Waiting & Making During difficult times, creativity can ebb and flow: sometimes it’s the thing that keeps us going, and at others it becomes hard to hold onto.

Waiting & Making - read my blog about trying to be creative when health/NHS waiting lists get in the way. Despite these difficulties, the animated short film I made, ‘I only dream of horses’, has been accepted for @borderlinesff.bsky.social Open Screen rebeccafarkas.blogspot.com/2026/02/wait...

Last day of a fabulous @borderlinesff.bsky.social but plenty of cinema on your doorstep throughout the rest of the year with @artsalive.bsky.social - next up for us #Festival Favourite #isthisthingon on Thursday 23 April..

The Beauty of @borderlinesff.bsky.social with @artsalive.bsky.social not one, not two, but three chances to see #TheChoral across the region on the evening of Thursday 12 March www.youtube.com/watch?list=T...
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@borderlinesff.bsky.social Watched ‘All That's Left of You’ the Courtyard Theatre this afternoon; what a beautiful and perfectly balanced film. Wonderful performance from even the youngest actors and I confess it left me watery eyed. 5*

THE LAST VIKING ALERT
Today's screening at Richard Booth's Bookshop Cinema in Hay (Friday 13 7.00pm) has now been rescheduled TO SUNDAY 15 at 7.00pm.
We apologise for any inconvenience (and for Mads Mikkelsen's perm).

Against backdrop of blue sky, a woman sits on an extended pole seat thingy, several feet up in the air, giving the bird.

The Love That Remains - really got swept away in this - some absolutely genius surreal moments (neither jarring nor twee) woven into the brutally real. Funny; painful; beautiful (oh, Iceland… 🩵). V lucky to have @borderlinesff.bsky.social film festival on our doorstep. #filmsky

International cinema, local roots: what to watch at Borderlines Film Festival 2026 Bridging global cinema and countryside life, Borderlines brings more than 300 screenings – from big festival hits to restored favourites – to venues across the Marches this month.

"There are no red carpets, no Riviera backdrop and no industry market for acquisition deals. Instead, a circuit of historic theatres, arts centres and community venues transforms the region into a vibrant network of venues for local cinephiles." BFI website www.bfi.org.uk/features/int...

A pint of the black (and white) stuff and @eddiemuller.bsky.social’s Gun Crazy book in the run up to the @filmnoiruk.bsky.social screenings at this year’s @borderlinesff.bsky.social. It’s a great read by the way! #Guinness #FilmNoir
#thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking

Curzon Journal article by @guylodge.bsky.social talks about cinema's opposition to authoritarian regimes and mentions five films included in our programme: The Voice of Hind Rajab, The President's Cake, The Secret Agent, One Battle After Another, Palestine 36. www.curzon.com/journal/trut...

We are back with our friends at #Borderlines2026 @borderlinesff.bsky.social with two classic #FilmNoir titles from #FilmNoirFest.

Check out Gun Crazy (1950) and Rififi (1955) during the film festival (6th - 21st March). More info: borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk

Next up for @muchbirchflicks.bsky.social the annual @artsalive.bsky.social joining in with @borderlinesff.bsky.social Friday 6 March - Saturday 21 March

What better way to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon than browsing through the Borderlines 2026 brochure? Now available as a pdf: borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/sites/www.bo...

Tickets on sale Friday 6 February.

Early warning system for the #borderlines2026 programme
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The Courtyard #hereford Dec/Jan Film Guide tells a story: #borderlines2026 is on the way.

Fix those dates firmly in your 2026 diaries
Friday 6 to Saturday 21 March

Featuring DJ Ahmet from North Macedonia which we’ll be screening courtesy of @conic.film

The Borderlines Film Festival website is one of those currently affected.

Submissions for Open Screen at Borderlines 2026 now open! Apply online for chance to have your short film selected to showcase at the Festival and win Best Short Film Award. Open to filmmakers from: #herefordshire #shropshire #powys #worcestershire
Details/to apply: forms.office.com/r/kkXSYLUM2f

Marking loss of Borderlines' founder and online movie sales pioneer, Carol Hunter, who set up Hereford-based company, MovieMail. Read tribute to Carol by co-founder Jane Jackson borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/news/carol-h...
Carol with Alex Cox 2003, David Gillam & Ian Kerry 2004, Ian Christie 2015.

This is when we're back in action: Friday 6 to Saturday 2 March 2026. #borderlines2026

Watch the trailer for stunning Scottish drama Harvest: The Skinny The Scottish landscape has rarely looked better on screen than in Athina Rachel Tsangari's woozy folk western Harvest. Take a look at the film's first trailer.

Few have better captured Scotland’s landscapes than Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari in her trippy folk western Harvest – the first trailer's out now

buff.ly/mpxxx6t by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social

Independent cinema – a thriving alternative to the multiplex Independent cinema is thriving and offers so many ways to educate, inform and entertain – and they’re closer to you than you think

Excellent story, Richard. @borderlinesff.bsky.social has a great Film Festival based at The Courtyard in Hereford but stretching across the county and beyond. Independent cinema – a thriving alternative to the multiplex centralbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/mo...

Anyone see Misericordia at #borderlines2025? Read on and see what you think!

Britain’s ‘trailblazing’ female war artists finally come out of the shadows A new exhibition and documentary celebrate the women who have been undervalued for years

War Paint - Women at War in Sunday’s Observer.

Much thanks to all the team @borderlinesff.bsky.social for another wonderful rural film festival across the last few weeks. Don't forget folks @artsalive.bsky.social supported by #BFI @nationallottery.bsky.social brings you cinema on your doorstep all year round throughout Hfdrdshire and Shrops!

Image shows film poster for Barbara Loden's film, Wanda.

My final film for #borderlines2025 is Wanda. I'm looking forward to watching this on the big screen for the first time. @borderlinesff.bsky.social

PETER BRADSHAW reviews SISTER MIDNIGHT YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw

My vlog on Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/pFK8phXchiU?...

*snowing 🌨️ not showing.

Showing in Ludlow this morning. Get yourself some sun in the cinema with The Summer with Carmen.
A tail-wagging tale of friendship, filmmaking, and four-legged chaos!
🇬🇷🌈🐕
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/summer-...

The live music was excellent, really made this film. Glad I was persuaded to get a ticket!

One last chance to see at #borderlines2025 at @artsalive.bsky.social venue Cawley Hall, Eye, nr Leominster on Sat 15. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/soundtr...

Magnificent live accompaniment to Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans by Stephen Horne and Elizabeth Jane Baldry at Malvern Theatres this evening. Anyone else notice the resemblance of the Man (George O’ Brien) to… Ryan Gosling?