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We're Looking for New Trustees and Committee Members

We're looking for new people to help shape the festival.

As LandxSea grows, so does our need for brilliant people to guide, support, and help steer the ship.

We’re currently recruiting for two key volunteer roles: Charity Trustees and Festival Committee Members.

  • We're Looking for New Trustees and Committee Members

    We're looking for new people to help shape the festival.

    As LandxSea grows, so does our need for brilliant people to guide, support, and help steer the ship.

    We’re currently recruiting for two key volunteer roles: Charity Trustees and Festival Committee Members.

  • Now Booking! LandxSea Monthly: PAID IN BLOOD + Q&A

    Plus other recommendations for November in our community newsletter:

    Meet Angus-based director Byron Pace, in conversation with journalist Davy Shanks at our November LandxSea Monthly screening.

    In 2019, in a groundbreaking operation, Wildlife Vets Namibia partnered with Parc de la Vallée de la N'Sele and Mount Etjo to relocate an elephant family from Namibia to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

  • Our 2025 LandxSea Film Festival Programme is LIVE!

    It's finally here! After months of careful curation, passionate discussions, and far too much coffee, we're thrilled to unveil our most ambitious LandxSea Film Festival programme yet! Three days of cinema and community to spark your imagination, fire up your curiousity, and ignite your activist heart!

    Browse our films and events, and book tickets! 🎟️

  • Rivers & Tides: 25th Anniversary Screening on 18 August

    Can't wait until festival time? We have a fantastic treat for you in the meantime. Our August LandxSea Monthly screening at Montrose Playhouse is a very special, 25th anniversary screening of RIVERS & TIDES: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time, by Thomas Riedelsheimer.

  • LandxSea Film Festival Opening Night: Lost for Words by Hannah Papacek Harper

    Ahead of our full programme announcement on 6th August, we're delighted to reveal our Opening Night film of LandxSea Film Festival 2025: The Scottish Premiere of Hannah Papacek Harper's debut feature documentary LOST FOR WORDS.

    An odyssey across the United Kingdom, Lost for Words celebrates our relationship with nature through diverse voices while actively reshaping our anthropocentric point of view with a poetic and scientific approach.

    Using Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris's bestselling book The Lost Words as inspiration, Lost for Words journeys around the UK exploring how communities connect with nature as the vocabulary we use to describe our environment is slowly being erased from our language.

  • Now Booking: A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

    We're busy behind the scenes getting ready for this year's LandxSea Film Festival (12-14 September), but in the meantime we've got another fantastic LandxSea Monthly screening for you this July at Montrose Playhouse! A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things is Mark Cousins's majestic documentary about painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, narrated by Tilda Swinton.

  • Vacancy: Sea Change Artist — Montrose

    Apply now for this exciting role as Sea Change artist in Montrose!

    The role will support a creative practitioner to build understanding of how climate change is affecting the local area, to work with decisionmakers to learn from lived experience and local expertise, and to evaluate art-based work on climate change in the local context.

    This is a salaried, fixed-term, part-time position, and the application deadline is 9am, Monday 2 June.

     

  • Book Now: Make it to Munich Film + Q&A

    Book your ticket for our special filmmaker Q&A screening on 12 June!

    MAKE IT TO MUNICH follows aspiring Scottish footballer Ethan Walker, whose dreams of playing were shattered by a life-threatening accident, but then went on to make an extraordinary, and defiant, recovery.

  • Spring Stories, Bold Ideas

    May is shaping up to be a big month at LandxSea. We've got an exclusive preview of a powerful new documentary, an inspiring creative climate event here in Montrose, and much more. Read on and join us!

  • LandxSea Monthly presents: HARVEST - Sneak Peek Premiere

    Introducing LandxSea Monthly: Join us for the first screening in our new year-round film series at Montrose Playhouse on 3rd April.

    Be among the first to see HARVEST before its official cinema release! Following its acclaimed Scottish Premiere at Glasgow Film Festival, this gripping, folk horror-inflected drama from director Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier, Attenberg) is a striking portrait of land, power, and displacement—themes that resonate deeply in today’s ecological crisis.