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€12
One screening, any venue. Under-26s pay €8 at the door with ID.
- Unreserved seating
- Q&A if the director is in
14th edition · Haverlund harbour · 5 to 14 November 2026
Longshotfilm festival
Six first films hang in the dark ahead of you. Scroll to walk the corridor, click any screen to see when it plays.
End of reel one
Forty-one more films
wait below the corridor
Reel one · Competition
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Six films, six screens, one long corridor
Film 01 · Competition
Parquet
Laurent Vasseur-Bell · 111 min · Belgium
Film 02 · Competition
Four Hundred Dry Miles
Nadia Farrokh · 97 min · Tunisia, France
Film 03 · Competition
Umbrella Weather
Park Seo-yun · 102 min · South Korea
Film 04 · Competition
The Warm Room
Aino Lehtisalo · 79 min · Finland
Film 05 · Competition
The Fern Line
Tomasi Reyes-Holm · 88 min · New Zealand
Film 06 · Competition
The Lamp Room
Owen Harrowgate · 94 min · Ireland
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Schedule, venues and passes below
Why it is called Longshot
Longshot only programmes first and second features. Of 1,412 films sent to us this year we chose six to compete, and four of those directors had never stood on a set before.
Maud Ekwall, festival director
Ten nights, six of them big
The schedule, step by step
Every competition film screens twice, once in a big room and once in a small one. Seat counts update at noon each day.
- Thu5 NovOpening night
- 19:30ParquetThe Palisade42 seats
- 22:15Umbrella WeatherShed Four118 seats
- Sat7 NovFamily matinee
- 14:00The Fern LineThe Bellwether12 seats
- 20:00Four Hundred Dry MilesRoof Garden96 seats
- Mon9 NovDirectors in the room
- 18:30The Warm RoomThe Bellwether31 seats
- 21:00ParquetShed Four204 seats
- Wed11 NovMidweek
- 17:00Four Hundred Dry MilesThe Bellwether8 seats
- 20:30The Lamp RoomThe Palisade377 seats
- Fri13 NovAfter dark
- 19:00Umbrella WeatherRoof Garden140 seats
- 23:00The Warm RoomShed Four66 seats
- Sat14 NovClosing night
- 18:00The Lamp RoomShed Four51 seats
- 20:30The Fern LineThe Palisade213 seats
Four rooms, one harbour
Everything is a walk apart
Passes on sale now
Pick how deep you go
Night Reel
€38
Every screening after 18:00 on one night, across all four rooms.
- Walk between venues, doors held 10 min
- One drink at Shed Four
- Most chosen last year
Full Run
€165
All ten days, a reserved row at the Palisade and the closing night party.
- Vote in the audience award
- Early entry, every room
- Limited to 300
Film 01 of 06 · Competition
Parquet
The Alder Rooms ballroom comes down at dawn. The couple who won its last competition, in 1961, let themselves in to finish the dance.
- Director
- Laurent Vasseur-Bell
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Country
- Belgium
- Language
- French, English
Programmer's note
Shot in the real building eleven days before demolition. The crew had one follow spot and the floor was already lifting at the corners.
Screenings
- Thu 5 Nov19:30The Palisade42 seats left
- Mon 9 Nov21:00Shed Four204 seats left
Film 02 of 06 · Competition
Four Hundred Dry Miles
A retired mechanic drives his late brother's coupe across the dunes to return it to a woman neither of them ever mentioned.
- Director
- Nadia Farrokh
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Country
- Tunisia, France
- Language
- Arabic, French
Programmer's note
Farrokh drove the route herself three times before shooting. The coupe broke down twice on camera and both takes are in the film.
Screenings
- Sat 7 Nov20:00Roof Garden96 seats left
- Wed 11 Nov17:00The Bellwether8 seats left
Film 03 of 06 · Competition
Umbrella Weather
A night-shift translator waits at the same crossing every evening for the stranger who once shared her umbrella.
- Director
- Park Seo-yun
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Country
- South Korea
- Language
- Korean
Programmer's note
Every exterior was shot between 2am and 5am in real rain. The production owned four umbrellas and lost three of them.
Screenings
- Thu 5 Nov22:15Shed Four118 seats left
- Fri 13 Nov19:00Roof Garden140 seats left
Film 04 of 06 · Competition
The Warm Room
Two estranged sisters share an ice-fishing hut on a lake that is supposed to thaw in six days.
- Director
- Aino Lehtisalo
- Runtime
- 79 min
- Country
- Finland
- Language
- Finnish
Programmer's note
A first feature made by a crew of five on a frozen lake, with the hut heated by a single stove that also had to power the monitor.
Screenings
- Mon 9 Nov18:30The Bellwether31 seats left
- Fri 13 Nov23:00Shed Four66 seats left
Film 05 of 06 · Competition
The Fern Line
A nine-year-old maps the forest behind his grandmother's house while the logging trucks move closer, one fern at a time.
- Director
- Tomasi Reyes-Holm
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Country
- New Zealand
- Language
- English, Te Reo
Programmer's note
Cast from a school in the valley where it was filmed. Nobody in the film had acted before, including the grandmother.
Screenings
- Sat 7 Nov14:00The Bellwether12 seats left
- Sat 14 Nov20:30The Palisade213 seats left
Film 06 of 06 · Competition
The Lamp Room
The last keeper of an automated lighthouse climbs the tower every night anyway, because nobody told the light it could stop.
- Director
- Owen Harrowgate
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Country
- Ireland
- Language
- English
Programmer's note
Harrowgate is sixty-three and this is his first film. He spent thirty years as a ferry engineer and wrote it on the night crossings.
Screenings
- Wed 11 Nov20:30The Palisade377 seats left
- Sat 14 Nov18:00Shed Four51 seats left