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30 April — 3 May 2026 / Hawick

Embrace
the Strange

Festival

Our flagship event, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, is the UK’s festival of experimental film and artists’ moving image, unfolding with the solidarity, hospitality and warmth for which it is known in Hawick each spring.

Residencies

We host artists in residence throughout the year to support the creation of new work researching and responding to the borders, boundaries and lines of Hawick and the Scottish Borders.

Film Town

Film Town is our award-winning year-round programme of community filmmaking, skills development and creative learning, which places inclusion, equity and social justice at its centre through collaboration, partnerships and critical practice.

About

Our team takes pride in the care and clarity with which we deliver our work, and in the warmth and hospitality for which we are known. In all that we do, we value openness, experimentation, creativity, solidarity and humour.

Opportunities

We are seeking up to two Project Artists to lead on the creative direction of In a Land of Milk Snatchers, our ambitious new project.