Exhibitions Opening
Join us for a preview of our moving-image exhibitions, which are open daily from Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May.
Festival Year: 2026
Waves Turn
Josephine Ahnelt’s debut feature, a quietly riveting 16mm portrait of five mothers in their first year of parenthood. UK premiere.
A Zoo Must Never Be A Metaphor
From the ancient to the incidental, eight films explore the rhythms, durations and architectures of impermanence.
A Place That Can Never Be Reached
Through mapping and metaphysics, sketches and surveillance, seven films ruminate on perception and interpretation.
Play It Forward
A drop-in, hands-on 16mm workshop with Lydia Beilby editing and splicing a new restoration of the 1966 Hawick Pictorial.
Time Folds In
From racial segregation to wartime displacement, four films consider the complexities of returning.
Focus: Nada El-Omari
In Nada El-Omari’s work, diasporic identity is explored with an unwavering attention to archival text, image, sound.
Festival Ceilidh
Another festival edition, another night of camaraderie, connection, and joy in comradeship. Kilts encouraged, all welcome!
Contretemps + No Title
Two frontline dispatches from Lebanon chart the precarities of protest and the devastation of Israeli violence.