate the want to contribute to the context-focused space we aim to foster or do they just want to maximise reach of their art-object? Have their answers in the application form engaged with the objective of the festival?

    2. Theme — Does the theme of the artwork engage critically with the theme of entanglements?

    3. Emerging — Is this an emerging, first-time or early career filmmaker AND has the artwork not yet been a part of major showcases?

    4. AI use — Does the artwork rely on generative AI without critical engagement of its ethical and ecological dimensions? If the answers in the application form looked like they were AI generated, we asked the artists to re-submit the application.

    5. Representation — Does the artwork take in to account the ethics of representation of human and non-human beings? Does the artwork promote discriminatory views/values or reinforce a point of view that would be oppressive to some?

    Eligible submissions will then be reviewed by a diverse panel of volunteer reviewers composed of artists, filmmakers, researchers, and curators with expertise in more-than-human perspectives and interdisciplinary practices. Reviewers will not have access to applicants’ personal information during initial assessment. There were about 8 volunteers reviewing each film submission.

    Non-film submissions were not reviewed by the volunteer reviewers — the initial eligibility check and pre-selections were made over the course of 4 full-day meetings of the in-person programming team.

    Review criteria of all works focused on conceptual clarity, originality, how the work engaged with the program’s themes — particularly its attention to relationality, non-human collaboration, and approaches that challenge anthropocentric or colonial frameworks; as well as on the work’s potential of generating insightful conversations in the festival environment.


    Selection Process

    Films: After being reviewed by the committee, the films were selected by the KONTEKST programming team drawing on those reviews. The final selection did not depend on the films’ aesthetic quality or production value but rather their critical approach and concept.

    Non-films: After the round of pre-selections, the programming group met again 3 times to select the final line-up of works. All activity artists were spoken with during 1h video calls, in order to do a “vibe check” and expand on the ideas presented by them in the application.

    Overall:

    Our curation process was very though as our focus is not on curating artworks but social relations that these artworks enable. We call this ‘relational curating.’ The final selection was a result of many hours of conversations and mediation, both within the programming team and with the artists themselves.

  • We are collectively developing a photo and video policy to ensure the comfort and safety of our guests.

    We will update this section with more information soon.

  • The festival, apart from being a powerful standalone event, is also just one out of many exercises that we do as a collective to establish a grassroots platform for art and organising long-term. The festival creates a lot of momentum and connects new audiences (and future comrades) with our project.

    We see the festival as a momentary knot of the various paths of life in a shared space rather than a showcase of work, which is why we take aftercare seriously. After the festival takes place, as organisers we stay in touch with the artists and guests. The artists are invited for a debrief workshop where we connect with everyone who we platformed and exchange thoughts on how the event went. Many of our featured artists end up making long-term connections at our events and often work together on other projects after they are featured with us.

    We give an option to all of the artists to have their work featured in our open-access online archive to further boost its reach and social impact. All artists are also offered a spotlight page on our website if they would like to.

    As an open collective, we welcome those who participated in our events and engaged with our ethos to join us — as long as your goal is to work together towards establishing a free and accessible infrastructure for others to benefit from too, you are welcome on board! Please inquire in person if you are interested.

  • KONTEKST Film Festival is organised by KONTEKST Collective — an open and horizontal group of anthropologists, filmmakers, and artists committed to accessible, community-focused programming.

    We are building a grassroots-focused platform from scratch because we think that the current arts and knowledge production landscapes are rigged, and we believe that opportunities to present one’s work should not be gate-kept or fought for with others who don’t have the resources or contacts to get through the glass ceiling.

    This is why we hold spaces and create channels for the emerging artists, thinkers and makers to use, and we create accessible events for diverse audiences. ENTANGLEMENTS is curated collaboratively, with decisions made collectively by our group.

    We runs a digital platform with an online archive of all work we platform, organise year-round events screenings and workshops, and produce collaborative festivals bridging artistic practice, social research, and public engagement.

    KFF2026 is an exercise in the uprising of this grassroots platform. If you’d like to see how you can get involved with co-creating it with us, meet us at the festival and ask ahead.

    To get to know more about our values and mission, check out our manifesto.

  • Even though KFF2026 exists primarily thanks to our own volunteer effort, the festival could not take place without the support of our community, funders and partners.

    HOW WE FUND OURSELVES

    As a grassroots, volunteer-run collective, we fund KFF2026 through a mix of ticket sales, grants, in-kind partnerships and the generosity of our community. Ticket revenue goes towards venue and production costs, printing and accessibility provisions, while our grant funders and partners support specific parts of the programme, from the curated film block to festival printing, feedback materials, and access to space and equipment.

    CONWAY HALL

    Conway Hall is both our venue and a key in-kind supporter of KFF2026, hosting the festival in their historic Bloomsbury building. Their support covers a substantial part of what it takes to run a two-day festival in central London, and their partnership has helped us reach and grow a more diverse audience, alongside supporting the festival's growth more broadly.

    AHRC CHASE & MBILI CHARITABLE TRUST

    AHRC CHASE's grant supports our curated film blocks, as well as core production essentials including festival printing and merchandise. This event has also been advertised within the CHASE network. This has enabled us to meet the administrative and logistical needs of facilitating a public-facing arts event that platforms early-career artists.

    Mbili Charitable Trust's grant is dedicated to the printed materials that shape how audiences engage with the work on show, from feedback programmes to the keyword posters guiding our exhibition space. Their support helps us keep the festival experience tactile, reflective and rooted in dialogue.

    GOLDSMITHS CENTRE FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY

    We're proud to partner with the Goldsmiths Centre for Visual Anthropology (CVA) programme, whose support this year has included production and equipment access, use of their space and network, and connection to their wider community. Through their mailing list, CVA helped us with reaching out to current students and staff of Goldsmiths, University of London, who could support as part of our film reviewing committee, our postering team, and on-the-day volunteer team. They also have platformed this event in their communications channels.

    As part of this partnership, Lee Douglas, lecturer and convenor of the MA Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths, ran a practical workshop for our Publication editorial team, sharing guidance on peer review, editorial structures and independent publishing as we prepare to issue our first KONTEKST volume - an edited collection of essays by emerging thinkers and researchers, launching at this year's Festival.

    WANT TO SUPPORT US?

    This is the community that makes KFF2026 possible, and there's always room to grow it. If you'd like to support KONTEKST beyond attending the festival, through a donation, sponsorship or partnership,get in touch or visit ourSupport Us page.

PRACTICAL:

  • We have a safer spaces policy in place to ensure the health and wellbeing of our guests.

    Entering KONTEKST Film Festival 2026 will be subject to you making yourself familiar with the ground rules and agreeing on them. If you do not agree with the rules, you will not be allowed to enter.

    If you come inside but ignore these rules or are caught breaking them, you will be asked to leave the venue and will not be allowed to attend any future KONTEKST events. If anyone is made to feel unsafe, as organisers, we are here to de-escalate and will not hesitate to remove anyone exhibiting behaviour that makes others uncomfortable or fearful.

    Please see the ground rules below:


    PHOTO POLICY:

    1. We have a strict visual data protection photo policy. This is to ensure the safety and privacy of those attending our events, protecting their identity and how it is used online. Feel free to take photos of installations and the space, but make sure to not capture other attendees’ identifiable characteristics, such as faces and tattoos, unless you have asked and received an explicit consent from them.

      Disclaimer: We will have event photographers in attendance, but please note that we will not be posting identifiable images of people, and will be obscuring attendees’ faces.

      The reasons for us adopting this policy is because we do not agree with the normalisation of online content being used for surveillance without consent, and we are not able to ensure that what we post would be secure. We also don’t want our festival guests to feel like their presence is used for content. As a collective, we are not afraid to do things a bit differently, even if that goes against the rules of the algorithms.

    HEALTH & SAFETY:

    1. If you have symptoms of Covid or of any other contagious illnesses, please do not attend this event. If you require a face mask, you can grab one from the Welcome Desk.

    CODE OF CONDUCT:

    1. We do not tolerate any behaviour or language that perpetuates oppression at our events. This includes, but is not limited to: xenophobia, racism, sexism, ableism, ageism, queerphobia, transphobia, homophobia, fatphobia, misogyny, zionism, islamophobia, antisemitism, casteism and classism.

    2. Open inquiry and criticality require respect and consideration for differences in opinion. Feel free to make conversation, but remember to communicate respectfully and be aware of other people’s boundaries.

    3. Consider your positionality. Some people are made to feel like by default they can take more space, without consideration of others. When engaging in conversations, remember to recognise your privilege and check the space you are taking up: allow time for others to speak, and question your perspective. Make sure to not speak over or interrupt others.

    4. Do not assume people’s pronouns, ask respectfully if you are unsure instead of guessing.

    5. Remember that not all disabilities are visible or conform to perpetuated narratives of disability. Be kind and considerate to others and the space people may need, don’t assume their requirements or lack thereof.

    ACTIVE BYSTANDING:

    1. If you see that these rules are not lived up to - inform our staff at the Welcome Desk – we’re ready to step in and help out.

    Let’s take care of each other!

  • The festival will take place on the 18th and 19th of July, 2026 at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL London.

    Festival duration:

    • Saturday 18th: 13:00-22:30

    • Sunday 19th: 13:00-18:00

    Not ready to go home? Join us for a boogie and at the KFF2026 Official Afterparty at Coven Headquarters on Sunday 19th, starting 7pm and finishing 1am. Ticket link coming soon! Address: 30 Old Compton Street, 30 Old Compton Street, W1D 4UR (13min walk from Conway Hall).

  • Tickets are live now and can be purchased via this link.

    Saturday 18th July (main festival day) is the only day that is ticketed. The entry on Sunday 19th July is free so you don’t require getting a ticket if you’re coming just for Sunday.

    We recommend booking the tickets online in advance to make sure you get a spot at the festival, as our previous events sold out. If we have more free tickets, these will be available at the door on the day of the event.

    We have a tiered ticketing system and we kindly ask you to select the most expensive ticket you can comfortably afford. — This is because the higher priced tickets is what makes concessions possible. We are also organising the festival fully voluntarily and we will use the ticket revenue to cover for the costs of printing and venue’s staff.

    • £22 SUPPORTER — Standard entry + donation. On the door price £23 and up (you can choose the amount you’d like to donate).

    • £14 STANDARD — General admission. On the door price: £13.

    • £8 STUDENT — For students in full-time education only. On the door price: £9.

    • £7 LIVING SUPPORT — For individuals in receipt of Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payments, Universal Credit, or other government-provided living support. On the door price: £8.

    (These prices include the £2 venue levy)

    It is important for us to ensure that ticket costs do not stop anyone from attending our event. We will have a limited number of complimentary tickets available for those who feel they may struggle to afford a ticket. Please reach out to info@conwayhall.org.uk with a request.


    AFTERPARTY: £5 for the festival ticket holders who pre-book online, otherwise £10 on the door.

    Please note that the ticket to the afterparty is separate from the festival ticket. Proof of festival attendance (such as your ticket or the stamp you get at the Welcome Desk) will be needed to be let in with a discount.

  • The full address for the festival venue is: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL London.

    Please be aware that the entrance to the venue is from the Red Lion Square side — the door facing Theobalds Road is a fire door that will be closed!

    The best ways to get to the festival is:

    BY TUBE: The closest tube stations are:

    1. Holborn (Central and Piccadilly lines) - 5min walk

    2. Chancery Lane (Central line) - 9min walk

    3. Russell Square (Piccadilly line) - 13min walk

    4. Tottenham Court Road (Elizabeth, Central and Northern lines) - 14min walk


    BY BUS:

    • Buses 19, 38, 55 and 243 stop directly in front of the venue at the Red Lion Street bus stop at Theobalds Road.

    • Buses 8, 59 and 133 stop at the Holborn station bus stop at High Holborn.

    BY BIKE: There are a few bike racks available directly in front of the venue. There are also more bike racks around the area.

  • Welfare:

    Hand sanitiser, face masks and foam earplugs will be available for festival guests at the welcome desk.

    We will have designated welfare officers monitoring the venue throughout the festival. Our welfare officers will be there to support you if you feel unwell, if someone makes you uncomfortable or you just need to talk. In case you are unable to locate one of them, please inquire at the welcome desk.

    Reasonable adjustments for neurodiverse guests:

    We will have a dedicated quiet space in Conway Hall’s library. Visitors will be reminded to not make unnecessary noise and be mindful of those who entered this space to take a break from the sensory stimulation.

    If the library environment is not sufficient, please let us know at the tickets/info desk and we will assist you with an alternative.

    Please note that unfortunately library is not wheelchair accessible. Please see the point below for more information.

    Step-free access:

    We will have a space allocated for wheelchair users for the events taking place in the Main Hall and accommodate guests on wheelchairs during sign-up workshops.

    All the ground-floor rooms of Conway Hall are fully accessible by wheelchair. Main Hall (street access, step-free), Brockway Room (street access, step-free), Bertrand Russell Room (street access, shallow ramp) and Conway Cafe (street access, step-free). There is also an accessible toilet on the ground floor opposite the Brockway Room.

    Unfortunately, due to the age and Grade II listing of the building, there is no lift access to rooms above the ground floor, including the library and the balcony seating in the Main Hall. If you’d like to explore the library’s archives and the Electronic Flora installation, please inquire at the tickets/info desk and we will bring these down to you. The library will work as a quiet space during the festival Saturday so in case you are unable to access it, we will either recommend you unwinding at the Red Lion Square located right in front of the venue, or we can accommodate you in the Brockway Room when there are no workshops happening there.

    Seating adjustments:

    We will have cushions available upon request for guests who might find chair surfaces too hard. Please inquire at the tickets/info desk.

    Hard of Hearing:

    Most of the video work featured at KONTEKST Film Festival 2026 will have closed captions in English. The details will be indicated in the programme closer to the festival.

    If you have hearing loss and wear a hearing aid, the Main Hall and Brockway Room have induction loops fitted which feed straight from the PA system or use ambient sound in smaller rooms.

    Toilets:

    All of the festival toilets will be designated as gender neutral.

  • There will snacks and drinks available at the festival Saturday 18 July at the Conway Hall Cafe, inside the venue. Apart from that, there will be a water dispenser located in the middle of the venue, next to the Brockway room with free drinking water.

    The time between 5-6pm will be set aside as the dinner break, during which festival guests are encouraged to grab some food from one of the food places in the area.

    For those staying in the venue during dinner break, we will be having an experimental music piece in the Main Hall.

  • To finish off the festival weekend, we invite you to join us for the official afterparty of KFF2026. The party is a collaboration between KONTEKST Collective and our twin project  jonga☆sani radio.


    DATE & TIME: Sunday 19 July, 7pm-1am

    DIRECTIONS: Coven Headquarters, 30 Old Compton Street, W1D 4UR (Soho). Only 13min walk from Conway Hall.

    TICKETS: Tickets to the afterparty are separate from the festival tickets and can be purchased via DICE.

    • Discounted £5 entry to the KFF2026 ticket holders who pre-book online. Otherwise it’s £10 on the door.

    • To enter with the discount, please have your festival ticket or stamp ready to show when you arrive at Coven.

    LINE-UP: The party is a collaboration between KONTEKST Collective and jonga☆sani radio. Check out previous jonga☆sani sets in their online archive.