Ten highlights from the mix of global and homegrown cinema packed together in this year’s GFF.

Bridging global cinema and countryside life, Borderlines brings more than 300 screenings – from big festival hits to restored favourites – to venues across the Marches this month.

The pitch was to bring less obvious choices, yet visually striking sci-fi films, to the IMAX screen- from the silent works of Georges Méliès to the feature film of George Lucas, before making Star Wars.

In this project, I proposed a curated film season based on British sci-fi films that deal with the concept of collapse in British society. This collapse could be political, moral, or biological. Through this film season, I tackle the challenges in the UK and celebrate British sci-fi filmmakers and their outstanding achievements.

This project explores the early days of cinema outside of Hollywood. As I am from Iran, I chose to focus on Iranian cinema. Through a curated list of films, I created this presentation to demonstrate how the dawn of cinema in Iran was deeply connected to the construction of national identity during the Pahlavi era.