Harvest Film Festival programme
This programme is currently subject to minor alterations – for exact timings please check back nearer the date of the festival.
Harvest Film Festival 2026 – Apocalyptic Visions is guest curated by the West Dorset arts collective Chasing Cow Productions. Members of the group are working on their first feature film (Elecampane) and have put together a programme reflecting the world of the film – where medieval cosmology and folklore collides with climate shocks and social transformation.
BARN
11.05 – 11.50 Brink by Brink (2020) – Chasing Cow Productions (45 mins)
13.15 – 14.15 Going to the Pictures: Facing fear in the medieval painted church – Talk by Dr. Miriam Gill
14.30 – 16.15 The Little Hours (2017) – dir. Jeff Baena (91 mins)
16.30 – 17.15 How it feels when worlds end – Talk by Dr. Susannah Crockford
17.30 – 19.30 – The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) – dir. Val Guest (98 mins), introduced by novelist Raffaella Barker
19.30 – 20.30pm – Dinner & live music
20.30 – 22.00 – Live music continues
WOOD SHED
11.05 – 12.30 The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) – dir. Roberto Rossellini (85 mins)
14.30 – 16.00 Winstanley (1975) – dir. Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo (95 mins)
+ Land-Slip (2023), dir. Fred Warren (3 mins)
17.30 – 19.30 – TBD
CATTLE SHED
Elecampane exhibition
SURVIVAL LIBRARY
Past Harvest Film Festival competition screenings
REFRESHMENTS
12.00 – 13.00 – Lunch
19.30 – 20.30pm – Dinner (& live music)
Tea & coffee available throughout the day
Plus an evening bar