Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival

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.

Ahead of its 18th edition, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival has created four new job roles which will help shape the Festival. For further details on each role or to make an application, please visit our Opportunities page.

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.→

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

Berwick New Cinema: ♣

Bertrand Mandico, Bo Hu, Hardeep Pandhal, Benjamin Crotty

Berwick New Cinema: ♥

Stephanie Comilang, Beatrice Gibson, Tamara Henderson

Berwick New Cinema: ♦

Pathompon Mont Tesprateep, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Luis Arnías, Wong Ping

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.

MiniCini: Song of the Sea

MiniCini: Zoetrope Making

The Hurt Goes On

The Hurt Goes On Discovery Party

MiniCini: Song of the Sea

MiniCini: Zoetrope Making

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.

Some Interviews on Personal Matters

Tales of the Dumpster Kid

Djibril Diop Mambéty

Some Interviews on Personal Matters

Lana Gogoberidze

Tales of the Dumpster Kid

Edgar Reitz & Ula Stöckl

Events

Exhibition Walking Tour

Festival Club: Soul on the Tweed

Festival Club: Vital Idles & Yeah You!

Lucy Clout: Exhibition Opening

Exhibition Walking Tour

Festival Club: Soul on the Tweed

Festival Club: Vital Idles & Yeah You!

Lucy Clout: Exhibition Opening

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.

Carrs Down South

Consensual Healing

Fainting Spells

How Does an Invisible Boy Disappear?

Solvent Magazine

What the Sun Has Seen

Carrs Down South

Kevin Jerome Everson

Consensual Healing

Fainting Spells

How Does an Invisible Boy Disappear?

Rehana Zaman, Liverpool Black Women Filmmakers .

Heather Phillipson

Solvent Magazine

What the Sun Has Seen

Agnieszka Polska

Germany, Greece

Films

High School Screening

High School Screening

Los Otros: John Torres & Shireen Seno

The first major UK retrospective of filmmakers Shireen Seno and John Torres, whose studio, film laboratory, library and platform Los Otros is one of the most invigorating forces in Philippine cinema today.

Lukas the Strange

Years When I Was a Child Outside

Lukas the Strange

Years When I Was a Child Outside

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.

Jessica Sarah Rinland

Morgan Quaintance

River Walk with Jessica Sarah Rinland

Giles Bailey, Sophie Soobramanien, Jamie Hammill, Nellie Saunby

Jessica Sarah Rinland

Jessica Sarah Rinland

United Kingdom, United States

Morgan Quaintance

Morgan Quaintance

River Walk with Jessica Sarah Rinland

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.→

Forest Experimenta

Worldly Desires

Forest Experimenta

Kamjorn Sankwan, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Kamjorn Sankwan, Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Jet Leyco, Su Hui-Yu, Minyong Jang, Tony Chun-Hui Wu, Pimpaka Towira

Worldly Desires

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Seminar

BFMAF’s popular series of seminars provide an informal space of communication between artists and audience. Los Otros (John Torres and Shireen Seno), Lucy Clout and Sophia Al-Maria will participate in this year’s seminars, moderated by writer and curator Taylor Le Melle.

Seminar: Los Otros

Seminar: Lucy Clout

Seminar: Los Otros

Seminar: Lucy Clout

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

The Magical State

Special Features (Opening & Closing)

Closing Film: Nervous Translation

Opening Film: Empty Metal

Closing Film: Nervous Translation

Opening Film: Empty Metal

The New Red Order (Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil & Jackson Polys), Bayley Sweitzer

BFMAF Archive

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

Still from Landscape Series #1. The background consists of tightly packed trees with green leaves, greenery, and bushes with varying shades of green shrubbery. On the left, a person dressed in white and wearing a white bucket hat is pointing towards the trees.

Landscape Series #1

Film still from How To Improve The World. Wideshot of a wide dirt path with houses and wooden fences on either side, and trees in the background. There's Vietnamese people on the path and the fences.

How to Improve the World

Hair is a Piece of Head

Wideshot still from Letters from Panduranga. Close up shot of the shoulders and face of an elderly Vietnamese person. They're wearing glasses, a scarf-like headpiece, and long red, threaded earrings. The background is a small village.

Letters from Panduranga

Wideshot film still from Entrance Exam. On the right hand side, two young boys sitting side by side, one of them writing something on a notepad, and the other peering over the boy's shoulder to read what he's writing. On the left, in the distance. a young boy sitting on a high metal fence with a book in his hands..

Afternoon Clouds

At Those Terrifying Frontiers Where the Existence and Disappearance of People Fade Into Each Other

[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

What the Sun Has Seen

Seminar: Lucy Clout

Some Interviews on Personal Matters

High School Screening

Seminar: Sophia Al-Maria

Allegro Largo Triste

Battleship Potemkin

Berwick New Cinema: Balearic Abyssal

Berwick New Cinema: Civil Twilight

Berwick New Cinema: Milla

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

Lost High Street

Neither A nor not-A

Vampir – Cuadecuc

Young Filmmakers Showcase

A whole New World

Approved for Adoption

Before Night Falls

Departure of All

Forbidden Voices