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2020: That Was the Year That Was
It’s very hard at this point to think of anything new to say about 2020. Part of what has made the year extraordinary is that our experience of it, in general terms, has seemed so universal. We’ve all undergone loss and confinement. We’ve all had to learn new skills, new ways of communicating, new ways…
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Announcing: Glasgow Short Film Festival’s 2020 award winners
The award winners of the 12th and a half edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival were announced this evening during our online Closing Ceremony. The Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film was decided by an international jury made up of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur programmer and curator, Delphine Jeanneret, Thai filmmaker, sound technician and foley artist, Sorayos Prapapan, and…
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Interview: Mahdi Fleifel, director of 3 Logical Exits
GSFF speaks to Mahdi Fleifel about his film 3 Logical Exits. The film reunites us with Reda, a Palestinian stranded in the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon and the protagonist of two of Fleifel’s previous films. The film is a sociological meditation on the different “exits” that young Palestinians choose, in order to cope with life in the…
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Interview: Kavich Neang, director of New Land Broken Road
GSFF speaks to Kavich Neang about his new film New Land Broken Road and its distinctive themes of displacement in modern Cambodian culture. Drawing on the changing landscape of endless skylines and building sites, Neang tells the story of Cambodian youth, dance and hope in the shadow of a city in disconnect. Surrounded by a crumbling cityscape,…
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Interview: Konstantina Kotzamani, director of Electric Swan
GSFF speaks to greek-born director Konstantina Kotzamani about the magic-realist spectacle of her filmmaking practice, buildings with motion sickness and professional mermaid schools. Kotzamani’s contribution to the Bill Douglas Award selection Electric Swan is a hyper-surrealist nightmare of colour, flawless symmetry and high-rise class division. Her still, portrait-like framing emphasises space in Electric Swan as the big feathery elephant in…
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Interview: Randa Maroufi, director of Bab Sebta
GSFF speaks to director Randa Maroufi about her powerful new film Bab Sebta, crossing both physical and artists borders with its topical subject matter and distinctive form. Blurring the lines between documentary and performance, Maroufi has crafted a vivid insight into the lives of workers at the border of Europe and Africa, using a mixture of actors…
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Interview: Pedro Neves Marques, director of The Bite
GSFF speaks to artist and filmmaker Pedro Neves Marques about his new film, artistic politics and the complexities of his creative process. With a background in contemporary art, Neves Marques utilises visual art and the moving image in his newest project The Bite. Painting an intimate portrait of a world at war with itself, the short…
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URBAN PALIMPSESTS: We drift here, we remember here
When the realities and futures of urban spaces are largely determined by capitalist motives and commodification, how can we reclaim them for collective life and community, reconsider cities as co-created environments that belong to everyone, and find space for our own visions and imaginations of the city? We present two programmes that interrogate these environments…
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Announcing GSFF20 Online
We’re delighted to announce our revised 2020 programme. This special online-only event – our 12th and a half edition – does not include the full programme we intended to present back in March. Instead we are placing our competition selections – the six programmes of the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film and one of our…
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Announcing DIVE IN Cinema
We’re excited to present DIVE IN Cinema, a two-week online screening series co-programmed by a cohort of (mostly!) Scottish independent exhibitors and film festivals. As all of us are keen to keep connected with our audiences and look for ways to bring activity online, we decided to bundle our efforts together to present this collaborative project,…
