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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!

The Artist’s Cut

The Artist’s Cut is a Northern Film & Media scheme for UK-based artists with a background 􏰒􏰅􏰇in film or photography to take part in a film commission and development programme designed to nurture bold new voices in narrative film.→

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Rhinoceros
Schools Interior: The Flight of an Ostrich
They Live in Forests, They Are Extremely Shy
Rhinoceros
Sebastian Bürkner
United Kingdom
3 mins’
Schools Interior: The Flight of an Ostrich
Jessica Sarah Rinland
United Kingdom
4 mins’
They Live in Forests, They Are Extremely Shy
Saeed Taji Farouky
United Kingdom
3 mins’

An Early Clue to the New Direction: Queer Cinema Before Stonewall

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Flaming Creatures + Scorpio Rising
Mädchen in Uniform
My Hustler
Olivia
Sylvia Scarlett
The Killing of Sister George
Un chant d’amour + Le sang d’un poète
Victim
Vingarne
Flaming Creatures + Scorpio Rising
Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger
United States
74 mins’
Mädchen in Uniform
Leontine Sagan
Germany
88 mins’
My Hustler
Andy Warhol
United States
67 mins’
Olivia
Jacqueline Audry
France
94 mins’
Sylvia Scarlett
George Cukor
United States
95 mins’
The Killing of Sister George
Robert Aldrich
United States
138 mins’
Un chant d’amour + Le sang d’un poète
Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet
France
76 mins’
Victim
Basil Dearden
United Kingdom
101 mins’
Vingarne
Mauritz Stiller
Sweden
50 mins’

Berwick New Cinema Shorts

Throbbing with innovation, risk and unbounded visual imagination, the Festival’s Berwick New Cinema strand features 13 short films from some of the most exciting and ambitious filmmakers working today.→

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Berwick New Cinema Competition: Blue
Berwick New Cinema Competition: Green
Berwick New Cinema Competition: Red
Berwick New Cinema Competition: Blue
Camilo Restrepo, Graeme Arnfield, Patrick Staff, Laure Prouvost, Lewis Klahr, Molly Palmer, Jenny Perlin
United States
72 mins’
Berwick New Cinema Competition: Green
Ashim Ahluwalia, Vincent Meessen, Sophie Michael
United Kingdom
67 mins’
Berwick New Cinema Competition: Red
Steve Reinke, Trinh Thi Nguyen, Rania Stephan
Lebanon
80 mins’

Exhibitions

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2002
Going to the Mountain
Persuasion
Please Choose the Best Answer
The Watershow Extravaganza
Visions of an Island
2002
C. Spencer Yeh
United States
53 mins’
Going to the Mountain
Jenny Brady
Ireland
10 mins’
In Extrinsics
Ghislaine Leung
Belgium
11 mins’
Persuasion
Lucy Parker
United Kingdom
19 mins’
Please Choose the Best Answer
Sorayos Prapapan
Thailand
12 mins’
The Watershow Extravaganza
Sophie Michael
United Kingdom
10 mins’
Visions of an Island
Sky Hopinka
United States
15 mins’

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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Berwick New Cinema: ♠
Festival Club: Soul on the Tweed
Jessica Sarah Rinland
Berwick New Cinema: ♣
Festival Club: Vital Idles & Yeah You!
Morgan Quaintance
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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Once in the XX Century
Battles
CLOSING FILM: Güeros
Profile Screening
Inntravel Short Film Awards
2014
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A whole New World
Approved for Adoption
Before Night Falls
Démontable
Departure of All
Forbidden Voices