A series of conversations with artists & filmmakers participating in the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (BFMAF), from the 16th edition of the festival in 2020 to the most recent, 20th, edition in 2025. BFMAF is an organisation for new cinema and artists’ moving image based in Berwick-upon-Tweed, on the border of England and Scotland. The Festival leads through collaboration and research, with a resolute commitment to peer support, artistic production and community development. The Fest ...
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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 …
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A Conversation with Conal McStravick – BFMAF 2025
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29:14Art 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 a…
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Q&A with Marion Scemama – BFMAF 2025
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41:20A 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 >>>
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Q&A with Eri Makihara – Listen – BFMAF 2025
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26:14Artist 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 c…
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Q&A with Eri Makihara – BFMAF 2025
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16:58Artist 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 Sava…
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Q&A with Morgan Quaintance & Laura Harris – BFMAF 2025
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30:46Artist 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 Mus…
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A Conversation with Ayanna Dozier – BFMAF 2025
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54:45BFMAF programmer Myriam Mouflih talks to filmmaker Ayanna Dozier about her BFMAF 2025 In Focus programme. Click here for more information about this programme >>>
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Q&A with Rajee Samarasinghe – BFMAF 2025
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21:43BFMAF 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.…
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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 fl…
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Ways of Seeing Fanon: a conversation with Orsod Malik, Mai Taha & Philip Rizk – BFMAF 2025
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1:23:28Writer 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 >>>…
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Q&A with Sacha Amaral – BFMAF 2025
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23:26BFMAF 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 …
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Q&A with Sarah Ballard & Ufuoma Essi – BFMAF 2025
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23:41BFMAF 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 c…
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Neocolonialism and its Dismantling with Philip Rizk – BFMAF 2025
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32:11A 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 Pa…
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Q&A with Luciana Decker Orozco, Malena Szlam and Camara Taylor – BFMAF 2025
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33:17BFMAF 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 …
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Q&A with Hope Strickland and Omar Chowdhury – BFMAF 2025
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18:04BFMAF 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 …
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Q&A with filmmaker Tana Gilbert following a screening of Malqueridas, hosted by Ane Lopez.
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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.
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BFMAF24 • Reading and Q&A with Onyeka Igwe
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40:20Reading 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.
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Q&A with Dreaming and Dying filmmaker Nelson Yeo, hosted by Ilinca Vânău.
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Q&A with filmmaker Nadia El Fani following a screening of Bedwin Hacker, hosted by Myriam Mouflih.
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BFMAF24 • Q&A with Felix Kalmenson & Philip Widmann
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40:20Q&A with filmmakers Felix Kalmenson (Shokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts) & Philip Widmann (WHAT FOG?), hosted by Ilinca Vânău.
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BFMAF24 • Q&A with Felipe Casanova, Gala Hernández López & Valentin Noujaïm
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40:20Q&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.
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BFMAF24 • Q&A with Eva Giolo & Rebecca Jane Arthur (Yours,)
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40:20Q&A with Yours, filmmakers Eva Giolo & Rebecca Jane Arthur, hosted by Myriam Mouflih.
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BFMAF24 • Q&A with Eduardo Williams (The Human Surge 3)
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40:20Q&A with BFMAF filmmaker in focus Eduardo Williams, following a screening of The Human Surge 3. Hosted by Ilinca Vânău.
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BFMAF24 • Q&A with Eduardo Williams (The Human Surge)
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40:20Q&A with BFMAF24 filmmaker in focus Eduardo "Teddy" Williams, following a screening of The Human Surge. Hosted by Alice Miller.
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BFMAF24 • Q&A with Basma al-Sharif (We Began By Measuring Distance)
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40:20Q&A with BFMAF24 filmmaker in focus Basma al-Sharif following a screening of We Began By Measuring Distance, The Story of Milk and Honey, Home Movies Gaza, and Sky Hopinka's Wawa. Hosted by poet Sarona Abuaker.
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BFMAF24 • Q&A with Basma al-Sharif (Ouroboros)
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40:20Q&A with BFMAF filmmaker in focus Basma al-Sharif following a screening of Ouroboros, hosted by Dr Viviane Saglier.
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BFMAF24 • Q&A with Aurélien Froment & Maria Fusco
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22:25Q&A with Aurélien Froment (Louis and Languages) & Maria Fusco (History of the Present), hosted by Ilinca Vânău.
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BFMAF24 • Q&A with Asmaa Jama & Shambhavi Kaul
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40:20Q&A with Asmaa Jama (Except this time nothing returns from the ashes) & Shambhavi Kaul (Slow Shift), hosted by Ane Lopez. The films screened alongside Ali Cherri's The Watchman.
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Post screening Q&A with Hey Sweet Pea director Alee Peoples, hosted by Myriam Mouflih. Hey Sweet Pea screened alongside Neak Meas' Golden Dragon and Farah Al Qasimi's Mother of Fog.
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BFMAF24 • In Focus with Basma al-Sharif
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1:07:28A special in focus conversation with artist and filmmaker Basma al-Sharif led by Dr Viviane Saglier, lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews, and poet Sarona Abuaker.
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BFMAF 2021: Fox Maxy in conversation with BFMAF programmer Alice Miller
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34:28Fox Maxy in conversation with BFMAF programmer Alice Miller about the film Maat Means Land as part of the Berwick New Cinema Awards 2021.
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BFMAF 2021: Camara Taylor in conversation with BFMAF programmer Myriam Mouflih
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16:53Camara Taylor in conversation with BFMAF programmer Myriam Mouflih about the film suspiration! as part of the Berwick New Cinema Awards 2021.
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BFMAF 2021: Abdessamad El Montassir in conversation with BFMAF programmer Myriam Mouflih
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12:01Abdessamad El Montassir in conversation with BFMAF programmer Myriam Mouflih about the film Galb'Echaouf as part of the Berwick New Cinema Awards 2021.
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BFMAF 2021: Jordan Lord in conversation with BFMAF programmer Jemma Desai
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36:15Jordan Lord in conversation with BFMAF programmer Jemma Desai about the film Shared Resources as part of the Berwick New Cinema Awards 2021.
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BFMAF 2021: Tim Leyendekker in conversation with BFMAF programmer Christina Demetriou
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21:39Tim Leyendekker in conversation with BFMAF programmer Christina Demetriou about the film Feast as part of the Berwick New Cinema Awards 2021.
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BFMAF 2021: Suneil Sanzgiri in conversation with BFMAF programmer Jemma Desai
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44:02Suneil Sanzgiri in conversation with BFMAF programmer Jemma Desai about the Golden Jubilee trilogy as part of the Berwick New Cinema Awards 2021.
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BFMAF 2021: Salad Hilowle in conversation with BFMAF programmer Alice Miller
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21:04Salad Hilowle in conversation with BFMAF programmer Alice Miller about the film Passion of Remembrance as part of the Berwick New Cinema Awards 2021.
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BFMAF 2021: Rehana Zaman in conversation with BFMAF programmer Jemma Desai
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33:17Rehana Zaman in conversation with BFMAF programmer Jemma Desai about the film Alternative Economies as part of the Berwick New Cinema Awards 2021.
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BFMAF 2021: Fern Silva in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb Shellenberger
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29:46Fern Silva in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb Shellenberger about the film Rock Bottom Riser as part of the Berwick New Cinema Awards 2021.
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BFMAF 2021: Cat and Éiméar McClay in conversation with BFMAF programmer Christina Demetriou
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16:43Cat and Éiméar McClay in conversation with BFMAF programmer Christina Demetriou about the film a body is a body is a body as part of the Berwick New Cinema Awards 2021.
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BFMAF 2021: Carlos Maria Romero in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb Shellenberger
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38:03Carlos Maria Romero in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb Shellenberger about the film La Nave as part of the Berwick New Cinema Awards 2021.
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BFMAF 2021: Ane Hjort Guttu in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb Shellenberger
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28:57Ane Hjort Guttu in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb Shellenberger about the film Manifesto as part of the Berwick New Cinema Awards 2021.
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BFMAF 2021: Adam Lewis Jacob, Muhammad Idrish and Claude Nouk in conversation with BFMAF programmer Alice Miller
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38:51Director Adam Lewis Jacob discusses his film Idrish (ইদ্রিস) with its focus Muhammad Idrish and sound designer Claude Nouk as part of the Berwick New Cinema Awards 2021.
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Festival Opening: Dark Cinema with Chris Watson
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20:17To celebrate the opening of the 16th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, BAFTA-winning sound recordist Chris Watson reimagined the recordings made for Luke Fowler’s film Enceindre which premiered in Berwick in 2018. Watson mixed new Berwick-based recordings—taken the opening week of the festival by sound artist Martin Parker in Berwick at night.…
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Yu Araki in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb Shellenberger
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16:03Yu Araki in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb Shellenberger about the film ‘Fuel’.
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Stefan Ramirez Perez and BFMAF Programmer Christina Demetriou
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18:29Stefan Ramirez Perez and BFMAF Programmer Christina Demetriou introducing the film ‘Liquid Stranger’.
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Sky Hopinka in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb Shellenberger
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20:43Sky Hopinka in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb Shellenberger about the film ‘maɬni’.
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Rhea Dillon in conversation with BFMAF programmer Myriam Mouflih
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15:33Rhea Dillon in conversation with BFMAF programmer Myriam Mouflih about the film ‘‘The Name I Call Myself’.
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Phạm Ngọc Lân in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb Shellenberger
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16:42Phạm Ngọc Lân in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb Shellenberger about the film ‘The Unseen River’.
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