Ali Cherri
Ali Cherri is a visual artist and filmmaker born in Beirut and based in Paris. Combining film, video, sculpture and installation, his work questions the construction of historical narratives. Ali was Artist in Residence at the National Gallery in London (2021/2022) and the Silver Lion winner at the 59th Venice Biennale Arte (2022) for his installation Of Men and Gods and Mud. He was recipient of Harvard University’s Robert E. Fulton Fellowship, and the Rockefeller Foundation Residency Award. His short films have screened widely at festivals internationally and he has held solo exhibitions in the United States as well as working towards opening the exhibition Dreamless Night at GAMeC (Bergamo) and an upcoming exhibition at the Fondation Giacometti (Paris).
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Celebrating our region’s young filmmakers, BFMAF presents shorts in competition for a cash prize and two prestigious awards: The Young Filmmakers Award and The Chris Anderson Award.
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Our Awards programme is central to the Festival and represents some of the most exciting and ambitious contemporary filmmakers working today.
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Once in the XX Century is a gallery-based exploration of the oeuvre of Lithuanian filmmaker Deimantas Narkevičius. The works included in the exhibition are:
Seamus Harahan presents Fucking Finland, an anthology of film freshly completed for his Festival commission.
With a hand-held video camera and armed with a painter’s eye and a musician’s ear, Harahan’s journey begins in Suomenlinna, an inhabited Finnish sea fortress with obvious parallels to Berwick, and traces a line across to Tallinn, Estonia and then on to Rostock, Germany.
With a hand-held video camera and armed with a painter’s eye and a musician’s ear, Harahan’s journey begins in Suomenlinna, an inhabited Finnish sea fortress with obvious parallels to Berwick, and traces a line across to Tallinn, Estonia and then on to Rostock, Germany.
The ferry connecting Hanko and Rostock becomes a melancholic pop metaphor for the old Iron Curtain era, creating audacious – maybe even insolent – links between places that were enveloped in two different and opposing ideological blocks not that long ago.
The Fucking Finland Series is supported by the Elephant Trust.
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A pick ‘n’ mix bag of some of the best short animations from all over the world – all dialogue-free and specially selected to delight the whole family, from age three upwards.
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From hundreds of entries responding to our Border Crossing theme, we bring you some of the best short films and artists’ videos from across the world as part of the 2nd Inntravel Short Film Award.
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Join us for a celebration of young filmmaking talent from across North East England and South East Scotland.
