Rum an Milk
A special preview of a new feature portrait of Hawick Common Riding and the town-wide labours that make it happen.
Festival Year: 2025
Nightcap
Join us for a wee nightcap in the Heart of Hawick café bar. Free entry with any festival cinema ticket.
A Fidai FIlm
Kamal Aljafari’s award-winning feature, powerfully reclaims archive images of Palestinian life, plundered from the Palestinian Research Centre during Israel’s invasion of Beirut in 1982.
Things That Linger
Diaries and dispatches unfold in dialogue, as four films map identity through quotation, questioning and correspondence.
Adriana Vila Guevara
In the cinema of Venezuelan artist filmmaker Adriana Vila Guevara, notions of identity, knowledge and loss are abundant with poetry and light.
Miwa Nagato — Apthorp + Festival Ceildh
Join us for the special launch of Noren, the debut EP by Alchemy musician in residence Miwa Nagato-Apthorp.
Arrivals And Departures
Six films ruminate on the relationship between bodies and borders, consent and control, desire and power.
Kouté Vwa
A hybrid documentary vividly exploring community and youth amidst the prolonged fallout of colonial violence in French Guiana.
On Weaving
Artists in residence Luke Fowler and Corin Sworn respond to the legacies of textile artists Bernat and Margaret Klein and their modernist Scottish Borders home.
Did Such A World Ever Exist
Nine films examine work and the city as sites upon which public and private realms are formed and contested.