Glasgow Short Film Festival
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Glasgow Short Film Festival
Glasgow Short Film Festival (GSFF), the leading event of its kind in Scotland, returns to GFT and other venues in the city for its 18th edition, showcasing ground-breaking works of visual storytelling.
Glasgow Short Film Festival Screenings at GFT:
Opening Film: The Disco
Wednesday 19 March, 20.30
The 18th edition of the festival will open with the World Premiere of Alex Hetherington's sound and image portrait of d/Deaf DJ Simon Eilbeck and the Queer, Trans, alternative and non-binary communities who gather at his monthly Glasgow disco Hot Mess.
Bill Douglas Award 1: Our being In transmission
Thursday 20 March, 13.30
We open our international competition with a programme centring on forms of media as catalyst. Which human acts are being mediated, and how does the channel of transmission affect dreams, possibilities, and outcomes?
Bill Douglas Award 2: A portrait reflected in splinters
Thursday 20 March, 15.30
Saturday 22 March, 20.00
The self is shared, reflected, refracted, recycled, pixellated, disintegrated, and exposed in negative in our second international competition programme.
Scottish Competition 1: Hunt You Down
Thursday 20 March, 18.00
Beasts, monsters, the uncanny and the inexplicable are the subjects of our first Scottish competition programme.
Bill Douglas Award 3: Myths for founding and confounding
Thursday 20 March, 20.00
Myths and memories of one and many are revisited, subverted, playfully updated and overturned in the third international competition programme.
Bill Douglas Award 4: Terms and conditions for survival
Friday 21 March, 13.00
Saturday 22 March, 15.30
Our fourth international competition programme tackles labour and toil. Living spaces are demarcated for business and leisure, and relationships of service unveil a tension between precarity and dignity.
Bill Douglas Award 5: Volatile terrain
Friday 21 March, 15.00
Sunday 23 March, 13.00
Planets spin, power shifts, landscapes are subjected to people, and people to landscapes. Our fifth international competition programme depicts turbulent ecologies and the beings which navigate them.
Scottish Competition 2: One More Hour
Friday 21 March, 18.00
Planets spin, power shifts, landscapes are subjected to people, and people to landscapes. Our fifth international competition programme depicts turbulent ecologies and the beings which navigate them.
Bill Douglas Award 6: Codes of belonging
Friday 21 March, 20.00
Sunday 23 March, 15.00
The margins of permission contract and expand, as actions, words and ways of being are enforced, allowed, or forbidden. Our final international competition programme looks at codes of belonging, cracks of rebellion, and subjects carving out spaces for connection and liberation.
Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize
Saturday 22 March, 13.00
Now in its fourth year, the Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize celebrates filmmakers from across Scotland aged 18-25.
Scottish Competition 3: Living in Exile
Saturday 22 March, 18.00
The third competition programme considers space and borders. Who owns the land we live on, the air we breathe?
Award Ceremony and Winners' Screening
Sunday 23 March, 20.00
Join us for the announcement and screening of Jury and Audience Award winners of our International and Scottish Competitions, as well as the winners of the Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize.
Full programme details can be found at https://glasgowshort.org/programme.
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