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BFMAF is an artistically ambitious organisation for new cinema and artists’ moving image based in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Free Entry/ Drop In
12-4pm, Saturdays, 17 Jan – 29 March
Opening workshop ‘Community Care’ , 2pm, Sat 17 Jan
Book free place here
The Queer Care Caravan is a library of resources and series of events inspired by the use of caravans as a therapeutic retreat. 3 artists from Scotland, the Netherlands and Canada hosted by BFMAF explore resilient LGBTQIA+ community led care.
This workshop is part of The Burr Film Library ‘Queer Care Caravan’, exploring resilient LGBTQIA+ community led care.
Events
17 Jan 2-4pm : Community Care with Cannach MacBride (NL)
21 Feb 2-4pm: Self Care with Conal McStravick + Lothian Health Services Archive (UK)
20-22 March: Palliative Care with Mikiki (CA) and culmination screening for BFMAF 2026
Collective exploration of community, self, health, and palliative care experiences.
Over four weeks we will collectively explore and share from our experiences with community care, self-care, healthcare and palliative care. We shall walk, talk, eat and share together. We shall think across borders and transnationally to see how activist media can become queer care tools
Queer Care Caravan is a temporary LGBTQIA+ community group that will gather at the Burr of Berwick monthly through Winter to Spring 2026. Workshops are facilitated by LGBTQIA+ artists Cannach MacBride, Conal McStravick, and Mikiki , who have gathered queer and trans care media and community care resources at The Burr. This invites LGBTQIA+ people from Berwickshire, the Borders, and North Northumberland to build resources and mutual understanding through media workshops and archive events. Each workshop includes a walk or group exercise and the sharing of food.
Miners’ Weekend School (1984) is a six-part documentary produced by Amber Films’ Current Affairs Unit during the 1984–85 Miners’ Strike.
Our next Vertical Screen Commission is What would it take to convince you that something was real? by Andrew Wilson. Catch the short film through the window of The Burr of Berwick on 22 Bridge Street 24hrs a day.
We look forward to welcoming you to the 21st Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, taking place 20 – 22 March 2026
Our Call for Entries is on pause for the 2026 Festival.
Read about the participants on the 2026 Early Career Critics Programme
Watch a selection of our 20th Edition programme online with BFMAF 2025: Festival Replay from October 17 – 26
Watch WILD THINGS by young people from Tweedmouth West Middle School, made as part of our 2025 After-School Club
We are looking for a new Board Member with a financial focus to join the charity Board of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival.
The reviews have started coming in! Take a look at what the film critics say about the Festival and the Programme…
Thank you for attending the 20th Edition of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival! We ask all attendees to fill in a survey telling us more about your experience. This is immensely helpful for us, for a few reasons: For Funding Applications We send this feedback to our funders, and your participation helps ensure that […]
