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The 22nd edition of Borderlines Film Festival, which closed a week ago on Sunday after 17 days of action-packed cinema, has seen attendance return to pre-Covid levels.

In the run-up to the UK’s biggest event for young, emerging filmmakers, we asked the BFI Film Academy Young Programmers to take us through what’s on offer.

17/01/2024 - With the 17th edition under way, the head and managing director of the Vilnius Short Film Festival share their thoughts on the gathering’s new visual identity and its ongoing evolution

The festival reached audiences of 430,550 across 12 days of screenings in London and UK-wide, including features, series, shorts, immersive art and extended reality works, Screen Talks, LFF For Free events, free short films on BFI Player and the LFF Industry Forum.

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Running 17 to 20 February, the festival programme will be available online globally for free, and in person at BFI Southbank, to aspiring filmmakers aged 16 to 25.

A well-loved Cumbrian cinema is undergoing some big changes ahead of its reopening in September.

A NEW free online weekend of film aimed at young audiences is being launched at the end of this month. The event is intended to shine light on women filmmakers and will also present a “film course showcase” designed to arm future film students with all they need to know about how and where to study film in Scotland. Hosted by the Young Programmers at Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), the Youth Weekender is accessible to all and there are data bursaries available to support...