Screenings begin at 5:00 p.m.
Foodcourt 7:15 p.m.
Concert Coda Nomada 8:00 p.m.
Opening ceremony at 9:30 p.m.
DAYDREAMING
Wednesday, 5:00 p.m. / 26’29 Brazil
Real. Cesinha FELICIANO
Prod. Cesinha FELICIANO
« Daydreaming » is a 26-minute short film born out of the friendship between the writer and surfer Vovô Balian and the filmmaker Cesinha Feliciano. The film depicts the lives of Vovô and his long-time friend João Maria Lima along Portugal’s gentle west coast.
With a narrative that weaves together poetic reveries and intimate reflections, Daydreaming reminds us just how precious our connection to the art of surfing the waves is, and how this salty love inspires, nourishes and challenges us – not only as surfers, but as thinking beings.
After all, would we be who we are and where we are without such a love to guide us?
HOTPIPE HILLBILLIES
Wednesday, 5:35 p.m. / 25’21 UK
Real. Stephanie Joy HUBBARD
Prod. Clare Hannah VENTHAM
« Hotpipe Hillbillies » is a documentary about community, resilience and the ability to find joy in the most unlikely places. Set against the backdrop of Shoreham’s industrial coastline, a motley crew of surfers gather around a spillpipe to ride waves that are often choppy, capricious and fleeting.
It’s not Cornwall. It’s certainly not California. But for this group, it’s home.
With humour, tenacity and an irrepressible love of surfing, they reveal what it means to find one’s place in the water — and why it is passion, not perfection, that drives us back into the water.
ABIDING MADEIRA
Wednesday, 6:05 p.m. / 49’ Portugal
Real. João MONGE
Prod. João MONGE, Andre CARVALHO, José VALENTE
« Abiding Madeira » explores the presence of surfer Alex Botelho on the island that has shaped him. In Madeira, the waves, the rock and the water have been sculpting the landscape for millennia. On this scale, human presence becomes fleeting.
The film shifts the focus of the narrative. This is not the story of a man confronting the ocean, but that of a human body existing within a system far older than itself.
Between sea, stone and memory, time stretches beyond the human rhythm. The island does not react. It does not respond. It simply carries on.
What remains is not a conquest, but a coexistence.
Surf2026
Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. / 54’20 Australia
Real. Clare CONWAY
Prod. Aurora FERNÁNDEZ CANTABRANA, Isabel Ana GISTAU RETES, Caroline PINTER
Two friends united by their love of the ocean are attempting a world first: turning disused wind turbine blades into surfboards. This experiment is then put to the ultimate test in the formidable waves off the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.
OUT OF LINE
Wednesday, 9:45 p.m. / 37’40 France
Real. Pierre FRECHOU
Prod. OXBOW
On 14 January 2025, Vincent Duvignac fell in a barrel and fractured his cervical vertebrae. A legend of the Landes sandbanks, Duvi had spotted and surfed this secret spot several times. A fleeting beach break, the sort he had surfed hundreds of times in his life. But on that day, his career took a dramatic turn. Forcing him to take a new path: the path back to the water, in search of his unique style and the self-confidence to surf barrels as only he knows how.
For several months, director Pierre Frechou followed Duvi closely, capturing his private life and his struggle to return, perhaps one day, to the very top. A 37-minute documentary that reflects Vincent’s character – sincere and passionate – with preview screenings in Hossegor, Biarritz, Bordeaux, Paris and at his home in Léon at the Natura surf shop.
JACK JOHNSON SURFILMUSIC
Wednesday, 10:30 p.m. / 75’ USA
Real. Emmett MALLOY
Prod. Daniel PAPPAS
The documentary traces Jack Johnson’s rise, from making surf videos with his friends on Oahu’s North Shore to becoming one of the most recognisable voices in modern music.
Before his chart-topping career, Jack was known as a promising surfer and filmmaker, capturing his friends — some of the world’s best surfers — on 16mm film in « Thicker Than Water » and « The September Sessions ». These surf films helped redefine modern surf culture. What began as a visual exploration of the ocean and friendship evolved when Johnson started recording songs for his soundtracks. These songs resonated far beyond the world of surfing, launching a musical career rooted in creativity, community and the rhythm of the sea.
