Space to play, explore and to unleash your imagination! Explore is a brand new BFMAF kids and family-friendly space at 59 Marygate with rolling animation programmes (11am-6pm) and creative activities offered (11am–4pm). Artists Katie Chappell and Chloe Smith will be leading drop-in creative activities for children and their families, inspired by the film animations.

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22 September 2016

Town Hall Old Gaol

Special Events

Keeping House

Directors

Ian Fenton Jacob Polley

Country

United Kingdom

Run Time

20 mins

Year

2014

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21 September 2016

Maltings Main House

Opening & Closing Gala

Opening Gala: Sylvia Scarlett

Director

George Cukor

Country

United States

Run Time

95 mins

Year

1935

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21 September 2016

Town Hall Council Chamber

Exhibitions

Persuasion

Director

Lucy Parker

Country

United Kingdom

Run Time

19 mins

Year

2016

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21 September 2016

Custom House

Exhibitions

Yes

2002

(2002)

Director

C. Spencer Yeh

Country

United States

Run Time

53 mins

Year

2015

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21 September 2016

Coxon’s Tower

Exhibitions

Visions of an Island

Director

Sky Hopinka

Country

United States

Run Time

15 mins

Year

2016

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21 September 2016

Exhibitions

Yes

The Watershow Extravaganza

(The Watershow Extravaganza)

Director

Sophie Michael

Country

United Kingdom

Run Time

10 mins

Year

2016

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21 September 2016

The Main Guard

Exhibitions

Yes

Please Choose the Best Answer

(Proad Luak Kumtob Tee Touk Tong)

Director

Sorayos Prapapan

Country

Thailand

Run Time

12 mins

Year

2016

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27 September 2015

Maltings Main House

Films

CLOSING FILM: Güeros

Director

Alonso Ruiz Palacios

Country

Mexico

Run Time

108 mins

Year

2014

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27 September 2015

Maltings Henry Travers

Films

Androids Dream

Director

Ion de Sosa

Countries

Germany Spain

Run Time

64 mins

Year

2014

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27 September 2015

Maltings Main House

Films

Young Filmmakers Showcase

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.

Blackout Murder

Amber Smith

United Kingdom

7 min

ConspiraSI

Custom Reels

United Kingdom

8 min

Impact

Kids for Kids UK

United Kingdom

9 min

Memories

Michael M Neal

United Kingdom

6 min

Obscure Sorrows

Custom House, South Shields

United Kingdom

4 min

The Princess and the Bodyguard

Beacon Hill Arts c.i.c

United Kingdom

6 min

Wired on Radio Borders

Voice of My Own

United Kingdom

11 min

Director

Amber Smith

Country

United Kingdom

Run Time

7 mins

Year

2015

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26 September 2015

Maltings Main House

Inntravel Short Film Awards

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

A Distant Episode

Ben Rivers

United Kingdom

20 min

Rehana Zaman

United Kingdom

13 min

I'm in Pittsburgh and it's raining

Jessie McLean

United States

15 min

Consider the Belvedere

Julia Freyer Tamara Henderson

Canada

10 min

From Our Own Correspondent

United Kingdom

10 min

Sound of My Soul

Wojciech Bąkowski

Poland

13 min

This Particular Nowhere - Part I - Some of Wigner’s Friends

Rita Macedo

Germany Portugal

8 min

Director

Ben Rivers

Country

United Kingdom

Run Time

20 mins

Year

2015

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26 September 2015

Maltings Main House

Films

The War Game

Director

Peter Watkins

Country

United Kingdom

Run Time

48 mins

Year

1965

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26 September 2015

Maltings Henry Travers

Seamus Harahan

Profile Screening

Frankie Was a Good Girl

seamus harahan

4 min

The Criminal Inside of Me

seamus harahan

6 min

Citygas

1 min

Il Mercenario

2 min

Tessies

16 min

East of the River Nile

6 min

Picking Up Change in the Kung Fu Theatre

1 min

Free as a Bird

1 min

Samuria

4 min

Pull Down Lads (Awingbigcell)

4 min

Before Sunrise

4 min

Stay Here a While

1 min

Focus on the Spiral (Cold Open Series)

2 min

The Garden Of Daisies (Cold Open Series)

3 min

Director

seamus harahan

Run Time

4 mins

Year

1998

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26 September 2015

Maltings Henry Travers

Films

No Man’s Land

Director

Salomé Lamas

Country

Portugal

Run Time

72 mins

Year

2012

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26 September 2015

Maltings Main House

Berwick New Cinema Midlengths

J’ai oublié! (I Forgot!)

(J’ai oublié!)

Director

Eduardo Williams

Countries

Argentina France Vietnam

Run Time

28 mins

Year

2014

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25 September 2015

Maltings Main House

Films

Mercuriales

Director

Virgil Vernier

Country

France

Run Time

128 mins

Year

2014

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25 September 2015

Maltings Main House

Films

Regional Premiere

Mandarinebi (Tangerines)

(Mandarinebi)

Director

Zaza Urushadze

Countries

Estonia Russia

Run Time

87 mins

Year

2013

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25 September 2015

Maltings Main House

Films

Vampir – Cuadecuc

Director

Pere Portabella

Country

Spain

Run Time

75 mins

Year

1970

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24 September 2015

Maltings Henry Travers

Films

Battles

Director

Isabelle Tollenaere

Countries

Belgium Netherlands

Run Time

88 mins

Year

2015

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24 September 2015

Maltings Main House

Films

Salem Cinema

Director

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Country

Iran

Run Time

81 mins

Year

1995

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23 September 2015

Maltings Main House

Films

UK Premiere

Opening Film: Sorrow and Joy

(Sorg og glæde)

Director

Nils Malmros

Country

Denmark

Run Time

127 mins

Year

2013

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23 September 2015

The Gymnasium

Deimantas Narkevicvius

Once in the XX Century

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: