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CONTENTS

Introduction 3

Opening Screening: What Makes A Glasgow Short? 3

International Competition 4–5

Award Winners 5

Scottish Competition 6

Blueprint: Scottish Independent Shorts 7

NFTS Scotland presents Eva Riley 7

Ten Years of FilmG 7

The Forgotten Films of Falconer Houston 7

Calendar 8–9

Kalampag Tracking Agency: 10 Experimental Films & Videos from the Philippines

Nguyễn Trinh Thi 10

Death and Killing in Southeast Asia 10

Symposium: Archives, Activism, Aesthetics 10

Apichatpong Weerasethakul 11

Kevin Jerome Everson: now y’all have to look at us 11

Babe live + New Scottish Music Videos 12

Big Fun In The Big Town + Hip Hop Shorts 12 + after party with Tomboy

Transit Arts presents Soft Cells 13

Don Hertzfeldt: World of Tomorrow 1 & 2 13

Ladies of the Night 13

Round Midnight 13

We Need to Disagree 14

Short Matters! 2018 14

Visible Cinema: Deaf Shorts Showcase 14

Short Stuff: Parent & Baby Screening 15

Family Shorts 15

Industry Sessions 15

Breakfast with the Filmmakers 15

VENUES

CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD cca-glasgow.com 0141 352 4900

Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB glasgowfilm.org 0141 332 6535

Civic House 26 Civic St, G4 9RH

Kelvin Hall (not shown on map) 1445 Argyle Street, G3 8AW kelvinhall.org.uk 0141 276 1450

TICKETS

£7.00 (£5.00 concessions) Concessions apply to children under 16, full-time students, over-60s, Jobseekers Allowance or Income Support recipients and registered disabled people. Please produce proof of eligibility when purchasing or collecting tickets. Some events are individually priced or free of charge – see listings for details. GFT CineCard and 15–25 Card discounts apply.

CERTIFICATION

Films not certified by the BBFC are marked N/C and accompanied by an age recommendation e.g. N/C 15 + (suitable for ages 15 and older, no-one under 15 will be admitted). Screenings marked with this icon are captioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences, with BSL interpreters for Q&As.

HOW TO BUY

In Advance From Thursday 1 February tickets can be purchased from glasgowfilm.org/gsff. Tickets can be purchased online until one hour before the screening. Alternatively, from Thursday 1 February tickets can be purchased from Glasgow Film Theatre box office, in person or by telephone (£1.50 booking fee applies to telephone bookings). Advance tickets can be collected from Glasgow Film Theatre up until 9pm the day before the performance. Please note that advance purchases can only be made online at glasgowfilm.org/gsff or at GFT.

During The Festival Between Wednesday 14 March and Sunday 18 March, tickets for any GSFF event can be purchased or collected at the screening venue.

Please see glasgowfilm.org for full terms and conditions.

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What exactly is a short film? A film that is short? A short story filmed? A sketch, an experiment, a doodle, a noodle? Short film has always been something of a nebulous concept – it’s far easier to describe what it isn’t.

Short film isn’t determined by the conventions of the market. It doesn’t fit tidily into a two and a half hour slot (including ads and trailers) allowing cinema exhibitors to screen it four times daily. Once that essential truculence has been acknowledged, that refusal to play by even the most straightforward of rules, short film can do and be pretty much whatever it wants. That’s why this year’s programme includes an eight hour short film, Park Lanes by the American artist Kevin Jerome Everson.

Kevin will be joining us to present three further (and more manageable in length) programmes of his work giving voice to black working class communities. Kevin’s films sit at a fascinating intersection between documentary, performance, abstraction and poetry, refusing to be tethered to any one definition.

Another hard to define filmmaker, whose work both appears in galleries and takes top prizes at Cannes, is Thai artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul. As part of this

year’s focus on Southeast Asian cinema, we’re screening twenty-five of his lyrical shorts overnight, in a seven hour dreamscape of talking monkey ghosts, shapeshifting creatures, sleeping soldiers and the deep, dark forests of northern Thailand.

And we return to the work of one of our favourite animators, Don Hertzfeldt, with a rare big screen outing for his fabulous World of Tomorrow (GSFF 2015 Audience Award winner) alongside its brand new sequel. In these two films, with a total duration of under 40 minutes, Hertzfeldt packs more pathos, profundity and belly laughs than most feature filmmakers could ever dream of.

Massive thanks to our parent organisation Glasgow Film and to Creative Scotland, to venue partners CCA and Civic House, to our many programme partners and supporters, and to Blazing Griffin, returning to sponsor our Scottish Short Film Award for a second year. Remember – size isn’t important. Short film is a state of mind.

Facebook: @glasgowshortfilmfestival Twitter: @GlasgowSFF Instagram: @glasgowshortfilmfest #GSFF18

GSFF will publish a catalogue with full listings of all films, as well as exclusive articles and filmmaker

interviews. The catalogue will be available at CCA and GFT during the festival. Full programme

listings will also appear on our website glasgowfilm.org/gsff

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OPENING SCREENING: WHAT MAKES A GLASGOW SHORT?

Wednesday 14 March (20.15)GFT Cinema 2 // 1h45m // N/C 15+

No idea where to start with this year’s programme? Then join us from the beginning for a whistle-stop tour through some of the highlights, showcasing a wide range of cinematic visions and offering an introduction to GSFF’s ever-shifting interpretation of what short film is and does. With drinks courtesy of our friends at Merchant City Brewing.

Glasgow Short Film Festival is an operating name of Glasgow

Film Theatre (GFT). GFT is registered as a charity (No SC005932)

with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.

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BILL DOUGLAS AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM

Named in honour of Scotland’s greatest filmmaker, our international prize will be awarded to the film that best reflects the qualities found in the work of Bill Douglas: honesty, formal innovation and the supremacy of image and sound in cinematic storytelling. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance to take part in short Q&As after each screening. The award carries a cash prize of £1,000. You will have the chance to vote for your favourite to win the Audience Award.

GSFF17 BILL DOUGLAS AWARD WINNER: Green Screen Gringo | Douwe Dijkstra | Netherlands, Brazil | 2016

GSFF17 AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER: Ten Metre Tower | Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck | Sweden | 2016

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1: PAINT YOUR OWN REALITYThursday 15 March (18.30)Saturday 17 March (13.15)GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // N/C 15+

This year’s international competition opens with four fever dreams drawing us into strange, uncanny realities. An invasion of hydrangeas in the Azores is the backdrop to a tender love story, whilst an encroaching hydroelectric project threatens to destroy the Colombian jungle home that is all an elderly couple have known. Also featuring a magical realist Greco-creole western from the Argentine pampas, and the brand new spellbinding animation from GSFF favourite Réka Bucsi (Symphony No 42, Love).

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3: DREAM OF A GLORIOUS RETURNFriday 16 March (13.15)Saturday 17 March (18.30)GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // N/C 15+

This programme considers exile, enforced or voluntary, and its physical and mental toll. Rubber Coated Steel investigates the deaths of two unarmed Palestinian teens, exiled by the removal of basic rights in their own country. A grandmother returns home via Google Maps Streetview, whilst a refugee teen in a strange city does what he can to survive. Two migrant workers betray their ethical code when faced with a terrible discovery, and a Cuban exile learns to forge a space for herself in New York City.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2: FREEDOM OF CHOICEThursday 15 March (20.45) GFT Cinema 3Saturday 17 March (15.15) CCA Theatre1h45m // N/C 15+

In the second competition programme market forces encroach on love, life and daily existence. Unrequited love plays out in Europe’s biggest mall, whilst Adam and Eve’s departure from Eden is given a new slant. In Muck City, Florida, rabbit hunting is a vital source of income for many. An amateur German filmmaker becomes obsessed with strange murals in the New Orleans hinterland, and a city block of lonely night-workers hurtles through space in a sublime animated musical. Finally an Iranian artist takes a stand, illicitly dancing through a crowded market.


INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4: PARCHED LANDFriday 16 March (15.30)Saturday 17 March (20.45)GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // N/C 15+

Landscapes become barely habitable and bodies are put under terrible strain in the fourth competition programme. We witness a snapshot of life under siege in Aleppo and the stress of crossing a checkpoint in Palestine. 2015 Bill Douglas Award winner Morgan Knibbe (Shipwreck) returns with The Atomic Soldiers, in which former US soldiers break a half a century’s silence to share their unfathomable experiences of atomic bomb tests. And a Canadian journalist investigates a controversial dam project.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5: TREADING WATERFriday 16 March (18.30)Sunday 18 March (13.15)GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // N/C 15+

Women retain control of their lives against the odds in this selection, by turns hilarious and disturbing. After reporting a pickpocket on a bus, an Iranian woman returns home in fear for her life, whilst an Argentinian woman enters her ex’s apartment and finds herself unable to leave. One young girl attempts to find her place in a strange adult world, and another helps her single mother prepare for a date. Also featuring Scottish director Rory Stewart’s funny and moving Wild Horses, which premiered in competition at Cannes last May.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6: WHERE YOU LOOK FROMFriday 16 March (20.45)Sunday 18 March (15.30)GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // N/C 15+

What might seem bizarre in the eyes of one creature is entirely normal to another. A Filipino family find themselves pulled ever further away from the wedding celebrations they have been preparing for, whilst the economic conditions of teachers in Portugal lead to a class creating their own entertainment from a broken video projector. Parades and competitions play out along the Danish/German border and Irish animator David OReilly’s extraordinary game Everything unveils the truths common to all existence.

AWARD WINNERSSunday 18 March (20.30)Civic House // 2h // N/C 18+

First chance to catch the prize-winning films of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2018. We will announce and screen the recipients of the jury awards for Scottish and International short film, as well as the films voted the favourite of the audience in each competition, and maybe a few surprises. End the festival on a cinematic high, in the presence of the winning filmmakers and our other special guests, then stick around for the GSFF18 afterparty!

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BLUEPRINT: SCOTTISH INDEPENDENT SHORTSThursday 15 March (21.00)CCA Theatre // 1h45m // N/C 15+

Scotland’s showcase of grassroots filmmaking returns to GSFF for the third year. This special sci-fi-themed programme is a mix of philosophical speculation, high concept drama and action packed shorts that are – literally – globe-trotting productions. Featuring the work of BAFTA Scotland-nominated and Glasgow 48 Hour Film Challenge-winning filmmakers, this unique programme is comprised of films made on shoestring budgets, but with no lack of talent, ingenuity and creativity on display.

NFTS SCOTLAND PRESENTS EVA RILEYFriday 16 March (21.00)CCA Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 15+

Scottish director and screenwriter Eva Riley thrives on challenging subject matter. To date her short films have tackled racial tension, pornography, depression and surrogacy. Her graduation film from the National Film and Television School, Patriot, premiered in competition at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and the following year she was named one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow. As Eva prepares to make the move into feature filmmaking we are delighted to welcome her to GSFF with this retrospective programme, kindly supported by NFTS Scotland.

TEN YEARS OF FILMGSaturday 17 March (13.15)CCA Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 12+

Short film competition FilmG was established in 2008 to encourage grassroots Gaelic storytelling through film. Since then, more than 650 Gaelic short films have been produced and submitted. For the tenth edition of the competition, the winning film of the Best Industry Director Award will be screened in the GSFF Scottish Competition, and to mark the occasion, we showcase some of the finest works of the last ten years followed by some bilingual conversation with Gaelic language filmmakers.

THE FORGOTTEN FILMS OF FALCONER HOUSTONSaturday 17 March (15.30)GFT Cinema 2 // 1h45m // N/C 10+

Paisley artist Falconer Houston is well established as a painter and ceramicist, yet his many short films from the 1960s and 70s have been overlooked. He frequently worked with children and young people, tackling ambitious historical narratives. His film about the Covenanters, Cry of the Peewee, won Best Film at the 1969 Scottish Amateur Film Festival here at GFT, or the Cosmo as it was then known. Several of his works have now been restored for new audiences, and GSFF will present these in public for the first time, introduced by Falconer himself.

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1: PAINT YOUR OWN REALITY (p4)

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5: TREADING WATER (p5)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6: WHERE YOU LOOK FROM (p5)

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SOUTHEAST ASIAN CINEMASince the late 1990s a vibrant film culture has emerged in Southeast Asia. In collaboration with the Southeast Asian Cinema Research Network, we explore the work of some of the key filmmakers from the region as they experiment with ideas around memory, history and fantasy.

KALAMPAG TRACKING AGENCY: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS & VIDEOS FROM THE PHILIPPINES (1985–2015)Thursday 15 March (21.15)CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+

Overcoming institutional and personal lapses to give attention to little-seen works – some quite recent, some surviving loss and decomposition – this programme collects loose parts in motion, a series of bangs, or kalampag in Tagalog. Featuring some of the most striking films and videos from the Philippines and its diaspora, this ongoing initiative continues to navigate the uncharted topographies of Filipino experiments in moving image practice.

NGUYỄN TRINH THIFriday 16 March (21.15)CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+

Nguyễn Trinh Thi is a Hanoi based moving image artist. Her diverse practice, transcending the boundaries between cinema, documentary and performance, has consistently engaged with memory and history. In 2009, Nguyễn founded Hanoi DocLab, a centre for documentary filmmaking and the moving image. Thi will introduce three of her works at this screening, as well as presenting a new installation, Everyday’s the Seventies, in CCA’s Intermedia Gallery for the duration of the festival.

DEATH AND KILLING IN SOUTHEAST ASIASaturday 17 March (21.15)CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+

Sometimes she turns into a beast, a destroyer, a monster, a kuntilanak. The innocent and timid one, in a sort of amok, kills. To retain innocence she assumes a separate form, for shapeshifting helps outsiders differentiate her separate personalities. But in reality, the meek comes banded with violence. With passion comes madness. With kindness, destruction. This programme features 6 short films from Southeast Asia.

SYMPOSIUM: ARCHIVES, ACTIVISM, AESTHETICS Day 1: Friday 16 March (09.30)CCA Theatre // 7h30mDay 2: Saturday 17 March (09.45)Kelvin Hall Theatre // 7h15m

Southeast Asian filmmakers have increasingly turned to archive footage in order to explore the relationship between the colonial and Cold War past and the politics of the present day. With the participation of members of grassroots filmmaking collectives in Southeast Asia, this free symposium, open to all, will explore the links between archives, activism and aesthetics.

This event is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the University of St Andrews and has been organised in collaboration with the Association of Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (ASEACC).

Free event. To book a space, and for more details, go to glasgowfilm.org/gsff.


PROGRAMME 1 Friday 16 March (19.00)PROGRAMME 2 Saturday 17 March (13.00)PROGRAMME 3 Saturday 17 March (19.15)CCA Cinema // 1h45m // N/C 15+

Kevin Jerome Everson is one of the most prolific filmmakers currently working in America. Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, his overriding concern is with black working class communities, and the social, economic and historical forces underpinning their everyday reality. Appearing at first glance to be observational cinema in form, his work straddles documentary, performance and abstraction, more often than not a creative collaboration with its subject. He is less concerned with narrative than with character and gesture, as well as the act of filming itself.

Having trained as a sculptor, Everson often creates props for his films, drawing a direct connection between his filmmaking and its representations of labour. We are delighted to welcome Kevin to Glasgow for the first time, to introduce three programmes of his short films, accompanied by the eight hour Park Lanes (2015), which invites an audience to commit to a full day’s work in a factory producing bowling alley mechanisms.

PROGRAMME 1 Sunday 18 March (12.15) PROGRAMME 2 Sunday 18 March (14.15) PROGRAMME 3 Sunday 18 March (16.15) PROGRAMME 4 Sunday 18 March (18.15)CCA Theatre // 1h40m // N/C 15+ Ticket Deal: All four screenings £22 (£16 concessions)

This programme is generously supported by the Film and Television Studies Department, School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow.

ALL-NIGHTER Saturday 17 March (23.00)CCA Theatre // 7h // N/C 18+ // Tickets £9 (£7 concessions)

For more information on this event, go to glasgowfilm.org/gsff

APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL DISCUSSIONSunday 18 March (11.15)CCA Theatre // 45m // Free entry, no ticket required

KEVIN JEROME EVERSON: NOW Y’ALL HAVE TO LOOK AT US

PARK LANESThursday 15 March (10.00)GFT Cinema 3 // 8h // N/C 15+ // Tickets £9 (£7 concessions). Lunch provided.

APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL Best known for award-winning features such as Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul creates sensual and otherworldly explorations into the intimate dreamscapes of talking monkey ghosts, shapeshifting creatures, sleeping soldiers and the deep, dark forests of northern Thailand. Exploring themes of memory and myth alongside issues of personal and national politics, his works weave together diverse influences such as horror, soap opera and science fiction, as well as American structuralist and avant garde film. For GSFF 2018, Weerasethakul has specially curated four programmes of his short films, which we present as one continuous all-night dream screening, and as individual programmes the following day. A free discussion event featuring several experts on Apichatpong’s work will introduce the daytime screenings.


CIVIC HOUSE

Welcome to the GSFF18 festival hub at brand new venue Civic House. Located below Speirs Wharf, a stone’s throw from Cowcaddens station, Civic House is open from 10am each day of the festival, with café-bar, screenings, live events and parties until late.

BIG FUN IN THE BIG TOWN + HIP HOP SHORTS + AFTER-PARTY BY TOMBOYSaturday 17 March (20.45)Civic House // 5h // N/C 18+

In 1986 Dutch broadcasting organisation VPRO sent director Bram van Splunteren and journalist Marcel Vanthilt off to New York to document the budding hip hop scene, which was then on the brink of ascending to its golden age peak. Cue an exclusive look inside LL Cool J’s grandma’s house, while other pioneers such as Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC and The Last Poets lead Vanthilt through their natural NYC surroundings. Twenty-five years after being broadcast and gaining cult status, Big Fun In The Big Town was finally released on DVD and subsequently made it into The Guardian’s top 10 music documentaries list. We’re showing this gem alongside a selection of hip hop-related shorts – we’ve got 2 Live Crew’s Uncle Luke reinterpreting Chris Marker’s La Jetée, the stunning Black America Again starring Common, and more.

Topping it all off are the ladies from Tomboy, a Glasgow-based all female rap/grime/trap night that supports women in the music industries, with a not-to-be-missed after-party including female grime MC Madders Tiff and wavy tunes tunes until late.

Tickets £9 (£7 concessions). Party only tickets available on the door (£5) from 23.00.

BABE LIVE + NEW SCOTTISH MUSIC VIDEOSFriday 16 March (20.45)Civic House // 3h // N/C 18+

You don’t need us to tell you how pioneering and sonically diverse the Scottish indie music scene has always been. But what about the Scottish filmmakers cutting their teeth on music videos? Videos can be aesthetically liberating forms of filmmaking. The rules and conventions of narrative do not apply. In collaboration with Blueprint: Scottish Independent Shorts, we’ve put together a boundary-devouring selection of recent low- and no-budget music videos by emerging Scottish filmmakers and animators.

Following the screening, Glasgow/London/Brussels/Bordeaux-based electropop four-piece Babe properly kick off Friday night. Led by front man Gerard Black (also of François and the Atlas Mountains fame), the band released their R&B-disco-house-dreampop-infused second full-length record Kiss & Tell last year, and with Bossy Love drummer John Bailie Jnr on board, they’re steadily becoming one of Scotland’s most interesting and unclassifiable music acts. Dancing guaranteed.

Tickets £9 (£7 concessions). Band only tickets available on the door (£6) from 22.00.


TRANSIT ARTS PRESENTS SOFT CELLSThursday 15 March (19.15)Civic House // 1h30m // N/C 15+

A programme about soft bodies in hard places, six international artist-filmmakers surveil the eerie control of urban life. Chicago skyscrapers pierce the cosmos, a ghostly torso contorts under a communications satellite, obsolete sci-fi technologies strobe and enchant, an abandoned Panopticon prison yields to the landscape, city windows at night leak an anthology of private moments, and two women pace the empty streets of Glasgow. Curated by Transit Arts as partof Uncanny Loop, an ongoing programme of artists’ moving image connecting the contemporary urban experience with the Gothic mode.

LADIES OF THE NIGHTThursday 15 March (21.30)Civic House // 1h30m // N/C 15+

It’s clear that we’ve still got a long way to go for women to be and feel safe at any time, not to have to worry about where we are, who we are with, or how we’re getting home, especially at night. And so, we’ve compiled a selection of offbeat shorts perfectly suited to the late hours, with strong, not-to-be-messed-with women taking the lead. There are female vampire tales from a remote Malaysian village and a London housing estate, a documentary on legendary transgender magician Fay Presto, a sci-fi take on Hansel and Gretel in GSFF-regular Jennifer Reeder’s latest film, and a few more surprises.

ROUND MIDNIGHTProgramme 1: SexFriday 16 March (23.15)CCA Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 18+

Programme 2: ViolenceSaturday 17 March (23.15)CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 18+

We’ve rounded up some of the freakiest films submitted to the festival for two special late night screenings of dark comedy, extreme thuggery and a wee bit of kink. Programme 1 features supernatural cults, cottaging and the progressive eco-politics of early 80s porn. Programme 2 features loneliness in Grand Theft Auto, a dead mouse in a tin of beans and two brothers determined to catch the dolphin carrying the spirit of their dead father in one of the most bonkers big budget shorts we’ve ever seen.

DON HERTZFELDT: WORLD OF TOMORROW 1 & 2Saturday 17 March (19.30)CCA Theatre // 1h // N/C 15+

In 2015 Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow was recognised as not only ‘the best short film of the century’ (IndieWire) but – more importantly – as winner of the GSFF International Audience Award. Now Hertzfeldt has released a sequel and we’re showing both films alongside some very special extras. Written around unscripted recordings of the filmmaker’s young niece, World of Tomorrow 1 & 2 tell a dark and hilarious sci-fi tale drenched in both thought-provoking existentialism and the curious naiveté of main character Emily Prime. Who says stick figures can’t be art?


WE NEED TO DISAGREE

We disagree constantly: about how to shape our society, about the relation between freedom and security, about degrees of individuality and solidarity. Polarisation instead of debate, taking sides instead of engagement. Fifty years after the struggles for personal liberties and free expression of 1968 we have handed over our societal standards and values to populists and social media filter bubbles. But we need to disagree, to argue: to listen, pause, reconsider, and then speak – and at the same time resist the assault on progressive achievements. This triangle programme from festivals in the UK, Austria and Spain takes a look at three European countries in turmoil.

GSFF: THE WILL OF THE PEOPLEThursday 15 March (19.00)CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+National identity is a delicate concept, founded on tolerance and compromise between diverse, often competing groups. What does it mean for already marginalised communities to find their exclusion from a romantic narrative of nationhood endorsed by referendum?

VIENNA SHORTS: OF ISLANDS AND SCAPEGOATSSaturday 17 March (15.00)CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+As a reaction to financial globalisation and social cut-backs, political hopes are increasingly placed in nationalism. But how can you pretend to be an isolated island when you’re part of a large system? A lesson in successful scapegoatism using the example of a small country in the heart of Europe.

L’ALTERNATIVA, BARCELONA: THE PERSONAL AND THE POLITICALSunday 18 March (15.15)CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+Memory, identity, gender, labour, family, sexuality are still at the heart of our struggle for progress and equality. Progression, regression, remembering, forgetting, speaking out and holding back. And the beating heart belongs to you, me, us.

SHORT MATTERS! 2018Programme 1: Friday 16 March (16.45)Programme 2: Saturday 17 March (17.00)Programme 3: Sunday 18 March (17.15)CCA Cinema // 1h40m // N/C 15+

SHORT MATTERS! is the European Film Academy’s short film tour, bringing together fifteen award winners at top European festivals in 2017. The tour showcases work from Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey, including the Oscar nominated Timecode by Juanjo Giménez and films by GSFF favourites Réka Bucsi and Gabriel Abrantes. Cut to the chase and see the most critically acclaimed contemporary European shorts right here!

VISIBLE CINEMA: DEAF SHORTS SHOWCASESunday 18 March (13.00)CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+

The films selected for this programme feature the representation of Deafness not as the main form of conflict but as part of a wider narrative. Curated in partnership between Encounters Film Festival Bristol and Visible Cinema, these films are variously made by filmmakers from both Deaf and hearing backgrounds, however the end results present a unique representation of the Deaf community in the 21st Century. Visible Cinema is GFT’s monthly Deaf and Hard of Hearing friendly film programme, all are welcome.

This event includes BSL interpretation and a speech to text service.


SHORT STUFF: PARENT & BABY SCREENINGThursday 15 March (11.45)CCA Theatre // 1h15m // N/C 12+

Short Stuff returns for an hour and a bit of highlights from across the GSFF18 programme, specially chosen for short film lovers with babies. We guarantee entertaining and thought-provoking films and animations from around the world, but nothing too taxing for sleep-deprived parents. No extreme content or sudden loud noises, and the lights will remain on low to allow easy movement during the screening.

Tickets £5 (£4 concessions). Babies must be 18 months or younger (and go free, obviously!)

FAMILY SHORTS Sunday 18 March (11.30)CCA Cinema // 1h15m // N/C Suitable for all

Once again our ever-popular family programme brings you the most exciting new animation from around the world, up on the big screen. By turns daft, silly, sad, spooky and uplifting, this programme will showcase a wide range of stunning animation techniques and take you on journeys you never thought possible. After the screening you can make your own animation at a free drop-in workshop suitable for all ages, led by filmmaker Kate Burton between 13.00 and 15.00 in CCA Clubroom.

One ticket admits one adult and one child.

INDUSTRY SESSIONSThursday 15 – Sunday 18 MarchCCA and Civic House

GSFF runs a series of workshops, panel discussions and screenings designed for emerging filmmakers, active professionals, film students and anyone with a serious interest in filmmaking. The full programme will be announced online in mid-February, but will involve collaborations with Blazing Griffin, BBC The Social, LUX Scotland and NFTS Scotland, including a masterclass with Scottish filmmaker Eva Riley and a short film pitch competition.

For more information, or to request an industry pass, go to glasgowfilm.org/gsff.

BREAKFAST WITH THE FILMMAKERSSaturday 17 March (10.30)Civic House // 2h

All Scottish and International competition screenings will include brief Q&As with the filmmakers attending. However, here’s an opportunity to kick-start your Festival Saturday by participating in an informal discussion session with some of the international filmmakers attending the festival, led by festival director Matt Lloyd. Come and listen to what they have to say, then go see their films! Coffee and pastries will be provided.

Free entry, no ticket required.


Are you aged 15 - 25?Do you make short films?

Would you like to see your film on the big screen?

Visit glasgowfilm.org/gyffshorts for details on how to make this happen

Glasgow Youth Film Festival

14 – 16 September 2018#GYFF18 #YOYP2018

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