London, Hollywood and Cannes aren't, it seems, the only places where film festivals are held.
Borderlines is showing 70 different films over 18 days in village halls and arts centres in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Worcestershire and Powys between this Thursday and April 5.
Billed as 'Britain's biggest rural film festival', it attracted 10,000 people last year. "It's all about bringing contemporary cinema to friendly, rural audiences," says director David Gillam.
Among the highlights is Pete Postlethwaite's new climate-change documentary, The Age Of Stupid.
Along with Oscar-winning films (The Reader and Milk, for example) farming issues are high on the agenda.
A group of school children will premiere their own films on Food and Farming; the older generation offer their view of farm days gone by in Fieldwork; and filmgoers find out what really goes on with rural teenagers behind closed doors in Better Things.
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