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4 February 2025
2025 Propositions
The Propositions programme features the UK Premiere of Morgan Quaintance’s Available Light, a screening of films by Stuart Marshall curated by Conal McStravick followed by a workshop and hybrid talk and live video essay presented by Abiba Coulibaly.

4 February 2025
2025 Exhibitions
The free Exhibitions programme features films from around the world, forming a constellation across Berwick-upon-Tweed. Including a World Premiere of Wendy Clarke’s Endless Love Tapes, ensemble work from over 100 artists Some Strings, a World Festival Premiere of Harry Lawson’s Stepney Western and UK Premieres of new work by Adam Piron and Cáit and Éiméar McClay.

4 February 2025
2025 Focus Programmes
This year’s Filmmakers in Focus are Ayanna Dozier and Eri Makihara whose work will be screening alongside Focus: Ways of Seeing Fanon, curated by Philip Rizk.

4 February 2025
2025 Essential Cinema
The Essential Cinema programme is a pluralist retrospective series, proposing revisions and additions to what might be considered canonical cinema. Circadian rhythms of the 80s bring to the fore creative collaborations, familial encounters and working lives.

4 February 2025
2025 New Cinema Award Winners
At the core of Festival programming is a celebration of some of the most distinctive works of new cinema being made around the world today. The 2025 New Cinema Award winners include 16 UK Premieres, 1 International Premiere and 3 World Festival Premieres.

22 January 2025
New Cinema Forum
The first edition of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival’s New Cinema Forum is an invitation to artists, filmmakers, critics and arts/film workers to consider new orientations to creating, exhibiting and working collectively.

Closed: Early Career Critics
We are accepting applications for the Early Career Critics Open Call, a chance to hone your critical and creative writing skills.
One of Eadweard Muybridge’s earliest contributions to the photographic image were stereographs commissioned by the U.S. Army, capturing their war against the Modoc Tribe in Northern California. These stereographs, many of which were staged, are revisited here through violent collisions of image and sound – generating entangled histories of visual technology, genocide and expropriation of Indigenous populations.
‘If every person on the planet could make a love tape, then you’d really know what it’s like to be human’. – an astonishing collection of over 2,500 three-minute videos in which people speak to camera about what love is for them.
A project that began in 1977 documenting the experiences of marginalised women and communities in the US, artists Wendy Clarke and Kim Coleman open the work out at BFMAF inviting the creation of new tapes and a multi-perspective portrait of love.