MetFilm announces that the documentary feature, Our Land, will be released in May. Watch the trailer here ahead of UK-wide preview screenings.
Are you ready to step upon Our Land? After its world premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2025, MetFilm is excited to share the UK and Ireland theatrical release date for the film. The urgent new documentary from filmmaker Orban Wallace will open in cinemas on 8 May 2026. Additionally, there will be a series of special preview screenings across the UK in March and April. The venues for these screenings are listed here.
THE PREMISE
Our Land dares to tread where few have trespassed before. It asks the timely question of who has the right to roam in the English countryside. The UK is a wild and beautiful place. However, the vast majority of it is off limits to the general public. 92% of land and 97% of all rivers in England are not legally accessible. At the same time, it is a landscape shaped by centuries of inheritance and tradition. Land is held and cared for by families across multiple generations. Our Land takes us to the heart of the ‘Right to Roam’ movement as it embarks on a provocative trail of mass trespass, campaigning and education. Meanwhile, it also explores landowners’ concerns around environmental protection and the danger such widespread access could pose to a landscape already under threat.
THE FIGHT FOR GREATER PUBLIC ACCESS
Bringing these often-opposed worlds into sharp and revealing conversation, the film spotlights those fighting for greater public access. This includes Right to Roam campaigner Nadia Sheikh, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book of Trespass, Nick Hayes, and Guy Shrubsole. Shrubsole is a Wainwright Prize-winning author of Who Owns England? and The Lie of the Land. The film also hears from landowners from Cornwall to Scotland who see themselves as long-term custodians of the countryside. Additionally, the film brings to light barriers to connection to the countryside for people of colour. It features groups that promote access to nature for the Global Majority and refugee communities.
With an introduction to the history of the land justice debate by renowned nature writer Robert Macfarlane, animated by May Kindred Boothby, Our Land examines the complex issues of access, custodianship, and conservation, challenging age-old beliefs about property that have shaped our relationship with the land for over a thousand years.
BEHIND THE DOCUMENTARY
Rebecca Wolff, Charlie Phillips, Leo Smith, and Orban Wallace produced Our Land for Gallivant Film, Grasp the Nettle Films, and I Am Charlie Ltd, in collaboration with Intermission Film. Executive producers are Sandra Whipham, Dale Vince and Sam Cryer, with Alice Aedy and Joi Lee of Earthrise as co-executive producers. Original music is by Daniel Inzani, with a title track by Cosmo Sheldrake. The BFI Doc Society Fund supports this project with National Lottery funding, alongside The Uncertain Kingdom.
Our Land opens in cinemas on May 8th.
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