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2024 Catalogue
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Watch our video postcard from the 19th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, 7 - 10 March 2024. Shot and edited by Sam Kenyon.

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Artists & Filmmakers

Explore the work of artists and filmmakers featured in previous festival years.  
image: Credit: Amelia Read • 19th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival • Maria Fusco in Conversation • 2024
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About Us

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF) is an artistically ambitious organisation for new cinema and artists’ moving image based in North Northumberland on the English border with Scotland. A work in progress, leading through collaboration, it has a resolute commitment to the mutual development of the artists, audiences, filmmakers and programmers that make the […]
image: Credit: Amelia Read • 19th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival • 2024
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NEWS, 30 April 2024

Reviews

Take a look at some of the coverage of the 19th Berwick Film & Media Arts festival available to read for free online:   Sight and Sound The art of resistance: 19th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival by Laura Staab “But Berwick is as political as it promises. And that resolve is not without […]
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NEWS, 6 August 2024

Meet the Programmers

  Watch the recording of this session above. With the Call For Entries now open for the 20th edition of Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, we are holding an informal online session for artists and filmmakers who wish to submit a work to BFMAF 2025. In this session, you’ll have the chance to chat […]

Essay

Poem as Photon Returning to Audience

by Sarona Abuaker
Filmmaker Deborah Stratman; a white woman with grey hair and glasses, speaks animatedly into a microphone. She is on stage with Ilinca Vanau, a white woman with long brown hair. They look towards the spotlight on them, engaged with the audience who are out of shot.

Closed: Call For Entries

Filmmakers and artists are invited to enter their films for the 20th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, the UK’s festival of New Cinema. 


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