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Welcome to GSFF23! Full Programme Announcement
It’s finally time to unveil the mighty programme we’ve been crafting all year! This March, we’re back with a focus on contemporary Lebanese short films and a rare live performance from Beirut-based gender-defying queer dancer Khansa, a retrospective of award-winning artist duo Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, wild world-building animations and cinematic existentialism through innovative A.I. collaborations. Our 16th annual festival will…
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GSFF Reveals First Look at 2023 Programme
GSFF23 will open on 22 March with an homage to Scotland’s untold Black history, a screening of OMOS, with live performances from cabaret performer Rhys Hollis and opera singer Andrea Baker. Our festival will also host the Scottish premiere of Australian duo Soda Jerk’s hotly anticipated new mainstream cinema mash-up Hello Dankness on 25 March. Tickets for OMOS and…
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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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Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke & Ren Scateni – GSFF22 Podcast: Episode 3
In this special live episode, Thai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke (winner of GSFF21’s Bill Douglas Award) has an in-person conversation with Ren Scateni (Head of Programme at Encounters Film Festival), discussing his filmmaking and approach to Thai history and the legacy of colonialism.
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Announcing the GSFF22 Award Winners
The award winners of the 15th edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival were announced on Sunday 27 August during the festival’s awards ceremony at the CCA – the festival’s first in-person ceremony in three years! BILL DOUGLAS AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM 2022 Named in honour of Scotland’s greatest filmmaker, our international prize will be…
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Team Preview – GSFF22 Podcast: Episode 2
In this episode, Glasgow Short Film Festival’s team discuss parts of the programme and what we’re looking forward to at GSFF22.
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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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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…
