Imagine, design and create a character of your very own using simple digital tools like Hero Forge.
Create, modify and explore alternative worlds with G-Mod Maps. Drop into 22 Bridge St and dive into a whole new world!
Learn to navigate the world wide web safely and enjoyably. Join us to discover the ultimate Internet Survival Guide, live and in person!
Sick of the mainstream internet? Sick of the noise of constant advertising across boring streaming services and broken social media platforms? Over the next few Saturdays, join the Burr’s friendly host and guest Programmer Dennie, whose loose guide to the internet will show you how to enjoy human-made art again.
Join us for a full-throttle karaoke party inspired by the unstoppable spirit of Jesse Rae! Expect big tunes and zero inhibitions as we celebrate life, funk and fearless individuality the only way that feels right: loud, joyful and together!
A kilted warrior crowns the New York skyline in this joyous tribute to Jesse Rae, a musician from the Scottish Borders who plugged into the electric current of Parliament-Funkadelic. From bringing 80s NYC to a standstill atop the Brooklyn Bridge to shaping seminal hits like Inside Out, Rae fused tartan swagger with transatlantic groove to craft a mythic, pluralist vision of Scotland in the key of funk!
Lesley Loksi Chan’s poignant work of archival intimacy blends fragments of her research notes with the unfinished footage of Lloyd Wong, a man who documented his life living with AIDS in the early 1990s. Rough and unprocessed, her film explores the meaning of queer inheritance, of incompletion, and the act of repeated looking.
Dub Epistemology is a series of hybrid talks and live audio essays by Ashley Holmes that treat sound as both archive and method—foregrounding movement, repetition, and re-performance as tools to imagine histories that circulate, mutate, and persist through listening, replay, and versioning.
A participatory workshop exploring grief, communitarian care, and ways of imaging what we might palliate – led by Toronto/Tkaranto–based artist and community activist Mikiki.
The quiet radiance of everyday acts emerges between a beautiful portrait of a Bangladeshi centenarian and a tender chronicle of a woman choosing a dignified death. This Focus programme touches on themes of ageing, autonomy, and what it means to inhabit—and ultimately release—the body.
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Spanning Partition to contemporary Bangladesh, this programme journeys through fractured homes and unfinished films to ask how history lingers in bodies, cities, and celluloid. Between memory and the archives, the works trace disappearance, displacement, and the stubborn afterlives of images in the face of erasure.
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From right-wing propaganda machines to the hidden labour behind “inclusive” audiences, two films by artist Jordan Lord trouble the tangled relationships between disability, labour, and national identity – asking who gets seen, heard, and valued in the American public sphere.
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Educator and social theorist Tom Campbell joins us for a dynamic conversation on how disability is produced and reshaped by the transformations of modern society. Drawing on his forthcoming book Disablement in the Age of Ambivalence, Campbell mobilises Zygmunt Bauman’s concepts of solid and liquid modernity to unpack the shifting forms of power, exclusion, and moral indifference that structure disabled lives today.
Intimate portraits of everyday life and struggle in Bangladesh speak together with playful, inter-textual vignettes exploring the confluence of autobiography and radical history. Together, Naeem Mohaiemen and Molla Sagar‘s films trace how personal memory and political upheaval collide, overlap, and refract across generations.
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Join us for a DJ set from local legend Hoo Har Loves Wax! Hoohar Loves Wax has been DJing since 1991, being involved in the free party scene in Norfolk this followed working in Bristol and across the festival scene.
Collaging across media, performance and the archive, two films probe the architectures—material, political, and psychic—that shape Irish identity across borders. From a punative contemporary asylum system to the miasma of surveillance and hostility that shadowed Irish migrants to Britain in the 1970s and 80s, they expose a spectacle of belonging maintained and malformed by its systematic denial.
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Filmed in Angus, Scotland, Soft Fruit follows migrant seasonal workers on an industrial berry farm as they pick, prepare and transport crops. Candid conversations and scenes of rebellious, collective gathering appear alongside observational footage in shifting visual formats – from high-definition video to 16mm, and CGI inspired by medieval Islamic cosmography – building a layered sense of time and place.
Join us for conversation, connection and a little collective exhale as we press pause on the screenings and gather around the table. Good films nourish the mind. But, good food and good company take care of everything else!
Tracing the fragile, performative labour of communication across political stages and intimate sensory worlds, two films probe how meaning is transmitted, distorted, and sustained through noise.
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Stemming from Cannach MacBride and Conal McStravick’s research with video and performance artist Mikiki, this programme focuses on Collective Care and Self Care, exploring practices of inheritance, resistance, speculation and survival across generations.
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Relaxed Screenings are taking place at the Town Hall Council Chamber, our Relaxed Screen. Films are shown at the same time as screenings at the Maltings’ Cinema at the Barracks.
Documenting the landmark 1995 conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora, Shari Frilot’s seminal film captures a charged gathering of scholars, artists, and activists in dialogue. Through the voices of Essex Hemphill, Urvashi Vaid, Isaac Julien, and M. Jacqui Alexander and others, it crystallises a pivotal moment in diasporic queer history – interrogating Black and queer identity, media production, homophobia, and the contested terrain of Black nationalism.
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Your festival pit stop! Drop in for information about the town and the Festival – or simply warm up, catch up with friends, and take a breather between screenings. Our doors are open 10am–4pm throughout the Festival.
An event series, resource and film library inspired by the use of caravans as a therapeutic retreat. Join us throughout the festival as three artists from Scotland, the Netherlands and Canada hosted by BFMAF explore resilient LGBTQIA+ community led care.
A chance to drop-in, meet up and softly extend the themes of the project: community care, self care and palliative care as three pillars of care drawn by lgbtqia+ support groups and alternative healthcare. Pastries and tea included!
Join a free workshop exploring queer helplines, archives, and sound to imagine futures of community care, facilitated by Conal McStravick.
Join us for a free workshop exploring care as a range of political practices that involve maintenance, pleasure, conflict, sustenance, and scarcity.
The Queer Care Caravan is a library of resources, films and events inspired by the use of caravans as a therapeutic retreat. Drop in and explore how care and knowledge are shared to support LGBTQIA+ people’s rights and wellbeing.
In nobody’s word Taylor digitises and disintegrates the family archive in order to reframe accounts, destabilise claims and inhabit spaces between fact and fiction, questioning the narrative impulses that inform the stories we tell.
Departing from the Syrian Revolution, before moving through other moments of revolution and experiments in autonomy from 1936 Spain, Angola, and Palestine, to the Paris Commune, the essay film Mapping Lessons reflects on attempts to dismantle the forces of neocolonialism, both internal and external, in the hopes of preparing for the next time.
just above the tear duct on each side
A critical look at the evolution of Irish psychiatric institutions across the 20th century, examining the confluence of carceral, therapeutic and socioeconomic incentives that determined their influence.
In 19th century Paris, at the Salpêtrière Hospital, patients were hypnotized on stage to reproduce the symptoms of hysteria for public audiences. Over a century later, high school cheerleaders are fainting en masse…
Love Tapes – Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Made as part of ‘Endless Love Tapes’ a collaboration between Wendy Clarke and Kim Coleman that asks, “What tools will allow a participatory video project like this, which began in the 1970s, to continue indefinitely?”
Near the lawless eastern border of Bangladesh and India, a diasporic artist returns with a band of washed up ban♡its obsessed with Heath Ledger’s Joker.
Your Touch Makes Others Invisible
[2025 Opening Night] When a supernatural entity plagues a village community in war torn Northern Sri Lanka, a mother loses her son. Set in militarily occupied territory marked by 26 years of civil war, this hybrid docufiction made collaboratively, and secretly, with impacted Tamil communities lyrically examines the stories of missing people. A potent, elliptical protest poem moving with grace and purpose between disparate cinematic forms.
Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya
Mapping the lines of tectonic plates, Malena Szlam follows a constellation of ancient landforms that contour the shifting face of our environment.
[2025 Closing Night] Streetwise hustler Antonio wanders the streets of Buenos Aires in search of money and sex – taking lovers to bed and stealing from them as they sleep. Only his tempestuous mother provides the force that may one day push him to leave the city towards new, alternative forms of happiness. Sacha Amaral’s debut feature is a searing, slow-motion portrait of hedonism and discovery overflowing with characters who sink fully and luxuriously into their authentic selves.
The people are in turmoil. The ground from which their enchanted garden grows is trembling. Between bushes and trees, flowerbeds and fountains, everyone has lost their way.
A film, installation, and exhibition by artist and filmmaker Harry Lawson, created in collaboration with young inner-city horse riders from Stepney Bank Stables in Newcastle. Reimagining Byker as the Wild West, the project blurs the line between fact and fiction, weaving together recontextualised iPhone footage shot by the riders, archival material from the North East Film Archive, and Lawson’s own cinematography.
Water, labour, migration and diasporic memory coalesce in a transporting essay film connecting Jamaica and the UK.
Over 100 filmmakers and artists from around the world have formed Some Strings, an ensemble of unreleased filmic gestures rooted in Palestine, where poet and teacher Refaat Alareer was targeted by Israeli strikes along with seven members of his family.
Translating as “rising in the east”, Shuruuk follows a dreamlike, diaristic journey from Japan to Tunisia; from Palestine to France.
For Berwick Heritage Open Days, explore the themes of our latest Film Library exhibition Miners’ Weekend School (1984) with a film documenting the same period of struggle and solidarity. Screening followed by a discussion.
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For Berwick Heritage Open Days, drop in and create your own striking banner for Berwick inspired by the rich history of banners used by activists – from striking Miners to anti-nuclear protesters. This is a free family-friendly drop-in workshop open to all from 12 – 4pm.
Join free workshop exploring collective approaches to media production.
Our current Vertical Screen Commission is If One Of Those Dots Stopped Moving Forever by Uma Breakdown. Catch the 3 min film through the window of The Burr of Berwick on 22 Bridge Street.
Miners’ Weekend School (1984) is a six-part documentary produced by Amber Films’ Current Affairs Unit during the 1984–85 Miners’ Strike.
Our current Vertical Screen Commission is I’ve been trying to reach you by Anna Chapman Parker and Lyndsay Mann. Catch the 4 minute film through the window of The Burr of Berwick on 22 Bridge Street.
Join a free creative workshop exploring looped animation and free software led by artist Uma Breakdown.