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Announcing the GSFF 2021 Programme
We’re delighted to announce the full programme for Glasgow Short Film Festival’s 14th edition. GSFF21 will take place online 22-28 March. Alongside the previously announced GSFF21 Scottish Short Film Award and the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film, the 14th edition of the festival will reflect on our last year spent in lockdown, with new programmes No New…
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Jacob Schulsinger and Ian Sellar – GSFF21 Podcast: Episode 1
GSFF21 Episode 1: Ian Sellar (Co-Head of Fiction, National Film & Television School) talks to the first-ever Bill Douglas Award winner Jacob Secher Schulsinger (Fini, 2012)
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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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Announcing: Glasgow Short Film Festival’s 2020 award winners
The award winners of the 12th and a half edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival were announced this evening during our online Closing Ceremony. The Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film was decided by an international jury made up of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur programmer and curator, Delphine Jeanneret, Thai filmmaker, sound technician and foley artist, Sorayos Prapapan, and…
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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: 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…
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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: Randa Maroufi, director of Bab Sebta
GSFF speaks to director Randa Maroufi about her powerful new film Bab Sebta, crossing both physical and artists borders with its topical subject matter and distinctive form. Blurring the lines between documentary and performance, Maroufi has crafted a vivid insight into the lives of workers at the border of Europe and Africa, using a mixture of actors…
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Interview: Pedro Neves Marques, director of The Bite
GSFF speaks to artist and filmmaker Pedro Neves Marques about his new film, artistic politics and the complexities of his creative process. With a background in contemporary art, Neves Marques utilises visual art and the moving image in his newest project The Bite. Painting an intimate portrait of a world at war with itself, the short…
