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Refuge (Shorts in Support 2018)
Simon Bishopp | 2017 | 4 min A homeless woman seeks retribution after being displaced by the arrival of a future civilisation seeking refuge from global warming and war. A brief but powerful sci-fi meditation on migration, resistance and culpability, and a tour-de-force of homemade special effects. Simon Bishopp graduated from Springvale Training Centre in 1999, earning a Distinction…
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Sanctuary (Shorts in Support 2018)
Falconer Houston | 1977 | 7 min A recently rediscovered expressive short about a teacher at the end of his tether. Faced with yet another day teaching music to uninterested boys he decides to take the rest of the day off. Paisley artist Falconer Houston is well established as a painter and ceramicist, yet his many short films…
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Taking Stock (Shorts in Support 2018)
Duncan Cowles | 2017 | 4 min Using his failed attempts at creating profitable stock footage, a filmmaker reflects on the absurd, mundane and funny side of being trapped inside your own head as an out of work, self-employed freelancer. Duncan Cowles is a BAFTA Scotland award-winning documentary filmmaker whose short films The Lady with the Lamp, Soft Toffee,…
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The Man Who Stopped Going to Church (Shorts in Support 2018)
John Murdo McAuley | 2017 | 5 min The story of a godly young man, disillusioned in the wake of a betrayal of trust. In the midst of his conflict, a stranger invites him on a journey to discover the truth for himself. Placing a traditional story in a modern setting, this Gaelic language short won three…
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These Are My Hands (Shorts in Support 2018)
Evi Tsiligaridou | 2018 | 8 min (Selected by Scottish Queer International Film Festival) These Are My Hands is a short documentary film-poem written and performed by the radical British playwright Jo Clifford. It is a deeply moving, personal account of transgender embodiment in a lifetime, speaking of wounds, challenges, victories and the journey towards self-empowerment. The…
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Salt & Sauce (Shorts in Support 2018)
Alia Ghafar | 2017 | 11 min Winner of the Scottish Short Film Award, sponsored by Blazing Griffin, at GSFF 2018. Stuck in a post-high-school limbo, Tammy works long days in the family chip shop while deciding what next to do with her life. She soon realises that she can’t keep avoiding her future. Alia Ghafar is a…
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GSFF18 Award Winners Announced
The award-winning films at the eleventh annual Glasgow Short Film Festival were announced last night at the festival’s closing party at festival hub Civic House. The awards celebrate the best in Scottish and international filmmaking talent at Scotland’s largest annual celebration of short film. The prestigious Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film – named…
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Interview: Jessica Beshir, director of Hairat
Jessica Beshir talks to Glasgow Short Film Festival about her new short film, Hairat, and her unique way of describing the feeling of falling in love. The film is highly poetic and personal. It has a sense of a magical filmic ritual. What made you want to tell that story? Watching Abba Yussuf’s ritual was one of…
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Interview: Morgan Knibbe, director of The Atomic Soldiers
The Atomic Soldiers is a powerful documentary on the use nuclear weapons and the 1950’s bomb tests. Morgan Knibbe talked to us about his film and his view on the selfishness and carelessness hidden in the essence of human nature. This is a challenging and highly interesting documentary; what fueled you to tell that story? My profound…
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Interview: Rory Alexander Stewart, director of Wild Horses
Wild Horses is a thought-provoking short film about Joan, a teenage girl dealing with M.E. The story portrays the misconceptions of this condition and the experiences that come with it. We talked with the director Rory Alexander Stewart and had a chance to learn more about what drove him to tell that story. This condition affects…
