BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Building up to our 25th edition. It has to be special. 020
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALBen Proctor @benproctor.co.uk · 02/05/2026Saw this as a preview @borderlinesff.bsky.social and it was one of the highlights for me. A beautiful, measured and humane film. 0103
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALRebecca Farkas @rebeccafarkas.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Waiting & 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...rebeccafarkas.blogspot.comWaiting & MakingDuring 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. 021
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALMuch Birch Flicks @muchbirchflicks.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Last 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.. 011
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALMuch Birch Flicks @muchbirchflicks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The 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... 16s 011
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALperkybinder.bsky.social @perkybinder.bsky.social · 13/03/2026@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* 011
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 13/03/2026THE 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). 010
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALPhilippa @gingerworrier.bsky.social · 12/03/2026The 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 181
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 03/03/2026"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...bfi.org.ukInternational cinema, local roots: what to watch at Borderlines Film Festival 2026Bridging 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. 000
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALJames Harrison @jamesmjharrison.bsky.social · 22/02/2026A 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 0122
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Curzon 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... 020
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALFilm Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 09/02/2026We 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 0298
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALMuch Birch Flicks @muchbirchflicks.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Next up for @muchbirchflicks.bsky.social the annual @artsalive.bsky.social joining in with @borderlinesff.bsky.social Friday 6 March - Saturday 21 March 021
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 01/02/2026What 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. 132
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Early warning system for the #borderlines2026 programme plus brochure delivered by post to your door. Become a subscriber. eepurl.com/dwOJH9 031
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 16/12/2025The 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 041
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 18/11/2025The Borderlines Film Festival website is one of those currently affected. 010
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Submissions 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 010
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Marking 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. 010
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 12/05/2025This is when we're back in action: Friday 6 to Saturday 2 March 2026. #borderlines2026 041
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALThe Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Few 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.socialbuff.lyWatch the trailer for stunning Scottish drama Harvest: The SkinnyThe 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. 053
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALRichard Jones @langstone-court.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Excellent 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...centralbylines.co.ukIndependent cinema – a thriving alternative to the multiplexIndependent cinema is thriving and offers so many ways to educate, inform and entertain – and they’re closer to you than you think 031
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Anyone see Misericordia at #borderlines2025? Read on and see what you think! 020
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 18/03/2025War Paint - Women at War in Sunday’s Observer.theguardian.comBritain’s ‘trailblazing’ female war artists finally come out of the shadowsA new exhibition and documentary celebrate the women who have been undervalued for years 020
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALMuch Birch Flicks @muchbirchflicks.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Much 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! 022
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALCraig Minett @craigminett.bsky.social · 15/03/2025My final film for #borderlines2025 is Wanda. I'm looking forward to watching this on the big screen for the first time. @borderlinesff.bsky.social 041
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALPeter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 13/03/2025My vlog on Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/pFK8phXchiU?...youtu.bePETER BRADSHAW reviews SISTER MIDNIGHTYouTube video by Peter Bradshaw 093
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Showing 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-... 141
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALjohnhowes.bsky.social @johnhowes.bsky.social · 12/03/2025The live music was excellent, really made this film. Glad I was persuaded to get a ticket! 021
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Magnificent 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? 030
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALSimon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 10/03/2025If you've not seen Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, what are you waiting for? @borderlinesff.bsky.social 351
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Our audiences are loving El cine soy yo. After all, our @artsalive.bsky.social network is a kind of UK equivalent without quite the same panache! 063
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALlorenapino.bsky.social @lorenapino.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Today! Monday 10/3, El cine soy yo (Luis Armando Roche, 1977 🇻🇪🇫🇷) ends its tour across the UK as part of @cineredis.bsky.social 📽️ if you are taking part at @borderlinesff.bsky.social don’t miss this Latin American film! borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/cine-so... 032
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALLeigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 09/03/2025for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social, a real privilege to IV great Haitian director Raoul Peck for his terrific new doc ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND, on groundbreaking South African photographer who helped expose Apartheid. out now in the UK via @dogwoofdocs.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...bfi.org.uk“The film should continue with you, otherwise I’m just preaching”: Raoul Peck on his documentary Ernest Cole: Lost and FoundRaoul Peck’s upcoming documentary on South African photographer Ernest Cole distils the life of an artist in exile while interrogating the legacy of apartheid. 01410
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Nickel Boys is screening this weekend across #borderlines2025 main venues The Courtyard Hereford and Malvern Theatres. Join our Festival Sponsor Malvern Book Cooperative for a film/book discussion this Thursday 13 March 7.00pm: 2 St Ann's Rd, Great Malvern, WR14 4RG 010
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Wonderful to have Victoria Mapplebeck at #borderlines2025 on #iwd2025 with her film Motherboard. Filmed almost entirely on 6 generations of smartphone, it’s a moving, funny, honest and intimate account of bringing up her son Jim as a single parent. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/motherb... 021
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Audience lapping up Ninón Sevilla in Victims of Sin thus far. She has a way of making an entrance. One final screening of this at Malvern Theatres tomorrow Sat 8 but more Ninón titles in collaboration with @filmnoiruk.bsky.social next week! borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/victims... 0127
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALYanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 07/03/2025ON FALLING is a magnificent, timely film about the asset stripping of our souls that not only enriches its audience but also steels our resolve to rise up and to understand that we have nothing to lose but our mind chains. www.theguardian.com/film/2024/se... 316056
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALConic @conic.film · 07/03/2025There’s one unedited shot in the film, she explains, that follows Aurora working in real time: “It feels long and I’m thinking, ‘That’s two minutes – this person is doing this 10 hours a day.’” – @lauracarreira.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...theguardian.com‘You’re always on edge – it has consequences’: the extraordinary drama about working in an Amazon-style warehouseIn On Falling, first time director Laura Carreira exposes the hardships and humiliations of a woman struggling to earn a living in a ‘fulfilment centre’ in Glasgow 0136
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALConic @conic.film · 06/03/2025Early reviews for ON FALLING courtesy of @letterboxd.social users 🎬 In cinemas from tomorrow. Visit conic.film/onfalling for screening info. 094
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALSimon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I doubt if I will see a funnier film than #SisterMidnight at this year's @borderlinesff.bsky.social 021
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Rural films/rural location First screening (well, for a decade!) of Catcher Media's Chewing the Cud today at 5.30pm The Courtyard Hereford - Memories from Hereford's Old Cattle Market that was a stone's throw from The Herdsman in Widemarsh Street. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/chewing... 020
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Yes! Go for it. Murdering the Devil is delicious. 000
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALKlassiki @klassiki.bsky.social · 05/03/2025🚨 LAST CHANCE TO ENTER 🚨 Our ticket competition with @borderlinesff.bsky.social ends soon! Win 2 tickets to MURDERING THE DEVIL (1970) on Tuesday 11 March where Klassiki will be intro'ing the film. Head to our Community page to enter (link in bio). This competition closes on 10 March… good luck 🎟️✨ 042
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Dylan Thomas meets Ango-Iranian Oil (aka BP)!?! Don't miss this one-off screening of Pouring Water on Troubled Oil this afternoon (Tuesday 5) 5.00pm. Intro and Q&A by filmmaker Nariman Massoumi. With restored Yek Atash (A Fire) by the Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan. Fascinating stuff. 120
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 03/03/2025See Murdering the Devil, the one film Ester Krumbachová directed, on the big screen at #borderlines2025 borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/murderi...borderlinesfilmfestival.co.ukMURDERING THE DEVIL | BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALLong forgotten, recently restored, Ester Krumbachová’s directorial debut is an exuberant, biting feminist satire. 031
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 01/03/2025This follows Open Screen. A chance for filmmakers to get together. From 4.30pm. 020
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALMuch Birch Flicks @muchbirchflicks.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Screening tonight (7:30pm) in #muchbirch @borderlinesff.bsky.social then at a selection of @artsalive.bsky.social venues across #Borderlines25 - @indiewire.com review www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...indiewire.com‘The Outrun’ Review: Saoirse Ronan Shines in a Windswept Recovery Drama Set on the Scottish IslesAdapted from Amy Liptrot's memoir, this bracing character study follows a young woman who returns to Orkney in search of sobriety and inner strength. 011
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL @borderlinesff.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Looking forward to this one. Homoerotic intrigue, one-off characters including a mushroom-obsessed abbé, a disappearance, dark humour - all in a rural setting. Book for Misericordia at Malvern Theatres and The Courtyard Hereford borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/miseric... 020
Reposted by BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVALCinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · 28/02/2025For those of you @borderlinesff.bsky.social , look out for some great rep titles in the line-up incl. El Cine Soy Yo (1977), Aventurera (1950) straight from #CineRedis + gems such as Murdering The Devil (1970) c/o @klassiki.bsky.social and Point Blank (1967) 032