BORDERLINES Film Festival returns to Ludlow Assembly Rooms from Friday, March 3 to Sunday, March 5 for a packed weekend of cinema treats.

Peter Burden, David Hemmings’ ghostwriter, introduces a rare screening of Blow-Up, the epitome of ‘60s cool, while director Charles Garrad brings his mystery drama Waiting For You starring Colin Morgan of Merlin fame to Ludlow. Titles screening before their UK release date are British period drama Lady Macbeth, based on a dark 19th century Russian novella, as well as The Odyssey, the stunningly shot barnacles-and-all biopic of legendary deep-sea explorer, filmmaker and environmentalist Jacques Cousteau and, for all ages, Chinese-American graphic-novel based animation Rock Dog.

There are also screenings of Britain on Film: Railways, a chance to travel back to a time when rail travel was comfortable, punctual, even glamorous with a major new collection of rare archive films charting the history of the UK's railways. A complementary strand, Britain on Fillm: Rural invites audiences to relive the work of the local blacksmith preparing shoes for the horses that will plough the fields and see the homemade entertainments at the country fair and the joyful freedoms of the village hall dance.

For details of all Borderlines screenings throughout the festival, visit borderlinesfilmfestival.org. To book for Ludlow screenings, call the box office on 01584 878141 or visit ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk