Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF)

BFMAF public programmer Dawn Bothwell talks to artist Kim Coleman about her work with Wendy Clarke and their Endless Love Tapes exhibition at BFMAF 2025. Endless Love Tapes Director: Wendy Clarke Year: 1977 – present ‘If every person on the planet could make a love tape, then you’d really know what it’s like to be human’ ~Wendy Clarke Endless Love Tapes (United Kingdom, 2025) is a pilot project by...

Art Historian Theo Gordon talks to artist, educator and writer Conal McStravick about their Propositions Programme, shown at BFMAF 2025. Kaposi’s Sarcoma (A Plague and its Symptoms) Director: Stuart Marshall Year: 2024 Kaposi’s Sarcoma (A Plague and its Symptoms)  is a 1983 artist’s video on the subject of AIDS, by the LGBTQ+ and AIDS video artist and TV documentarian Stuart Marshall (1949-1993)....

A conversation with filmmaker Marion Scemama about the films shown in her Essential Cinema programme at BFMAF 2025. Click here for more information about this programme >>>

Artist and Curator Hannah Wallis talks to filmmaker Eri Makihara about her film Listen, that was shown at BFMAF 2025. This Q&A was delivered with Japanese Sign Language, British Sign Language, English Live Captions and spoken English. The Sign Language interpreters were Christy Dodds, Chisato Minamimura, Dee Savage and Aki Takizawa. The recording contains some level of audio interference due t...

Artist and Curator Hannah Wallis talks to filmmaker Eri Makihara about her films Dream of My Mother and The Tanaka Family, that were shown at BFMAF 2025. This Q&A was delivered with Japanese Sign Language, British Sign Language, English Live Captions and spoken English. The Sign Language interpreters were Christy Dodds, Chisato Minamimura, Dee Savage and Aki Takizawa. The recording contains so...

Artist Chiemi Shimeda talks to filmmaker Morgan Quaintance and cultural sociologist Laura Harris about Quaintance's film Available Light. Available Light Director: Morgan Quaintance Year: 2025 Available Light  explores notions of home and belonging in contemporary society. Comprising interviews with workers at the Edo Tokyo Open Air Architecture Museum in Tokyo, and fragments of conversations...

BFMAF programmer Myriam Mouflih talks to filmmaker Ayanna Dozier about her BFMAF 2025 In Focus programme. Click here for more information about this programme >>>

BFMAF programmer Alice Miller talks to filmmaker Rajee Samarasinghe about his feature film, Your Touch Makes Others Invisible, that opened the 20th edition of BFMAF. Your Touch Makes Others Invisible Director: Rajee Samarasinghe Year: 2025 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...

BFMAF programmer Ilinca Vanau talks to fimmaker Amie Barouh about her film Shuruuk, which was shown at BFMAF 2025. Shuruuk Director: Amie Barouh Year: 2024 Translating as “rising in the east”,  Shuruuk  follows a dreamlike, diaristic journey from Japan to Tunisia; from Palestine to France. Amie Barouh’s intimate, roving camera bears witness to the flow of life and movement from East to West. Five...

Writer and filmmker Philip Rizk is joined by Orsod Malik, Executive Director of the Stuart Hall Foundation, and Mai Taha, Assistant Professor in Human Rights at LSE to explore the work of political philosopher and psychiatrist Franz Fanon through the lens of the region he was radicalised in. Click here for more information >>>

BFMAF programmer Alice Miller talks to filmmaker Sacha Amaral about his feature film, The Please is Mine, that closed the 20th edition of BFMAF. The Pleasure is Mine (El placer es mío) Director: Sacha Amaral Year: 2024 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 pr...

BFMAF programmer Myriam Mouflih talks to filmmakers Sarah Ballard and Ufuoma Essi about the films they showed at BFMAF 2025. Full Out Director: Sarah Ballard Year: 2025 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…  Full Out  is t...

A conversation with writer and filmmaker Philip Risk about his film Mapping Lessons, which was shown at BFMAF 2025. Mapping Lessons (دروس خرايط) Director: Philip Rizk Year: 2020 Taking as its starting point the Syrian Revolution, then moving through other moments of revolution and experiments in autonomy in 1936 Spain, Angola, Palestine, and the Paris Commune amongst others, the essay film Mapping...

BFMAF programmer Ilinca Vanau talks to filmmakers Luciana Decker Orozco, Malena Szlam and Camara Taylor about the films they show at BFMAF 2025. Language of the Entrails Director: Luciana Decker Orozco Year: 2025 A journey into the entrails of the earth through the digestion of food and images. We reconnect with interstitial spaces of the body and primal gestures that manifest memories of the past...

BFMAF programmer Ane Lopez talks to filmmakers Hope Strickland and Omar Chowdhury about the films they showed at BFMAF 2025. a river holds a perfect memory Director: Hope Strickland Year: 2024 Water, labour, migration and diasporic memory coalesce in a transporting essay film connecting Jamaica and the UK. Assemblages of archival footage, 16mm and LIDAR scans mobilise water as a medium through whi...

Q&A with filmmaker Tana Gilbert following a screening of Malqueridas , hosted by Ane Lopez.

Q&A with filmmaker Razan AlSalah following a screening of A Stone's Throw , which screened alongside Gelare Khoshgozaran's The Retreat . Hosted by Myriam Mouflih.

Reading and Q&A with artist and filmmaker Onyeka Igwe. And Let History Begin was a discursive reading and screening event that included her latest film A Radical Duet . Hosted by Myriam Mouflih.

Q&A with Dreaming and Dying filmmaker Nelson Yeo, hosted by Ilinca Vânău.

Q&A with filmmaker Nadia El Fani following a screening of Bedwin Hacker , hosted by Myriam Mouflih.

Q&A with filmmakers Felix Kalmenson ( Shokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts ) & Philip Widmann ( WHAT FOG? ), hosted by Ilinca Vânău.

Q&A with filmmakers Felipe Casanova ( Loveboard ), Gala Hernández López ( for here am I sitting in a tin can far above the world ) & Valentin Noujaïm ( To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion ), hosted by Ane Lopez.

Q&A with Yours, filmmakers Eva Giolo & Rebecca Jane Arthur, hosted by Myriam Mouflih.

Q&A with BFMAF filmmaker in focus Eduardo Williams, following a screening of The Human Surge 3. Hosted by Ilinca Vânău.

Q&A with BFMAF24 filmmaker in focus Eduardo "Teddy" Williams, following a screening of The Human Surge. Hosted by Alice Miller.