Venue spotlight: Cawley Hall, Eye

We have eleven venues taking part in Borderlines for the first time (see festival map)

Because of its proximity to another village that has regular film shows, Cawley Hall in Eye, near Leominster, has waited a long time to transform itself into a cinema.

It finally joined Flicks in the Sticks in September and the team has decided to make the venue special by concentrating on vintage films. Promoter Anita Syers-Gibson (on the left in the picture outside the hall) says, "A lot of people talk about films they saw when they were younger. This is something no-one else is doing."

For the Festival, Cawley Hall is showing a programme of Silent Comedy Classics including Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jnr. with piano accompaniment (in the absence of a Mighty Wurlitzer) by inimitable Borderlines regular, Paul Shallcross.  Subdued lighting and retro refreshments  - remember Paynes Poppets in those easy-to-dispense cartons devised specifically for cinema audiences back in 1937? -   recreate the full cinematic experience.

Also screening, Gideon Koppel's exquisite meditation on a small village in rural mid-Wales, Sleep Furiously. Tomorrow night (Friday 19 February), pre-festival,  Cawley Hall revisits post-war Vienna in the atmospheric The Third Man.

Borderlines Film Festival website is now live!

Full programme details and online booking (for The Courtyard Hereford tickets only) now operational.

The Courtyard Box Office is now open for bookings. Check out their Festival Ticket offer, a discount of £1 per ticket when you book for 5 or more events in one transaction. Please note that the offer doesn't apply to online ticket purchases; you'll need to call the Box Office on 01432 340555 or go along in person.

Daytime screenings before 3pm are also discounted at £3 and these are excluded from the above offer. Friends of The Courtyard are entitled to a 10% discount.

Our latest venue, Wem Town Hall in North Shropshire, is also offering a special deal, all 4 films in their programme for £12 (£6 saving!) when bought at the same time. They're showing silent Soviet masterpiece Man with a Movie Camera and Buster Keaton's Neighbors with piano accompaniment by Paul Shallcross, the new biopic about John Lennon's formative years, Nowhere Boy, and two fabulous but very different music-themed films The Wind Journeys and Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love. Call 01939 237075 to book.