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You can browse our cinema screenings on this page. If you already know what you’re seeing and just want to buy a ticket, check out our tickets-only page.

We’ve also included other events on this page (just in case you miss them!), but you can also browse these events separately. And don’t forget our exhibitions programme, which is free to view each day of the festival.

All films in our screenings programme have descriptive subtitles for deaf audiences. All introductions and Q&As from Friday 2 May onwards have BSL interpretation. 

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

THURSDAY 1 MAY

OPENING FEATURE
RUM AN MILK
19:00 – 21:30
A special preview of a new feature portrait of Hawick Common Riding and the town-wide labours that make it happen.

OPENING RECEPTION
NIGHTCAP
21:30 – 00:00
Join us for a wee nightcap in the Heart of Hawick café bar. Free entry with any festival cinema ticket. 

FRIDAY 2 MAY

SHORTS
THINGS THAT LINGER
10:00 – 11:30
Diaries and dispatches unfold in dialogue, as four films map identity through quotation, questioning and correspondence. 

SHORTS
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
12:00 – 13:30
Six films ruminate on the relationship between bodies and borders, consent and control, desire and power. 

FOCUS
ADRIANA VILA GUEVARA
14:30 – 15:30
In the cinema of Adriana Vila Guevara, notions of identity, knowledge and loss are abundant with poetry and light. 

FEATURE 
A FIDAI FILM
16:30 – 18:00
Kamal Aljafari’s feature powerfully reclaims archive images of Palestinian life plundered during Israel’s 1982 invasion of Beirut. 

LIVE PERFORMANCE 
MIWA NAGATO-APTHORP + FESTIVAL CEILIDH
19:30 – 00:00
Miwa Nagato-Apthorp launches her debut EP, followed by another edition of our popular ceilidh.

SATURDAY 3 MAY

SHORTS
FROM THE DEPTHS
10:00 – 11:30
Six films span and stretch across ancestral lineages, linguistic legacies, dreamworlds in deep time.

SHORTS
PLACES WE KNEW
12:00 – 13:30
Seven films ponder erasure and reanimation, community and memory, and loss as its own form of presence. 

SHORTS
DID SUCH A WORLD EVER EXIST
14:30 – 16:00
Nine films examine work and the city as sites upon which public and private realms are formed and contested. 

FEATURE 
ON WEAVING
17:00 – 18:00
Luke Fowler and Corin Sworn respond to the legacies of textile designers Bernat and Margaret Klein and their Scottish Borders home. 

FEATURE
KOUTÉ VWA
19:30 – 21:15
Maxime Jean-Baptiste’s award-winning debut feature vividly explores community and youth amidst the residues of colonialism in French Guiana. 

EVENING RECEPTION
NIGHTCAP
21:30 – 01:00
Join us for a wee nightcap in the Heart of Hawick café bar. Free entry with any festival cinema ticket. 

SUNDAY 4 MAY

SHORTS
TIME PASSES
10:00 – 11:30
Four films articulate a vision of cinema as connector, mediator, a tool for conversation and reflection. 

SHORTS
AND ENTER
12:00 – 13:30
Seven films interrogate the meaning of thresholds, constellations, collaborations and portals. 

PERFORMANCE
EXCERPTS ON EXTRACTION
14:30 – 16:00
A special performance, screening and discussion event exploring archives of displacement within the Venezuelan diaspora. 

CLOSING FEATURE
ARAYA
17:00 – 18:30
Margot Benacerraf’s acclaimed 1959 feature is a lyrical portrait of labour and the extraction of salt mines in Venezuela, screening almost one year since the death of its director. 

EVENING EVENT
FILM QUIZ
20:00 – 21:30
Join us for another round of our popular film quiz in the Heart of Hawick café bar. Themed rounds, £1 per person, maximum six people per team. All welcome! 

CLOSING RECEPTION
NIGHTCAP
21:30 – 00:00
One for the road? Join us for a final wee nightcap in the Heart of Hawick café bar. Free entry with any festival cinema ticket.

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