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Farewell 2023: Looking Back at Team GSFF’s Shorts of the Year
As we kick off the new year, we want to take a moment to thank you for all the support and encouragement you shared with us in 2023 . We loved every minute of #GSFF23 and we can’t wait to announce programme plans for our 17th edition (20 – 24 March 2024).
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GSFF 2022: Wrapped
It can hardly be said that 2022 provided the happy return to normality we all anticipated during two years of COVID restrictions. If anything, the lifting of those restrictions revealed with greater clarity our underlying structural injustices, not to mention the destructive impact of Brexit. In terms of leadership, finances, infrastructure, social justice, culture –…
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Interview: Daniel Cook, director of The Bayview
GSFF speaks to artist and filmmaker Daniel Cook about his creative exploration work about the diaspora community in Scotland. Focusing on a Bayview hotel on the north coast of Scotland, Daniel tells the story of the extraordinary family providing an unofficial respite for international fishermen. For a diaspora community who face life-threatening every day, this…
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Interview: Sean Lìonadh, director of Too Rough
GSFF speaks to poet, writer, musician and filmmaker Sean Lìonadh about his new film Too Rough. With unsettling, handheld cinematography, the short film depicts the dilemma of an adolescent boy and explores the inner conflict between his love and relationship, and his dangerous family home. Sean concentrates on the inextricable correlation between the individual and the…
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2021: Where Did That Go?
If 2020 was – for film festivals and exhibitors – about learning new digital skills, rethinking engagement with our audiences and reinforcing networks of support, 2021 has mostly been about treading water, waiting for the vaccine to allow us to return to some form of business as usual, enhanced by these newfound engagement tools, and…
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Announcing the GSFF 2021 Competition Titles
We’re delighted to launch our first wave of programmes for Glasgow Short Film Festival’s 14th edition as well as our festival trailer. GSFF21 will take place 22-28 March and entirely online – a return to our festival hub after the success of GSFF 2020 Online in August. Our GSFF21 festival trailer is directed by James Price,…
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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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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…
