This August, SET Film Festival is making its first presentation outside London with Liquid Love, a specially curated exhibition hosted at Hull’s Humber Street Gallery from 5 to 30 August.

Curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs, and Verity Monroe, the month-long exhibition brings together six short films from past festival artists into a continuous 67-minute gallery loop. Conceived specifically in response to Hull’s heritage as a historic port city, Liquid Love takes its cue from the River Humber, a landscape shaped by centuries of trade, migration, and the movement of people, goods, and ideas across the North Sea and beyond.

Moving between the Atlantic, the Tanzanian coast and the lost terrain of Doggerland, the selected films explore the different ways water connects us and carries traces of the past. Rivers, oceans and coastlines become sites where histories of empire and migration resurface, while rising tides and submerged landscapes prompt reflection on the futures being shaped in our present.

The programme features a range of artist moving image, documentary and narrative film, led by Frieze Artist Award winner and Turner Bursary recipient Alberta Whittle’s What Sound Does the Black Atlantic Make? (2019), alongside There Will Come Soft Rains (2025) by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Elham Ehsas. Completing the selection are works by Caitlin McLeod (one like him, 2022), Jooyeon Lee (Toad Dance, 2022), Luiza Spotorno (Riverrun, 2024), and Daisy Smith (Comfort, 2024).

The exhibition is open now through 30 August at Humber Street Gallery, located in Hull’s Fruit Market creative quarter. Looking ahead, the fourth edition of the annual SET Film Festival will take place every Thursday and an additional Saturday from 5 November to 3 December 2026 at SET Social in Peckham.

Full details of Liquid Love and visiting hours can be found on the Humber Street Gallery website.

Image credit: Still from There Will Come Soft Rains (2025) by Elham Ehsas. Courtesy of the artist.