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30 April — 3 May 2026 / Hawick

Embrace
the Strange

Schedule

Screening

Shorts

I Am One, And Two

Saturday 2 May

10:00 – 11:30 / 66' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

From the corporeal to the cosmic, the material to the spiritual, seven films explore mechanisms of endurance.

Screening

Shorts

Your Body Has Never Been Your Own

Saturday 2 May

12:00 – 13:30 / 65' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

Six films situate struggle and survival within the strictures and structures of the state apparatus. 

Event

Play It Forward

Saturday 2 May

12:30 – 14:30

Heritage Hub

A drop-in, hands-on 16mm workshop with Lydia Beilby editing and splicing a new restoration of the 1966 Hawick Pictorial.

Screening

Feature

Angels Fill Me With Horror

Saturday 2 May

14:30 – 16:00 / 66' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

Eight films survey myths and monsters, anxiety and trauma, in relation to land, place, identity and the seasons.

Screening

Focus

Focus: Malic Amalya

Saturday 2 May

16:30 – 18:00 / 62' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

Malic Amalya’s essayistic, intersectional queercore work embodies a vividly analogue mode of anticapitalism.

Screening

Feature

An Incomplete Calendar

Sanaz Sohrabi

Saturday 2 May

20:00 – 21:45 / 78' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

Sanaz Sohrabi investigates oil as the driving force of Palestinian liberation and Pan-Arab solidarity. UK premiere

Event

Nightcap

Saturday 2 May

22:00 – 01:00

Heart of Hawick

A relaxed, unstructured gathering to mark the end of a festival day.

Exhibition

Contretemps + No Title

Ghassan Salhab

Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May
10:00 – 17:00

Borders Textile Towerhouse

Two frontline dispatches from Lebanon chart the precarities of protest and the devastation of Israeli violence.

Exhibition

How to Cook a Wasp

Jade Wong

Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May
10:00 – 17:00

Heritage Hub

A diasporic Asian food worker community is observed through the lens of wasp hunting and seaweed foraging.

Exhibition

Milk Report

Conway and Young

Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May
10:00 – 17:00

Heritage Hub

A playful treatise and performance piece on the thrills, trials and travails of reproductive labour.

Exhibition

Oor Ain Film Archive

Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May
10:00 – 17:00

Heritage Hub

The launch of a new permanent mediatheque preserving social histories of the Scottish Borders through film.

Exhibition

Out Of Office

Kialy Tihngang

Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May
10:00 – 17:00

Borders Textile Towerhouse

A critique of capitalism and its abundant shape-shifting capacity plays out as a darkly funny corporate satire.

Exhibition

Stomach, Thighs, and Ass

Matthew Lancit

Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May
10:00 – 17:00

Room 205, Heart of Hawick

Survival as performance art, one insulin injection at a time, as the artist documents an epic of the everyday.