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23 September 2015

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.

26 September 2015

Run Time

55 mins
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26 September 2015

Our Awards programme is central to the Festival and represents some of the most exciting and ambitious contemporary filmmakers working today.

Run Time

89 mins
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27 September 2015

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.

Run Time

51 mins
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