Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival’s New Cinema Awards celebrates some of the most distinctive works of new cinema and artists’ moving image being made around the world today. Uniquely, all selected filmmakers in this strand receive an award rather than a single winner chosen by a jury.

The 25 New Cinema Award winners were selected by our programmers Dan Guthrie, Alice Miller, Myriam Mouflih, Herb Shellenberger, Peter Taylor and Ilinca Vanau from 918 films researched and entered via an open call.

What all Award Winners hold in common is that their films push against boundaries of genre, form, and convention, disarming expectations and enlivening our relationship with cinema.

2023’s Berwick New Cinema Award Winners are:

A Mother’s Love For Her Baby • Dir. Éiméar McClay & Cat McClay • UK • 2022 • 17 mins

AQUERONTE • Dir. Manuel Muñoz Rivas • Spain • 2023 • 25 mins

Arnold is a Model Student • Dir. Sorayos Prapapan •Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, The Netherlands, France • 2022 • 85 mins

Being in Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait • Dir. Luke Fowler • UK • 2022 • 59 mins

Bigger on the Inside • Dir. Angelo Madsen Minax • US • 2022 • 12 mins

Cabbage • Dir. Holly Márie Parnell • United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada • 2023 • 28 mins

F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now • Dir. Fox Maxy • US • 2022 • 17 mins

False Wife • Dir. Jamie Crewe • United Kingdom • 2022 • 16 mins

FEARDEATHLOVEDEATH • Dir. Basim Magdy • Switzerland • 2022 • 17 mins

Hello Dankness • Dirs. Soda Jerk • Australia • 2022 • 69 mins

Home Invasion • Dir. Graeme Arnfield • United Kingdom • 2022 • 92 mins

Is it a knife because… • Dir. Eitan Efrat& Sirah Foighel Brutmann •  • Belgium • 2022 • 25 mins

Last Things • Dir. Deborah Stratman • France, Portugal, United States • 2023 • 50 mins

Let Us Flow • Dir. Sophio Medoidze • UK • 2022 • 63 mins

Life on the Caps • Dir. Meriem Bennani • US • 2022 • 75 mins

Love & Revenge • Dir. Anhar Salem • France, Saudi Arabia • 2021 • 30 mins

Maid • Dir. Lucrecia Martel • Argentina, Mexico • 2022 • 12 mins

Maputo Nakuzandza • Dir. Ariadine Zampaulo •  Brazil, Mozambique • 2021 • 60 mins

Music for Solo Performer • Dir. Jenny Brady • Ireland • 2022 • 20 mins

Signal to Noise • Dirs. Anya Tsyrlina & Sid Iandovka • USSR, Switzerland • 2023 • 35 mins

Terror Has no Shape • Dir. Luis Arnías •  US, Venezuela • 2021 • 10 mins

Ungentle • Dirs. Huw Lemmey & Onyeka Igwe • UK • 2022 • 37 mins

Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part 4: Reverse Shot • Dir. Marwa Arsanios • Germany, Lebanon • 2022 • 34 mins

Wisdom Gone Wild • Dir. Rea Tajiri • United States • 2022 • 84 mins

Wolf and Dog • Dir. Cláudia Varejão • Portugal, France • 2022 • 111 mins