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The 2022 Call for Entries has now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered their work. We look forward to viewing your films!

Call for Entries

Send us your Film! BFMAF’s Call for Entries has now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered their work. We look forward to viewing your films! Now in its 18th edition, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is one of the UK’s leading film festivals for new cinema and artists’ moving image.→

2022 Programming Fellowships

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF) is inviting applications for the fourth year of its fellowship programme for UK based early career curators, film programmers and critics.→

14 March 2022

Ecological Futurisms programme at Ambika P3 gallery

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is delighted to be a co-partner for 2 events launching as part of Ecological Futurisms (EF) at Ambika P3 Gallery this March. Ecological Futurisms (EF) is an emerging collective from CREAM, Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media that Recognises the damage brought on by global climate…→

SCREENTIME

SCREENTIME is a series of 5 fresh new films showing at The Radio Rooms in Berwick, on Thursday evenings during February and March. With music as the vital connection, the films celebrate the joy and challenges of community gathering and collective identities.→

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Beats
Sisters with Transistors + DJ Workshop with Miss World
Sing Street
The Farewell
Ali & Ava
Beats
Brian Welsh
10 February
19:00
Sisters with Transistors + DJ Workshop with Miss World
Lisa Rovna
17 February
19:00
Sing Street
John Carney
24 February
19:00
The Farewell
Lulu Wang
3 March
19:00
Ali & Ava
Clio Barnard
10 March
19:00
21 January 2022

Presenting SCREENTIME

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival and Berwick Young Programmers are excited to present the launch of SCREENTIME. SCREENTIME is a new initiative inviting young people aged 18 – 30 to gain first hand experience in programming cinema and producing screenings for an audience.→
17 January 2022

Moana Pasifika Moving Image Commission 2022

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is very excited to support a newly commissioned single-screen moving image work by a Moana Pasifika artist at this year’s Festival in September In Partnership with CIRCUIT and Tautai Pacific Arts Trust, BFMAF will support a Moana Pasifika artist based in Aotearoa New Zealand to create a new single channel…→
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BFMAF Archive

Explore our past festival programmes, dating back to 2009.→

2021
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a body is a body is a body
A body is a body is a body, Alternative Economies, Galb’Echaouf, Matt Means Land
Film still from A Scale Boy. A wideshot of a young Cambodian boy with short black hair, wearing a white shirt and a schoolbag satchel over his shoulder. His back is facing the camera, and he's walking along a path next to a red brick building.
A Scale Boy
Wideshot. On the left, a rectangle photograph with the head of a senior Donald the Duck-esque cartoon wearing small glasses propped on its break. The background of the photo appears to be a golden brown field. This photo appears to be stuck on a glass wall, and the background is blurred with some white and purple objects.
Alternative Economies
Amma Ariyan (Report to Mother)
Film still from A Scale Boy. A wideshot of a young Cambodian boy with short black hair, wearing a white shirt and a schoolbag satchel over his shoulder. His back is facing the camera, and he's walking along a path next to a red brick building.
Anti-Archive Shorts
2020
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Afternoon Clouds
At the River
At Those Terrifying Frontiers Where the Existence and Disappearance of People Fade Into Each Other
Badnam Basti
2019
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[INSERT TITLE HERE]: A Surrealist Gaming Experience
A Hundred Faces for a Single Day
A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery
A Town Called Panic
Animistic Apparatus 1: Ecologies and Art in Southeast Asia
2018
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Lips of Blood
What the Sun Has Seen
Seminar: Lucy Clout
Some Interviews on Personal Matters
High School Screening
Seminar: Sophia Al-Maria
2017
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30 KG Shine
Allegro Largo Triste
Battleship Potemkin
Berwick New Cinema: Balearic Abyssal
Berwick New Cinema: Civil Twilight
Berwick New Cinema: Milla
2016
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2002
All the Cities of the North
April and the Extraordinary World
Berwick New Cinema Competition: Blue
Berwick New Cinema Competition: Green
Berwick New Cinema Competition: Red
2015
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Lost High Street
The War Game
Neither A nor not-A
Vampir – Cuadecuc
Opaque
Young Filmmakers Showcase
2014
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A whole New World
Approved for Adoption
Before Night Falls
Démontable
Departure of All
Forbidden Voices