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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.

Opportunity, 25 August 2023

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image: 2023 Berwick Film Festival, Berwick On Tweed, 3-5 March 2023. Photo © Mark Pinder

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Closing Film: Arnold is a Model Student

Sorayos Prapapan

France Philippines Singapore Thailand The Netherlands

Wolf and Dog

Cláudia Varejão

France Portugal

Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait

Hello Dankness

Home Invasion

Graeme Arnfield

Last Things

Deborah Stratman

France Portugal United States

Let us flow

Sophio Medoidze

Georgia United Kingdom

Life on the Caps

Morocco United States

Maputo Nakuzandza

Ariadine Zampaulo

Brazil Mozambique

Wisdom Gone Wild

Nedarma

Anastasia Lapsui Markku Lehmuskallio

Opening Film: Anerca, Breath of Life

Johannes Lehmuskallio Markku Lehmuskallio

Seven Songs from the Tundra

Anastasia Lapsui Markku Lehmuskallio

The Blue Mammy

Markku Lehmuskallio

Terminal USA

Beats

Sisters with Transistors + DJ Workshop with Miss World

Sing Street

The Farewell

China United States

Ali & Ava

Golden Slumbers

Last Night I Saw You Smiling

Cambodia France

Turn Left, Turn Right

Cambodia South Korea United States

Entrance Exam

Hailstorm

Fifth Cinema

Rising Up at Night: Work in Progress

Amma Ariyan (Report to Mother)

One Way or Another

One Way or Another + Back Inside Herself

The Void Project

El Planeta

Feast

Rock Bottom Riser

Shared Resources

Desterro

maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore

N.P

The Year of the Discovery

This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

Badnam Basti

Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls!

Márta Mészáros

Paris Calligrammes

The Lighthouse

A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery

Philippines Singapore

Closing Film: Rights of Man

Holy Days

I Was at Home, But

Angela Schanelec

Opening Film: Cemetery

The Halt

A Town Called Panic

Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar

Belgium Luxembourg

A Hundred Faces for a Single Day

Moral

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari

When the Cat Comes

Vojtěch Jasný

Brief Encounters

Eternal Homecoming

Getting to Know the Big Wide World

Passions

The Asthenic Syndrome

The Long Farewell

Who is Afraid of Ideology?

Kurdistan Lebanon Syria

A Hundred Faces for a Single Day

Christian Ghazi

Closing Film: Nervous Translation

Opening Film: Empty Metal

High School Screening

Hyenas

Lips of Blood

Some Interviews on Personal Matters

TERROR NULLIUS

Blood Amber

Genpin

Jîn

Worldly Desires

Big Boy

Lukas the Strange

Years When I Was a Child Outside

Battleship Potemkin

Man Follows Birds

CLOSING GALA: The Crazies

Children and Young People’s Programme: Eglantine

School Screening: EVAPORATING BORDERS (HIGH SCHOOL)

School Screening: THE RED TURTLE (MIDDLE SCHOOL)

SOUND & VISION: No Brakes, No Gears, No Fear | Margaret Salmon

Uzbek Rhapsody: I Remember You

Uzbek Rhapsody: Man Follows Birds

Uzbek Rhapsody: The Body Guard

Berwick New Cinema: Milla

People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose

OPENING GALA: Battleship Potempkin (Ultramarine)

Ultramarine: Ama-San

Ultramarine: DRIFT

Ultramarine: Evaporating Borders

Ultramarine: Film Socialisme

Ultramarine: Recollection

All the Cities of the North

Havarie

Still Life

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

On the Silver Globe

Philip Trevelyan

April and the Extraordinary World

Closing Gala: The Future Perfect

Opening Gala: Sylvia Scarlett

Flaming Creatures + Scorpio Rising

Mädchen in Uniform

My Hustler

Olivia

The Killing of Sister George

Un chant d’amour + Le sang d’un poète

Victim

Vingarne

Androids Dream

Battles

CLOSING FILM: Güeros

Limbo

Mandarinebi (Tangerines)

Mercuriales

No Man’s Land

Opening Film: Sorrow and Joy

Salem Cinema

The Raft of Medusa

The War Game

Vampir – Cuadecuc

Abdul & Hamza

J’ai oublié! (I Forgot!)

Mamarosh

Ida

Approved for Adoption

Forbidden Voices

From Scotland with Love

Giraffada

Horizon Beautiful

I Know Where I’m Going!

Inbetween Worlds

Keeping House

Kiss the Water

La Mia Classe

The Legend of Sarila

The Mulberry House

The Uprising

West

Everyday Apocalypse | Pr. Kimberley O'Neill | UK | 2020 | 8 mins

Berwick Young Filmmaker Commissions

Now in its 10th year, the Young Filmmakers’ Competition is BFMAF’s annual award to help support and encourage budding young filmmakers. Featuring a variety of genres, from animation to documentary to narrative film, the competition showcases some of the best young talent from the region.

Everyday Apocalypse • Pr. Kimberley O'Neill • UK • 2020 • 8 mins

Podcast

Abdessamad El Montassir in conversation with Myriam Mouflih

Podcasts

Fox Maxy in conversation with Alice Miller

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Camara Taylor in conversation with Myriam Mouflih

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Abdessamad El Montassir in conversation with Myriam Mouflih

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Jordan Lord in conversation with Jemma Desai

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Tim Leyendekker in conversation with Christina Demetriou

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Suneil Sanzgiri in conversation with Jemma Desai

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Salad Hilowle in conversation with Alice Miller

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Rehana Zaman in conversation with Jemma Desai

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Fern Silva in conversation with Herb Shellenberger

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Cat and Éiméar McClay in conversation with Christina Demetriou

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Essay

Negativeland • Terminal USA, dir. Jon Moritsugu

by Girish Shambu

Picture this Asian American family sitcom: Mom is a morphine addict. Dad is secretly homicidal. The daughter is a cheerleader who gets pregnant and is being blackmailed over a sex tape. Two sons: one a drug dealer and the other a studious nerd who secretly lusts after skinheads.

NEWS, 24 January 2023

Presenting the Berwick New Cinema Awards 2023 🏆

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival’s New Cinema Awards celebrates some of the most distinctive works of new cinema and artists’ moving image being made around the world today.