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30 April — 3 May 2026 / Hawick

Embrace
the Strange

Schedule

Screening

Feature

Waves Turn

Josephine Ahnelt

Thursday 30 April

19:00 – 21:00 / 73' + Q+A

Heart of Hawick

Josephine Ahnelt's debut feature, a quietly riveting 16mm portrait of five mothers in their first year of parenthood. UK premiere.

Screening

Shorts

A Zoo Must Never Be A Metaphor

Friday 1 May

10:00 - 11:30 / 68' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

From the ancient to the incidental, eight films explore the rhythms, durations and architectures of impermanence.

Screening

Shorts

A Place That Can Never Be Reached

Friday 1 May

12:00 – 13:30 / 64' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

Through mapping and metaphysics, sketches and surveillance, seven films ruminate on perception and interpretation.

Screening

Shorts

Time Folds In

Friday 1 May

14:30 – 16:00 / 65' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

From racial segregation to wartime displacement, four films consider the complexities of returning.

Screening

Focus

Focus: Nada El-Omari

Friday 1 May

16:30 – 18:00 / 65' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

In Nada El-Omari's work, diasporic identity is explored with an unwavering attention to archival text, image, sound.

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. 

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

Screening

Shorts

The Dreams Of Fishes

Sunday 3 May

10:00 – 11:30 / 64' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

Amidst shrubs and marshlands, gardens and rivers, five films confront life and longing, existence and desire. 

Screening

Shorts

How Do We Communicate, How

Sunday 3 May

12:00 – 13:30 / 65' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

Through dialogues and monologues, signs and gestures, seven films ponder the power and politics of language.

Screening

Shorts

A Comrade Approaches

Sunday 3 May

14:30 – 16:00 / 65' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

At mines and coalfields, across night shifts and bank heists, five films meditate on the textures and residues of labour.

Screening

Performance

Stone and Mountain

Tetsuya Maruyama, Luke Fowler

Sunday 3 May

17:00 – 18:00 / 60'

Heart of Hawick

Tetsuya Maruyama joins forces with Luke Fowler for a spellbinding analogue rumination on contemporary mining activities in Brazil.