Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival

BERWICK FILM AND MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL IS BACK FOR ITS 20TH EDITION!

The 19th edition of Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (BFMAF) presented a dynamic programme that reaffirmed its place as the UK’s Festival for new cinema and artists’ moving image. Taking place in England’s most northerly town, Berwick-upon-Tweed, the Festival was committed to the mutual development of artists, audiences, critics, filmmakers, and programmers, who made the event possible.

BFMAF has been a platform for new and established artists and filmmakers to push boundaries and explore the unexplored. As if to answer the question, ‘what can moving images be and do in this disquieting moment?’, BFMAF suggested they could be time machines, maps, love letters, poems, ghosts, fever dreams, missives, manifestos. They could also explode. — Elena Gorfinkel, Art Monthly 2018

Last year’s New Cinema Awards featured 14 UK Premieres, 2 European Premieres, 4 World Premieres, and 3 World Festival Premieres.

There was a programme of free exhibitions, featuring works from Adam Piron, Cécile B Evans, Chloë Delanghe & Mattijs Driesen, and Filmmaker in Focus Basma al-Sharif.

The Burr of Berwick was introduced as a new social space, screening library, and discussion series named after the local Northumbrian language. Each day of the Festival, attendees came together to collectively explore different topics with guests, through moving image.

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