BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL
@borderlinesff.bsky.social
Large and bracing rural film festival taking place early spring in multiple venues across Herefordshire, Shropshire, Malvern and the Welsh Marches. Next edition: Fri 6 to Sat 21 March 2026
https://borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk
https://borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk
Submissions for Open Screen at Borderlines 2026 now open! Apply online for chance to have your short film selected to showcase at the Festival and win Best Short Film Award. Open to filmmakers from: #herefordshire #shropshire #powys #worcestershire
Details/to apply: forms.office.com/r/kkXSYLUM2f
Details/to apply: forms.office.com/r/kkXSYLUM2f
October 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Submissions for Open Screen at Borderlines 2026 now open! Apply online for chance to have your short film selected to showcase at the Festival and win Best Short Film Award. Open to filmmakers from: #herefordshire #shropshire #powys #worcestershire
Details/to apply: forms.office.com/r/kkXSYLUM2f
Details/to apply: forms.office.com/r/kkXSYLUM2f
Marking loss of Borderlines' founder and online movie sales pioneer, Carol Hunter, who set up Hereford-based company, MovieMail. Read tribute to Carol by co-founder Jane Jackson borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/news/carol-h...
Carol with Alex Cox 2003, David Gillam & Ian Kerry 2004, Ian Christie 2015.
Carol with Alex Cox 2003, David Gillam & Ian Kerry 2004, Ian Christie 2015.
October 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Marking loss of Borderlines' founder and online movie sales pioneer, Carol Hunter, who set up Hereford-based company, MovieMail. Read tribute to Carol by co-founder Jane Jackson borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/news/carol-h...
Carol with Alex Cox 2003, David Gillam & Ian Kerry 2004, Ian Christie 2015.
Carol with Alex Cox 2003, David Gillam & Ian Kerry 2004, Ian Christie 2015.
This is when we're back in action: Friday 6 to Saturday 2 March 2026. #borderlines2026
May 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This is when we're back in action: Friday 6 to Saturday 2 March 2026. #borderlines2026
Anyone see Misericordia at #borderlines2025? Read on and see what you think!
March 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Anyone see Misericordia at #borderlines2025? Read on and see what you think!
Showing in Ludlow this morning. Get yourself some sun in the cinema with The Summer with Carmen.
A tail-wagging tale of friendship, filmmaking, and four-legged chaos!
🇬🇷🌈🐕
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/summer-...
A tail-wagging tale of friendship, filmmaking, and four-legged chaos!
🇬🇷🌈🐕
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/summer-...
March 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Showing in Ludlow this morning. Get yourself some sun in the cinema with The Summer with Carmen.
A tail-wagging tale of friendship, filmmaking, and four-legged chaos!
🇬🇷🌈🐕
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/summer-...
A tail-wagging tale of friendship, filmmaking, and four-legged chaos!
🇬🇷🌈🐕
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/summer-...
Magnificent live accompaniment to Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans by Stephen Horne and Elizabeth Jane Baldry at Malvern Theatres this evening. Anyone else notice the resemblance of the Man (George O’ Brien) to… Ryan Gosling?
March 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Magnificent live accompaniment to Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans by Stephen Horne and Elizabeth Jane Baldry at Malvern Theatres this evening. Anyone else notice the resemblance of the Man (George O’ Brien) to… Ryan Gosling?
Nickel Boys is screening this weekend across #borderlines2025 main venues The Courtyard Hereford and Malvern Theatres. Join our Festival Sponsor Malvern Book Cooperative for a film/book discussion this Thursday 13 March 7.00pm: 2 St Ann's Rd, Great Malvern, WR14 4RG
March 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Nickel Boys is screening this weekend across #borderlines2025 main venues The Courtyard Hereford and Malvern Theatres. Join our Festival Sponsor Malvern Book Cooperative for a film/book discussion this Thursday 13 March 7.00pm: 2 St Ann's Rd, Great Malvern, WR14 4RG
Wonderful to have Victoria Mapplebeck at #borderlines2025 on #iwd2025 with her film Motherboard. Filmed almost entirely on 6 generations of smartphone, it’s a moving, funny, honest and intimate account of bringing up her son Jim as a single parent. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/motherb...
March 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Wonderful to have Victoria Mapplebeck at #borderlines2025 on #iwd2025 with her film Motherboard. Filmed almost entirely on 6 generations of smartphone, it’s a moving, funny, honest and intimate account of bringing up her son Jim as a single parent. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/motherb...
Audience lapping up Ninón Sevilla in Victims of Sin thus far. She has a way of making an entrance. One final screening of this at Malvern Theatres tomorrow Sat 8 but more Ninón titles in collaboration with @filmnoiruk.bsky.social next week! borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/victims...
March 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Audience lapping up Ninón Sevilla in Victims of Sin thus far. She has a way of making an entrance. One final screening of this at Malvern Theatres tomorrow Sat 8 but more Ninón titles in collaboration with @filmnoiruk.bsky.social next week! borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/victims...
Rural films/rural location
First screening (well, for a decade!) of Catcher Media's Chewing the Cud today at 5.30pm The Courtyard Hereford - Memories from Hereford's Old Cattle Market that was a stone's throw from The Herdsman in Widemarsh Street. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/chewing...
First screening (well, for a decade!) of Catcher Media's Chewing the Cud today at 5.30pm The Courtyard Hereford - Memories from Hereford's Old Cattle Market that was a stone's throw from The Herdsman in Widemarsh Street. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/chewing...
March 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Rural films/rural location
First screening (well, for a decade!) of Catcher Media's Chewing the Cud today at 5.30pm The Courtyard Hereford - Memories from Hereford's Old Cattle Market that was a stone's throw from The Herdsman in Widemarsh Street. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/chewing...
First screening (well, for a decade!) of Catcher Media's Chewing the Cud today at 5.30pm The Courtyard Hereford - Memories from Hereford's Old Cattle Market that was a stone's throw from The Herdsman in Widemarsh Street. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/chewing...
Dylan Thomas meets Ango-Iranian Oil (aka BP)!?! Don't miss this one-off screening of Pouring Water on Troubled Oil this afternoon (Tuesday 5) 5.00pm. Intro and Q&A by filmmaker Nariman Massoumi. With restored Yek Atash (A Fire) by the Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan. Fascinating stuff.
March 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Dylan Thomas meets Ango-Iranian Oil (aka BP)!?! Don't miss this one-off screening of Pouring Water on Troubled Oil this afternoon (Tuesday 5) 5.00pm. Intro and Q&A by filmmaker Nariman Massoumi. With restored Yek Atash (A Fire) by the Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan. Fascinating stuff.
Dreams, final part of Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy Sex Love Dreams won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale this weekend. Excited to be screening part 1, Sex, on preview at #borderlines2025
Conversation between two Norwegian chimney sweeps can be very intriguing. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/sex
Conversation between two Norwegian chimney sweeps can be very intriguing. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/sex
February 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Dreams, final part of Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy Sex Love Dreams won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale this weekend. Excited to be screening part 1, Sex, on preview at #borderlines2025
Conversation between two Norwegian chimney sweeps can be very intriguing. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/sex
Conversation between two Norwegian chimney sweeps can be very intriguing. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/sex
Nearly dressed for #borderlines2025 in Hereford, Malvern and Ludlow.
February 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Nearly dressed for #borderlines2025 in Hereford, Malvern and Ludlow.
Favourite noticeboard. Nearest @artsalive_flicksinthesticks venue: Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall #shropshire screening The Crime is Mine / Small Things Like These at #borderlines2025
#rurafilmfestival #ruralcinema #community
#rurafilmfestival #ruralcinema #community
February 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Favourite noticeboard. Nearest @artsalive_flicksinthesticks venue: Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall #shropshire screening The Crime is Mine / Small Things Like These at #borderlines2025
#rurafilmfestival #ruralcinema #community
#rurafilmfestival #ruralcinema #community
The two #bafta biggies screening at #borderlines2025, monumental in scale, subject, ambition. The Brutalist plays from Fri 28 in #Hereford #Malvern #Ludlow #Hay. Conclave at @artsalive.bsky.social venues in Ross, Brilley, Pencombe and at Presteigne Screen. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/films
February 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The two #bafta biggies screening at #borderlines2025, monumental in scale, subject, ambition. The Brutalist plays from Fri 28 in #Hereford #Malvern #Ludlow #Hay. Conclave at @artsalive.bsky.social venues in Ross, Brilley, Pencombe and at Presteigne Screen. borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/films
💘Valentines + bit of a twist from #borderlines2025 programme?
🎟 TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER
Prickly intimacy.
🎟 MURDERING THE DEVIL
Sumptuous supper date with Mr Devil in Czech New Wave rediscovery, the only film directed by Ester Krumbachová.
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/films
🎟 TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER
Prickly intimacy.
🎟 MURDERING THE DEVIL
Sumptuous supper date with Mr Devil in Czech New Wave rediscovery, the only film directed by Ester Krumbachová.
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/films
February 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
💘Valentines + bit of a twist from #borderlines2025 programme?
🎟 TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER
Prickly intimacy.
🎟 MURDERING THE DEVIL
Sumptuous supper date with Mr Devil in Czech New Wave rediscovery, the only film directed by Ester Krumbachová.
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/films
🎟 TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER
Prickly intimacy.
🎟 MURDERING THE DEVIL
Sumptuous supper date with Mr Devil in Czech New Wave rediscovery, the only film directed by Ester Krumbachová.
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/films
Award-winning animated film MEMOIR OF A SNAIL
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/memoir-... will be screening at Malvern Theatres and The Courtyard, Hereford only, not at Regal, Tenbury Wells on Sunday 9 March at 11.00am as stated in our brochure.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/memoir-... will be screening at Malvern Theatres and The Courtyard, Hereford only, not at Regal, Tenbury Wells on Sunday 9 March at 11.00am as stated in our brochure.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
February 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Award-winning animated film MEMOIR OF A SNAIL
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/memoir-... will be screening at Malvern Theatres and The Courtyard, Hereford only, not at Regal, Tenbury Wells on Sunday 9 March at 11.00am as stated in our brochure.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/memoir-... will be screening at Malvern Theatres and The Courtyard, Hereford only, not at Regal, Tenbury Wells on Sunday 9 March at 11.00am as stated in our brochure.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Our website is now LIVE! Complete with new, sleek search facility.
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/films
As well as searching by title you can filter by Theme, Date, Venue. Booking links for all screenings are now in place
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/films
As well as searching by title you can filter by Theme, Date, Venue. Booking links for all screenings are now in place
February 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Our website is now LIVE! Complete with new, sleek search facility.
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/films
As well as searching by title you can filter by Theme, Date, Venue. Booking links for all screenings are now in place
borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/films
As well as searching by title you can filter by Theme, Date, Venue. Booking links for all screenings are now in place
The 2025 Borderlines brochure is now available to download from our website: borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/sites/www.bo...
Rural cinema a-plenty within. Lots more besides.
Tickets scheduled to go on sale from Friday 31 at 1.00pm.
Rural cinema a-plenty within. Lots more besides.
Tickets scheduled to go on sale from Friday 31 at 1.00pm.
January 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The 2025 Borderlines brochure is now available to download from our website: borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/sites/www.bo...
Rural cinema a-plenty within. Lots more besides.
Tickets scheduled to go on sale from Friday 31 at 1.00pm.
Rural cinema a-plenty within. Lots more besides.
Tickets scheduled to go on sale from Friday 31 at 1.00pm.
2025 festival programme sorted, proofed and at the printers. Want to see inside? Copies to have and hold available from next Wednesday 29th. Or if you subscribe to our mailing list, a sneak peak should be on its way sooner. eepurl.com/dwOJH9
January 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
2025 festival programme sorted, proofed and at the printers. Want to see inside? Copies to have and hold available from next Wednesday 29th. Or if you subscribe to our mailing list, a sneak peak should be on its way sooner. eepurl.com/dwOJH9
Cold it may be but we're turning up the dial for #borderlines2025 with our Ninón Sevilla triple bill, thanks to our partners @filmnoiruk.bsky.social. Sevilla, hailing originally from Havana Cuba, was a huge star in Mexican cinema during the 1950s, a top performer in rumberas films. Do not miss!
January 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Cold it may be but we're turning up the dial for #borderlines2025 with our Ninón Sevilla triple bill, thanks to our partners @filmnoiruk.bsky.social. Sevilla, hailing originally from Havana Cuba, was a huge star in Mexican cinema during the 1950s, a top performer in rumberas films. Do not miss!
Preparing to come at you with trolley loads of great films. First ad now in Dec/Jan issue of Broad Sheep and we will be out and about across #herefordshire #shropshire #powys #worcestershire aka Welsh borders Friday 28 Feb for 16 whole days.
Image: To an Unknown Land @conicfilm.bsky.social
Image: To an Unknown Land @conicfilm.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Preparing to come at you with trolley loads of great films. First ad now in Dec/Jan issue of Broad Sheep and we will be out and about across #herefordshire #shropshire #powys #worcestershire aka Welsh borders Friday 28 Feb for 16 whole days.
Image: To an Unknown Land @conicfilm.bsky.social
Image: To an Unknown Land @conicfilm.bsky.social
Open Screen is a rich, rewarding and LOCAL part of the film festival. Deadline looms: Wed 4 Dec 12pm. Submit your #shropshire #worcestershire #herefordshire #powys short films for #borderlines2025 now: forms.office.com/r/jC6tHQ99Kd
Prize (thanks to John Finch Computers) for Best Film.
Prize (thanks to John Finch Computers) for Best Film.
November 28, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Open Screen is a rich, rewarding and LOCAL part of the film festival. Deadline looms: Wed 4 Dec 12pm. Submit your #shropshire #worcestershire #herefordshire #powys short films for #borderlines2025 now: forms.office.com/r/jC6tHQ99Kd
Prize (thanks to John Finch Computers) for Best Film.
Prize (thanks to John Finch Computers) for Best Film.
We've arrived at this place! Our magnificently rural #film festival will bring 25 venues across #Herefordshire #Shropshire #Powys and #Worcestershire together Friday 28 February to Saturday 15 March. Join us and reach for those gaps in the clouds. image: Vermiglio
November 25, 2024 at 3:53 PM
We've arrived at this place! Our magnificently rural #film festival will bring 25 venues across #Herefordshire #Shropshire #Powys and #Worcestershire together Friday 28 February to Saturday 15 March. Join us and reach for those gaps in the clouds. image: Vermiglio