BFMAF: Right of Way (12A)

Right of Way is a programme containing 10 short films as part of the BFMAF

Right of Way is inspired by the foundation of the National Trails. Set up to resist sweeping industrialisation, these protected landscapes were created with a vision to ‘connect people to the rural landscape’. But during the COVID-19 pandemic – as people realised anew the importance of nature and open spaces for our health and mental wellbeing – inequalities of access to rural land were being exposed, revealing the disconnect felt by millions of people towards the UK countryside. A 2019 government review found that many Black, Asian and ethnically diverse people view the countryside as an ‘irrelevant white, middle-class club’, concluding that this divide is only going to widen as society changes and ‘the countryside will end up being irrelevant to the country that actually exists’.

This is an in-person screening at The Maltings

11 September 2022 | 14:30 – 16:00 | Henry Travers

For more information, go to: BFMAF – Right of Way

For tickets, go to: The Maltings Berwick