MAXIMUM TILT programme announced
We are excited to announce the , programmed by Andrew Black and Anne-Marie Copestake. Across three days, the programme includes works by Prantik Basu, Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah, Seamus Harahan, Amal Al-Nakhala, the premiere of Susan Hughes' 'Ultraviolet' and a special edit of a new film by Basyma Saad. These works are contextualised with historic films by Finlay J MacDonald and Helen Biggar; feature films 'Akenfield' by Peter Hall and Masao Adachi 's 'A. K. A. Serial Killer'; and films by filmmaking collectives the Sheffield Film Co-Op, Red Star Films and Cranhill Arts.
The programme for MAXIMUM TILT explores land, place and belonging through a selection of films that explore collective agency over placemaking common to both rural and urban settings. Bringing together films made in Scotland and the UK in conversation with international works, the programmers intend to undermine conservative and authoritarian narratives of place and disrupt oversimplified and romantic ideas of the rural.
By considering the potential of the moving image to be a political, poetic and collective endeavour, Andrew and Anne-Marie seek to trouble a nostalgic view of the past and find forms that resist a slide into disillusionment, apathy, and passivity in the present. Together we will explore how filmmaking can articulate and claim agency over place – insisting that perceived fixed realities are fluid and conditional.
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The festival programme includes one vegan or vegetarian group meal (lunch or evening meal) per day which is included in all tickets. The festival begins on the afternoon of Tuesday 23 June and concludes on the afternoon of Thursday 25 June 2026.