Glasgow Short Film Festival has announced today that the 15th edition of the festival will take place in venues for the first time since 2019. GSFF22 will run from 23 to 27 March and screenings will take place in Civic House, Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) and the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA).
In Scotland’s Year of Stories, GSFF22 will showcase wildly imaginative and unique forms of storytelling, up on the big screen where they belong. We present works that can only be seen in cinemas, works that interrogate notions of objectivity, ones that hold revolution in subtle and grand ideas, and ones that further reflect on our futures, demanding active engagement and a belief in the potential of cinema for collective good. We know that not everyone is ready to venture out to the cinema, and so thanks to our core funder Screen Scotland, with support from The National Lottery and the Scottish Government, parts of the programme will be available online for the festival’s duration.
Glasgow Short Film Festival has two annual competitions: the Scottish Short Film Award which for this year has been renamed Scotland’s Year of Stories Short Film Award and the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film which showcases new cinema from around the world. Across the two competitions, GSFF22 will present 5 World Premieres and 18 UK Premieres.
The GSFF22 audience will have the opportunity to choose their favourites to win the Scottish and International Audience Awards, whilst international juries of filmmakers and curators select the winners of the Bill Douglas Award (cash prize of 1,000) and the Scottish Short Film Award (cash prize of 1,500). The GSFF22 Scottish Audience Award winner will receive a commission to make the GSFF 2023 trailer, sponsored by Film City Glasgow.
Glasgow Short Film Festival is pleased to announce the Competition selections for GSFF22:
Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film
After two years of small screens, the visual delights of this year’s International Competition are best experienced on the biggest screen possible. Combining prize winners from other festivals, new discoveries and a few GSFF regulars, the selection reflects the qualities found in the work of Scotland’s own Bill Douglas: honesty, formal innovation, and cinematic storytelling that places sound and image centre stage.
The film selected for the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film are as follows:
- A PRESENT LIGHT | Diogo Costa Amarante | Portugal
- ALL OF YOUR STARS ARE BUT DUST ON MY SHOES | Haig Aivazian | Lebanon | Scottish Premiere
- BESTIA | Hugo Covarrubias | Chile | Scottish Premiere
- DAD'S SNEAKERS | Olha Zhurba | Ukraine | UK Premiere
- DISPLACED | Samir Karahoda | Kosovo
- FIREFLIES | L o Bittencourt | Brazil | Scottish Premiere
- FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY | Polen Ly | Cambodia | UK Premiere
- HANDBOOK | Pavel Mozhar | Belarus, Germany | UK Premiere
- HER VIOLET KISS | Bill Morrison | USA | UK Premiere
- I GOTTA LOOK GOOD FOR THE APOCALYPSE | Ayce Kartal | France
- IMPOSSIBLE FIGURES AND OTHER STORIES I | Marta Pajek | Poland | Scottish Premiere
- IN MY NETWORK | Randa Maroufi | France | UK Premiere
- LOVE, DAD | Diana Cam Van Nguyen | Czech Republic | Scottish Premiere
- MIR | Gorana Jovanović | Serbia | UK Premiere
- NAUGHTY SPOT | Jean Costa | France | Scottish Premiere
- NAYA | Sebastian Mulder | Netherlands | UK Premiere
- NEON PHANTOM | Leonardo Martinelli | Brazil | Scottish Premiere
- NOIR-SOLEIL | Marie Larriv | France | UK Premiere
- ONE HUNDRED STEPS | B rbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca | Germany, France
- PARTY POSTER | Rishi Chandna | India | UK Premiere
- PODESTA ISLAND | Stephanie Roland | Fed. States of Micronesia, France | UK Premiere
- PRIDE | Claudrena N. Harold, Kevin Jerome Everson | USA | UK Premiere
- SIERRA | Sander Joon | Estonia | UK Premiere
- SQUISH! | Tulapop Saenjaroen | Thailand | UK Premiere
- THERE IS EXACTLY ENOUGH TIME | Virgil Widrich, Oskar Salomonowitz | Austria | UK Premiere
- THERE'S A GHOST OF ME | Mateo Vega | Netherlands
- WILL MY PARENTS COME TO SEE ME | Mo Harawe | Somalia, Austria, Germany | UK Premiere
Still from Love, Dad, selcted for Bill Douglas Award. Courtesy of GSFF.
Scotland’s Year of Stories Short Film Award
This year our Scottish competition, the largest annual showcase of emerging local talent, has been supported by the Year of Stories 2022 Community Stories Fund. The programme will be accompanied by a retrospective programme of early works by some of Scotland’s finest cinematic storytellers.
The film selected for the Scotland’s Year of Stories Short Film Award are as follows:
- AWAKENING | Cat Bruce
- BAHAR | Maryam Hamidi
- THE BAYVIEW | Daniel Cook
- THE BLACK WATCH | Cameron Cobb
- BORN IN DAMASCUS | Laura Wadha
- THE DEAD ARE JEWELS TO ME | Rose Hendry, Isla Badenoch
- DIVE | Oscar Sansom
- FIELD NOTES ON LOVE | Sam Firth
- FIRST STEP SWIM | Caitlin McMullan
- THE FOX | Eirini Vasiliki Kalogera, Julia Kim Johnstone | Scottish Premiere
- GO HOME | Razan Madhoon | Scottish Premiere
- GROOM | Leyla Coll-O'Reilly|
- IDRISH | Adam Lewis Jacob | Scottish Premiere
- IF YOU GET THE KNEES RIGHT THE REST WILL FOLLOW | Holly Mclean
- INFECTIOUS NIHILISM AND SMALL METALLIC PIECES OF HOPE | James Price
- KIN | Ruby Cedar | World Premiere
- LIFE OF RILEY | Shaun Hughes | World Premiere
- PROSOPAGNOSIA | Steven Fraser
- RED ROOM | Bryan M. Ferguson
- THE STONE AGE | Alison Piper
- TOO ROUGH | Sean L onadh | Scottish Premiere
- THE TYRANNY OF PETTY THINGS | Cameron Nicoll
- WE KNOW A BETTER WORD THAN HAPPY | Helen McCrorie | Scottish Premiere
Further programme announcements for GSFF22 will be made on Wednesday 23 February.
Audiences can expect dynamic programmes featuring world-class films as well as GSFF’s regular European Film Academy shorts programme and the ever-popular Comedy, Horror and Family-Friendly programmes.
GSFF has announced that The Skinny will be returning as an official media partner for GSFF22. The Skinny will be supporting a programme at this year’s festival to be announced in February.
All GSFF22 programmes will be captioned for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing audiences and all Scottish Competition Q&As will be BSL interpreted. This year’s edition will continue to implement a Pay What You Can sliding scale for tickets with the aim of improving access and inclusion.
Tickets for GSFF22 go on sale on Wednesday 23 February at midday. Press and Industry accreditation is now open.
Matt Lloyd, GSFF Director, said: “The Scottish competition at GSFF is the largest annual showcase of new Scottish film talent,championing diverse forms of cinematic storytelling, whether fiction, animation or documentary, in English, Gaelic, Scots or Urdu, Polish, Kurdish... The only eligibility criteria is that the filmmaker lives and works in Scotland. Thanks to the support of the Year of Stories 2022 Community Stories Fund we will have the opportunity to bring new Scottish storytellers to a wide audience, at the festival, online and via a touring programme throughout 2022.”
Sanne Jehoul, GSFF Programme Director, said: “Against our pandemic-informed expectations, we received over 4,000 submissions from across the globe for this year’s edition, which speaks positively about GSFF’s sustained international reputation. With the help of our incredible team of submissions viewers we have landed on a beautiful selection for this year’s Bill Douglas Award competition, which includes films that were awarded at some of the world’s most important film festivals as well as underseen gems that took us by surprise, and a number of familiar faces that return with new work. It’s a line-up that directly and indirectly speaks to the times we live in and therefore it feels invaluable that we will be able to share and discuss it with audiences in person.”
Background
Glasgow Short Film Festival, the largest competitive short film festival in Scotland, champions new film talent by providing an annual showcase and meeting point for new and established Scottish and international filmmakers, industry delegates and the local audience. Our programme celebrates diverse forms of cinematic expression, and foregrounds disruptive, ground-breaking work that transgresses the boundaries of conventional narrative film. In 2019 the festival reconstituted as an independent Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO), charity number SC049556.
The 15th edition of the festival will run 23-27 March 2022. The full GSFF22 programme will be announced at midday on 23 February.
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Glasgow Short Film Festival is funded by Screen Scotland, the dedicated partnership for screen in Scotland. Sitting within Creative Scotland, it is a partnership with Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Skills Development Scotland, Scottish Funding Council, working in close collaboration with the sector to ensure its success. With funding from Scottish Government and The National Lottery, Screen Scotland is driving the cultural, social and economic development of all aspects of the sector in Scotland, through enhanced funding,services and support. Find out more at screen.scot and follow us on Twitter and Instagram..
The festival is supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and National Lottery funding from the BFI.
The Scottish Competition has been supported by the Year of Stories 2022 Community Stories Fund. This fund is being delivered in partnership between VisitScotland and Museums Galleries Scotland with support from National Lottery Heritage Fund thanks to National Lottery players.
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