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 19th edition, showcasing ground-breaking works of visual storytelling.
Glasgow Short Film Festival Screenings at GFT:
Opening Event: Downriver, a Tiger
Wednesday 18 March, 20.00
Presented in partnership with the Catalan Film Festival, a captivating, dreamlike portrait of Glasgow seen through the eyes of a young photographer from Barcelona.
Bill Douglas Award 1: Where we're going, we don't need roads
Thursday 19 March, 13.30
Journeying out, returning home and retreading revolutionary paths: this year’s international competition opens on a call to adventure with a programme of films which, taken together, deconstruct and reimagine the road movie.
Bill Douglas Award 2: Unearthed
Thursday 19 March, 15.30
Saturday 21 March, 18.00
The films of this second international programme excavate the land to reveal the all-too-human stories of displacement, exploitation, extraction and colonisation buried beneath.
Scottish Competition 1: The Inner Chamber
Thursday 19 March, 18.00
The first competition selection addresses the existential thresholds we stand at in relation to sex and death. No big deal.
Bill Douglas Award 3: Spoken to the inherited image
Thursday 19 March, 20.00
Saturday 21 March, 13.30
What does time make visible, or invisible? Each of the films in this third programme of international shorts open an intergenerational dialogue with the moving image, tracing a legacy of possibility through changing political circumstances.
Bill Douglas Award 4: Vessels
Friday 20 March, 13.30
The body as an instrument we inhabit, a site of struggle inward with health and outward with society, an asset we claim and maintain, and in the best of moments a vehicle of pleasure and connection. This corporeally-focused fourth international programme follows the highs and lows of life lived via these fragile vessels.
Bill Douglas Award 5: Spectral trace
Friday 20 March, 15.30
Sunday 22 March, 15.30
The ethereal visions of this fifth international programme transcend the borders of time and space, unveil the marks or trauma and transition, and make visible the absence of those moved on.
Scottish Competition 2: From the Edges
Friday 20 March, 18.00
The second competition selection presents crucial perspectives on lives lived outwith the mainstream, inviting us to take a look from another angle.
Bill Douglas Award 6: Domestic rituals
Friday 20 March, 20.00
Sunday 22 March, 13.30
Examining quotidian cycles of refuge and hostility, tradition and ceremony, for the final instalment of our international competition we return from our travels to ask: what acts make a home, and how to live together on common ground?
Family Shorts
Saturday 21 March, 11.30
Our ever-popular animation programme is a relaxed screening suitable for all ages.
Visible Cinema: RCS Curates Deaf Shorts
Saturday 21 March, 15.00
Curated by students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s BA Performance for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Actors, these shorts explore Deaf lives and cultures, widening the margins on how Deaf stories are told onscreen.
Clyde Reflections
Saturday 21 March, 15.30
New vignettes of life on the river are screened alongside rarely seen archive films in a response to Louise Welsh and Jude Barber's podcast Who Owns the Clyde.
Scottish Competition 3
Saturday 21 March, 18.00
Scottish small-town life comes into focus in this selection of shorts, where close-knit communities are shaped - and sometimes unsettled - by moments of chance.
Scottish Competition 4
Sunday 22 March, 15.00
Migration and memory are at the heart of the final competition selection, united by the question of who gets to tell our stories.
Award Ceremony & Winners' Screening
Sunday 22 March, 20.00
Our annual awards ceremony and winners screening.
Full programme details can be found at https://glasgowshort.org/programme.
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