Now in its 16th year, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival continues to strengthen its commitment to presenting an artistically ambitious programme of artists’ moving image and new cinema. A platform for emerging and established artists and filmmakers, the Festival is inspired by its surroundings to push boundaries and explore the unexplored.
Over 10,000 visitors joined us in September 2019 to attend our programme of the most distinctive and unexpected works of new cinema being made around the world today. We welcomed audiences to the borders of England and Scotland for 4 days of screenings, exhibitions, performances and seminars.
BFMAF was like a potion that, once consumed, transformed the whole world into a cinema.
Christopher Small, MUBI, 2019
'Berwick’s bristling artistic spirit—contesting, contorting and re-shaping the traditions of the medium to tell bold new stories and challenge the status quo.'
Ben R Nicholson - Mubi, 2018
'One of the UK’s most exciting destinations for the exhibition of artists’ film and video'
Erika Balsom - Frieze, 2017