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For those of you in self-isolation who have already lost track of what day it is: the weekend’s here! Ironically, one of today’s first events would have been an industry panel on Festival Networks in a Time of Crisis, during which we planned to reflect on the sustainability of what we do, whether that be related…

Friday is industry day at GSFF, and this year it was to kick off with a gaggle of international festival programmers introducing themselves to emerging Scottish filmmakers. We’d planned micro-panels on valuing filmmakers’ labour and positionality in programming, whilst five selected filmmakers would be preparing to pitch their projects to an international panel, hoping to…

GSFF Thursday, 11am – traditionally the slot for our Short Stuff screening for parents and babies. A (mostly) soothing start to the first full day of the festival. Although a relaxed screening, it’s when the team is still very much on edge, waiting for guests to arrive and sorting out logistics. It’s the day we welcome students from…

Today isn’t what we imagined.  A week ago, we were still keeping our fingers crossed, hoping we’d be able to kick off GSFF20 as planned. But as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to escalate and our emotions over our postponement have settled (just a little bit), we try to continue GSFF from our own living rooms. …

“..alternately invisible and too prominent. So I walkcaught between memory and forgetting, betweenmemory and forgiveness.”Garnette Cadogan, Walking While Black The essay Walking While Black examines the conflicted idea of the public space.  adjective: public {communal, collective, shared, joint, universal}  But public for whom?  Cadogan’s descriptions of the experience of walking as a Black man could be described as an act of imposed…

Fifty-two years since the commencement of Northern Ireland’s Troubles, Barbed Wire Love presents intimate tales from those who stayed, those who left and those who passed through. Sisters and brothers, those who danced at raves, those who had good intentions and those who did not. Chance encounters, intimate first-person cinema and the unreliability of history and biography create space…