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Interview: Samira Badran, director of Memory Of The Land
Memory of the Land is a highly engaging and challenging animation focusing on the human rights violations of Israeli-occupied Palestine. We talked with the director Samira Badran about her drive to create a film that not only offers a challenging message about oppression, but is also a powerfully creative piece of work. The film is a…
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#Bars4Justice: Interview with directors Queen Muhammad Ali and Hakeem Khaaliq
On Festival Saturday we screen cult music doc Big Fun In The Big Town alongside a selection of Hip Hop shorts, followed by an afterparty with the ladies of Tomboy and performance by female grime MC Madders Tiff. Programmer Sanne Jehoul spoke to Queen Muhammad Ali and Hakeem Khaaliq, directors of one of the featured shorts, #Bars4Justice, about their…
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Interview: Shalimar Preuss, director of Strange Says the Angel
Strange Says the Angel is a magical film focusing on themes such as mortality, nature and tradition. It presents the life and relationships of a family in rural France, as their world which shifts from reality into an endless dream. We spoke to director Shalimar Preuss about her thought-provoking project. Naturalistic and realistic elements are evident…
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Interview: Mariana Sanguinetti, director of All Over the Place
All Over the Place is a new kind of intimate filmic romance, looking at loneliness and human relations. We talked with the director of the film, Mariana Sanguinetti to learn more about how the film was made and the thoughts behind this intimate and romantic story.In All Over the Place, the protagonist, Jimena, is trying…
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Where We Are Now (Shorts In Support)
Lucie Rachel | 2016 | 9 min | Documentary | N/C 12+ A personal insight into the changing relationship between daughter and trans-parent as they embark on the road to transition. Lucie Rachel is an award-winning filmmaker and artist, graduating from Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2015. She works…
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Such Is Life (Shorts In Support)
Stuart Elliott | 2017 | 13 min | Fiction | N/C 12+ Thomas and Sarah have arranged a hillwalking date after meeting on the Internet. But Thomas has a problem; he lied on his profile about climbing mountains for a hobby. And that’ll explain why he’s turned up dressed for a night out instead of…
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Life Cycles (Shorts In Support)
Ross Hogg | 2016 | 4 min | Animation | N/C 15+ An observational exploration of routine, monotony, attention and distraction. Will we continue to let events pass us by uncontested, or will we decide to break the cycle? Ross Hogg is an award-winning animation filmmaker based in Edinburgh. Having graduated from Glasgow School of Art…
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Borscht Diez: “While the Miami of beach, boobs and blow definitely exists, it isn’t our experience.”
As Hurricane Irma sweeps through Florida, we witness the devil-may-care attitude of Miamians, responding to rising sea levels with both defiance and a certain stoic acceptance. Our upcoming screening of films by Miami’s Borscht Corporation, billed as coming from the “underwater ruins of the old human city known as Miami” exemplifies that outlook, whilst increasingly seeming less…
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GSFF17 awards announced
The competition winners of the tenth annual Glasgow Short Film Festival have been announced. At a packed ceremony at the city’s newest venue, Joytown Grand Electric Theatre, it was revealed that Jasper Coppes’s Flow Country was named winner of the Scottish Short Film Award, sponsored by Blazing Griffin. The Dutch-born filmmaker, a former student at Glasgow School of Art,…
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Highlights GSFF Day Three: An Evening With Bukowski
On Friday night we presented the UK premiere of You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski. This special event included live readings from Tam Dean Burn and poets Stephen Watt and Nisha Bhakoo as well as live sets from Chrissy Barnacle and purveyors of ‘doom wop’, Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lockpickers. Photo Credit: Eoin Carey More photos…
