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A new season and a new approach. After 18 years BFMAF is moving to a new date, 3 – 5th March 2023. Find out more here.

To better understand the reasons behind this date change please read our Festival Statement

 

 

 

Berwick New Cinema

Presenting the very best in artists’ moving image and new filmmaking, the Berwick New Cinema competition features resolutely contemporary films that transgress restraints of genre, capital and expectation.→

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Berwick New Cinema: ♠
Berwick New Cinema: ♣
Berwick New Cinema: ♥
Berwick New Cinema: ♦
Berwick New Cinema: ♠
Helena Wittman, Callum Hill, Francisco Queimadela, Mariana Caló, Tako Taal
23 September
14:00
Berwick New Cinema: ♣
Bertrand Mandico, Bo Hu, Hardeep Pandhal, Benjamin Crotty
21 September
12:30
Berwick New Cinema: ♥
Stephanie Comilang, Beatrice Gibson, Tamara Henderson
22 September
14:15
Berwick New Cinema: ♦
Pathompon Mont Tesprateep, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Luis Arnías, Wong Ping
20 September
14:00

Children & Young People

BFMAF presents a number of projects with, by and for young people: Kaleidoscope, a drop-in bean bag cinema with hands-on making activity for families, films for school groups, and The Hurt Goes On?, an analogue foray into a digital world by young people from Berwick Youth Project.

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Kaleidoscope
MiniCini: Song of the Sea
MiniCini: Zoetrope Making
The Hurt Goes On
The Hurt Goes On Discovery Party
Kaleidoscope
MiniCini: Song of the Sea
20 September
15:30
MiniCini: Zoetrope Making
21 September
15:30
The Hurt Goes On
The Hurt Goes On Discovery Party

Essential Cinema

BFMAF’s retrospective series provides a fresh look at classic works of cinema or a first view of overlooked masterpieces. Each film is rarely-seen and most are shown in new restorations for the first time in the UK.

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Hyenas
Lips of Blood
Some Interviews on Personal Matters
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
TERROR NULLIUS
Hyenas
Djibril Diop Mambéty
21 September
20:00
Lips of Blood
Jean Rollin
22 September
21:15
Some Interviews on Personal Matters
Lana Gogoberidze
23 September
13:45
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
Edgar Reitz & Ula Stöckl
West Germany
208 mins’
TERROR NULLIUS
Soda_ Jerk
21 September
17:30

Exhibitions

Artists present new and recent moving image work in exhibitions around Berwick-upon-Tweed, taking over historic buildings, empty shops and hidden corners of the town.

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Bathing
Carrs Down South
Consensual Healing
Fainting Spells
How Does an Invisible Boy Disappear?
of Violence
Solvent Magazine
What the Sun Has Seen
Bathing
Patrick Staff
United States
18 mins’
Carrs Down South
Kevin Jerome Everson
United States
3 mins’
Consensual Healing
Carolyn Lazard
United States
14 mins’
Fainting Spells
Sky Hopinka
United States
11 mins’
How Does an Invisible Boy Disappear?
Rehana Zaman, Liverpool Black Women Filmmakers .
United Kingdom
25 mins’
of Violence
Heather Phillipson
United Kingdom
5 mins’
Solvent Magazine
Lucy Clout
United Kingdom
What the Sun Has Seen
Agnieszka Polska
Germany, Greece
7 mins’
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Propositions

Part screening, part talk or performance, Propositions provides a discursive setting for artists and filmmakers to expand on their work, demonstrating research, contexts and perspectives as a means to dig deeper into the questions, ideas and complications encountered through their artistic process.

Islanders
Jessica Sarah Rinland
Morgan Quaintance
River Walk with Jessica Sarah Rinland
Sky Hopinka
Islanders
Giles Bailey, Sophie Soobramanien, Jamie Hammill, Nellie Saunby
United Kingdom
30 mins’
Jessica Sarah Rinland
Jessica Sarah Rinland
United Kingdom, United States
43 mins’
Morgan Quaintance
Morgan Quaintance
United Kingdom
27 mins’
River Walk with Jessica Sarah Rinland
United Kingdom
Sky Hopinka
Sky Hopinka
United States
57 mins’
Propositions: Sung Hwan Kim in Conversation
19 September 2021, 18:00

Online Event

Screening the Forest

Curated by Dr. Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn, this series takes nature as its point of departure. ‘Screening the Forest’ weaves together forests from Japan, Myanmar, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam and the Philippines, understanding the forest to be a network of living beings where agency distributes beyond human forms of life.→

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Blood Amber
Forest Experimenta
Genpin
Jîn
Worldly Desires
Blood Amber
Lee Yong Chao
22 September
16:30
Forest Experimenta
Kamjorn Sankwan, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Kamjorn Sankwan, Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Jet Leyco, Su Hui-Yu, Minyong Jang, Tony Chun-Hui Wu, Pimpaka Towira
20 September
11:30
Genpin
Naomi Kawase
23 September
15:45
Jîn
Reha Erdem
20 September
10:00
Worldly Desires
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
23 September
17:45
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Artist in Profile

Sophia Al-Maria

BFMAF 2018 Artist in Profile Sophia Al-Maria’s practice incorporates diverse forms of visual art, writing and filmmaking—as shown in her ‘Temporal Vertigo’ screening, The Magical State exhibition and beyond.→

Sophia Al-Maria: Temporal Vertigo
The Magical State
Sophia Al-Maria: Temporal Vertigo
choque, D0ved0wn, Fatima Al Qadiri: How Can I Resist U, Fatima Al Qadiri: Spiral ft. Bobo Secret, Mothership, Not Really in Reality Reality TV, Slaughter, The Future Was Desert (Part I), The Future Was Desert (Part II), Wayuu Creation Myth
Colombia
44 mins’
The Magical State
Colombia
6 mins’

BFMAF Archive

Explore our past festival programmes, dating back to 2009.→

2021
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Film still from Passion of Remembrance. A four way split television set, with four images of a Black woman with afro hair in a square frame. Her background is orange.
Passion of Remembrance
The Queen of Material
Passion of Remembrance & Golden Jubilee Trilogy
Tender Point Ruin
Still from Fifth Cinema. The background is black, and in the centre near the bottom, there's small white letters with accents, words that aren't English. They read "'lẵn bộ tộc". Below this is the English translation "a tribal background" in small yellow writing. Above this writing, a young Vietnamese woman at 90 degrees counter clockwise. They're wearing roller skates, a blue and red sweater, and a green jumper tied around their waist.
Fifth Cinema
The Spectre Watches Over Her
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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The Hurt Goes On Discovery Party
of Violence
Worldly Desires
Hyenas
Solvent Magazine
Seminar: Los Otros
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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Cave Exits
Salem Cinema
Little Birds and a Demon
The Raft of Medusa
Lost High Street
The War Game
2014
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A whole New World
Approved for Adoption
Before Night Falls
Démontable
Departure of All
Forbidden Voices