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Bill Douglas Award 6: Mediated Through the Body
Friday 22 March (13:15) passholders only CCA Cinema // 1h20m // 15+ Friday 22 March (20:45) GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // 15+ Sunday 24 March (16:30) Civic House // 1h45m // 15+ Our final GSFF24 Bill Douglas Award programme, and we’re not going out lightly. This selection of films consider various forms of physical…
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Bill Douglas Award 5: Because It Became Impossible to Breathe – Programme Notes
Revolutionary acts drive the fifth Bill Douglas Award programme, so we pay homage to Frantz Fanon in its title. In Suddenly TV we are taken into an important moment in Sudan’s ongoing struggle for liberation through the eyes of young revolutionaries, while the eco-resistance leaders in Terra Mater, clad in electronic waste, highlight colonial and capitalist damage through…
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Bill Douglas Award 4: In Your Image Its Future Is Made – Programme Notes
Friday 22 March (15:30) GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // 15+ Saturday 23 March (10:30) passholders only CCA Cinema // 1h20m // 15+ Saturday 23 March (20:45) GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // 15+ Tying in with wider threads throughout this year’s festival (see Jyoti Mistry, Cine Mujer, and Until Liberation 4), the films in…
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Bill Douglas Award 3: Between Every Imagined Present – Programme Notes
Personal and collective memory and imagination, traces of what was and seeds of how things could be. Our third Bill Douglas Award programme spends time lingering on the past but also gently simmers with possibility. Nothing But Shadows, abouta woman’s dealings with mortality and grief, dips into a subtle magical realism with an enigmatic lead performance, while Pacific…
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Bill Douglas Award 2: Where We Find Ourselves – Programme Notes
All films in our second Bill Douglas Award programme are led by ideas and characters that cannot be detached from a sense of place or defined location. The intriguing 2720 provides a lively but sensitive insight into a Lisbon community that suffers from poverty and overpolicing – a generous piece of docufiction. In the experimental documentary The despair…
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Bill Douglas Award 1: Suspended Futures – Programme Notes
This programme looks at futures dreamt of and futures taken away in contexts of immigration, exposing wider inequalities and tragedies. A Haitian father’s loss and imagination are complicated by a single cassette recording in the poetic Dreams like paper boats, while the captivating and almost strangling cinematography of I promise you paradise immerses us in the love and refuge story…
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Kino-Pravda
This programme is curated and co-presented by Matevž Jerman from FEKK Short Film Festival (Slovenia) and will be live scored by Scottish musician Gerard Black. Presented in partnership with The Skinny, and with the help of the Austrian Film Museum. 50% of the ticket income for this event will be donated to the Support Filmmakers At…
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Santiago Àlvarez
In the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, one of the greatest challenges was how to educate the population in the ideals and potential embodied by the revolutionary process. Due to the massive inequalities which had prevailed under the Batista regime, many of the population were illiterate, and film was determined to be one…
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Eco-spectrality: Residual Fabulations & Tentacular Frequencies
Despite the ingeniously bogus stories of dolphins taking over Venice’s “clean” canals and our temporary re-attunement with the sounds of the more-than-human in silent quarantined cities, we are still rapidly driving towards ecological collapse and mass extinction, with a shared sense of apathy. Are we perhaps entering an eco-hangover or eco-frustration, driven by the restrictions…
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The End
One world ends and another begins… Despite what Hollywood spectacle-making would have us believe, apocalyptic disasters are not a one-size-fits-all, universal experience. The COVID-19 pandemic is the most recent case study of inequality at the end of the world. While many people found themselves made physically, mentally and socially vulnerable in 2020, with the loss…
