When her archaeologist father disappears on an expedition, Wanda sets out to look for him. What she finds is a secret underground world, where no one believes in life on the surface and where she and her father are taken for spies. Albert Pyun’s Alien from L.A. is a great showcase of some of his more subversive ideas, a primary one being his engagement with subterranean worlds and the cultural possibilities they evoke. Pyun’s recurring fascination with underground societies frames the film’s lost city of Atlantis not only as fantasy spectacle, but a metaphor for countercultural spaces; self-contained ecosystems operating outside dominant norms. In this sense, the film resonates strongly with the communal, often marginal environments of video stores and genre fandoms, where alternative canons and identities flourish beneath the mainstream surface. The film’s protagonist, a classic Pyun leading woman, further reinforces this ethos. Her awkwardness, distinctive voice and transformation from outsider to agent of disruption undermine traditional heroic archetypes, aligning her with figures who inhabit and ultimately redefine fringe cultural spaces, positioning her as a bridge between surface-level conformity and underground resistance that borders on ‘punk’. Indeed, even aesthetically, Pyun’s work embraces a lo-fi, handmade sensibility: theatrical production design, exaggerated performances, and stylised lighting produce a dreamlike artificiality. This aesthetic amplifies the film’s thematic concerns, presenting Atlantis as both a literal and symbolic constructed world. At TFFF, we praise Pyun’s singular vision, but also the enduring creative power of cinematic spaces that exist defiantly outside the mainstream. This screening will be preceded by an intro. The Final Film Festival is a multi-venue event comprised of new independent releases from across the world, exciting and unusual repertory presentations and emerging artists from the UK and beyond. TFFF was created by independent film programmers Jack Hewitt and Kit Ramsay, for more information including the entire programme, please see tfffestival.co.uk or @Tff_Festival on Instagram.

Craig Alexander, a con-man 'psychic' on the carnival circuit receives the opportunity to pilfer some legendary rubies in Kenya. His luck holds and he winds up the sole beneficiary of the ill-gotten wealth, which he parlays into an astrological broadcasting empire. But once he reaches the top, there’s only one direction he can go... This screening will be preceded by an intro. The Final Film Festival is a multi-venue event comprised of new independent releases from across the world, exciting and unusual repertory presentations and emerging artists from the UK and beyond. TFFF was created by independent film programmers Jack Hewitt and Kit Ramsay, for more information including the entire programme, please see tfffestival.co.uk or @Tff_Festival on Instagram.

Roy Orbison changed rock and roll with soft-country ballads like 'In Dreams', but only made one foray into movies. The Fastest Guitar Alive is as wild as its star: part Western, part musical comedy, part Confederate-spy caper. Orbison hides a gun in his guitar, sneaks behind Union lines, and sets out to steal a mess of gold in this bizarro slice of 1960s pop cinema. Join film publication Cinema Year Zero as they launch their new issue 'Totally Spies' with a rare screening of this bonanza caper. Your ticket includes a free print copy of the magazine. The Final Film Festival is a multi-venue event comprised of new independent releases from across the world, exciting and unusual repertory presentations and emerging artists from the UK and beyond. TFFF was created by independent film programmers Jack Hewitt and Kit Ramsay, for more information including the entire programme, please see tfffestival.co.uk or @Tff_Festival on Instagram.

Introducing the campiest superhero to hit the big screen since the 60s! Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes is a science-fiction parody that tributes films, comic books and television programs in the science-fiction and fantasy genres. It is an action-adventure story of an original comic book superhero, and treats the audience to 20 familiar science-fiction and fantasy faces. How many celebrities do you recognize? It’s an all-new high for low-budget camp! This screening will be followed by a video Q&A with actor Vincent J. Roth. The Final Film Festival is a multi-venue event comprised of new independent releases from across the world, exciting and unusual repertory presentations and emerging artists from the UK and beyond. TFFF was created by independent film programmers Jack Hewitt and Kit Ramsay, for more information including the entire programme, please see tfffestival.co.uk or @Tff_Festival on Instagram.

After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in a bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and cannibals. They become famous detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear weapon. Albert Pyun draws on the pop cultural ocean to consistently bring us cinema that can only be described as imaginary. Concocting hazy dreams of half-remembered tropes, lurid boxart and hyper violence (with a handful of pet interests sprinkled throughout his filmography), Pyun’s body of work could have only been spawned from the world of VHS home entertainment. Radioactive Dreams is no exception (it’s in the name); what other filmmaker could make something so charmingly earnest out of the pop-cultural detritus of post-Cold War America, with allusions to all manner of influences both in homage and plagiaristic tones. Understanding that the dawn of the 'movie buff' was on its way, Pyun paved the way for high concept, immediately recognisable tape-bound narratives to rot the brains of 14 year-old comic obsessives, a storm drain of pulp fictions that are rendered very genuinely apocalyptic and crude. This screening will be preceded by an intro. The Final Film Festival is a multi-venue event comprised of new independent releases from across the world, exciting and unusual repertory presentations and emerging artists from the UK and beyond. TFFF was created by independent film programmers Jack Hewitt and Kit Ramsay, for more information including the entire programme, please see tfffestival.co.uk or @Tff_Festival on Instagram.

The Final Film Festival presents a special contemporary Surprise Screening in partnership with East London’s Castle Cinema. The Final Film Festival is a multi-venue event comprised of new independent releases from across the world, exciting and unusual repertory presentations and emerging artists from the UK and beyond. TFFF was created by independent film programmers Jack Hewitt and Kit Ramsay, for more information including the entire programme, please see tfffestival.co.uk or @Tff_Festival on Instagram.

Three soon-to-be college graduates become entangled in an absurd plot involving their professor’s run for mayor, an Elvis impersonator, and a group of radical artists. Patrick Gray and Adrian Anderson dare to ask what few filmmakers have thought to: 'Would Freud like Vermont?' Pomp and Circumstance, the second feature from low-budget cinema champions NoBudge, finds itself at the end of the world: Burlington, Vermont. A film preoccupied with the simulacrum of revolution - protest, art and imitation - it tumbles through pseudo-intellectual debates and cultural anxieties, feeling like the unlikely collision of Richard Linklater, Whit Stillman and Hal Hartley. If nothing else is clear, it’s that the film’s most rewarding quality is its insistence on community: a work designed to be discovered, debated and argued over with friends. An endless cinematic tour through time, Pomp and Circumstance captures the particular malaise of a generation caught between ambition, exhaustion and the search for individuality. TFFF are delighted to bring Anderson and Gray’s film, and its fresh coat of zillennial anxiety, across the Atlantic to an audience of Bethlehem slouchers and devotees of undergraduate brainrot. This UK Premiere will be followed by Q&A with director Adrian Anderson. The Final Film Festival is a multi-venue event comprised of new independent releases from across the world, exciting and unusual repertory presentations and emerging artists from the UK and beyond. TFFF was created by independent film programmers Jack Hewitt and Kit Ramsay, for more information including the entire programme, please see tfffestival.co.uk or @Tff_Festival on Instagram.

After a man murders his wealthy father, mysterious things begin to occur in the house where the man must live in order to claim the dead man’s inheritance. This screening will be preceded by an intro. The Final Film Festival is a multi-venue event comprised of new independent releases from across the world, exciting and unusual repertory presentations and emerging artists from the UK and beyond. TFFF was created by independent film programmers Jack Hewitt and Kit Ramsay, for more information including the entire programme, please see tfffestival.co.uk or @Tff_Festival on Instagram.