BORDERLINES Film Festival this year saw audiences travelling from as far away as Salisbury, London, Malvern, Abergavenny, Worcester and the Forest of Dean as well as from within the counties of Herefordshire and Shropshire for 17 film-filled days.

“People have been continually letting me know how much they have enjoyed both the quality and variety of the programme and how much they appreciate seeing such an abundance of films from so many different cultures and countries here in their home county," said festival director Naomi Vera-Sanso.

The festival programme has included sheer entertainment like The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and the yet-to-be released A Little Chaos, directed by Alan Rickman and starring Kate Winslet, alongside tough Ukrainian drama The Tribe, conducted entirely in sign-language without subtitles and screening at Borderlines as a one-off preview.

“Borderlines offers opportunities for us all to be reminded of some uncomfortable facts that would be easier to push aside. And... also wonderful visual entertainment as well," wrote one film goer.

The rating system at The Courtyard put documentary film, The Salt of the Earth, about Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, at the top of the list, with Selma, the biopic about Martin Luther King, and Dancing in Jaffa, another documentary about Palestinian and Israeli children brought together through the medium of ballroom dancing, close seconds.

The 2016 Borderlines Film Festival will run from Friday, February 26 until Sunday, March 13.