Borderlines Film Festival: your favourite film

The films you the audience voted for turned out to be very different from those that proved popular at the box office.

While over 1,000 people came to see An Education, followed by large audience figures for Up in the Air and Nowhere Boy, when it came to our online poll it was two Japanese films that came out on top.

Departures, with its fresh take on life and death through the eyes of a young ceremonial corpse-washer,  won a resounding 18% of the vote with the understated meditation on family life, Still Walking, second with 13%.

Other films you rated highly were Nowhere Boy, The Limits of Control, Welcome, Tulpan, The Hurt Locker and Katalin Varga. All this indicates that there's a core audience at Borderlines that favours some of the more unusual and intriguing films on offer at the festival.

More Thanks for 'Welcome' and I hear 'Seraphine' is a Must See too

I would like to second 'Captain Finborough's' comments regarding Welcome. I went to it not knowing what to expect and came out of the cinema moved by the story, the subtle performances, and the quiet way it took us through a fraught and current human predicament -- immigration/migration. Thanks to Borderlines for bringing this to our screens. I've also heard that Seraphine is another one not on the mainstream awards lists, but that a gem nevertheless. So time to go order another ticket...

Welcome wins 4th award!

Welcome, the powerful story of a young Kurdish refugee trapped in Calais, took the Lumiere Award (the French equivalent of the BAFTAs) for Best Film on Friday evening. Meanwhile director Jacques Audiard took Best Director for A Prophet, the absorbing prison thriller that has wowed audiences internationally.


Welcome screens on the opening night of Borderlines 2010 at The Courtyard and A Prophet plays at the festival in early March.