19 November @ 18:45 – 22:00

Date: Thursday 19 November
Time: Doors from 6:45pm | Screenings start 7.30pm prompt
Location: SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, Peckham, London, SE15 4NP
Admission: £9 general admission / £7 concessions
For Night 3 of SET Film Festival 2026, SET presents a series of films that use mysticism and iconography to traverse the unknowable terrains of grief, nostalgia and longing. Through talismans and offerings, trances and spells, they probe dislocating encounters with the divine, while seeking ways to commune with the past and imagine the future.
What does it mean to be satisfied with that which cannot be discerned? How can we welcome the mystifying and inexplicable? Embracing the enigmatic rather than seeking to resolve it, these films ask what it means to place our faith in the unseen and the unknown.
Doors open at 6.45pm. The screening will begin promptly at 7.30pm and will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers, hosted by Amina Ali.
Films in the programme
Corral de Tigres

Juan Ignacio Slobayen | 2026 | 12 min
Set in the Yverá Wetlands of Concepción del Yaguareté Corá, Argentina, Corral de Tigres explores the meeting point between popular devotion and the natural landscape. Tracing a spiritual and territorial cartography, the film reveals a landscape in which faith, memory and nature are deeply intertwined.
Obscura

Timoteus Anggawan Kusno | 2026 | 14 min
Haunted by nostalgia for a place they have never known, a group of gallery workers steal a Mooi Indië landscape painting and drive towards the sea. The painting belongs to a colonial image-world that imagined the Indies as serene, tropical and ripe for longing. Along the way, keroncong songs, staged colonial archives and figures from another time begin to intrude on their escape. What begins as a casual theft becomes a passage through trance, possession and inherited memory, as the fantasy of a colonial paradise reveals itself to be seductive, unstable and impossible to own.
An Investigation into the Noseless Saint

Caitlin Hazell | 2026 | 4 min
Narrated by historian John Chatham, whose research explores pilgrimage and power in the 14th century, this whimsical and staccato short delves into the medieval mania surrounding nose loss and other bodily fears. Shot and hand-developed on 35mm, it moves between artefacts and fantasy, playing with ideas of distortion and existence beyond the physical realm.
Wales Visitation

Sadia Pineda Hameed | 2026 | 16 min
Retracing Allen Ginsberg’s 1967 ‘trip’ to the Llanthony Valley, Wales Visitation attempts to channel the poet and reconstruct his route through enactments, alignments and apparitions. Using clues gleaned from Ginsberg’s poem of the same name, the film unfolds as a semiotic trail where the filmmaker’s encounters echo and accumulate.
Handheld footage of tourists, sleeping horses, birdcalls and day/night cycles signpost a route as it begins to form. At once a diary, a dramatisation and a spiritual road movie, Wales Visitation traces not a fixed path, but the conditions under which something might be asked to return.
A Story, An Invocation, An Opening

Rhiana Bonterre | 2025 | 5 min
Developed through somatic, intuitive dance workshops with a group of global majority participants, the film brings together family archive footage of Trinidad Carnival and sonic rhythms from the region to summon a ghostly presence representative of personal and collective anxieties and transgenerational trauma. Through sound and movement, it conjures a sensorial ritual from the stories held in the body and the spectres they manifest.
Samba Infinita

Leonardo Martinelli | 2025 | 15 min
During Rio’s Carnival, a street cleaner struggles to balance the loss of his sister with the demands of his work. Amid the celebrations, he encounters a lost child and sets out to help him find his way home.
Tickets and booking
- General admission: £9
- Concessions: £7
- Festival passes: £32 for one or £52 for two
Each ticket includes a printed programme. Festival passes cover six screening nights, including the online screening, with only 30 passes available. You don’t need to be a SET Social member to attend; SET Social members can access concession prices.
Visiting the festival
SET Film Festival’s in-person screenings take place at SET Social in Peckham. For information about venue access, facilities and transport, visit SET Social’s accessibility page.
If you have access needs or questions specific to the festival, contact filmfestival@setspace.uk.
About SET Film Festival 2026
Founded in 2023, SET Film Festival is an independent, grassroots festival for contemporary, artist and archival film, run by London-based arts organisation SET and curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe. Returning for its fourth edition from 5 November to 5 December 2026, this year’s programme features four short-film nights, a feature-length screening and a free evening of archival film and performance. Each night centres on a distinct theme, with selected screenings followed by Q&As with filmmakers.
The festival concludes on Saturday 5 December with its inaugural awards, recognising work across four categories: Audience Choice, Special Mention, Best Artist Film and Best Documentary.
View the full festival programme here.
With support from Goldsmiths Exhibition Hub.
Poster design: @ashleykinnardstudio