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Board Member with Financial Focus

We are looking for a new Board Member with a financial focus to join the charity Board of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival.

13 May 2025

Artists’ Film Labs

From April 2025, The Burr of Berwick will hold regular film meetups where we will watch and discuss moving image work by group members and invited guests. The informal meetings are a chance to connect with peers, to discuss, and develop your creative practice with a leaning toward artists’ film and screen-based work. Artists film […]

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13 May 2025

The Film Library

OPEN SATURDAYS, 12 – 4PM, 22 Bridge Street. Stop by and see Endless Love Tapes until 19 July.

13 May 2025

Partner Events

2024 In 2024, we presented the following programmes: The Bridge 400 Sunday 4 August • 10:00 – 16:00 • On the market at Berwick Quayside. We joined celebrations of the 400th Anniversary of the Berwick Old Bridge with a stall displaying the Burr of Berwick Film Library. Our handy, portable film library featured BFMAF curated […]

13 May 2025

The Burr of Berwick

The Burr of Berwick is a year-round programme of film events and meet-ups organised by Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival.

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8 May 2025

Reviews 2025

The reviews have started coming in! Take a look at what the film critics say about the Festival and the Programme…

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7 May 2025

Artists’ Lab: Ambient Animation

Join us 14 June 2 – 4pm for our next Artists’ Lab at the Burr of Berwick

4 April 2025

Artist’s Lab: Filming Text, Forming Text

Join us for the first Artist’s Lab with Anna Chapman Parker and Lyndsey Mann on Saturday 3 May 2025

28 March 2025

Give us your Feedback!

Thank you for attending the 20th Edition of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival! We ask all attendees to fill in a survey telling us more about your experience. This is immensely helpful for us, for a few reasons: For Funding Applications We send this feedback to our funders, and your participation helps ensure that […]

Essay

Lumumba’s Speech: Lessons in Seizing the Archive

by Orsod Malik