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NEWS, 7 May 2025

Artist’s Lab: Ambient Animation with Uma Breakdown

Join us 14 June 2 – 4pm for our next Artist’s Lab at the Burr of Berwick

Poster for the 20th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF), taking place from 27th to 30th March 2025. The text is displayed prominently with the festival's website, bfmaf.org, featured at the bottom.
2025 Catalogue
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NEWS, 8 May 2025

Reviews 2025

The reviews have started coming in! Take a look at what the film critics say about the Festival and the Programme…

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image: barrunto • Emilia Beatriz • Puerto Rico, United Kingdom • 2024
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Artists & Filmmakers

Explore the work of artists and filmmakers featured in previous festival years.  
image: Amelia Read • 19th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival • Maria Fusco in Conversation • 2024
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Essay

“I am a bit fed up with AIDS, AIDS, AIDS!”: Stuart Marshall and AIDS Activist Video 1.0 + 2.0 (extract).

by Conal McStravick

Essay

The Temporal Entanglements of Assia Djebar’s The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting

by Philip Rizk

Essay

Intimate Exchanges: The Films of Ayanna Dozier

by Hannah Bonner