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You can browse our cinema screenings and other events by day on this page. You can also browse our events separately.

Tickets to all cinema screenings in Heart of Hawick are priced £5 / £7 / £9 on a ‘pay as you can basis‘.

All films in our screenings programme are captioned. On Saturday 29 April, introductions and Q&As will have BSL interpretation.

Further details about tickets and access measures can be found on our How to Access page.

THURSDAY 27 APRIL

OPENING EVENT
JULES HORNE: REBEL CELLO
18:30 – 19:30
A foot-tapping, pedal-looping assemblage of tall tales and cinematic journeys.

FRIDAY 28 APRIL

SHORTS
TAKE ARMS AGAINST A SEA
10:00 – 11:30 
From ocean to moon, six films wrestle with nothing less than life, death and birth and self-expression.

SHORTS
IN THE LIFESPAN OF STARS
12:00 – 13:30
As one world ends and another begins, seven films interrogate the meaning of extinction, survival and community. 

FILM WITH LIVE READINGS
CALLIGRAPHIC LANDSCAPES
14:30 – 16:00
A guest-curated programme of letters, zines, readings and films exploring relations between Scotland and Puerto Rico.

SHORTS
UP, DOWN AND SIDE TO SIDE
16:30 – 18:00
Exploring the bricks and mortar of encounter, eight films unlock new memories, sensory environments and modes of being. 

LIVE MUSIC + FESTIVAL CEILIDH (TOWN HALL)
MIWA NAGATO-APTHORP
20:00 – 23:00
Newly commissioned songs from Alchemy’s musician in residence. Followed by our Festival Ceilidh. 

SATURDAY 29 APRIL

DOUBLE BILL
THEREAFTER, FOREVER, ONCE UPON
10:00 – 11:30
A double bill presents untold prehistories and redefines the storytelling potentials of Scottish towns and forests. 

SHORTS
WELCOME TO THE DAILY CALM
12:00 – 13:30
Ten films negotiate and navigate life’s cluttered desktops, its crowded frames, and the quiet chaos of its everyday routines.  

SHORTS
MUSIC ON A FARM WAS A RARE THING
14:30 – 16:00
Seven films probe the constructs of image-making in relation to ownership, authorship, framing and power.

LIVE PERFORMANCE
MAXIME JEAN-BAPTISTE: TO YIELD
17:30 – 18:30
Maxime Jean-Baptiste presents a new performance in darkness. Not just any darkness, but that of the cinema, when the lights go out just before the film begins… 

FOCUS
JULIA PARKS
19:30 – 21:00
The premiere of four new films investigating the histories of people, plants, industry and textiles along the Teviot and Tweed Rivers. 

PARTY
NIGHTCAP
21:00 – 00:00
Join us for a wee nightcap in the Heart of Hawick café bar. Free entry with any festival cinema ticket. 

SUNDAY 30 APRIL

FOCUS
JESSIE GROWDEN
10:00 – 11:30
A retrospective exploring forests, bodies, and selfhood through song, structure, portraiture and play.

DOUBLE BILL
CERTAIN AND TRUE IT IS
12:00 – 13:30
A double bill homing in on the complex ways in which fact and myth are bound together.

SHORTS
EXCEPT FOR CARESSES
14:30 – 16:00
Seven films burn, fizz and contort with gestures of connection and desire.

SHORTS
STATUES SING SILENCE
16:30 – 18:00
Eight films reflect on the architectures, uncertainties and possibilities of labour in its extractive, everyday and speculative forms. 

EVENT
FILM QUIZ
20:00 – 22:00
Join us for a special round of our popular monthly film quiz in the Heart of Hawick café bar. Themed rounds, £1 per person, maximum six people per team. All welcome!

CLOSING PARTY
NIGHTCAP
22:00 – 00:00
Join us for a wee nightcap in the Heart of Hawick café bar. Free entry with any festival cinema ticket. 

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