Borderlines Film Festival 2025
The Borderlines Film Festival returns from 28 February - 15 March 2025 at multiple venues throughout Herefordshire, Shropshire, Malvern and The Marches. Check the website for the latest updates.
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I’m Still Here (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
I’m Still Here (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Walter Salles Starring: Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro Brazil/France, 2023, 2 hours 17 minutes, Portuguese + English subtitles DS Descriptive Subtitles: Friday 28th February at 1pm Accomplished storytelling…
Welcome To The Orchard of England (PG) + Q&A (Borderlines Film Festival)
Welcome To The Orchard of England (PG) + Q&A (Borderlines Film Festival)
Known historically as the Orchard of England, Herefordshire is apple country. This film brings together a wide-ranging and eccentric cast of local people – farmers, Travellers, former apple-pickers, clergymen, wassailers,…
Free
Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet Starring: Maggie Barrett, Joel Meyerowitz UK/Denmark/US, 2024, 1 hour 40 minutes, English/French/Italian + English subtitles Filmed over a year, this documentary has a lot to…
10 events,
Bring Them Down (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Bring Them Down (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Christopher Andrews Starring: Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Colm Meaney Ireland/UK/Belgium, 2024, 1 hour 45 minutes, English/Irish + English subtitles AD Audio Description available Barry Keoghan (Saltburn, The Banshees of…
Hard Truths (12A) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Hard Truths (12A) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Mike Leigh Starring: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Ani Nelson UK, 2024, 1 hour 37 minutes AD Audio description available DS Descriptive subtitles: Thursday 6th March…
Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet Starring: Maggie Barrett, Joel Meyerowitz UK/Denmark/US, 2024, 1 hour 40 minutes, English/French/Italian + English subtitles Filmed over a year, this documentary has a lot to…
7 events,
When Autumn Falls (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
When Autumn Falls (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: François Ozon, Starring: Hélène Vincent, Josiane Balasko France, 2024, 1 hour 43 minutes, French + English subtitles Ever-inventive, French auteur François Ozon (8 Women, Swimming Pool, Potiche, Frantz) returns…
Bring Them Down (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Bring Them Down (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Christopher Andrews Starring: Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Colm Meaney Ireland/UK/Belgium, 2024, 1 hour 45 minutes, English/Irish + English subtitles AD Audio Description available Barry Keoghan (Saltburn, The Banshees of…
Flow (U) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Flow (U) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Gints Zilbalodis Belgium/France/Latvia, 2024, 1 hour 24 minutes, no dialogue R Relaxed screening: Saturday 8th March at 11am In the face of a devastating flood, the solitary Cat embarks…
7 events,
The Brutalist (18) (Borderlines Film Festival)
The Brutalist (18) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Brady Corbet Starring: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Alessandro Nivola US/UK/Hungary, 2024, 3 hours 35 minutes, English AD Audio Description available Adrien Brody plays visionary architect László Toth,…
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Filmed over a year, this documentary has a lot to say about personal and intimate interaction, how it’s affected by creativity, recognition, fame and ageing. Thirty years after a chance…
Sister Midnight (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Sister Midnight (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Karan Kandhari Starring: Radhika Apte, Ashok Pathak, Chhaya Kadam UK, 2024, 1 hour 47 minutes, Hindi + English subtitles Writer-director Karan Kandhari’s feature debut is a surreal, punkish and…
8 events,
I’m Still Here (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
I’m Still Here (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Walter Salles Starring: Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro Brazil/France, 2023, 2 hours 17 minutes, Portuguese + English subtitles DS Descriptive Subtitles: Friday 28th February at 1pm Accomplished storytelling…
The Wolves Always Come at Night (12A) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
The Wolves Always Come at Night (12A) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Gabrielle Brady Starrinf: Davaasuren Dagvasuren, Otgonzaya Dashzeveg Australia/Mongolia/Germany, 2024, 1 hour 36 minutes, Mongolian + English subtitles After a devastating storm destroys their livelihood in rural Mongolia, a young…
Sujo (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Sujo (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez Starring: Juan Jesús Varela, Yadira Pérez, Alexis Varela Mexico/France/US, 2024, 2 hours 5 minutes, Spanish + English subtitles This coming of age story from filmmaking…
5 events,
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof Starring: Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Niousha Akhshi, Missagh Zareh, Soheila Golestani Iran/Germany/France, 2024, 2 hours 48 minutes, Farsi + English subtitles Dissident director Rasoulof personalises dividing lines…
Misericordia (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Misericordia (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Alain Guiraudie Starring: Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jacques Develay France/Spain/Portugal, 2024, 1 hour 43 minutes, French + English subtitles Returning to a small town in southwestern France for the…
The Brutalist (18) (Borderlines Film Festival)
The Brutalist (18) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Brady Corbet Starring: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Alessandro Nivola US/UK/Hungary, 2024, 3 hours 35 minutes, English AD Audio Description available Adrien Brody plays visionary architect László Toth,…
3 events,
Hard Truths (12A) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Hard Truths (12A) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Mike Leigh Starring: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Ani Nelson UK, 2024, 1 hour 37 minutes AD Audio description available DS Descriptive subtitles: Thursday 6th March…
When Autumn Falls (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
When Autumn Falls (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: François Ozon, Starring: Hélène Vincent, Josiane Balasko France, 2024, 1 hour 43 minutes, French + English subtitles Ever-inventive, French auteur François Ozon (8 Women, Swimming Pool, Potiche, Frantz) returns…
4 events,
Malvern Festival of Ideas 2025
A return of the annual Festival of Ideas now in its 12th year. A themed weekend of talks will draw inspiration from the elephant poem by Rumi. Deliberating free expression…
Flow (U) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Flow (U) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Gints Zilbalodis Belgium/France/Latvia, 2024, 1 hour 24 minutes, no dialogue R Relaxed screening: Saturday 8th March at 11am In the face of a devastating flood, the solitary Cat embarks…
Divine Might (Festival of Ideas)
Divine Might (Festival of Ideas)
Malvern Festival of Ideas is pleased to welcome acclaimed author, classicist and comedian, Natalie Haynes, for an electrifying one-woman show. Full of fire, fury and devotion, Natalie Haynes brings the…
£14.01
19 events,
Drawing in the Jungle (Festival of Ideas)
Drawing in the Jungle (Festival of Ideas)
Writer and illustrator Will Hughes takes you deep into the jungle to create your own illustrated story in this workshop suitable for participants of all ages. In this session, he'll…
£5.39
The AI Revolution: How It Happened and What It Means (Festival of Ideas)
The AI Revolution: How It Happened and What It Means (Festival of Ideas)
Artificial Intelligence has gone viral. ChatGPT, the world’s first mass-market general-purpose AI tool, acquired 100 million users in a few weeks. But why did a technology 70 years in the…
£10.78
Flow (U) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Flow (U) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Gints Zilbalodis Belgium/France/Latvia, 2024, 1 hour 24 minutes, no dialogue R Relaxed screening: Saturday 8th March at 11am In the face of a devastating flood, the solitary Cat embarks…
7 events,
Embodying Pride, Cultivating Protest (Festival of Ideas)
Embodying Pride, Cultivating Protest (Festival of Ideas)
Senthorun Raj, who is Reader in Human Rights Law at Manchester Law School, explores the various ways lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary, intersex, queer, and asexual people around the world…
£8.62
Making Disability Funny (Festival of Ideas)
Making Disability Funny (Festival of Ideas)
The writers of The Daily Tism, Sara Gibbs and Elsa Williams, discuss punching inwards – how own-voices writers mine their own lives for comedy. Discussions include how to target your…
£8.62
X Marks the Spot (Festival of Ideas)
X Marks the Spot (Festival of Ideas)
Unearthing the physical remains of our past is a quintessential human itch - seen in every society from the ancients through to today. But the stories behind archaeological exploration and…
£8.62
1 event,
6 events,
Architecton (U) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Architecton (U) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Victor Kossakovsky France/Germany/USA, 2024, 1 hour 38 minutes, English/Italian + English subtitles The latest film from master documentarian Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda, Aquarela) is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation…
The Summer with Carmen (18) (Borderlines Film Festival)
The Summer with Carmen (18) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Zacharias Mavroeidis Starring: Yorgos Tsiantoulas, Andreas Lampropoulos, Nikolas Mihas, Vasilis Tsigristaris, Roubini Vasilakopoulou Greece, 2023, 1 hour 46 minutes, Greek + English subtitles In this sexy, sun-drenched comedy, best…
The Return (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
The Return (15) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
A retelling of Odysseus’ (Ralph Fiennes) return to Ithaca pivots on the hero’s inner state of being. Odysseus’s homecoming from 20 years of war and adventure is far from peaceful.…
3 events,
Santosh (18) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Santosh (18) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Sandhya Suri Starring: Shahana Goswami, Sunita Rajwar, Nawal Shukla UK/Germany/India/France, 2024, 2 hours 7 minutes, Hindi + English subtitles In the rural badlands of north India, a young widow…
I’m Still Here (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
I’m Still Here (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Walter Salles Starring: Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro Brazil/France, 2023, 2 hours 17 minutes, Portuguese + English subtitles DS Descriptive Subtitles: Friday 28th February at 1pm Accomplished storytelling…
4 events,
Sujo (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Sujo (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez Starring: Juan Jesús Varela, Yadira Pérez, Alexis Varela Mexico/France/US, 2024, 2 hours 5 minutes, Spanish + English subtitles This coming of age story from filmmaking…
Architecton (U) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Architecton (U) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Victor Kossakovsky France/Germany/USA, 2024, 1 hour 38 minutes, English/Italian + English subtitles The latest film from master documentarian Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda, Aquarela) is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation…
Small Things Like These (12A) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Small Things Like These (12A) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Cillian Murphy plays Bill, a man who witnesses Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries, abusive workhouses for unwed mothers, in an absorbing Dickensian story based on recent history. Bill is a coalman…
5 events,
The Penguin Lessons (12A) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
The Penguin Lessons (12A) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Peter Cattaneo Starring: Steve Coogan, Björn Gustafsson, David Herrero, Jonathan Pryce UK/Spain, 2024, 1 hour 50 minutes, English/Spanish + English subtitles AD Audio description available DS Descriptive subtitles: Saturday…
The Penguin Lessons (12A) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
The Penguin Lessons (12A) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Peter Cattaneo Starring: Steve Coogan, Björn Gustafsson, David Herrero, Jonathan Pryce UK/Spain, 2024, 1 hour 50 minutes, English/Spanish + English subtitles AD Audio description available DS Descriptive subtitles: Saturday…
Murdering the Devil (12A) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Murdering the Devil (12A) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Ester Krumbachová Starring: Jiřina Bohdalová, Vladimír Menšík Czechoslovakia, 1970, 1 hour 15 minutes, Czech + English subtitles Long forgotten, recently restored, Ester Krumbachová’s directorial debut is an exuberant, biting…
6 events,
Take Me In Your Arms (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Take Me In Your Arms (15) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Julio Bracho Starring: Ninón Sevilla, Armando Silvestre, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Andrea Palma Mexico, 1954, 1 hour 31 minutes, Spanish + English subtitles Erotic torments and class conflicts come to…
The Penguin Lessons (12A) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
The Penguin Lessons (12A) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)
Director: Peter Cattaneo Starring: Steve Coogan, Björn Gustafsson, David Herrero, Jonathan Pryce UK/Spain, 2024, 1 hour 50 minutes, English/Spanish + English subtitles AD Audio description available DS Descriptive subtitles: Saturday…
An Afternoon with Grey Wolf (Regal Folk Festival)
An Afternoon with Grey Wolf (Regal Folk Festival)
This event is part of the 2025 Regal Folk Festival, showcasing the best in folk music from around the UK and beyond. Join us at The Regal for an intimate…
