Glasgow Short Film Festival 2017 catalogue by Matt Lloyd

MLG McAllister Litho Glasgow Ltd.

CONTENTS

Director's Introduction

Symposium: Immersive Filmmaking

Credits

Quantum Shorts

Calendar

Briseadh na Cloiche

Map and Venue Guide

Reel to Rattling Reel

Tickets

Short Matters!

Delegate Information

Matthew & Matthew

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Awards

Visible Cinema: Sign of the Times

102

Competitions Introduction

Family Shorts

104

Jury

Short Stuff: Parent & Baby Screening

107

Scottish Competition

SUPERLUX Sessions

110

International Competition

Gunhild Enger Masterclass

111

10th Anniversary Shorts

Is There Life Online?

111

The Magic Lantern Returns

GSFF Production Attic Short Film Pitch

112

A Wall is a Screen

Girls on Film!

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An Evening With Bukowski

Film Goirid: Making Shorts In Gaelic

113

Jazz is Our Religion

All4 Briefing

114

Deborah Stratman

Scalarama

114

Gunhild Enger

Meet the Filmmakers

115

Reflections on Sovereignty

Index by Title

118

When I Say Vagina

Index by Director

120

Round Midnight

Blueprint: Scottish Independent Shorts

Blueprint: B-Roll

VR Movie House

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DIRECTOR'S INTRODUCTION

We’re ten years old! In these uncertain times for arts funding (not to mention the oversaturation of film festivals or the shift from theatrical to online viewing) staying the course for a decade is something to be celebrated. We’ve been enjoying ourselves digging into the archives and contacting former colleagues in order to stage several events looking back on our baby steps.

for the first time a small selection of virtual reality narrative works, alongside a major symposium on the subject. The jury’s still out on VR, at least in terms of its relationship with cinema; we’ll be asking whether total immersion enables empathy with or escape from the world around us.

Between the opening screening 10th Anniversary Shorts and the programme by our founders, Penny and Rosie of The Magic Lantern, it’s possible to see a pattern for the types of film we have been drawn to since the early days. We like witty, inventive, boundary-crossing work, rough around the edges for sure, possibly a bit anarchic, certainly politically engaged, intelligent but not too cerebral. Above all we show films that have integrity and originality; it’s been a joy to revisit some of the key works that have helped form our tastes and define the festival’s identity.

Any good festival is an immersive experience, forming empathetic bonds between attendees whilst admittedly providing escape from the world for a few precious days. It’s down to the passion and commitment of our loyal audience here in Glasgow and the many guests who’ve visited us from around the world that we’ve been able to lose ourselves in shorts for the past decade. And thanks to the lifelines of Glasgow Film, Creative Scotland, CCA and many other supporters we rarely need come up for air. Massive shout out in particular to our new Scottish Short Film Award sponsor Blazing Griffin – their support is not only a vote of confidence in GSFF but in a new generation of Scottish film talent.

Immersion in our past is complemented by a more cautious peek into an immersive future. We present

Matt Lloyd GSFF Director

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CREDITS GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

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Director: Matt Lloyd Coordinator & Programmer: Sanne Jehoul Event Producer: Morvern Cunningham Press Officer: Ruth Marsh Technical Coordinator: Lewis Den Hertog Volunteer Coordinator: Tony Harris / Hayley Angell

Chief Executive: Jaki McDougall Programme Director: Allison Gardner Finance/Commercial Director: David Gattens

Festival Assistants: Svetlana Perminova, Jaqueline Bargmann Work Placements: Amelia Seely, Samantha Son-Dokidis Submission Viewers: Stuart Elliott, Oriana Franceschi, Marcus Jack, Sanne Jehoul, Matt Lloyd, Margaret Smith GSFF17 Trailer: Scott Willis Designer: Martin Baillie Photographers: Eoin Carey, Jassy Earl

GUEST CURATORS The Magic Lantern Returns: Penelope Bartlett & Rosie Crerar A Wall Is A Screen: Sarah Adam, Sylvia Grom, Peter Haueis, Nadine Mayer, Peter Stein

Programme Manager: Sean Greenhorn Children & Young People Coordinator: Annie McCourt Public Engagement Coordinator: Jodie Wilkinson Marketing Manager: Paul Gallagher Design & Digital Marketing Coordinator: Gavin Crosby Marketing & Press Coordinator: Margaret Smith Marketing Assistant: Clare Gunn Digital Content Assistant: Kimberley Grant Communications Assistant: Lauren Clarke GFF Manager: Rachel Fiddes GFF Industry Coordinator: Ben Taylor GFF Print Traffic Coordinator: Jenni Trovinen Development Executive: Liana Marletta Development Manager: Lorna Sinclair Office Manager: Caroline Rice Finance Manager: Anne Thubron Finance Officer: Bryan Wilson

Jazz Is Our Religion: Craig Gallacher

Senior Front of House Manager: Angela Freeman Front of House Managers: Karlean Bourne, Lee MacPherson, Johnny Thompson Technical Manager: Malcolm Brown Technician & DCP Creation: Robbie Duncan Technician: David Wylie

Blueprint: Scottish Independent Shorts: Hans Lucas

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Reflections on Sovereignty: Veton Nurkollari, Jason Ryle

Blueprint: B-Roll: Bryan M Ferguson Reel to Rattling Reel: Sarah Neely

Programme Coordinator: Ainslie Roddick Technical Manager: Kenny Christie Marketing & Communications: Julie Cathcart

Matthew & Matthew: Lizzie Banks, Helen Wright

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Visible Cinema: David Ellington, Rich Warren, Jodie Wilkinson

Paul Sweeney, Chris Devlin

Symposium: Nick Higgins

Film Mobile Ian Brown

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Thanks The GSFF volunteers The staff and volunteers of GFT Francis McKee and the staff of CCA Paul Smith and the staff of Saramago Cafe Bar Jennifer Armitage at Creative Scotland Jennifer Reynolds at Glasgow Film Office Ann-Christine Simke at the Goethe-Institut Glasgow Emily Munro, Sheena MacDougall and all at NLS Moving Image Archive Shian Holt at Screen Academy Scotland Nicole Yip and Eve Smith at LUX Scotland All at Scottish Documentary Institute Emma Davie at Edinburgh College of Art Gavin Rizza at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Matthew Cowan at Production Attic Korina Abbott and Naysun Alae-Carew at Blazing Griffin Aidy Fenwick at Brooklyn Brewery Calum McFarlane at Maxxium UK David Johnstone at WK Film Insurance Mona RĂ¸hne at Norwegian Consulate General Kiri Inglis at MUBI Ryan Pasi at Glasgow Film Crew Peter Chua at QuantIC Margaret Cameron at MG Alba Sheldon Popiel at Dissolve Lisa Wrake Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz Donna Leake Dennis & Debbie Club Leaver-Yap John Canciani Sven Schwarz Christoffer Olofsson Kirsten Ruber Wouter Jansen Dennis Pasveer International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Hamburg International Short Film Festival Encounters Film Festival Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur Cromarty Film Festival Peter Jewell All our sponsors, filmmakers, speakers, performers, guests and jury members.

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JOYTOWN GRAND ELECTRIC THEATRE

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GUNHILD ENGER MASTERCLASS

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6 PASSHOLDERS ONLY

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SCOTTISH COMPETITION 1 PASSHOLDERS ONLY

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VR MOVIE HOUSE

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3

PRODUCTION ATTIC SHORT FILM PITCH

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VR MOVIE HOUSE

GIRLS ON FILM!

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4

ALL4 BRIEFING

MAKING SHORTS IN GAELIC

VR MOVIE HOUSE

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THE MAGIC LANTERN RETURNS

GUNHILD ENGER 2

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VR MOVIE HOUSE

QUANTUM SHORTS

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5

15 30 45

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VR MOVIE HOUSE

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SCOTTISH COMPETITION 1

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ROUND MIDNIGHT

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AN EVENING WITH BUKOWSKI

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6

SCOTTISH COMPETITION 2

BRISEADH NA CLOICHE

15 30 45

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WHEN I SAY VAGINAâ&#x20AC;¦

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2

BLUEPRINT

REFLECTIONS ON SOVEREIGNTY 1

15 30 45

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OPENING SCREENING: 10TH ANNIVERSARY SHORTS

15 30 45

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GUNHILD ENGER 1

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1

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SHORT MATTERS! 1

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IS THERE LIFE ONLINE?

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SUPERLUX: ALIENATION & VR

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JOYTOWN GRAND ELECTRIC THEATRE

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SUN 19 MARCH

ARGYLE STREET STATION

KELVIN HALL

JOYTOWN GRAND ELECTRIC THEATRE

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CCA UWS SEMINAR ROOM

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SAT 18 MARCH

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FAMILY SHORTS

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5 PASSHOLDERS ONLY

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VR MOVIE HOUSE

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5

SCALARAMA: I WANT TO BE A CINEMA

15 30 45

VR MOVIE HOUSE

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6

THE ILLINOIS PARABLES

VR MOVIE HOUSE

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JAZZ IS OUR RELIGION

AWARD WINNERS

15 30 45

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4

BLUEPRINT: B-ROLL

15 30 45

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A WALL IS A SCREEN

SCOTTISH COMPETITION 3

VR MOVIE HOUSE

REFLECTIONS ON SOVEREIGNTY 3

15 30 45

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VR MOVIE HOUSE

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REFLECTIONS ON SOVEREIGNTY 2

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3

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MEET THE FILMMAKERS

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VR MOVIE HOUSE

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VR MOVIE HOUSE

SHORT MATTERS! 3

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FAMILY ANIMATION WORKSHOP

VISIBLE CINEMA: SIGN OF THE TIMES

15 30 45

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VR MOVIE HOUSE

REEL TO RATTLING REEL

VR MOVIE HOUSE

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2

SUPERLUX: DEBORAH STRATMAN

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1

VR MOVIE HOUSE

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SHORT MATTERS! 2

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MATTHEW AND MATTHEW

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SYMPOSIUM: IMMERSIVE FILMMAKING

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JAZZ PARTY

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DELEGATE INFO STANDARD PRICE TICKETS £6.50 (£5 concessions) Some events are individually priced or free of charge – see listings for details.

CERTIFICATION

Delegate accreditation to GSFF17 is open to industry professionals, filmmakers and film students. Accreditation costs £70 full price, £50 for students. A day pass costs £17 or £13.50. For more information or to apply for accreditation, please go to www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff.

Films not certified by the BBFC are marked N/C and accompanied by an age recommendation i.e. N/C 15 + (suitable for ages 15 and older, no-one under 15 will be admitted).

The GSFF Guest Desk is situated in the CCA foyer, and is open from 12.00 until 20.30 on Wednesday 15 March, from 10.00 until 22.00 on Thursday 16 to Saturday 18 March, and from 10.00 until 20.30 on Sunday 19 March.

HOW TO BUY

Guests and delegates are welcome to attend any public screening or event, subject to availability. Collect tickets from the Guest Desk on the day of the screening. Please note that there is a limited guest allocation for each screening, and any unclaimed tickets will be returned to the box office for public sales one hour before the screening. After this time delegates may be obliged to buy a public ticket.

ONLINE Tickets can be purchased from www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff. No booking fee. Tickets can be purchased online until one hour before the screening. IN ADVANCE Tickets can be purchased for most events from Glasgow Film Theatre (12 Rose Street, G3 6RB). Call Box Office on 0141 332 6535. (There is a £1.50 transaction fee for telephone bookings.) You can collect advance tickets from Glasgow Film Theatre up until 9pm the day before the performance.

There are several delegate-only screenings of international and Scottish competition programmes – see Calendar (pages 8–9). No ticket required, just show your pass for entry. Entry to Joytown before 20.00 or after 22.30 does not require a ticket, just show your pass on the door.

Please note that advance purchases can only be made online at www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff or at GFT.

INTERNET ACCESS

DURING THE FESTIVAL Between Wednesday 15 March and Sunday 19 March, tickets for any GSFF event can be collected or purchased at the screening venue.

VIDEO LIBRARY

Please see www.glasgowfilm.org for full terms and conditions. Glasgow Short Film Festival is an operating name of Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). A company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland No. 97369 with its registered office at 12 Rose Street Glasgow, G3 6RB. GFT is registered as a charity No. SC005932 with the office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.

There is free Wi-Fi throughout CCA and GFT.

Guests and delegates are welcome to make use of the GSFF17 Video Library, which can be found at Glasgow Film Theatre, upstairs in the Project Room. The Video Library holds most of the films in the programme. A booking system will operate at busy times, with a maximum viewing session of 2 hours. Opening hours are as follows: Wednesday 15 March 13.00 —19.00 Thursday 16 March 10.30 —21.00 Friday 17 March 10.30 —21.00 Saturday 18 March 11.00 —21.00 Sunday 19 March 12.00—20.00

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COMPETITIONS

AWARDS 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. The award carries a cash prize of £1,000.

AWARD WINNERS

2016 winner: A Short Guide to Re-entry | Anwar Boulifa | UK

Sunday 19 March (20.30) Joytown Grand Electric Theatre // 2h // N/C 18+

2015 winner: Shipwreck | Morgan Knibbe | The Netherlands

First chance to catch the prize-winning films of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2017. We will announce and screen the recipients of the jury awards, as well as the films voted the favourite of the audience in each competition, and maybe a few surprises.

INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE AWARD

2014 winner: The Questioning | Zhu Rikun | China

SCOTTISH SHORT FILM AWARD The Scottish Short Film Award honours inspiration and innovation in new Scottish cinema. Thanks to the generous support of independent production company Blazing Griffin, the award carries a cash prize of £1,500. 2016 winner: Isabella | Duncan Cowles & Ross Hogg | UK 2015 winner: Directed By Tweedie | Duncan Cowles | UK 2014 winner: Getting On | Ewan Stewart | UK

SCOTTISH AUDIENCE AWARD Decided by audience vote, the winner of this award will receive a commission to make the 2018 festival trailer and a goodie bag courtesy of The Criterion Collection. 2016 winner: Dear Peter | Scott Willis | UK 2015 winner: Dropping Off Michael | Zam Salim | UK 2014 winner: Exchange & Mart | Cara Connolly, Martin Clark | UK

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SCOTTISH AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS In six international programmes and three Scottish, we attempt the impossible task of presenting a snapshot of current filmmaking trends and concerns around the world. We received 1,600 submissions this year, and found space in competition for 52 films. Inevitably our selection veers towards themes that fascinate us – migration, contested spaces, parenthood, forces beyond our control – but cutting across the curated programmes we notice other reoccurring ideas. The outsider is a trope common to many of this year’s films, as filmmakers return again and again to notions of alienation and examining foreign cultures from a limited perspective. Every year one or two nationalities seem to shine out in our selection – this year it’s undoubtedly the Netherlands, with five productions in international competition and one co-production in Scottish competition. Remarkably, all five films speak to this notion of the outsider in varying ways, and with the exception of Stefanie Kolk’s remarkable Clan, which focuses on the cliquish exclusivity of the group rather than the outsider herself, all suggest a warm and inquisitive outward-looking fascination with the world. Dutch filmmakers such as our 2015 award winner Morgan Knibbe (Shipwreck) or the team behind the powerful 9 Days – From My Window in Aleppo (screened in our 2016 Syria focus, and shown again this year in Short Matters) have been finding ways to tell pressing international stories through short film. Douwe Dijkstra’s Green Screen Gringo – which comes to us fresh from a win at the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival – carries on in that tradition with playful humour, capturing political unrest in Brazil. Glasgow Short Film Festival started life as The Magic Lantern, a quarterly short film night with a particular interest in championing women filmmakers. So we’re delighted that in our tenth anniversary edition women comprise 47% of the directors featured across both competitions. This should be entirely normal, rather than something to celebrate, but the fact that it’s come about without any engineering on our part suggest that the wider landscape of filmmaking is starting to change for the better.

Of course, there’s still a lot more we can do in terms of presenting a truly diverse range of voices, but films from the Philippines, Senegal and Thailand help to draw the competition out of a Eurocentric bubble. Jaime Habac Jr.’s Maria sketches the world of a mother of twenty-two, marginalized in her own home, whilst Chai Siris’s 500,000 Pee weds the mystical and the mechanical in its portrayal of 35mm projection as an offering to an ancient spirit. Closer to home, we welcome back many familiar names. Stalwarts of the UK experimental scene John Smith and Ben Rivers return with new works. Rivers’ The Hunchback, made in collaboration with the prolific Gabriel Abrantes, is an extraordinary and unexpected mash-up of cutting edge sci-fi and the Arabian Nights. 2014 Audience Award winner Hu Wei (Butter Lamp) returns with a richly drawn tale of an estranged mother and daughter. Hu Wei’s profile after Butter Lamp has even allowed him to cast Isabella Huppert in a minor role! Coming to us fresh from its world premiere at Sundance is the latest film from Miami indie-power duo Jillian Mayer and Lucas Leyva (retrospective GSFF14). Kaiju Bunraku is breathtakingly beautiful, drawing on the wildly divergent Japanese traditions of bunraku puppetry and monster B-movies. There are plenty of familiar faces amongst the Scottish selection too. Duncan Cowles – winner of the Scottish Short Film Award for the last two years running – debuts a challenging new documentary about alexithymia, the condition of being unable to feel emotion. Previous audience award winner Stuart Elliot brings us a romantic comedy with bite, Such is Life. Swedish artist Maja Borg is still retaining a strong connection with Scotland in her latest ravishing consideration of gender roles and childbirth, Man. And we see the welcome return of long-serving master of comedy (and cinematic walking encyclopedia) David Cairns with B-movie pastiche The Northleach Horror. As ever, we offer our disclaimer that we hate the word ‘best’. This year’s selection is neither comprehensive nor truly representative of emerging world cinema. These are the films that we believe speak to one other and deserve to be seen together on a big screen. We hope you enjoy them.

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JURY ANWAR BOULIFA Anwar Boulifa’s first film A Short Guide to Re-Entry won both the Bill Douglas Award and the International Audience Award at the 2016 Glasgow Short Film Festival. It played at numerous international festivals and was long-listed for a BIFA Award. He is currently developing his first feature film, and has been selected for the latest edition of the Cannes Cinefondation Residency, Paris. Anwar has a Producer credit on the documentary Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True, which was awarded a Grierson Award. He was selected for the talent labs at Edinburgh International Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival in 2016. His poetry has also been published in literary journals online.

NITA DEDA Nita Deda is the Director of International Documentary and Short Film Festival DokuFest, the largest cultural event in Kosovo. Previously she was their Head of Communication and programmer of the festival’s music programme, DokuNights. Nita has a background in film production (Atis, dir. Daniel Mulloy; Anestezion, dir. Noar Sahiti), visual art (International Project Coordinator at the National Gallery of Kosovo), PR (Communication Coordinator of the first Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo at the 55th Venice Biennale; video editor at Kosovo 2.0 website) and management (Festival Manager SURF 2011). She studied Media and Communication at the Empire State College in Prague.

TARA JUDAH Tara Judah is an Australian critic, broadcaster and programmer based in the UK. Director at 20th Century Flicks video shop, Curator and Online Editor for Cinema Rediscovered, Co-ordinator for Bristol Scalarama and Trustee on the Board of Directors for Curzon Cinema & Arts, Tara is passionate about cinema-going, independent and repertory cinema and photochemical film. She is also a regular contributor to Monocle24’s Arts Review and Cinema Show, Senses of Cinema, Desist Film, The Big Issue and a Contributing Editor at Metro magazine. Her work has appeared in various other online and print publications and she has participated in a number of international film festival juries.

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SCOTTISH COMPETITION SCOTTISH COMPETITION 1: ANYTHING FOR YOU Thursday 16 March (10.00) passholders only CCA Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 15+ Thursday 16 March (18.45) CCA Theatre // 1h45m // N/C 15+ Friday 17 March (11.30) passholders only CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 1

SCOTTISH COMPETITION 2: THE PARENT TRAP Thursday 16 March (13.30) passholders only CCA Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 15+ Friday 17 March (21.15) CCA Theatre // 1h45m // N/C 15+

SCOTTISH COMPETITION 3: PRIVILEGE Thursday 16 March (15.45) passholders only CCA Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 15+ Friday 17 March (14.45) passholders only CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+ Saturday 18 March (18.45) CCA Theatre // 1h45m // N/C 15+

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Friday 17 March (20.45) GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // N/C 15+ Sunday 19 March (15.30) GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // N/C 15+

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1: TRIBAL INSTINCTS

IMPORT

BATRACHIAN’S BALLAD

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Netherlands // 2016 // 17m SCOTTISH PREMIERE

BALADA DE UM BATRÁQUIO

Netherlands // 2016 // 23m SCOTTISH PREMIERE

A young Bosnian refugee family ends up in a small village in the Netherlands after getting a residence permit in 1994. Absurd situations arise as they try to make this new world their home.

“Simultaneously strange and familiar, distant and near, disquieting and seductive, outsider and cosmopolitan, gypsies are shrouded in an aura of ambiguity. They cannot be said to be invisible, as they hardly go unnoticed.” (Daniel Seabra Lopes) Like the gypsies, the frogs made of china don’t go unnoticed to a careful observer.

Director: Ena Sendijarevic Producer: Pieter Kuijpers, Sander van Meurs, Iris Otten Screenplay: Ena Sendijarevic Cinematography: Emo Weemhoff Editing: Lot Rossmark Music: Ella van der Woude, Juho Nurmela Sound: Vincent Sinceretti Director's filmography: Fernweh (2014), Februari (2013), Reizigers in de Nacht (2013) Contact: info@someshorts.com

Portugal // 2016 // 12m

Director: Leonor Teles Producer: Filipa Reis Screenplay: Leonor Teles Cinematography: Leonor Teles Editing: Leonor Teles Sound: Bernardo Theriaga, Joana Niza Braga Director's filmography: Rhoma Acans (2013) Contact: portugalfilm@indielisboa.com

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A tight-knit group of people live and work at a derelict farm. No one knows the woman in a black raincoat who has been wandering around their land all day. At first, they don’t worry about her. But the closer she gets, the more she starts to get in their way. Director: Stefanie Kolk Producer: Miel van Welzen, Luuk Hoekx Screenplay: Stefanie Kolk Cinematography: Roy van Egmond Editing: Maarten Ernest Music: Jelle Verstraten Sound: Hanza van der Veer Director's filmography: Handen (2016), Ten Days Before Spring (2012) Contact: info@someshorts.com

INTERNATIONAL COMP 2: NO MAN’S LAND

A MAN RETURNED Denmark, Lebanon, Netherlands, UK // 2016 // 29m Reda’s dreams of escaping the Palestinian refugee camp ended in failure after three years trapped in Greece. He returned with a heroin addiction and to a life torn apart by internal strife and the encroachment of war from Syria. Director: Mahdi Fleifel Producer: Patrick Campbell Editing: Michael Aaglund Sound: Dario Swade Director's filmography: Men In The Sun (2016), Xenos (2013), Visit Palestine (2012), A World Not Ours (2012), Four Weeks (2009), Arafat & I (2008), The Writer (2007), Harrisons Monday’s Arms (2006), Hamoudi & Emil (2004), Shadi In The Beautiful Well (2003) Contact: patrick@nakbafilmworks.com

EARS, NOSE AND THROAT USA // 2016 // 10m SCOTTISH PREMIERE During an ears, nose and throat examination Shadeena Brooks recounts a horrible event she eyewitnessed. Director: Kevin Jerome Everson Producer: Madeleine Molyneaux, Kevin Jerome Everson Director's filmography (selected): Tonsler Park (2017), 8903 Empire (2016), Park Lanes (2015), Eason (2015), Three Quarters (2015), Fe26 (2014), Sound That (2014), The Island of St. Matthews (2013), Stone (2013), Ten Five in the Grass (2012), Century (2012), Quality Control (2011), The Pritchard (2011), Erie (2010), Company Line (2009), Old Cat (2009), Home (2008), The Golden Age of Fish (2008), Emergency Needs (2007), Something Else (2007), Cinnamon (2006), Pictures from Dorothy (2003), A Week in the Hole (2001) Contact: picturepalacesale@yahoo.com

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2: NO MAN’S LAND (continued)

489 YEARS

SOME WILL FORGET

KADAMBARI

France // 2016 // 11m SCOTTISH PREMIERE

UK // 2016 // 15m SCOTTISH PREMIERE

India // 2016 // 10m UK PREMIERE

Thanks to the testimony of Kim, a former soldier in South Korea, we gain access to the DMZ. He speaks of a place where people are forbidden, a place entirely reclaimed by nature.

In a village in the North of England a march commemorates the bitter defeat of the Miners’ Strike of thirty years ago. For a century Hatfield Colliery has stood at the heart of the village. Now it is one of Britain’s last coal mines and faces closure as cheap imports flood the market.

Kadambari drifts into her unconscious, lingering as a stranger to her latent anxieties that remain laced with the numbness of a riot-stricken homeland.

Director: Hayoun Kwon Producer: Balthazar Auxietre Music: Pierre Desprats Sound: Sylvain Buffet Animation: Fabrice Gaston, Guillaume Bertinet, Laurent Raynaud Director's filmography: Model Village (2014), Panmunjom (2013), Lack of Evidence (Manque de preuves) (2011), Walls (Des murs) (2010) Contact: hayoun.kwon@gmail.com

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Director: Ruth Grimberg Producer: Claire Levy, Ruth Grimberg Cinematography: Ruth Grimberg Editing: Rob Platt Music: Tim Bamber Sound: Kenny Clark Director's filmography: Across Still Water (2014) Contact: ruthgrimberg@blueyonder.co.uk

Director: Bhasmang Joshi Producer: Bhasmang Joshi Screenplay: Bhasmang Joshi Cinematography: Siddharth Govindan Editing: Bhasmang Joshi Sound: Bhasmang Joshi Director's filmography: Girte Daant (2016–17), The Man Inside My Head (2014) Contact: bhasmangj@gmail.com

MY DEADLY, BEAUTIFUL CITY

AN ECSTATIC EXPERIENCE

Russia, UK, USA // 2016 // 11m SCOTTISH PREMIERE

USA // 2015 // 6m

USA // 2017 // 14m INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

An invocation and a meditation on transcendence as a means of restoration.

Here’s a day in the life of a husband and wife living in a world of giant monsters.

Director: Ja’Tovia Gary Editing: Ja’Tovia Gary Animation: Ja’Tovia Gary

Director: Jillian Mayer, Lucas Leyva Producer: Taylor Shung, Brett Potter Screenplay: Lucas Leyva Cinematography: Robert Leitzell Editing: Lucas Leyva Music: Brian McOmber

The arctic mining city of Norilsk is one of the most polluted in the world – but many residents are still proud to call it home. Director: Victoria Fiore Producer: Victoria Fiore Cinematography: Alfredo de Juan Editing: Florence Kennard, Victoria Fiore Sound: Tim Matthews Director's filmography: Babygangs of Napoli (2017), Gadjo (2015) Contact: victoriafioravante@gmail.com

Director's filmography: Cakes Da Killa: NO HOMO (2013), Women’s Work (2012) Contact: jatovia.gary@gmail.com

KAIJU BUNRAKU

Director's filmography (selected): Cool As Ice 2 (2015), #Postmodem (2013), The Coral Reef Are Dreaming Again (2013), Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse! (2012), Jacuzzi Boys – Glazin’ (2011), Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke (2011), I Am Your Grandma (2011), Reinaldo Arenas (2011) Contact: lucasleyva@gmail.com

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3: MOTHER’S LOVE

WHAT TEARS US APART

MARIA

CE QUI NOUS ÉLOIGNE

Philippines // 2016 // 11m UK PREMIERE

France // 2016 // 19m UK PREMIERE After a long separation, an encounter. Two families. One child. Director: Hu Wei Producer: Julien Féret Screenplay: Hu Wei, Joël Curtz, Gaëlle Obiegly Cinematography: Julien Poupard Editing: Hu Wei, Li Ran Sound: Aymeric Dupas Director's filmography: Butter Lamp (2013), The Proprietor (2012) Contact: amaprod.feret@gmail.com

When the whole family confronts her 14-year-old daughter of a suspected pregnancy, a 50-year-old woman gives birth to her 22nd child. Director: Jaime Habac Jr. Producer: Chad Angelic Cabigon Screenplay: Jaime Habac Jr. Cinematography: Pong Ignacio Editing: Carlo Francisco Manatad Sound: Mikko Quizon Director's filmography: I’m Drunk, I Love You (2017), Oktopus (2015), Mga Eroplanong Papel sa Tag-araw ng Paglimot (2013) Contact: jphabac@gmail.com

IMPOSSIBLE FIGURES AND OTHER STORIES II FIGURY NIEMOŻLIWE I INNE HISTORIE II Poland // 2016 // 15m UK PREMIERE A woman trips and falls while rushing around the house. She gets up, only to discover that her home has unusual features – it is built from paradoxes, filled with illusions and covered with patterns. Director: Marta Pajek Producer: Grzegorz Waclawek, Piotr Szczepanowicz Editing: Marta Pajek Animation: Aleksander Sobek, Anna Shimanskaya, Jerzy Hojda, Joanna Wapniewska, Malgorzata Mianowska, Marta Pajek, Miray Ozcan, Piotr Szczepanowicz, Tomasz Popakul Director's filmography: Sleepincord (2011), Next door (2005), After apples (2004) Contact: marta.swiatek@kff.com.pl

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PERFECT DARKNESS

THE BATHTUB

Belgium // 2016 // 24m INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

DIE BADEWANNE

Gus and his pregnant girlfriend Anna are on holiday. During their evening walk to a spot near the water, Anna makes a confession. Can the couple, amidst the wildness of nature and under a full moon, overcome the conflict? Will they reach their idyllic spot? Director: Maaike Neuville Producer: Bert Lesaffer, Brecht Van Elslande Cinematography: Grimm Vandekerckhove Editing: Fairuz Ghammam Music: Arnold Schönberg Sound: Kwinten Van Leather

Germany, Austria // 2015 // 13m SCOTTISH PREMIERE Brothers Georg, Alexander and Niklas are preparing an original present for their mother. But the idea to re-enact an old bathtub picture from their childhood is way too stupid for the oldest one. Little by little they bare all, exposing three brothers who have grown apart along the way. Director: Tim Ellrich Producer: Tim Ellrich, Dominik Huber, Leopold Pape Cinematography: Lukas Gnawer

Director's filmography: Rouwdagboek (2017), Sonnet 81 (2013), Way Back (Terug Weg) (2010)

Director's filmography: Two Windows (Am Fenster) (2016), The Outcasts (Die Ausgestoßenen) (2014), Veiled (Schleierhaft) (2014), Child’s Play (Kinderleicht) (2012)

Contact: info@someshorts.com

Contact: markus@augohr.de

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4: THE LIMITS OF CONTROL

THE COMMITTEE

STEVE HATES FISH

LOVE

KOMMITTÉN

UK // 2015 // 5m SCOTTISH PREMIERE

France, Hungary // 2016 // 14m SCOTTISH PREMIERE

Through the deliberate misuse of a language translator smartphone app, the secret thoughts of the signage in a busy London shopping street are revealed.

Affection described in three chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system. Abstract haiku-like situations reveal the change in atmosphere on one planet, caused by the change of gravity and light. This pulsing planet makes the inhabitants become one with each other in various ways.

Sweden, Finland, Norway // 2016 // 14m SCOTTISH PREMIERE A Nordic collaboration is taking place. Three delegates from Sweden, Norway and Finland are gathered in Lapland to decide on an art piece, which is to be placed where the three borders meet geographically. Director: Jenni Toivoniemi, Gunhild Enger Producer: Marie Kjellsson Screenplay: Gunhild Enger, Jenni Toivoniemi Cinematography: Jarmo Kiuru, Annika Summerson Editing: Trude Lirhus, Vårin Andersen Sound: Tuomas Klaavo Director's filmography (Enger): CZ06 (2016), Subtotal (2014), Inbox (2013), A Simpler Life (2013), Premature (2012), Back to Work (2011), Passion (2008), Waiting For Happiness (2005), Bargain (2005), Flora and Mark (2004) Director's filmography (Toivoniemi): Hääyö (2013), The Date (2012) Contact: theo.tsappos@sfi.se

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Director: John Smith Director's filmography (selected): Who Are We? (2016), Dark Light (2014), Dad’s Stick (2012), Soft Work (2012), Horizon (Five Pounds a Belgian) (2012), The Man Phoning Mum (2011), Unusual Red Cardigan (2011), Flag Mountain (2010), Hotel Diaries (2001–7), Worst Case Scenario (2001–3), Lost Sound (collaboration with Graeme Miller) (2001), Regression (1999), The Waste Land (1999), The Kiss (collaboration with Ian Bourn) (1999), Blight (1996), Home Suite (1993–4), Gargantuan (1992), Slow Glass (1988–91), The Black Tower (1985–7), Om (1986), Shepherd’s Delight (1980–4), The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), Leading Light (1975), Associations (1975) Contact: info@johnsmithfilms.com

Director: Réka Bucsi Producer: Marc Bodin-Joyeux Sound: Péter Benjámin Lukács Director's filmography: Symphony no. 42 (2014) Contact: zsofi@daazo.com

TEN METRE TOWER

THE HUNCHBACK

BUBBLEGUM

HOPPTORNET

O CORCUNDA

Sweden // 2016 // 15m SCOTTISH PREMIERE

Portugal, France // 2016 // 30m SCOTTISH PREMIERE

UK // 2016 // 2m SCOTTISH PREMIERE

A ten-metre diving tower. The situation itself highlights a dilemma. The fear of going for it, or the humiliation of backing down. What are we like when we hesitate, and when we decide? How do we behave when we’re alone, and what are we like when relating to others?

In a sci-fi riff on the Arabian Nights’ Tale of the Hunchback, we are submerged in a technological dystopia reigned by Dalaya.com, a mega-corporation that forces its employees to ‘relax’ at company-run medieval reenactments.

Director: Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck Producer: Erik Hemmendorff, Axel Danielson Director's filmography (Van Aertryck): Studio 5 (2017), Extra Material (2015), Second Deputy Speaker (2015), Icebreakers (2012) Director's filmography (Danielson): Studio 5 (2017), TwinBrothers (2011), Sommarlek (2004), Torrsommar (2003) Contact: theo.tsappos@sfi.se

Director: Gabriel Abrantes, Ben Rivers Producer: Natxo Checa, Marta Furtado, Gabriel Abrantes Screenplay: Gabriel Abrantes, Ben Rivers Cinematography: Jorge Quintela Editing: Margarida Lucas Sound: Pedro Melo

Stuck in a bubble, a girl dreams of a sunset. Director: Rose Hendry Cinematography: Ian Forbes Editing: Hettie Griffiths Music: Fraya Thomsen Sound: Mike Bovill Director's filmography: Well Connected (2014), Stovies (2013), Egg & Fag (2011) Contact: rose.hdy@gmail.com

Director filmography (Abrantes, selected): A Brief History of Princess X (2016), Fratelli (2011), A History of Mutual Respect (Co-directed with Daniel Schmidt) (2010), Olympia I & II (2006), Dear God Please Save Me (2006), Anarchist King (2006) Director's filmography (Rivers, selected): There Is A Happy Land Further Away (2015), A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness (Co-directed with Ben Russell) (2013), Two Years At Sea (2011), Origin of the Species (2008), Ah, Liberty! (2008) Contact: portugalfilm@indielisboa.com GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2017

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5: TEAM PLAYER

THE LAST LEATHERMAN OF THE VALE OF CASHMERE USA // 2016 // 15m EUROPEAN PREMIERE In Brooklyn, NY’s Prospect Park, in a tucked away corner less traveled, men meet men in the Vale of Cashmere. An aging leatherman takes a profane trip down memory lane as he visits this cruising destination of his youth. Now, amidst the thickets where secrecy once reigned, he contemplates a new world. Director: Greg Loser Producer: Heather Smith, Greg Loser Screenplay: Greg Loser Cinematography: Ramsey Fendall Editing: Heather Smith, Anna Gustavi Director's filmography: Death of a Popstar (2010) Contact: contact@room5films.com

FIRST PERSON SHOOTER Finland // 2016 // 7m UK PREMIERE Two men spend an evening playing computer games. Connected through a network they move their avatars through untouched hills and woods and trawl through remote settlements. Alongside the sounds of nature and the sporty avatars’ panting we can follow the carefree dialogue of the players. Director: Hanna Arvela Producer: Hanna Arvela Director's filmography: Asylum (2016), Engaged (2016), Aren’t you supposed to smile? (2015), The other one loves the night (2015), Veera (2015), Bird’s-eye view (2014) Contact: hanna.arvela@gmail.com

GABEY AND MIKE: A JEWISH SUMMER CAMP LOVE STORY Canada // 2016 // 21m UK PREMIERE The tropes of the summer camp movie are juxtaposed with references from iconic queer films in order to grasp the significance of the band Mermaid Cafe (Peaches’ first band) within the peculiar space of the summer camp. Director: Stephanie Markowitz, Alexis Mitchell Cinematography: Ava Berkofsky Editing: Hedia Maron Music: Mermaid Café Sound: Heather Kirby Director’s filmography (Mitchell): Empire Symbol, Or a Man and His Mule (2015), Stealth (2014), The Break (2013), Camp (2010) Director’s filmography (Markowitz): Body Like Lead (2015), Dependent (2013), Dinner at Lucy’s (2009) Contact: mitchell.alexis@gmail.com

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PLANEMO Croatia // 2016 // 13m SCOTTISH PREMIERE Planemo is a solitary wanderer, a sentinel of the galaxy. It is an orphaned world, a celestial body booted from its solar system by the chaos of planetary migration. In a society where everyone mindlessly orbits around their daily routines, what happens when a person gets ejected from the system? They might just find themselves rapidly pushed out of the habitable zone. Director: Veljko Popovic Producer: Veljko Popovic, Milivoj Popovic Sound: Sina Jakelić Director's filmography: Father (2012, co-director), Dove sei, amor mio (2011), My Way (2010, co-director), She Who Measures (2008) Contact: tomshrap@hotmail.com

LONG LIVE THE EMPEROR QUE VIVE L’EMPEREUR France // 2016 // 26m UK PREMIERE Napoleon’s troops are gathering close to Waterloo. Time is running out for common soldier Baby, who is seeking a battalion to join the Great Army. Tomorrow, the troops will launch the attack on the English. Along with his wife Ludo, in the parking lot where they have pitched their tent, they are living the last remaining hours before the fall of the Empire. Director: Aude Léa Rapin Producer: Hugues Charbonneau, Marie-Ange Luciani Screenplay: Jonathan Couzinié, Aude Léa Rapin Cinematography: Aude Léa Rapin Editing: Aude Léa Rapin Sound: Virgile Van Ginneken Director's filmography: Your Heart At Random (Ton coeur au hazard) (2015), Enclave (2014), Nino’s Place (2014), La météo des Plages (2014) Contact: annalfdp@gmail.com

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6: DOUBLE VISION

500,000 YEARS

SAMEDI CINEMA

500,000 PEE

Senegal // 2016 // 11m UK PREMIERE

Thailand // 2016 // 15m UK PREMIERE One evening in Lampang, at the archaeological site where a homoerectus fossil was found 17 years ago, an outdoor cinema truck stops to screen a film as an offering to the ancient ghost. During the screening, something unexpected happens. Director: Chai Siris Cinematography: Chatchai Suban Director's filmography: An Investigation of Nocturnal Garden (2015), Jazz (2014), Six Suns (2013), Four Seasons (2010), My Mother and Her Portrait (2009), Small Village and Its Remains (2009), Pure (2008) Contact: c@chaisiris.com

Two young cinephiles in Northern Senegal hatch a plan before their theatre closes down forever. Director: Mamadou Dia Producer: Abbesi Akhamie, Cheikh Serge Ndao Cinematography: Sheldon Chau Director's filmography: Contained (2016), Ebola – Into the Hot Zone (2014) Contact: dia.mamaid@gmail.com

THREE DIMENSIONS OF TIME Netherlands, Russia // 2016 // 14m SCOTTISH PREMIERE Three moments in time are captured in three layers of coloured imagery shown simultaneously. Combined, the layers form normal full-colour images of the elements which persist through time. Simultaneously transitory elements – animals, people, machines – move through these scenes in single colours, leaving only a brief trace, as if they’re memories or ghosts who have left behind their past, present or future. Some people have lived for so long that they become as stable as their surroundings. Director: Pim Zwier Producer: Pim Zwier Cinematography: Vladimir Usoltsev Editing: Pim Zwier Sound: Anton Kuryshev Director's filmography (selected): They Call Us the Enemy (2015), Never a Dull Moment (2014), Alles Was Irgendwie Nützt (2013), Atemlos (2012), Oerdak, poem in progress (2010), Celestial Body (2010), Sutrapeze (2010), Sarah Ann (2008), Jolanda 23 (2008), Bidcatcher (2007) Contact: pimzwier@gmail.com

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DISTRIBUTION

GREEN SCREEN GRINGO

Nicaragua // 2016 // 11m WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands, Brazil // 2016 // 16m UK PREMIERE

A kaleidoscopic picture of the pirate movie industry in Managua, Nicaragua; an immersive glimpse into lives built around selling bootleg movies in the street. Director: Samuel Ellison Producer: Nora Mendis Music: Kassa Overall Director's filmography: Between Seasons (2016) Contact: samuelelli@gmail.com

Behind a green screen, a foreigner finds his way in an enchanting – and yet turbulent – Brazil. Where the streets are a stage for politics, art and affection, a gringo can only watch. The result is a mixtape-portrait of modern day Brazil seen through the eyes of the visitor. Director: Douwe Dijkstra Sound: Rob Peters Director's filmography: Voor Film (2015), Démontable (2014) Contact: info@someshorts.com

NOT EVEN NOTHING CAN BE FREE OF GHOSTS Austria, Germany // 2016 // 11m SCOTTISH PREMIERE No motion pictures meet the retina, but instead, impulses and waves of pure light. Abstract ghost beings become manifest in digital nirvana. Director: Rainer Kohlberger Director's filmography: Keep That Dream Burning (2017), Not Even Nothing Can Be Free Of Ghosts (2016), Moon Blink (2015), Humming, Fast and Slow (2013), White Light / White Heat (2012) Contact: gerald@sixpackfilm.com

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10TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS

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10TH ANNIVERSARY SHORTS Now we are ten! Let’s span time together, indulging ourselves with nine films handpicked from each previous edition of GSFF. These films represent what we think constitutes the perfect GSFF film – honest, questioning, fresh and inventive, making a virtue of limited means and above all fun. It’s 2008, and artist Sarah Tripp has a show at CCA entitled Let Me Show You Some Things. Coinciding with that year’s Glasgow Film Festival, it’s a curious mini film-festival-in-quotation-marks. The video library – usually a functional resource for industry delegates – is a vast sprawling sculpture by Robert Orchardson, and the programme includes panels with wonderful, provocatively naïve titles like Why Make A Short? or How To Make A Short. The centerpiece of the show is Tripp’s own deceptively simple fiction short, presented audaciously on a loop in a gallery setting. The short film programmes have been curated by Penelope Bartlett and Rosie Crerar of The Magic Lantern. Penny and Rosie’s tastes are wide-ranging and indefinable, but Canadian work The Saddest Boy In The World (Jamie Travis, 2006) captures the tone of much of the programme in its combining of high stylization and dark subject matter with genuine emotional depth. Jump forward a year and that high stylization has worked its way into the cut-out comic book thrills of Run Wrake’s The Control Master (2008). British animator Wrake died at the age of 49 in 2012; a tragically untimely loss. The following year produces a new talent closer to home, when Louis Paxton graduates from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with post-zombie comedy Choreomania (2009). As confident a debut as any we’ve seen, it also manages to say something meaningful about Scotland. By now Penelope has moved to the US, whilst Rosie has headed to Australia. Matt Lloyd, co-director in 2010, takes over the festival. As the 2011 festival goes to press, we hear the news that Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to a twenty-year ban on making films or travelling abroad. As his recent short The Accordion (2009) is in the selection, we dedicate that year’s festival to him. The Accordion is devastating in its unforced universal simplicity. A near-perfect short. The following year a Swedish film rocks us and every other festival. Las Palmas (Johannes Nyholm, 2011) 40

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is what happens when an animator is left at home for long hours with a toddler. Incidentally it’s the perfect film to launch our first ever parent and baby screening. In 2013 we enjoy our first visit from Finnish experimental animation power duo Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen. Whilst their small body of work is rightly celebrated, their real fame is as wild festival attendees. Once you’ve had a visit from Hannes and Pekka, you know you’ve got a true festival on your hands. Gates of Life (2012) is a stunning work combining documentary footage and digital glitches, harnessed to hypnotic and moving effect. Having had the H&P seal of approval, the next step is to produce a festival catalogue, those hefty doorstops of print only ever read by other festival programmers… 2014’s catalogue is decorated in designs from Ben Cady’s Anomalies, which almost made it into this programme, but was narrowly beaten by Robin McKay’s How to Abandon Ship (2013). A hot tip from Penny Bartlett, by now programming shorts at Chicago Film Festival, McKay’s film is a truly leftfield labour of love, the product of a unique vision. And we’re entering the home stretch… The following year is colossal for GSFF. We move from February to March and see attendance shoot up by 42%. We stage events that threaten to bankrupt us – Vertical Cinema – or get us arrested – A Wall Is A Screen. Faced with 600 short film viewers gathering on the Buchanan Street Steps one Saturday night, the police send in the riot vans. Thankfully the show is just finishing. And we have permission! Honest, officer! That year’s film of choice, for us and many other festivals, is Hungarian Réka Bucsi’s Symphony No 42, a surreal episodic work with more than a hint of David Shrigley. And last but by no means least, 2016’s Onni by Sanna Liljander. Onni (a Finnish name meaning Joy) is a small boy whose off-screen wailing drives this masterful single shot documentary, a study in space, sound and the patient self-subjugation of parenthood. And so on to the tenth edition. We don’t dare single out a favourite before the festival has started. Go forth and seek out yours! Matt Lloyd

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

THE CONTROL MASTER UK // 2008 // 7m Halftone City, USA. A peaceful metropolis of family values and space age dreams. Mild mannered blonde Dorothy Gayne secretly protects its citizens from harm. But dangerous new technologies abound. What happens when a powerful device falls into the hands of scientist turned villain Doctor Moire? Director: Run Wrake Music: Daniel Morgan Director's filmography: Rabbit (2005), What Is That (2001), Stop for a Minute (2001), Anyway (1990) Contact: info@lisawrake.com

THE SADDEST BOY IN THE WORLD

GATES OF LIFE

Canada // 2006 // 13m

Finland // 2012 // 6m

Timothy Higgins is the saddest boy in the world. Friendlessness, suburban complacency and prescription drugs have conspired against him to make this his worst year yet.

Brief moments of life stolen from passing-by strangers form a sequence of events hidden in plain sight.

Director: Jamie Travis Producer: Amy Belling, Jamie Travis Screenplay: Jamie Travis Cinematography: Amy Belling Editing: Jason Schneider Music: Alfredo Santa Ana Director's filmography: For a Good Time, Call... (2012), Seven Sins: Greed (2011), The National Parks Project (2011), The Armoire (2009), Patterns 3 (2006), Patterns 2 (2006), Patterns (2005), Why the Anderson Children Didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Come to Dinner (2003)

HAIVAHDYS ELAMAA

Director: Pekka Veikkolainen, Hannes Vartiainen Music: Joonatan Portaankorva Sound: Joonatan Portaankorva Director's filmography: The Secret World of Moths (2015), Emergency Calls (2013), The Death of an Insect (2010), Hanasaari A (2009) Contact: hannes@pohjankonna.fi

Contact: jamiejtravis@gmail.com

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10TH ANNIVERSARY SHORTS (continued)

SYMPHONY NO 42

HOW TO ABANDON SHIP

THE ACCORDION

Hungary // 2013 // 10m

USA // 2013 // 10m

Iran // 2010 // 9m

A world presented in 47 scenes. Small events, interlaced by association, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings. The surreal situations are based on the interactions of human and nature.

It began on a train; uncomfortable side-glances and a hot dog dripping down her blouse. They would find themselves on a first date and soon enough taking part in the age-old custom of cohabitation. However, what starts as a voyage to paradise suddenly veers off course. Without warning they find themselves in the middle of a storm, set with the duty of how to abandon the sinking vessel.

A brother and sister eke out their living on the streets of Tehran by playing their accordion. Passersby generously offer them coins until the instrument is forcibly taken away by a man who finds the children guilty of playing music outside a mosque.

Director: Réka Bucsi Producer: Jozsef Fulop Editing: Réka Bucsi, Judit Czakó Music: Flóra Matisz Sound: Péter Benjámin Lukács Director's filmography: LOVE (2016) Contact: rekabucsi@gmail.com

Director: Robin McKay Producer: Robin McKay Director's filmography: Sedentary (2010) Contact: robinmckaywg@gmail.com

Director: Jafar Panahi Producer: Adelina von Fürstenberg Screenplay: Jafar Panahi Cinematography: Ebrahim Ghafori Director's filmography (selected): Taxi Tehran (2015), Closed Curtain (2013), This Is Not A Film (2011), Offside (2006), Crimson Gold (2003), The Circle (2000), The Mirror (1997), The White Ballon (1995), The Friend (1992) Contact: projects@artfortheworld.net

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LAS PALMAS Sweden // 2011 // 13m A middle-aged lady on holiday in the sun tries to make new friends and have a good time. Director: Johannes Nyholm Producer: Johannes Nyholm Music: Björn Olsson, Goyo Ramos Director's filmography: The Giant (2016), Speldosan (2016), Dead End (2012), Dreams from the Woods (2009), The Tale of Little Puppetboy (2008), Alla sagor har ett slut (2004) Contact: theo.tsappos@filminstitutet.se

THE JOY OF EVERYDAY LIFE

CHOREOMANIA

ONNI

Times are grim but for Hector things are about to get ghastly. A sinister contagion has overtaken Glasgow turning people into dancing maniacs! Quickstep your way into the urban nightmare that is – CHOREOMANIA.

Finland // 2014 // 7m Everyday life. Oh joy? Director: Sanna Liljander Producer: Petja Niva Sound: Joni Rajainmaa Director's filmography: Kaipuu (2016), Remember? (2015), On Ice (2014) Contact: verleih@shortfilm.com

UK // 2009 // 10m

Director: Louis Paxton Producer: Stuart Ewan Screenplay: Louis Paxton Cinematography: Anna Chaney Editing: Lauren Burns Music: Tim Matthew, Joe Peat, Louis Paxton, Ross McKay Sound: Romano Valerio Director's filmography: Satan Has A Bushy Tail (2015), Geoffosaurus (2014), The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Putting Things In Bins (2013), A Penguin Walks Into A Bar (2013), Musical Star! (2013), Voodoo Moustache (2013), Dollface (2013), The Spa (2012), A Bible Story (2011), Pouncer (2010), Fool Proof (2010), Choreomania (2009) Contact: louispaxton@hotmail.co.uk

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THE MAGIC LANTERN RETURNS The Magic Lantern was a regular screening series which took place in Glasgow between 2006 and 2010, showing local and international short films. This scrappy, shoestring budget event, where we nervously lingered in the projection booth praying that DVDs wouldn’t start skipping or film prints snap mid-screening, eventually grew into the Glasgow Short Film Festival. We're thrilled to bring The Magic Lantern back for this special screening, focusing on something we've been passionate about all along – championing women filmmakers. This showcase contains work by many of our all time favourite ladies of cinema. It's hard to say what unites the works without falling into the trap of attempting to categorise them, when what we like best about them is their refusal to be categorised. Reviewing the work, one thing that stands out is how fresh even the oldest pieces still feel. Margaret's Tait's approach to filmmaking is a textured hybrid, part essay, part visual poem, and this piece, made in 1952, feels way ahead of its time. A Portrait of Ga, a study of the artist’s mother, locates emotional tenderness through formal exploration. Tait's voiceover musings accompany her mother as the elderly lady moves – quite nimbly! – across the Orcadian landscape, smokes cigarettes, and carefully unwraps a sweetie. Through attention to tiny details, a picture emerges of great affection between the artist and her subject. Jane Campion's 1982 student short Peel toys with the notion that film school ‘teaches’ one how to be a filmmaker – a self proclaimed "exercise in discipline", the film goes so far as to provide a diagram explaining the connection between the three characters. You couldn't find a better micro-illustration of Campion's on-going obsession with shifting power dynamics than this early work. Her choice to cast and direct a real family in a staged scenario also feels strangely prescient. The Amateurist (1998) is an early Miranda July video piece that fuses her interest in performance and filmmaking. July's work across all disciplines has always been focused on exploring women and their emotional complexities in ways that incorporate humour and a darker, intensely personal sensibility. As in most of her work, she casts herself in this deeply unsettling foray into voyeurism and surveillance.

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Morag McKinnon's Home (1998) finds wicked comedy in the daily routine of a council worker whose home inspections begin to feel like scenes from a Scottish Twin Peaks. It ends on a bittersweet note however, and the film does its part to expose poverty and marginalisation, but manages to eschew kitchen sink realism or anything that feels remotely didactic. Anahita Ghazvinizadeh's Needle (2013) was the first US-made film by this Iranian artist and filmmaker who studied under Abbas Kiarostami, and who idolises Robert Bresson. Coming-of-age stories abound amongst festival shorts, but the rigorous attention to detail and precision of tone and colour palette (reminiscent of Bresson’s L’Argent) heighten this film to something altogether more special. The film was awarded the Cinefoundation prize at Cannes by a jury led by none other than Jane Campion, who praised it for being simultaneously subtle and modern. Ghanaian filmmaker Frances Bodomo’s 2014 film Afronauts addresses questions of race and gender by bringing to life an alternative history of 1960s space exploration, led by a seventeen-year-old girl from Zambia. Based on true events, this hypnotic, highly cinematic short explores the spaces between the real and the mythic. This piece and Bodomo’s previous short Boneshaker have established her as an urgent new voice, both lyrical and political in scope. These are our favourite kinds of short films – films which take risks, experiment with content and form, by filmmakers with strong, distinct voices who create fully realised, compelling worlds. We continue to be huge advocates for short film, as producers, programmers, writers and viewers. Seeing our baby turn double digits makes us immensely proud, and we wish huge congratulations to the festival team. Here’s to many more! Penelope Bartlett and Rosie Crerar

Friday 17 March (19.00) CCA Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 15+

AN EXERCISE IN DISCIPLINE: PEEL

THE AMATEURIST

NEEDLE

USA // 1998 // 14m

USA // 2013 // 21m

Australia // 1986 // 9m

A ‘professional’ woman monitors an ‘amateur’ woman (both played by July) via video surveillance, as she has for the last four and a half years. She has never had direct contact with the amateur, but creates a sense of communion through numbers, knobs and careful language.

Young Lilly is going to get her ears pierced. A quarrel between her parents overwhelms the situation and directs it differently.

After throwing his orange peel out of the car window, a boy is kicked out of the car by his father, and forced to pick up every piece. Director: Jane Campion Producer: Ulla Ryghe Screenplay: Jane Campion Cinematography: Sally Bongers Editing: Jane Campion Music: Ralph Tyrell Director's filmography (selected): Bright Star (2009), The Water Diary (2006), In the Cut (2003), Holy Smoke (1999), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), The Piano (1993), An Angel at My Table (1990), Sweetie (1989), A Girl’s Own Story (1986), After Hours (1984), Mishaps of Seduction and Conquest (1984), Passionless Moments (1983) Contact: bookings.films@bfi.org.uk

Director: Miranda July Cinematography: Vanessa Renwick Editing: Miranda July, Kelly McClean Sound: Tim Renner Director's filmography (selected): Somebody (2014), The Future (2011), Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), Getting Stronger Every Day (2001), Nest of Tens (2000)

Director: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh Producer: Zoe Sua Cho Screenplay: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh Cinematography: Yoni Goldstein Director's filmography: What Remains (2015–2016), The Baron in the Trees (2015), When The Kid Was a Kid (2011), Underground (2009), The Wind Blows Wherever it Goes (2008), Flakey (2008) Contact: anahita.g.z@gmail.com

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A PORTRAIT OF GA

AFRONAUTS

HOME

UK // 1952 // 5m

USA // 2014 // 14m

UK // 1998 // 11m

An early experiment in portraiture by Tait. In filming her mother she asks the wider question of how much the camera can reveal of the person.

An alternative history of the 1960s space race. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the night of the moon landing and as America prepares to launch Apollo 11, a group of Zambian exiles are trying to beat them to the moon.

A local council worker inspects three homes.

Director: Margaret Tait Director's filmography (selected): Garden Pieces (1998), Blue Black Permanent (1992), Place of Work (1976), Tailpiece (1976), Aerial (1974), Colour Poems (1974), The Big Sheep (1966), Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait (1964), Where I Am Is Here (1964) Contact: distribution@lux.org.uk

Director: Frances Bodomo Producer: Isabella Wing-Davey Screenplay: Frances Bodomo Cinematography: Joshua James Richards Editing: Sara Shaw Music: Brian McOmber Sound: Scott Hirsch Director's filmography: Collective: Unconscious (Everybody Dies!) (2016), Boneshaker (2013) Contact: afronautsfilm@gmail.com

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Director: Morag McKinnon Producer: Hannah Lewis Screenplay: Colin McLaren Cinematography: Kenneth Simpson Editing: Bert Eeles Director's filmography (selected): May (2015), The List (2014), I Am Breathing (2013), Donkeys (2010), Birthday (2000), Fantoosh (1996), 3 (1995), Hoppla! (1994), Diary of a Madman (1993), The End (1992) Contact: movingimage@nls.uk

A WALL IS A SCREEN

Saturday 18 March (20.00) Argyle Street rail station (meet outside Osborne Street entrance) // 1h30m // Free unticketed event

Both guided city tour and outdoor short film screening, Hamburg collective A Wall Is A Screen returns to Glasgow. This guerrilla mobile screening takes over neglected spaces, familiar buildings and commercial facades for ten minutes of lovingly curated short film before moving on to the next location – the ultimate pop-up cinema!

The archive of the Hamburg Short Film Agency – approximately 10,000 films, is at the team’s disposal, allowing each screening to be uniquely tailored to its surroundings.

Today many inner cities have undergone a significant shift in use: residential housing is declining, displaced by commercial space and businesses. During the daytime, the streets are filled with life, fuelled by business. After hours parts of the inner city become deserted or dangerous. A Wall Is A Screen takes advantage of the nightly downtime in the vitality of such areas. As a guided city tour the project brings residents to parts of their city they may have not been, or invites them to look on familiar walls with fresh eyes. As a film night, the project can have surprising effects. A film engages with its screening location. The location and passers-by seem to interact with the film, become part of it. Street noises seem to have an impact on the action of the plot.

When A Wall Is A Screen visited Glasgow in 2015, we smashed their record for attendees in a new host city, with six hundred folk taking to the streets – almost twice as many as the previous record-holder. Let’s see if this year we can beat their hometown record of 1,200 attendees! Please come dressed for March weather, and bear in mind there may be points where the route is inaccessible to wheelchair users. We will provide detour directions. Made possible by the generous support of Goethe-Institut Glasgow.

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AN EVENING WITH BUKOWSKI

Friday 17 March (21.00) Joytown Grand Electric Theatre // 3h // N/C 18+

YOU NEVER HAD IT: AN EVENING WITH BUKOWSKI USA, Mexico, Italy // 2016 // 51m

Based on a previously unseen video interview conducted by Italian journalist Silvia Bizio with Charles Bukowski at his home in San Pedro, California in 1981, You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski invites viewers to a long night of smoking cigarettes and drinking wine, discussing sex, love and humanity with the writer and friends. We present the UK premiere alongside live readings from Tam Dean Burn and poets Stephen Watt and Nisha Bhakoo, and live sets from Chrissy Barnacle and purveyors of ‘doom wop’, Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lockpickers. Tickets £12 (£10 concessions). Tickets available on the door from 22.40 for Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lockpickers (£5).

The title of the film takes its inspiration from the final line of Charles Bukowski's poem Those Sons of Bitches from the collection Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972). Hank, as he was known to his friends and family, lived with his then girlfriend Linda Lee Beighle in a comfortable house with a view over the San Pedro harbour. It was a bohemian kind of house, with comfortable armchairs and a large coffee table laden with ashtrays and bottles of wine. The shelves were filled with books, mainly Bukowski's own novels and collections of short stories and poetry, all the foreign language editions in which he was published around the world. Bukowski’s drawings were everywhere. There were a lot of cats, freely hanging and going in and out. In the course of that evening in January 1981, Hank opened up to Bizio, revealing aspects of himself such as the choice of celibacy that he and Linda had made, and passing comment on other writers (he generally hated them, and very few of them would pass his test: Celine, Dostoevsky, D.H. Lawrence, Camus, John Fante, that was about it). They talked about the racetrack, the vitamins Linda Lee forced him to take, about death and the book he was in the process of writing, Ham on Rye. It was, he said, the most difficult book to write, about his ugly, violent childhood, and his abusive father, a U.S. Army man sent to Germany after World War I, where Hank was born in 1920. Twenty years after Bukowski's passing Bizio found by chance the nine Umatic video cassettes containing that interview with Hank: hours and hours of talk almost forgotten amidst the shelves in the garage of her Los Angeles home. Her son Matteo Borgardt had the idea of making a documentary from the digitised footage. Much of it was damaged, scratched, incomprehensible; yet much was just grainy, worn by time, but usable. In editing the footage Borgardt wanted to let people create their own idea of who Bukowski was just by listening to him, to feel as if they were sitting on the couch besides Bukowski drinking and listening to his thoughts. Director: Matteo Borgardt Contact: mineko.mori@latampictures.com

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JAZZ IS OUR RELIGION

Saturday 18 March (20.45) GFT Cinema 2 followed by Joytown Grand Electric Theatre // 5h (screening 1h30m) // N/C 18+

JAZZ IS OUR RELIGION UK // 1972 // 50m The second of a series of films produced and directed by John Jeremy about different eras of American music. An emotional distillation of jazz and the jazz life expressed in pictures, music, voices and poetry, Jazz is our Religion employs a stylistically freewheeling approach in order to capture the distinctive chameleon character of jazz.

Drawing heavily on the photography of Val Wilmer and the poetry of Langston Hughes and Ted Joans, John Jeremy’s rarely seen Jazz is Our Religion (1972) has been described as one of the very few total jazz movies ever made. Featuring narration by Joans, Rashied Ali and Dizzy Gillespie and music by Charlie Parker, Lol Coxhill and many of the greats, Jeremy’s film brilliantly captures the essence of a musical form spanning several generations. (See Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz’s essay, pages 52–3.) The screening will be accompanied by Louis van Gasteren's short Jazz and Poetry (1964) and a reading by Jim Carruth, Glasgow's 2014 poet laureate. Immediately following this special 35mm screening there will be a live show and party at Joytown Grand Electric Theatre, featuring London-based five-piece Ezra Collective and DJ Donna Leake (NTS, brilliant corners, London). Tickets to film and party £12 (£10 concessions). Tickets for film only £8 (£6 concessions). Party–only tickets available on the door (£7) from 22.00.

Director: John Jeremy Photographs: Val Wilmer, David Wild Music: Johnny Griffin Sound: Doug Turner, Alan Florence Director's filmography (selected): Django Legacy (1991), Swing under the Swastika (1990), Ben Webster: The Brute and the Beautiful (1989), The History of Boogie Woogie (1988), The Real Cotton Club (1985), Prez – A New Jazz Opera (1985), Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day (1983), To the Count of Basie (1979), Born to Swing (1973), Blues Like Showers of Rain (1970) Contact: hajdukino@mail.com

JAZZ AND POETRY The Netherlands // 1964 // 14m The poet Ted Joans reads his poetry with jazz musicians Piet Kuiters, Ruud Jacobs, Cees See and Herman Schoonderwalt. Director: Louis van Gasteren Director's filmography (selected): Wassenaar’s Beacon (2014), There is no plane for Zagreb (2012), The Price of Survival (2003), In Japanese Rapids (2002), Why do pigeons home? (1994), A Matter of Level (1989), First Man On Sardinia (1985), Dead Pigeons Are Falling Around Me (1984), Hans, Life Before Death (1983), Open The Grave (1979), A Disturbed Dinner In A Russian Monastery (1978) The Sardonic Smile (1977), Nobody Knows (1973), Without Title (1972), Now Do You Get It Why I Am Crying? (1969), Because My Bike Stood There (1966), Out Of My Skull (1965), Crossing the Sahara (1953), Brown Gold (1952) Contact: info@vangasteren.org

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JAZZ IS OUR RELIGION – AN OVERLOOKED CLASSIC OF BRITISH DOCUMENTARY

It has been called America's greatest gift to the world. Jazz was a seismic musical movement invented in adverse conditions by black Americans just over a century ago. The genius of the form enabled jazz to take root in diverse cultures across the globe and become synonymous with freedom and direct-from-the-heart expression. Vitally, jazz was the first modern music to reconnect with the lost art of improvisation. As a result of its humane characteristics jazz has often appealed to filmmakers, not least documentarians whose task it is to lead audiences beyond surface appearances and towards real, underlying emotional truths. Jazz and the cinema are natural bedfellows – both emerged in the United States at the beginning of the 20th Century and (eventually) gained recognition as serious art forms. Film and jazz were combined by animators in the 1930s–40s, when the likes of Norman McLaren and Oskar Fischinger edited abstract colour films to fit with jazz 78s, subordinating the image completely to the music track. In the late 1940s Harry Smith projected hand-painted film strips on the walls of jazz clubs while Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and friends improvised along with them. In 1944 Gjon Mili explored atmospheric expressionism in his classic film Jammin' the Blues, yet in mainstream cinema jazz was largely kept servile, lending its joyous and uplifting energy to films whilst reaping scant reward itself. Often appearances in films by black bands were carefully designed to be in self-contained sequences. This made them easy to delete should exhibitors in the southern United States decree (David Meeker, Jazz in the Movies). As the tools of cinema production became more accessible and portable from the late 1950s, radical documentary film methods were applied to jazz subjects by independent filmmakers who were themselves jazz devotees (e.g. Momma Don't Allow, Karel Reisz/Tony Richardson, 1956; Jazz and Poetry, Louis van Gasteren, 1964; Mingus, Thomas Reichman, 1968). And from the UK at this time there came groundbreaking jazz documentaries by young filmmakers such as John Jeremy and Dick Fontaine. Jazz Is Our Religion, directed, edited and produced by John Jeremy (1940- ), premiered at the London Film Festival in 1972. David Meeker has described it as a 'total jazz film', so organically are the cinematic elements of sound and image integrated. 52

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Filmmaking might appear utterly incomparable with the immediate, intuitive art of music. The craft of celluloid film editing – a painstaking and mysterious process veiled in “alchemical secrecy”, as film editor Ralph Rosenblum put it – would seem above all to preclude comparisons with music, especially improvised jazz. Yet the two have much in common. Film editing requires a keen sense of timing and rhythm, imaginative problem-solving, an innate (in fact, acquired) sense of judgement about which image, sound or sequence the film 'requires' next, and the willingness to embrace aleatory effects as they occur. Just as the good jazz improviser does not step up and play 'anything', but constantly makes choices from virtually boundless material, so good film craft means not simply shooting 'anything' or cutting 'anywhere'; you must choose to shoot something and to cut somewhere. And in film, as in music, these myriad choices cumulatively amount to a style. John Jeremy had over a decade of professional film editing experience by 1972 under directors such as Otto Preminger, John Krish and Seth Holt. Jazz Is Our Religion has been called “the work of a craftsman who is aware of underlying subtleties, is involved with his material, and who is alive to its social implications.” (Ken Gay in Films and Filming, 1972) Jeremy's film largely consists of re-filmed still photographs, just like his debut the award-winning Blues Like Showers of Rain (1970). However in Jazz Is Our Religion the technique of editing the filmed stills is dynamically extended, propelling the picture into thrilling new territory. The work remains striking even today – especially today in this era of digital editing. Jeremy has stated that with this film he consciously set out to “kick the grammar of cinema around” and – always in service of the documentary aims of the work – deployed a full arsenal of techniques available to him. Although documentaries of comparable effervescence exist (e.g. the 1960s propaganda shorts by Cuban Santiago Alvarez) Jazz Is Our Religion remains a unique achievement – a virtuoso feat of film editing that retains full documentary credentials. “As far as we are concerned, that country [USA] has a very, very racist attitude towards us. This is a fact of life. We have known this since our birth, you know, we have grown up with this and lived with this. But the remarkable thing is that in the midst of this we have created a lovely and beautiful art form.” —Jon Hendricks (interview with John Jeremy, 1971)

These are the first words heard in Jazz Is Our Religion and the quote's calculated placement at the top of the film sets the context for all that follows. No serious assessment of jazz in 1972 could shy away from the racial politics. By the late 1960s the so-called 'New Music' (aka free jazz), a music of total improvisation, had become a kind of freedom cry for a generation of (in particular black) Americans who would no longer play the old, deferential game. In its brazen, pugnacious ecstasy free jazz threatened the establishment and became increasingly unwelcome in certain quarters. Leading practitioners like Cecil Taylor had their wrists broken by mobster thugs in New York. In 1970 saxophone visionary Albert Ayler's 34 year-old corpse was fished out of the East River, by which time Sunny Murray (whose drumming features in an electrifying sequence of Jazz Is Our Religion) had already abandoned 'the land of the free' for Europe. Murray was part of an exodus of black and white US musicians, some of whom settled in Paris, France where they experienced a relative lack of racial and musical victimisation. By the end of the '60s the French capital had replaced New York as the headquarters of the jazz avant-garde, and this was the scene that John Jeremy encountered on arrival in Paris in 1971 to conduct interviews with select musicians (including Sunny Murray) for use in Jazz Is Our Religion. The jazz stills so resourcefully employed in John Jeremy's film are the work of distinguished photographer Val Wilmer (1941- ) whose knowledge of and access to the African-American jazz world in the late 1960s/early 70s was unrivalled. WiImer's photographs give us something very different from the 'cigarette and silhouette' school of jazz photography familiar to all. As Val once said, “A good picture is something that tells me a story about the person” (John Fordham, Time Out, 1973). Taking the time to get to know the musicians, she was often invited to photograph them away from the stage and in the intimate setting of their home lives. As late as 1961 Eric Hobsbawm could claim that photography was the only art form which “has taken jazz seriously and on its own terms”(Francis Newton [Eric Hobsbawm], The Jazz Scene). Yet in many cases portrait photography has tended to perpetuate a mythology around jazz. Any facile stereotypes are debunked by the sequences in Jazz Is Our Religion featuring Val Wilmer's documentary images. John Jeremy selected photographs that would encourage

an understanding of jazz players as fully-rounded individuals subject to all the vagaries of everyday life. Perhaps we ought not to be surprised by the film sequences where musicians are seen to rehearse, keep a house, spend time with their family – and in daylight too! But who had recognised the value of photographing this side of the jazz life before Val Wilmer? Ted Joans (1928–2003), reading his own and Langston Hughes' poems, brings to Jazz Is Our Religion just the kind of hip, performative dynamic you'd expect. This comes not only via the poetry itself but from the timbre of Joans's wonderful voice and his soulful, musical delivery. Ted Joans was an important link in the continuum of black American spoken word artists. Along with his contemporary LeRoi Jones, he occupied the territory between Langston Hughes and late-sixties collective The Last Poets, who are often cited as originators of an early form of rap. However Joans's influence is unfortunately overlooked in many historical accounts. Tonight's audience can enjoy a 1964 Dutch jazz club performance by Ted Joans in the rarely seen short film Jazz and Poetry. In 1972 Jazz Is Our Religion played in select repertory cinemas and received some notable critical acclaim, but the film has since slipped off the radar. By the time Sight and Sound issued its 'Greatest Documentaries of All Time' in 2014, not one of the 327 critics who contributed to the vote so much as mentioned it. No doubt the absence of a DVD re-issue or theatrical re-release contributed to this omission: if a film cannot be seen its merits can hardly be assessed. So it is most welcome that, 45 years on, Jazz Is Our Religion should return to the cinema screen to play before a new generation of jazz and film lovers at Glasgow Short Film Festival. Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz

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DEBORAH STRATMAN: THE ILLINOIS PARABLES

Sunday 19 March (15.15) CCA Theatre // 1h45m

HACKED CIRCUIT USA // 2014 // 15m

Following the focus on her work at the 2016 Berwick Film and Media Arts festival, Chicago-based artist Deborah Stratman brings her latest work to Glasgow. The Illinois Parables is an hour-long experimental documentary, spanning over one thousand years of history in the Midwestern state, and considering the role of faith and belief in forming ideologies and American identity. Shot in glorious 16mm, the film captures the history of violence, resistance and exodus inscribed in an apparently unremarkable landscape. The Illinois Parables screens alongside Deborah’s previous work Hacked Circuit (2014), and will be followed by an extended conversation between Deborah and Glasgow-based artist Stina Wirfelt. Deborah Stratman is an artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Much of her work points to the relationships between physical environments and human struggles for power and control that play out on the land. Recent projects have addressed freedom, expansionism, surveillance, sonic warfare, public speech, ghosts, sinkholes, levitation, propagation, orthoptera, raptors, comets and faith. See also p110: SUPERLUX Deborah Stratman: Tactical Audio and a Passively Amplified Ramble

Multiple layers of fabrication and imposition are laid bare by this fluidly choreographed, single-shot embodiment of control. While portraying foley artists at work, typically invisible support mechanisms of filmmaking are exposed, as are governmental violations of individual privacy. The cinematic quotations within resonate forebodingly with recent NSA revelations, further evoking paranoia and a lack of certainty about what is visible. Director: Deborah Stratman Cinematography: Norbert Shieh Music: David Shire

THE ILLINOIS PARABLES USA // 2016 // 60m An experimental documentary comprised of regional vignettes about faith, force, technology and exodus. Eleven parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, violence, messianism and resistance, all occurring somewhere in the state of Illinois. The state is a convenient structural ruse, allowing its histories to become allegories that explore how we’re shaped by conviction and ideology. Director: Deborah Stratman Sound: Jacob Ross Director’s filmography (selected): Xenoi (2016), Second Sighted (2014), Immortal, Suspended (2013), Musical Insects (2013), The Name is not the Thing named (2012), ...These Blazeing Starrs! (2011), Kuyenda N’kubvina (2010), O'er The Land (2009), Kings Of The Sky (2004), Energy Country (2003), In Order Not To Be Here (2002), The BLVD (1999), From Hetty To Nancy (1997), On The Various Nature Of Things (1995) Contact: delta@pythagorasfilm.com

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GUNHILD ENGER: FILMMAKER IN FOCUS Filmmaking is an illness. I wish I didn’t have this condition, but I have to make these films – you can’t get away from yourself — Filmmaker-in-focus Gunhild Enger It could almost be the plot of a Gunhild Enger film. Having worked out how to record our Skype interview, I unthinkingly plugged in my headphones when she complained of hearing her voice echoing back at her. After a wide-ranging two hour conversation I wished her a happy trip to Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, signed off and sat back to review our chat… Possibly the least exciting silent feature ever. Luckily, however, I had taken copious notes. So confident in them was I that I didn’t refer to them for a fortnight before writing this. Not only are they largely illegible, but what can be read makes no sense. One sentence shines out in its clarity: “Failure to communicate is in us all.” Failed communication runs throughout Enger’s work, from her earliest Super 8 dig at foreign language courses, Flora & Mark, to her latest cross-border mini-epic, The Committee. In Gunhild’s films people surround themselves with gadgets, with bargains, with bureaucratic language, to avoid addressing their fear of genuine human connection. And paradoxically, showing the failed communications of everyday existence is Enger’s own bid for human connection. “I am, I feel,” she states. “And I want to show people how I see my life and the life around me.” After studying theatre in her native Norway, Gunhild developed an obsession with film. She felt strongly that she wanted to study abroad, and was drawn to the UK in part due to a passion for costume drama. At Edinburgh College of Art, learning the language and culture became as important to her film education as the course itself. Her outsider perspective gave her student work an edge and charm that won her a BAFTA nomination and a Royal Television Society Award.

single-shot films. In Gunhild’s hands the long static take allows for discomfort and awkwardness to be played out apparently unmediated. The constrained frame counters her natural desire to take control of her actors, whilst the characters and situations she creates generate humour and pathos concurrently. Gunhild’s approach to casting is key to the integrity of her work. She cannot work with high profile actors because she can only express something from her own perspective, and ‘my world view doesn’t include Keira Knightley’. She is not interested in the characters we aspire to be. Gunhild often chooses to work with non-actors because they only have one way of doing things, and so she allows their approach to determine how the narrative plays out. Nevertheless she pushes herself to try different ways of working, from the tightly scripted and brilliantly choreographed Premature to the free-wheeling, script-free Subtotal, which she dismisses as ‘not a proper story’. 2016’s The Committee, co-directed with Jenni Toivoniemi, encapsulates her fascinations both in terms of its narrative and in its making. The film is a Norwegian-Swedish-Finnish co-production about a Norwegian-Swedish-Finnish co-production – the commissioning of a public artwork at the meeting point between the three countries. Was the chaos on screen ever reflected in the production? “I don’t always know what I’m doing,” is all Gunhild will admit. This comprehensive retrospective of Gunhild’s work to date has been divided into two programmes. Programme 1: Earthly Delights is concerned with the absurdity of life under late capitalism, whilst Programme 2: Enlightenment presents the search for something better, the attempt to make a meaningful connection, and the ways in which such attempts are rebuffed. Gunhild will join us for an extended conversation after each programme. Matt Lloyd

Returning to Norway she felt an outsider in her own country, alienated from the local industry and filmic sensibility. She teamed up with fellow returned-exile Marius Ektvedt to make Passion, the first of several

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GUNHILD ENGER PROGRAMME 1: EARTHLY DELIGHTS

Thursday 16 March (19.00) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+

BARGAIN

BACK-TO-WORK

A SIMPLER LIFE

UK // 2005 // 9m

Norway // 2011 // 17m

ETT ENKLARE LIV

Two bargain hunters search for the ultimate money-saving deals.

Out of work and taking part in a mandatory inspirational seminar for job seekers held by the Norwegian unemployment office, Enger was given permission to film a lecture.

Sweden // 2013 // 15m

Director: Gunhild Enger

Director: Gunhild Enger Producer: Cecilia Torquato Screenplay: Gunhild Enger Cinematography: Linda Wassberg Editing: Vårin Andersen Sound: Claes Lundberg

Director: Gunhild Enger Producer: Laura Clarke Screenplay: Gunhild Enger Cinematography: Glenda Rome Editing: Gunhild Enger, Laura Clarke Music: Faisel Rahman, Mark Bray Sound: Christopher Muirhead Contact: hatt.frakk.film@gmail.com

Contact: hatt.frakk.film@gmail.com

A hot late summer’s day. A married couple surround themselves with gadgets designed to make their lives simpler, but all they really do is cause more problems.

Contact: theo.tsappos@filminstitutet.se

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Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway // 2016 // 4m

Norway // 2014 // 19m

In the autumn of 2015 Enger was sent on an EU-funded art expedition to a coal mining area in the Czech Republic. This film is her response to that trip. Director: Gunhild Enger Contact:Â hatt.frakk.film@gmail.com

What is the true cost of a bargain? The story of an untraditional encounter between a Swedish salesman and a Norwegian couple on their monthly bargain hunting trip across the border between Norway and Sweden. Director: Gunhild Enger Producer: Gudrun Austli Screenplay: Gunhild Enger Cinematography: Peter Ask Editing: VĂĽrin Andersen Sound: Baard Haugan Ingebretsen, Andreas Lindberg Svensson Contact: toril.simonsen@nfi.no

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GUNHILD ENGER PROGRAMME 2: ENLIGHTENMENT

Friday 17 March (19.00) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+

FLORA AND MARK

WAITING FOR HAPPINESS

PASSION

UK // 2005 // 10m

Norway // 2008 // 13m

An exploration of the psychological puberty we all tend to suffer from in our twenties. What do I want to do in life? Where do I want to be? And with whom?

A film about a middle-aged, married couple and their search for what used to be.

UK // 2003 // 1m A tribute to all of the English teachers and English lessons of the seventies and eighties. The script is based on a tape from an English course used in the director’s own school. Flora and Mark is in many ways a visualisation of such a tape and living proof of how funny and absurd language course tapes can be. Director: Gunhild Enger Contact: hatt.frakk.film@gmail.com

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Director: Gunhild Enger Producer: Laura Clarke Cinematography: Glenda Rome Editing: Gunhild Enger, Laura Clarke Sound: Marcelo de Oliveiro, Tim Matthew Contact: info@scottishdocinstitute.com

PASJON

Director: Marius Ektvedt, Gunhild Enger Screenplay: Marius Ektvedt, Gunhild Enger Cinematography: Jon Gaute Espevold Editing: Marius Ektvedt, Gunhild Enger Music: Gunnar Mathiason Sound: Erling Rein Contact: toril.simonsen@nfi.no

PREMATURE

INBOX

THE COMMITTEE

PREMATUR

Sweden // 2013 // 9m

KOMMITTÉN

Norway // 2012 // 17m

An adaptation of a group email correspondence. The group is talking about visiting Auschwitz, but this will never happen. How would a conversation like this look if it took place face to face?

Sweden, Finland, Norway // 2016 // 14m SCOTTISH PREMIERE

We follow Norwegian Martin and his pregnant Spanish girlfriend Lucia during their first fifteen minutes on Norwegian soil. Lucia has her first encounter with this new culture and her in-laws. A car trip full of social tensions, expectations and misunderstandings. Director: Gunhild Enger Producer: Gudrun Austli Screenplay: Gunhild Enger Cinematography: Marte Vold Editing: Vårin Andersen Sound: Rune Baggerud Contact: toril.simonsen@nfi.no

Director: Cecilia Torquato, Gunhild Enger Screenplay: Cecilia Torquato, Gunhild Enger Editing: Cecilia Torquato Contact: hatt.frakk.film@gmail.com

A Nordic collaboration is taking place. Three delegates from Sweden, Norway and Finland are gathered in Lapland to decide on an art piece, which is to be placed where the three borders meet geographically. Director: Gunhild Enger, Jenni Toivoniemi Producer: Marie Kjellsson Screenplay: Gunhild Enger, Jenni Toivoniemi Cinematography: Jarmo Kiuru, Annika Summerson Editing: Trude Lirhus, Vårin Andersen Sound: Tuomas Klaavo Contact: theo.tsappos@filminstitutet.se

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WE WERE STRANGERS ONCE, TOO: REFLECTIONS ON SOVEREIGNTY We’re taking our country back. It’s the sovereign will of the British people, ratified by our elected representatives in parliament. Anyone who objects does not respect the democratic process. This reductive view does not stand up to even a moment’s interrogation, and yet it’s the basis on which the United Kingdom is being led into a multi-layered constitutional crisis, unchecked by Her Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition. Amid a confusion of competing identities – English, Scottish, Irish, British, European – and in the gap between pride in European ideals and disenchantment with its institutions, a narrow and rigid notion of sovereignty has wedged itself. In attempting to understand this profound shift in the political landscape, not to mention similar shocks across the globe, Glasgow Short Film Festival has enlisted the help of Kosovan festival Dokufest and imagineNATIVE, the world’s leading indigenous film festival. Dokufest’s programme Power To The People (page 66) explores the newfound independence of a tiny country emerging from two decades of warfare and turmoil. imagineNATIVE reclaims the final words of Theresa May’s pre-referendum pro-European speech – Stand Tall And Lead (page 68) – to consider a notion of sovereignty which has little to do with nationhood, but is rather about reasserting one’s voice, culture and rights amongst a multiplicity of identities.

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CITIZENS OF NOWHERE GSFF’s own programme Citizens of Nowhere grapples with Scottish and English political identity in the wake of Indyref and Brexit. In the landmark MacCormick v. Lord Advocate (1953), Lord Cooper of Culross famously declared “the principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish Constitutional Law”. And yet in practice the opposite is currently the case. We see English MPs voting against their constituents’ interests for fear of upsetting one vocal sector of them. Meanwhile in Scotland we have apparently left our sovereignty in the hands of a powerless band of MPs, reduced to whistling Ode to Joy in the Commons Chamber. The films in this programme, although almost all made before September 2014, collectively chart Scotland and England’s divergent paths since that vote. From the optimism of Matt Hulse’s referendum morning address and the prescient vision of Rachel Maclean’s The Lion and the Unicorn, we turn to the England of William Raban’s Time and the Wave, which captures a country in stasis, despite the illusion of movement on the surface. Meanwhile Peter Greenaway’s prediction of the water running out in The European Showerbath provides an alibi for the impotent fury seen in John Smith’s Who Are We? The absurd conclusion of a national identity built on fears about immigration is played out in Kristina Cranfeld’s Manufactured Britishness, in which hopeful incomers roleplay tropes of British identity in an arid post-industrial landscape, watched over by jackbooted box-tickers. Finally we return to the Scottish borders in two works. In documenting the 700 year old ritual of the Common Ridings, Katie Davies’ The Lawes of the Marches portrays a strange hybrid cultural identity, performed on a border that has always been fluid and permeable. And in the month in which Article 50 will be invoked, Richard Ashrowan attempts an invocation of his own. Five Angels is in his words ‘a blunt instrument’. But perhaps a blunt instrument is exactly what’s required at this point. Matt Lloyd

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Thursday 16 March (21.00) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+

“WE LOOK TO SCOTLAND FOR ALL OUR IDEAS OF CIVILISATION”

THE LION AND THE UNICORN

TIME AND THE WAVE

UK // 2012 // 12m

UK, China // 2014 // 4m

Inhabiting the rich historical setting of Traquair House in the Scottish Borders, the Lion, the Unicorn and the Queen drink North-sea oil from Jacobite crystal, divide up the pieces of a Union Jack cake and incite conflict over the mispronunciation of Robert Burns.

The paradox of the present as a time that cannot be reflected upon until it has already become past, seems consistent with the idea of thinking about the passage of time as the movement within a wave, where the individual particles of water remain static despite an illusion of movement upon the surface. Might not the succession of events in daily life pertain to a similar form of illusory movement?

Matt Hulse’s video message to Scotland (from China) on the day of IndyRef 2014. With love. Director: Matt Hulse Director's filmography (selected): Is David Bowie Happy? (2016), Rason Rhythm (2014), Within The Firmament Of The Edible (2014), Together Apart (2014), Dummy Jim (2013), Summer 3 (2012), Elvis: The Lonely Hunter Of Circle Beach (2012), Follow The Master (2009), Harrachov (2006), Half Life (2004), Overheated: Undiminished Intensity Mix (2001), Hotel Central (2000), Wee Three (1998), Take Me Home (1997), Sine Die (1994) Contact: anormalboy@gmail.com

Director: Rachel Maclean, Matt Cameron Producer: Rachel Maclean Screenplay: Rachel Maclean Cinematography: Ian Forbes Editing: Rachel Maclean Director's filmography: Feed Me (2015), Eyes 2 Me (2015), The Weepers (2014), Please, Sir… (2014), A Whole New World (2014), Over The Rainbow (2013), Germs (2013), Lolcats (2012) Contact: mail@rachelmaclean.com

UK // 2013 // 15m

Director: William Raban Editing: Anna Jurkoweicka Sound: David Cunningham Director's filmography (selected): London Republic (2016), Available Light (2016), 72–82 (2014), The Houseless Shadow (2011), About Now MMX (2010), Continental Drift (2005), Civil Disobedience (2004), Island Race (1996), A13 (1994), Sundial (1992), Thames Film (1986), Thames Barrier (1977), Breath (1974), Colours Of This Time (1972), View (1970) Contact: distribution@lux.org.uk

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THE EUROPEAN SHOWERBATH

WHO ARE WE?

UK // 2004 // 6m

On the 23rd of June 2016 Britain voted to leave the European Union. John Smith responded by re-working material from a BBC television debate transmitted a few weeks earlier.

Fifteen European countries, with their national flags body-painted on their vulnerable naked flesh and their political economic history personified by older or younger, fatter or thinner corporeality, optimistically step one by one into the warm shower bath of the European Community. But the water supply is limited... Director: Peter Greenaway Producer: Kees Kasander Screenplay: Peter Greenaway Cinematography: Reinier van Brummelen Editing: Jaap Praamstra Music: Architorti Sound: Ab Grooters Director's filmography (selected): Walking to Paris (2017), Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015), Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012), Nightwatching (2007), The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Parts 1–3 (2003–4), 8 ½ Women (1999), The Pillow Book (1996), The Baby of Mâcon (1993), Prospero’s Books (1991), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Drowning by Numbers (1988), The Belly of an Architect (1987), A Zed & Two Noughts (1985), Making a Splash (1984), The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982) Contact: keeskasander@gmail.com

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UK // 2016 // 4m

Director: John Smith Director's filmography (selected): Steve Hates Fish (2015), Dark Light (2014), Dad’s Stick (2012), The Man Phoning Mum (2011), Unusual Red Cardigan (2011), Flag Mountain (2010), Hotel Diaries (2001–7), Worst Case Scenario (2001–3), Regression (1999), The Waste Land (1999), Blight (1996), The Black Tower (1985–7), Om (1986), Shepherd’s Delight (1980–4), The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), Leading Light (1975), Associations (1975) Contact: info@johnsmithfilms.com

MANUFACTURED BRITISHNESS UK // 2013 // 14m What is the future of citizenship in Britain and what new rules will be proposed for immigrants to become citizens? A project derived from the compulsory and very real Life in the UK test, which examines skills for integrating into British society. Director: Kristina Cranfeld Cinematography: Matthias Pilz Sound: Will Ward, Tatsuji Mikajiri Director's filmography: Milan (2016), Dailies to Dawn (2015), Duke’s Rise (2014), Requiem for Varna (2012), Detention Grounds (2012), The Future of Mechanical Turk (2012), Ownership of the Face (2011) Contact: kc@kristinacranfeld.co.uk

THE LAWES OF THE MARCHES

FIVE ANGELS

UK // 2014 // 17m

A Scottish perspective on Brexit, and a lament for alternate possibilities in governance. Featuring extracts from the angel conversations of the English magus John Dee from 1582, alongside some thinking about nails as a means to invoke angelic intervention.

A document of the ancient border tradition of the Common Ridings, a 700 year old ritual of communal horse riding, all along the border of England and Scotland. These ridings are as much about the current political/social border landscape as they are about marking the common ground and commemorating the past. Director: Katie Davies Sound: Wounded Buffalo Director's filmography: The Separation Line (2012), Commonwealth (2009), 38th Parallel (2008), Speaker (2007), Looking For Abraham (2005) Contact: katiecathrynanne@hotmail.com

UK // 2016 // 5m

Director: Richard Ashrowan Director's filmography: Of The Excellency of Wheate (2015), Speculum (2014), Catoptrica III (2013), Cubiculum Umbrae (2013), The Rainbow (2013), Twelve Frames Left (2012), Catoptrica I (2011), Diagram (2011), Mutus Floris (2011), Alchemist (2010), Reflections, Inversions, Symmetries (2010), Lament (2009), Green Man (2008), Fingalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cave (2008), Evanescence (2007), A Landscape Symphony in 22 Movements (2006), Windmills of Innerleithen (2005) Contact: richard@alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk

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POWER TO THE PEOPLE On 17 February 2008, the Kosovo Assembly voted to declare independence from Serbia. Within days more than a dozen countries had recognized the country’s independence, including the USA, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey and Australia. In less than a year, more than sixty countries around the world had already recognized Kosovo, including twenty-two of the twenty-seven members of the European Union, and today that number stands at 114. While efforts to obtain more recognition are still high on Kosovo’s foreign policy agenda, the normalization of relations with Serbia, which still refuses to recognize Kosovo’s independence, remains one of the main challenges for the future of this troubled part of the Balkans. A serious attempt – known as the Brussels dialogue – began in 2011 under the European Union’s facilitation, with the final aim of creating better living conditions for citizens of both Kosovo and Serbia and contributing to the reconciliation process in the long term. It is no surprise that filmmakers both from Kosovo and abroad have become interested in exploring this new situation. It seems to bode well for Kosovo in Baris Karamuco’s sweet Whose Flag Is It? despite mixed responses to the design of the young country’s new flag. Kids love it, learn to draw it, grown ups throw around reasons for and against it, and everybody seems to be genuinely involved in a debate on national identity and statehood building. But Kosovo’s future, somehow naively believed by many to be in the hands of its people, takes a strange and more bureaucratic turn in Karen Stokkendal’s The Agreement. This darkly humorous political documentary features a British bicycle-riding gentleman with a large tie collection named Robert Cooper as European Union negotiator, a former rock musician turned politician Borko Stefanović as Serbian envoy and hairdresser loving and proudly Harvard-educated Edita Tahiri as his Kosovo counterpart.

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We meet them in the hallways and unglamorous meeting rooms of Brussels as they fight over a word or line in the draft border rule agreement between Serbia and Kosovo, see them using tactics such as leaving the room and even the country, or shutting off their phones in order to gain advantage over one another and delay decisions. We witness the calm and diplomatic moves of an experienced negotiator in trying to bring back to the table these two strange and often funny looking government representatives. In his hand he holds a carrot in the form of an invitation to join the EU at the end of the negotiations, a reward seemingly too precious for either party to let slip. But what happens to the ordinary people when personal animosities and political games back home swiftly destroy what was agreed at the negotiating table? While Serbia’s path to the EU has been confirmed, Kosovo remains the only European country with no EU visa liberalization, making it effectively one big ghetto inside Europe. No one likes to live in the ghetto, of course, and people will do whatever it takes to get out. Enter Note on Multitude, a frightening and disturbing look at a crowded bus terminal in a cold winter night in Prishtina, capital of Kosovo, made by Bosnian artist and filmmaker Ibro Hasanović. Tears roll as young people bid farewell to each other, scenes of panic occur as many, including children, try to board buses. The viewer is kept in the dark as to where all these people are heading until the credits roll and we learn of the exodus of nearly 50 000 people from Kosovo to Europe in just a few months. From a near-euphoria in trying to create a new national identity and get closer to Europe, through difficulties and obstacles in dealing with statebuilding, to the harsh reality of leaving literally the last ghetto of Europe, this small programme tries to pay homage to the unstoppable desire of ordinary people for a better life. Veton Nurkollari

Saturday 18 March (19.00) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+

WHOSE FLAG IS IT?

THE AGREEMENT

NOTE ON MULTITUDE

Kosovo // 2012 // 14m

Denmark // 2013 // 58m

Freezing Kosovars give wildly differing opinions about their country’s controversial new blue, white and gold national flag.

‘History is always made in the middle of the night. And when it happens, you are so damned tired, that you couldn’t care less,’ says Robert Cooper, an EU peace negotiator whose job it is to get Serbia and Kosovo to reach an agreement to build peaceful relations. National pride and compromise are on everyone’s lips. How far is each party willing to go?

Bosnia and Herzegovina // 2015 // 8m

Director: Baris Karamuco Cinematography: Barış Karamuço, Bayram Hamolar Editing: Barış Karamuço, İris Elezi Sound: Fatih Kovaç, Hakan Karamuço Director's filmography: Balkan Xpress (2012) Contact: bariskaramuco@gmail.com

Director: Karen Stokkendal Poulsen Producer: Vibeke Vogel Cinematography: Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, Lars Skree Editing: Anders Villadsen Sound: Esa Nissi Director's filmography: First film Contact: vibeke@bullittfilm.dk

A farewell that moves from the emotional to the violent, ending in exhaustion. Men, women and children kiss goodbye and try to board the buses that will take them towards an uncertain future as migrants. Director: Ibro Hasanović Cinematography: Ibro Hasanović Editing: Mathieu Jouffre, Ibro Hasanović Sound: Nicolas Verhaeghe Director's filmography: On Belonging (2016), Study For An Applause (2013), 30.Nov’93 – Pieter Bruegel in the letters of my father (2013), Spectre (2012), Piccolo Greenland (2012), A Short Story (2011), the name of the film is... (2008), Attempt of being... (2006) Contact: gandygallery@hotmail.com

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STAND TALL AND LEAD This year Canada celebrates its sesquicentennial; 150 years of a nation state that supplanted pre-existing Indigenous nations, each as distinct as any contemporary country. In many ways, one can think of pre-colonial North America as the European Union: numerous nations with trading partnerships, close alliances and occasional conflicts, whose membership was based on citizenship and not solely on ethnicity. Given that impacts of colonisation on Indigenous people in Canada are still apparent today – the country remains a colonised landmass – the commemoration of its 150 years can be rather complex. When we speak of Indigenous people in Canada we refer largely to three groups: the First Nations, Inuit and Métis, within each is a diversity of languages and cultures. What binds them is a shared history of colonisation and a shared future predicated on a present where Indigenous rights, aspirations and sovereignty have taken centre stage in Canada’s political, social, cultural and artistic realms. This century has also witnessed the unprecedented rise of Indigenous-made cinema (largely shorts), of which Canada is at the fore. After a century of screen production whereby the representation of Indigenous peoples was told mostly by non-Indigenous people and which gave rise to the ‘Hollywood Indian’ and other misperceptions, Indigenous artists have a created a movement as screen-based storytellers. Often these works are activist in spirit, sharing perspectives that have often been and continue to be overlooked, actively silenced, or marginalised. In this way, Indigenous Cinema has been a counter-cinema to the larger industry, with production and distribution often taking place apart from a mainstream that tends to confine these stories to the ‘furs and feathers’ genre and that rarely gives space for diverse artistic expression. Thankfully things are changing due to years of protest and advocacy. The rise of this work fuels a decolonisation of the screen and is itself a potent act of sovereignty as our artists collectively create a body of work that challenges the notion that Indigenous Cinema is a genre. This diverse collection – all created by First Nations, Inuit and Métis filmmakers from Canada – reflects on Indigenous sovereignty with a focus on the body, land, and spirit. La Tonsure contemplates the impact

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of deliberate colonisation of Indigenous lives and bodies with the forced cutting of children’s hair in residential schools as a metaphor for the attack on Indigenous sovereignty. Connections to land – and a difference in the understanding of one’s relationship and responsibilities to it – are explored in the documentary Blocus 138 and in Bloodland, which takes a theatrical stance against the Alberta Tar Sands. SNARE and this river explore the tragedy of Canada’s ‘stolen sisters’, the over 1,000 missing and presumed murdered Indigenous women, that has only just been given a national inquiry after more than a decade of calls. These films remind us that for true sovereignty to exist, there must be equality and respect for all genders. With Repercussions, the tone is set for change and the rising of new Indigenous voices, while Sirmilik examines changes of a different kind in Nunavut that suggest a new kind of relationship to the land. While ‘Canada’ and numerous other place names in the country are derived from Indigenous languages, their meanings are largely unknown. Niagara and The Renaming of PKOLS take a deeper look into the power of a name and how this relates to sovereignty. A sense of place and a belonging is central in Mia’. It tells the story of a woman transformed into a salmon and is a powerful statement of one’s connection to one’s territory. This is echoed in the final work, Wapawekka, which is emblematic of the rise in Indigenous youth’s connection to their cultures and all that entails. Indigenous youth are returning to their cultures and languages in ways not seen for decades and many are taking to screen-based storytelling to express themselves and their realities. Indigenous filmmakers then have become an integral force in the rise and re-assertion of Indigenous sovereignty in Canada. One of the great past Indigenous figures, Louis Riel, a Métis leader who was long vilified in Canada’s colonial history, said it best a few months before he was hanged in 1885: ‘My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.’ They are ones who will stand tall and lead. Jason Ryle

Sunday 19 March (17.45) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+

LA TONSURE Canada // 2009 // 4m A seemingly simple gesture on a stormy day becomes an ominous link to a painful history. Director: Marie-Pier Ottawa Cinematography: Sacha Dubé, Marie-Pier Ottawa Editing: Alexis Fortier-Gauthier Sound: Alexis Fortier-Gauthier Director's filmography: Zekchi (2015), Message (2015), Pearl (2014), Red Rockerz – This Ain’t The Ending (2013), Micta (2012), The small pleasures (Les petits bonheurs) (2009), She and I (Elle et moi) (2008) Contact: agent.distribution@wapikoni.ca

BLOCUS 138 – INNU RESISTANCE

BLOODLAND

Canada // 2012 // 7m

Blending theatre with film, a gruesome and immutable image of the detrimental impact of oil extraction on Mother Earth is laid bare.

This documentary shows the events of March 9th, 2012, during the road block of the 138, and describes, with exactitude, the action and emotion of the moment. Director: Réal Junior Leblanc Cinematography: Réal Junior Leblanc, Serge Bordeleau Editing: Serge Bordeleau Director's filmography: Earthquake (Nanameshkueu) (2013), Uprooted Generation (2013), Crown of Life (2012) Contact: agent.distribution@wapikoni.ca

Canada // 2011 // 4m

Director: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Screenplay: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Cinematography: Jonathan Antoine Editing: Jonathan Antoine, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Director's filmography: Detention (2017), Bihttoš (2014), Hurry Up, You Stupid Cripple (2013), Colonial Gaze Sámi Artists’ Collective (2012), A Red Girl’s Reasoning (2012) Contact: maija.tailfeathers@gmail.com

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SNARE

THIS RIVER

REPERCUSSIONS

Canada // 2013 // 3m

Canada // 2016 // 16m

Canada // 2013 // 4m

Evocative and haunting, this performance-based piece captures the brutality of violence against Indigenous women, yet celebrates hope for a future illuminated through advocacy and understanding.

Muddy and long, Winnipeg’s Red River holds dark secrets. When the body of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine was pulled from the waters wrapped in a rubbish bag in 2014, a group of volunteers established Drag the Red, a grassroots initiative to trawl the river in search of evidence of other missing Indigenous women.

The heartbeat of a city resonates through concrete, as past gives way to future in this short examining the sometimes fraught relationship Indigenous people have with the police.

Director: Lisa Jackson Director's filmography: 1491: The Untold Story of the Americas Before Columbus (2016), Intemperance (2014), How A People Live (2013), Hidden Legacies (2013), Dynamic Range (2013), Parkdale (2011), Pow. Wow.Wow (2011), Our First Voices (2010), Savage (2009), Pushing The Line: Art Without Reservations (2009), The Visit (2009), Reservations Soldiers (2007), Suckerfish (2004) Contact: wandav@vtape.org

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Director: Erika MacPherson, Katherena Vermette Producer: Alicia Smith Screenplay: Erika MacPherson, Katherena Vermette Cinematography: Iris Ng Editing: Erika MacPherson Sound: Anita Lubosch Director's filmography: May We Grow (2013) Contact: E.Seguin@nfb.ca

Director: Terril Calder Music: A Tribe Called Red Director's filmography: The Charlie Project (2016), Snip (2015), The “Lodge” (2014), Traveling Medicine Show 3 Transformation (2014), Vessel (2013), The “Gift” (2011), Choke (2011), Canned Meat (2009) Contact: wandav@vtape.org

SIRMILIK

NIAGARA

Canada // 2011 // 10m

Canada // 2015 // 5m

Commissioned as part of the National Parks Project, director Zacharias Kunuk was one of fifty-two contemporary artists to cinematically explore the beauty of Canada’s protected parks in celebration of Parks Canada’s centennial year. Extraordinary photography and an exquisite musical score punctuate this breathtaking journey through the rugged Arctic landscape.

A simple story of love and loss set to the background of Niagara Falls (Ongniaahra in Mohawk) becomes a gently layered work that resonates into this deeply profound story.

Director: Zacharias Kunuk Producer: Geoff Morrison Cinematography: Steve Cosens Editing: Andres Landau Music: Tanya Tagaq, Dean Stone, Andrew Whiteman Sound: Daniel Pellerin, Christopher Guglick

Director: Shelley Niro Director's filmography: Robert’s Paintings (2011), Kissed By Lightning (2009), Hunger (2008), Tree (2007), Rechargin (2007), Suite: INDIAN (2005), The Shirt (2003), Honey Moccasin (1998) Contact: wandav@vtape.org

THE RENAMING OF PKOLS Canada // 2015 // 4m WSÁNE First Nations take a revolutionary step to reclaim and re-name PKOLS, a sacred mountain in their traditional territory formerly known as Mt. Douglas. Director: Steven Davies Director's filmography: Written In My Blood (2016), Back to Gabriola (2015), Discovery Island (2012) Contact: dsteven@hotmail.com

Director's filmography: Searchers (2016), Home (2011), The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006), Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001) Contact: geoffmorrison1@gmail.com

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MIA’

WAPAWEKKA

Canada // 2015 // 8m

Canada // 2010 // 16m

An Indigenous street artist named Mia’ paints supernatural scenes that come to life. She then undergoes her own transformation into a salmon trying to make it back home.

Hip-hop loving Josh is dragged to his family’s remote cabin for one last visit by his traditional Cree dad.

Director: Amanda Strong, Bracken Hanuse Corlett Producer: Amanda Strong, Luke Sargent, Bracken Hanuse Corlett Screenplay: Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Amanda Strong Editing: Luke Sargent Music: Troy Slocum, Menalon Sound: Mitchell Wrathgeb Animation: Edward Westerhuis, Amanda Strong, Jay White, Ron McDougall Director's filmography: Four Faces of the Moon (2016), Indigo (2014) Haida Raid 3, Save Our Waters (2014), Honey For Sale (2009), Alice Eaton (2008) Contact: amanda@amandastrong.com

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Director: Danis Goulet Producer: Danis Goulet, Christine Kleckner Screenplay: Danis Goulet Cinematography: Daniel Grant Editing: Lawrence Jackman Director's filmography: Wakening (2013), Barefoot (2012), Divided by Zero (2006), Spin (2004) Contact: wandav@vtape.org

WHEN I SAY VAGINA… The idea for this programme (shout out to Rosa Downing and Ailie Crerar) came only a few days after Trump’s horrendous “grab ‘em by the pussy” recording surfaced, so it seemed pretty apt to do something positive and fun with pussies instead (take that any way you want). At the time, many of us were still in the blissfully ignorant state of ‘he won’t make it anyway’. But then he did, and a blatant misogynist became US President. Meanwhile the abortion debate in France flared up and thousands of pro-life protesters took to the streets in their annual stand against a women’s right which has been part of French law for over forty years. And the UK decided to entirely censor selective ‘non-conventional’ pornography, which oddly includes menstruation and female ejaculation. Male spunk and the many locations in which it ends up is, of course, still alright. And and and… It’s been an interesting few months for women’s rights and oppression, and we’ve not yet mentioned the on-going discriminatory practices and sexual repression all over the globe. The recent Women’s Marches were therefore incredible in their turnout and solidarity –a movement that will hopefully keep expanding, improving, and resisting. So this programme had to be about more than just cute talking vaginas - although we do have those, in Anna Ginsberg’s cheeky animation Private Parts, Lori Malépart-Traversy’s animated doc Le Clitoris, and the Mayer/Leyva music video Glazin’ (live action lip-syncing ones!). But we also touch upon the continuing practice of female genital mutilation around the world, in the moving I Was Five When I Became A Woman, and the obscured history of virginity tests on Asian immigrant women arriving in the UK in the 1970s, in Borders. Pussy is a surreal, funny animation about a girl and her vagina’s newfound freedom, while in Orchid Head a few young women discuss their sexual difficulties and insecurities, and question why it’s such a taboo to talk about conditions like vaginismus. In Pussy Have The Power, the least vagina-explicit film of the bunch, a girl band needs to balance the integrity of what they stand for against collaborating with an established male producer. We’ve also included a film by known feminist pornographer Ms Naughty, Kaleidogasm 3, which manipulates and distorts erotic images to curious effect.

Thursday 16 March (21.00) Joytown Grand Electric Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 18+

PRIVATE PARTS UK // 2015 // 4m Talking genitals discuss masturbation, sexuality and vaginas in this intimate documentary. A range of people share their insecurities and desires and each voice is visualised by a different animator. A collaboration of self-expression. Director: Anna Ginsburg Producer: Anna Ginsburg Animation: Anna Ginsburg, George Wheeler, Loup Blaster, Mark Prendergast, Moth Collective, Peter Millard, Will Anderson Contact: hello@annaginsburg.co.uk

The only film solely by a male director in the line-up is A Brief History of Princess X, a look at the story behind one of Constantin Brâncuși’s works, based on Marie Bonaparte, famous for her ideas on female sexuality. There might be a golden phallus in there. I apologise. Respect the pussy. Sanne Jehoul

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WHEN I SAY VAGINA… (continued)

PUSSY

ORCHID HEAD

CIPKA

CABEZA DE ORQUÍDEA

I WAS FIVE WHEN I BECAME A WOMAN

Poland // 2016 // 8m

Spain // 2016 // 21m

‫مدش نز هک دوب ملاس جنپ‬

A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo pleasure session, but not everything goes according to plan.

Angelica has a sexual problem. She is physically and psychologically blocked. Through a video diary shared with two other women, she will sift through her memories in an attempt to understand what is happening to her body.

UK // 2014 // 5m

Director: Claudia Zegarra P., Angélica Sánchez Martínez, Carlotta Napolitano, Germán Andrés López, Violeta Blasco Caño

Director's filmography: An Absent Wound (2016), Fragments of a Letter to a Child Unborn (2015), Poem and Stone (2015), Taklif (2014)

Director's filmography (Violeta Blasco Caño:) Asghar (2014), Sacristán (2015)

Contact: maryam@tafakory.com

Director: Renata Gąsiorowska Producer: Marcin Malatynski Animation: Renata Gąsiorowska Director's filmography: With your eyes closed (2014), Unusual Night (2013), Birthday (2013), Luke and Lotta (2012), Traps (2011) Contact: marta.swiatek@kff.com.pl

Contact: violettabc@gmail.com

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An emotional tapestry that invites you to briefly share the life long torment of genital mutilation still forced upon many young girls around the world. Director: Maryam Tafakory

BORDERS UK // 2015 // 5m Why would a woman need a physical examination to enter the country? A personal and intimate insight into the hushed-up ‘virginity tests’ that women migrants were subjected to in the 1970s. Director: Elizabeth Mizon Producer: Elizabeth Mizon Screenplay: Shagufta K Iqbal Cinematography: Jason Baker Director's filmography: A Well Informed Optimist (2012), Chords (2012) Contact: ekmizon@gmail.com

A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRINCESS X

THE CLITORIS

Portugal, France, UK // 2016 // 7m

Canada // 2016 // 3m

Commissioned to create a bust of Napoleon’s great-grand-niece Marie Bonaparte, the sculptor Brâncusi instead delivered a bronze phallus. Thus begins a lively historical tour covering the early days of modernism, the emergence of psychoanalysis, and the nascent study of female sexuality. Director: Gabriel Abrantes Producer: Justin Taurand, Gabriel Abrantes Cinematography: Jorge Quintela Editing: Margarida Lucas

LE CLITORIS

Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively to pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, discover its unrecognised anatomy and its unknown history. Director: Lori Malépart-Traversy Director's filmography: Sparky Ketchup (2015), Extra Mushrooms (2015), The Red Mountain (2014) Contact: lorimalepart@gmail.com

Director's filmography (selected): The Hunchback (with Ben Rivers) (2016), Freud Und Friends (2015), Taprobana (2013), Ennui Ennui (2013), Ornithes – Birds (Ὄρνιθες) (2012), Baby Back Costa Rica (2011), Too Many Daddies, Mommies and Babies (2009), Arabic Hare (2008), Obama For President (2008), Olympia I & II (2006), Dear God Please Save Me (2006), Anarchist King (2006), The Razor Thin Definition of Punk (2006) Contact: contact@lesfilmsdubelier.fr Image: Courtesy of Gabriel Abrantes and LUX, London.

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WHEN I SAY VAGINA… (continued)

PUSSY HAVE THE POWER

KALEIDOGASM 3

GLAZIN’

Australia // 2013 // 3m

USA // 2011 // 4m

Sweden // 2014 // 15m

Step right up folks! Don’t be shy! Put the coins in the slot of this fabulous contraption and be prepared for a stunning visual extravaganza. Thrill! as the Kaleidogasm creates astonishing images of flesh! Gasp! at the surreal eroticism of it all! Groan! at the mysterious feeling in your pants!

“Youtube!!! we are 6 girls (and one tiny dog) who looooove the Jacuzzi Boys!!!!! (don’t wory 18+, don’t be gross) We made a fan vid a few nites ago we all got together at Karen’s new apt. Anyways, don’t be pervy, it’s just fun! vaginas are so sci-fi, right?”

Four girls are improvising in a recording studio. When an established music producer walks in, they risk betraying their own message for something that could lead to success. Director: Lovisa Sirén Producer: Lovisa Sirén, Peter Modestij Screenplay: Lovisa Sirén, Peter Modestij Cinematography: Lisabi Fridell Editing: Lovisa Sirén Music: The Wet Catch Sound: Erik Johansson Director's filmography: Baby (2016), Audition (2015) Contact: theo.tsappos@filminstitutet.se

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Director: Ms Naughty Producer: Ms Naughty

Director: Lucas Leyva, Jillian Mayer

Director's filmography (selected): See Me (2016), Since You Asked So Nicely (2016), Scarlet Woman (2016), Self/ies (2015), Perversion for (Feminist Fun and) Profit (2015), Hand Jobs (2015), Instructed (2014), Dear Jiz (2014)

Director's filmography (selected): Kaiju Bunraku (2017), Cool As Ice 2 (2015), #Postmodem (2013), The Coral Reef Are Dreaming Again (2013), Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse! (2012), Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke (2011), I Am Your Grandma (2011), Reinaldo Arenas (2011)

Contact: msnaughty@msnaughty.com

Contact: jillianmayer@gmail.com

ROUND MIDNIGHT

RUBBER GUILLOTINE UK // 2016 // 1m An angsty 17 year old girl sucker punches her parents’ hopes for her future by aspiring to donate her skeleton to gelatine. Director: Bryan M. Ferguson Producer: Bryan M. Ferguson Music: Halfrican Director's filmography: Flamingo (2016), Caustic Gulp (2016), Odd Posture (2015), The Misbehaviour of Polly Paper Cut (2013), Womb (2013), Vore (2012), Sockets (2011), Jar (2010) Contact: decaying.shapes@gmail.com

Friday 17 March (23.30) CCA Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 18+

OH WHAT A WONDERFUL FEELING Canada // 2016 // 15m SCOTTISH PREMIERE Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires. Nor any truck. Director: François Jaros Producer: François Jaros, Fanny-Laure Malo Screenplay: François Jaros Cinematography: Olivier Gossot Editing: François Jaros Sound: Jean-François Sauvé Director's filmography: Maurice (2015), Life’s a Bitch (2014), Daytona (2012)

HAVE HEART UK // 2017 // 12m WORLD PREMIERE A looping GIF has an existential crisis. Director: Will Anderson Music: Atzi Sound: Keith Duncan Director's filmography: The Infinity Project (2015), Monkey Love Experiments (2014), Sweetie & Sunshine (2012), The Making of Longbird (2011) Contact: willanderson.anim@gmail.com

Contact: fanny@laboiteafanny.com

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ROUND MIDNIGHT (continued)

FUCKING BUNNIES

KILLER RECIPE

SAATANAN KANIT

USA // 2016 // 4m SCOTTISH PREMIERE

Finland // 2017 // 16m UK PREMIERE Raimo is a middle-aged man living his cosy middle class life with his wife in the suburbs of Helsinki. His bubble is burst when a Satan-worshipping sex cult moves in next door. The cult leader Maki is always on the lookout for new friends and volunteers to be his squash partner. Director: Teemu Niukkanen Producer: Kaisla Viitala, Daniel Kuitunen, Tero Tamminen Screenplay: Teemu Niukkanen, Antti Toivonen Cinematography: Matti Eerikäinen Editing: Antti Reikko Sound: Tuomas Seppänen, Marko Ventola Director's filmography: First film Contact: daniel@komeettafilmi.fi

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An avocado inadvertently invents tortilla chips that want to eat him. His tomato friend helps him destroy the menace and he learns to appreciate nature. But wait… Director: Chadwick Whitehead Producer: YuLing Koh Hsu Screenplay: Chadwick Whitehead Music: Chadwick Whitehead Sound: Mike Jansson Director's filmography: Fallt (2013), Knock Knock (2013), Santasaur (2011), Revenge of the Giant Toothpaste Tube (2010), Musicating with Tiger Zeus (2008), Second Opinion (2007), 14th Dimension ER (2007) Contact: chadwickw@gmail.com

THE WRONG END OF THE STICK UK // 2016 // 10m Malcolm Fetcher is a neurotic, middle-aged teacher lost in a dull marriage with his wife of twenty years, Beverly. As he faces an all-consuming identity crisis, their marriage disintegrates and he is forced to express a deep, hidden desire... Director: Terri Matthews Producer: Sam Bank Screenplay: Chris Cornwell Cinematography: Krzysztof Trojnar Editing: Dennis Mabry Music: Marina Elderton Sound: Max Davey Animation: Adam M. Watts, Bram Donders, Tom Lucas, Reg Isaac Director's filmography: The Crimson Wave (2009) Contact: terrimatthews@outlook.com

425 CALORIES

THE PLUMBER

UK // 2016 // 6m WORLD PREMIERE

LE PLOMBIER

On a wet Glasgow day, Bobby decides to lose a few pounds. He has a plan. He has Ryvita. But no one ever said getting into shape was easy. Director: Gregor Barclay Producer: Dave Gillies Screenplay: Gregor Barclay Cinematography: Adrian Rybarczyk Director's filmography: Bells (2015) Contact: edaveg@gmail.com

Belgium // 2016 // 14m UK PREMIERE Tom, a Flemish cartoon voiceover artist, finds himself in the studio of a French language pornographic film. Catherine, an experienced actress, will be his partner. Tom will play the plumber. Director: Xavier Seron, Méryl Fortunat-Rossi Producer: Anthony Rey Screenplay: Xavier Seron, Méryl Fortunat-Rossi Cinematography: Mathieu Cauville Editing: Julie Naas Music: Thomas Barrière Director's filmography: Death by Death (2016), The Black Bear (2015), Dreamcatchers (2014), 3 vueltas (2013), Apariciòn (2012), Mauvaise lune (2011), E411 (2007), Le crabe (2007), Rien d’insoluble (2005) Contact: production@helicotronc.com

METUBE 2: AUGUST SINGS CARMINA BURANA Austria // 2016 // 5m After Elfie and her nerdy son August successfully proved themselves on their home webcam in MeTube 1, the odd pair venture onto the street to present the biggest, boldest, and sexiest operatic flash mob the internet has ever witnessed! Director: Daniel Moshel Producer: Daniel Moshel, August Schram Screenplay: Daniel Moshel Cinematography: Arturo Delano Smith Editing: Christin Gottscheber Music: Carl Orff, Bernhard Drax, Philip Preuss Director's filmography: MeTube: August Sings Carmen ‘Habanera’ (2013), Login 2 Life (2011), Der Doppelgänger (2009), komA (2001) Contact: markus@augohr.de

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BLUEPRINT: SCOTTISH INDEPENDENT SHORTS

THE MAN WHO KEPT HEARING HIS NAME GETTING CALLED OUT

REINDEER CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS

BRUAR

UK // 2013 // 1m

UK // 2013 // 7m

GFC founding member Ryan Pasi demonstrates realist cinema is where we find it. This micro short verité documentary captures the incongruity of a reindeer driving a public bus in Glasgow.

An inanimate doorstop named Bruar is fed up with the lack of manners in today’s society and decides that it’s time to act by confronting an unsuspecting victim, Dave, to teach him a lesson in etiquette.

Director: Ryan Pasi Producer: Ryan Pasi

Director: Graeme Cassels Music: Kristofer Muir

Director's filmography: Good Souls (2014), Should I Still Love You (2014), Moonwalker (2014)

Director's filmography: First film

How would you feel if you heard your name being called everywhere you went? Would you question your sanity or consider it a complex practical joke? The debut Glasgow Film Crew production is a mockumentary that explores this phenomenon with perfect cinematic poise and comedy perfection. Director: Ian Hendry Producer: Ryan Pasi Screenplay: Paddy Kondraki Cinematography: Craig Burrows Director's filmography: Butterfly (2016), Blizzard (2016), Carcosa (2015), The Last Equinox (2015), Duality 3 (2015), Tanner Park (2014), Rainbow Cups (2013) Contact: ryan.pasi@gmail.com

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Contact: ryan.pasi@gmail.com

UK // 2015 // 2m

Contact: graeme.cassels@googlemail.com

Thursday 16 March (21.15) CCA Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 15+

THE LAST EQUINOX UK // 2016 // 23m WORLD PREMIERE Parallel stories of equal importance, spanning history, mythology and geography, converge in this occult fantasy drama. The powers of Artairhan forest are waning and a sacrifice is needed to restore the forest to its past glory. Moving between genre, style, time and identity this is a landmark film for GFC. Director: Ian Hendry Producer: Ailsa Lonsdale Screenplay: Ailsa Lonsdale Cinematography: Ian Hendry Editing: Peter J Stewart Music: Chris Belsey, Ewan Manson Director's filmography: Butterfly (2016), Blizzard (2016), Carcosa (2015), Duality 3 (2015), Tanner Park (2014), Rainbow Cups (2013), The Man Who Kept Hearing His Name Getting Called Out (2013) Contact: alonsdale.actor@gmail.com

THE DISTANCES BETWEEN

BLIZZARD

UK // 2016 // 5m WORLD PREMIERE

Winner of Best Film at the Glasgow 48 Hours Film Project 2016, this silent film explores male insecurity and the emotional white noise which blinds. Its non linear structure defies conventional drama and exposition as it scrutinises love, trust, betrayal, workplace power dynamics and packed lunches.

A couple in a long distance relationship confront the growing space between themselves confounded by their different geographies. This sombre drama of love and proximity is a grown up antidote to romance films and loveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aphorisms; absence does not always make the heart grow fonder. Director: Aimie Willemse Producer: Ross Kelly Screenplay: Aimie Willemse Cinematography: Sefa Ucbas Editing: Peter James Stewart Music: Josh James Shrouder Director's filmography: Control (2016), Waiting Room (2016), The Failed Art of Avoidance (2015), Noisy Neighbours (2014), Northern Lights (2014), Identity (2013), Cruel and Unusual Torture (2013)

UK // 2016 // 6m

Director: Keir Reed, Ian Hendry Producer: Keir Reed, Ian Hendry Screenplay: Keir Reed, Ian Hendry Editing: Keir Reed, Ian Hendry Music: Michael Mcfarlane Director's filmography: Butterfly (2016), Carcosa (2015), The Last Equinox (2015), Duality 3 (2015), Tanner Park (2014), Rainbow Cups (2013), The Man Who Kept Hearing His Name Getting Called Out (2013) Contact: ianwalkerhendry@gmail.com

Contact: infinite.studios@outlook.com

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THE TURTLE TERMINATOR UK // 2017 // 3m WORLD PREMIERE The scars of youthful love are reopened in this avant garde comedy drama combining live action and digital animation. Once bitten by a turtle, twice shy. Director: CJ Lazaretti Producer: Ryan Pasi, John Perivolaris Screenplay: CJ Lazaretti Cinematography: Sefa Ucbas Editing: Jo Osborne Music: Christopher Belsey Sound: Allan Whyte Animation: Máté Tóth Ridovics Director's filmography: Cosmico (2014) Contact: cj@cjlazaretti.com

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KITCHEN SOAP

LAST REQUEST

UK // 2017 // 1m WORLD PREMIERE

UK // 2017 // 13m WORLD PREMIERE

This animated microshort personifies kitchen objects and explores infidelity across cultural boundaries. How will Thomas the tomato ketchup bottle get out of his latest sticky conundrum and explain his tryst with a banana in this ongoing kitchen sink drama?

Alienated and insecure, an unemployed musician reconciles his relationship with his family and his life choices as he prepares to attend his father’s funeral.

Director: Ryan Pasi, Paul McGinness Producer: Ryan Pasi, Paul McGinness Screenplay: Ryan Pasi, Paul McGinness Director's filmography: Should I Still Love You (2014), Reindeer Caught In The Headlights (2014), Moonwalker (2014) Contact: ryan.pasi@gmail.com

Director: David McCarrison Producer: David McCarrison Screenplay: Gerry Byron, Evan Migliozzi Director's filmography: First film Contact: davmcc@hotmail.co.uk

DUALITY 3 UK // 2016 // 32m It’s a sequel but not as we know it. This culmination of a decade of collaboration between school friends is a satirical parody of action comedies. You’ve seen the plot a thousand times and know well the cliches and conventions it deconstructs. This is Glasgow Film Crew's answer to Grindhouse cinema. Director: Ian Hendry Producer: Ian Hendry Screenplay: Ian Hendry Sound: Polly Chan Director's filmography: Butterfly (2016), Blizzard (2016), Carcosa (2015), The Last Equinox (2015), Tanner Park (2014), Rainbow Cups (2013), The Man Who Kept Hearing His Name Getting Called Out (2013) Contact: ianwalkerhendry@gmail.com

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BLUEPRINT: B-ROLL

Saturday 18 March (21.15) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 18+

STAND UP

THINGS DON’T FIT

YOU RUINED IT

UK // 2008 // 7m

UK // 2013 // 7m

USA // 2013 // 2m

Told through a single stand-up comedy routine, John J Jones performs to an unforgiving audience. As he loses their interest, his body rebels against him, and the truth behind the one-liners leaks through the cracks.

In the city it can feel like nothing fits or works as it should and daily life can be a struggle to find your place.

Film commissioned by Adult Swim for Off The Air.

Director: Tim Divall

Director: Michael Langan Contact: info@langanfilms.com

Contact: t.divall@live.com

Director: Joseph Pierce Contact: info@josephpierce.co.uk

THE SADDEST BOY IN THE WORLD

SELF HELP DANCE

EAT MY SHIT

Lebanon // 2015 // 2m

Spain // 2015 // 4m

Canada // 2007 // 13m

A sneak peak or vignettes of what goes on behind closed doors in the English suburbs.

Samantha has taken a selfie of her face and posted it on Instagram, but it has been censored and deleted for alleged sexual content. Samantha did not choose to be born this way. Samantha is sick and tired of people’s laughs.

Timothy Higgins is the saddest boy in the world. Friendlessness, suburban complacency and prescription drugs have conspired against him to make this his worst year yet.

Director: Ely Dagher Contact: hello@elydagher.com

Director: Jamie Travis

Director: Eduardo Casanova

Contact: jamiejtravis@gmail.com

Contact: contacto@eduardocasanova.es

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TPJ

BLOODY BARBARA

PEANUT BUTTER

USA // 2015 // 3m

USA // 2016 // 6m

USA // 2015 // 1m

Based on the myth of a doppelganger as an omen of death, a character experiences mortality salience when he meets his double.

A documentary film about a 16 year old girl who is completely obsessed with horror films. Barbara goes around town covered in fake blood and re-enacts the craziest scenes from her favourite films.

When it's time to get close, you need a shaving cream that will drive her wild. Faux 80s commercials for Hack My Life, TruTV.

Director: Grace Mi Contact: grace.mi89@gmail.com

Director: Shawn Bannon

Director: Phillip Van Contact: phil@phillipvan.com

Contact: mr.shawnbannon@gmail.com

INSIDE

FANTASY

JAM!

UK // 2016 // 3m

France // 2016 // 10m

UK // 2016 // 3m

Monochrome sketch animation detailing the end of humanity as we know it.

An experimental short animation about the process of Creation, what we do, what we become, what our creations become.

A provocative take on food porn dips into the jam-filled fantasies of a teenage boy.

Director: Mattis Dovier Contact: dovier.mattis@gmail.com

Director: El Popo Sangre

Director: Jack Scott Contact: jack.piers.scott@gmail.com

Contact: elpoposangre@gmail.com

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BLUEPRINT: B-ROLL (continued)

REAL LIFE EXP.

PUDGE

YOUR ART IS SHIT

Norway // 2013 // 10m

UK // 2014 // 1m

USA // 2015 // 2m

Two girls find themselves locked in an Oslo public swimming hall and bond over school gossip, boys and dancing to the psychedelic sounds of Lindstrom.

“there are great trembles. jiggles. waves and rolls. a fevered dance and a harsh critic. a bad reaction to tin and aluminum was inescapable. remember this day. for it is the day you saw pudge.” – Beauxdeen”

Yes, you. Specifically. A piece about art and you and insecurity. Artistic dysmorphia.

Director: Kristoffer Borgli Contact: post@kristofferborgli.com

Director: Dylan Carter Contact: dyljcar@gmail.com

Director: Fred Huergo Contact: fhuerg20@gmail.com

INVADERS

NO ONE IS THIRSTY

THE MICROWAVE

USA // 2014 // 6m

USA // 2015 // 1m

USA // 2015 // 2m

A pair of home invaders consider their potential character choices just prior to their planned invasion.

Based on The Perry Bible Fellowship comic strip.

Sometimes the microwave makes you feel things.

Director: Matt Lenski

Director: Daniel Koren

Contact: Hello@MattLenski.com

Contact: kordaniel@gmail.com

Director: Jason Kupfer Contact: jason@websiteontheinternet.com

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BODY MEMORY

KNIFE/TAPE/ROPE

ASHNAISE

USA, South Korea // 2016 // 1m

USA // 2014 // 9m

USA // 2015 // 1m

What does my body see, feel, smell, hear, and taste? Some memories still linger and some vanish.

Satan, teen outcasts and ritual killings in this true-life story from L.A.

Stubborn water stains got you down? Faux 80s commercials for Hack My Life, TruTV.

Director: Aaron Brown

Director: Phillip Van

Contact: aaronlewisbrown@gmail.com

Contact: phil@phillipvan.com

Director: Gyuri Cloe Lee Contact: glee04@risd.edu

SLIP

RUBBER GUILLOTINE

Canada // 2007 // 6m

UK // 2016 // 1m

A hypnotic exploration of the most private of spaces: the women’s changing room.

An angsty 17 year old girl sucker punches her parents’ hopes for her future by aspiring to donate her skeleton to gelatine.

Director: Chelsea McMullan Contact: chelsea.mcmullan@gmail.com

Director: Bryan M. Ferguson Contact: decaying.shapes@gmail.com

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THE VR MOVIE HOUSE

Increasing numbers of narrative filmmakers and moving image artists have begun to explore the potential of VR and 360° filmmaking, finding ways to structure narratives and create experiences that incorporate the unique sense of agency that VR affords the viewer/participant.

in specially tailored virtual animated spaces, opening a dialogue with the works and inviting the viewer to explore. This project was developed thanks to a Light Bytes Curiosity Award, supported by Creative Edinburgh, Creative Dundee and We Throw Switches, and thanks to the direct support of Creative Scotland.

For GSFF17, digital artists Dennis & Debbie Club have created a virtual movie house, showcasing several new VR and 360° films, alongside their own collaborations with Scottish moving image artists Stephanie Mann and Beagles & Ramsay.

Participants will also have the opportunity to select from six new VR projects from the UK, France and the Netherlands, including World Premieres of two Scottish 360° films, The Circuit made by the Creative Media Academy at the University of the West of Scotland and The Perfect Place made by Scottish Ballet in partnership with BBC.

Dennis & Debbie Club work with open-source software, creating CGI animations, video installations and VR apps. Stephanie Mann’s Still Life on Face (2012), Beagles & Ramsay’s Molar (2014) and Dennis & Debbie Club’s own The Strip (2015) are presented

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See also p110: SUPERLUX Alienation and VR – Abandoning Reality To Claim The Future

Thursday 16 – Sunday 19 March (hourly sessions) Joytown Grand Electric Theatre // 45m // N/C 15+

ASHES TO ASHES

THE CIRCUIT

The Netherlands // 2016 // 11m

UK // 2017 // 14m

A dysfunctional family grapples with the dying wish of their grandfather. We’re given a unique point of view on a bizarre set of family relationships that are ready to blow up.

We follow one of only 450 jockeys registered in the UK as he travels, both physically and psychologically, from the weigh in room to the winner's enclosure.

Director: Steye Hallema, Ingejan Ligthart Schenk, Jamille van Wijngaarden

Director: Nick Higgins Contact: CreativeMediaAcademy@uws.ac.uk

FABULOUS WONDER.LAND UK // 2015 // 4 min Fall down the rabbit hole, land in wonder.land, a living, breathing, vibrant world with a unique soundscape. As the full multi-colour brilliance of wonder.land is revealed the cheshire cat comes into view, hovering above like a magnificent, holographic, airship serenading you. Director: Lysander Ashton

Contact: info@submarinechannel.co

Contact: tdixon@nationaltheatre.org.uk

I, PHILIP

INDEFINITE

THE PERFECT PLACE

France // 2016 // 12m

UK // 2016 // 14m

UK // 2017 // 4m

An American robotics company presents the first android human, a copy of science fiction author Philip K. Dick. During a flight from Dallas to Las Vegas the android’s head disappears.

Detainees seeking leave to stay in the UK lift the veil on the realities of a detention system that strips away identities, and further damages society's most vulnerable.

A seemingly perfect couple living in luxury reveal the emptiness and regret behind the façade, as they attempt to recapture the spark they once had.

Director: Pierre Zandrowicz

Director: Darren Emerson

Director: Laura-Jane McRae Choreographer: Sophie Laplane

Contact: hello@okio-studio.com

Contact: hello@vr-city.com

Contact: laura.jane.chalmers@bbc.co.uk

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SYMPOSIUM: IMMERSIVE FILMMAKING

Saturday 18 March (11.00) CCA Theatre // 6h30m

In collaboration with the Creative Media Academy at the University of the West of Scotland, GSFF presents a symposium exploring the challenges of VR storytelling, interactivity and the psychology of immersion. This free event is intended for anyone with an interest in the potential of recent technological advances to tell stories in new immersive ways.

11.00 Introduction: Professor Nick Higgins (University of the West of Scotland) & Matt Lloyd (GSFF Director)

Supported by MeCCSA Practice Network.

11.15 – 12.45 PANEL 1: IMMERSIVE FUTURES Chair: Prof Richard Coyne (University of Edinburgh) Immersive: Design Realities — Damien Smith, Creative Director, ISO Design Immersive: Science and Simulation — Paul Chapman, Acting Head of the School of Simulation and Visualisation, Glasgow School of Art Immersive: Broadcast Television — Jack-Kibble White, Digital Development Executive, BBC Scotland Immersive: Branded Experiences — Greg Williamson, Senior VR and Creative Consultant, Soluis 12.45 – 14.15 Break for lunch, opportunity to experience some of the VR projects under discussion 14.15 – 15.45 PANEL 2: VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIMENTS Chair: Dr. Julie Williamson (University of Glasgow) Virtual Reality & Dance — Christopher Hampson, Creative Director, Scottish Ballet Virtual Reality & Education — Nick Higgins, director, The Circuit, Director of UWS Creative Media Academy Virtual Reality & Theatre — Toby Coffey, Head of Digital Development, National Theatre 16.00 – 17.30 PANEL 3: IMMERSION, EMPATHY & AFFECT Chair: Professor Nick Higgins (University of the West of Scotland) Visual Artists & Virtual Reality — Dennis & Debbie Club, visual artists, creators of GSFF’s VR Movie House Documentary Filmmaking & Virtual Reality — Darren Emerson, director Indefinite, VR City, London. Fiction Filmmaking & Virtual Reality — Pierre Zandrowicz, director I Philip, Okio Studio, Paris. Virtual Reality & the Viewer — Steye Hallema, Jaunt VR, the Netherlands

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QUANTUM SHORTS

Friday 17 March (19.00) Glasgow Science Centre // 1h30m // N/C 15+

AMPERSAND

THE REAL THING

USA // 2016 // 3m

USA // 2016 // 5m

What unites everything on Earth? That we are all ultimately composed of something that is both matter & wave.

Picking up a beverage shouldn’t be this hard. And it definitely shouldn’t take you through the multiverse…

Director: Erin Shea

Director: Adam Welch

APPROACHING REALITY

TOGETHER – PARALLEL UNIVERSE

UK // 2016 // 3m

South Africa // 2016 // 3m

Dancing cats, a watchful observer and a strange co-existence. It’s all you need to understand the essence of quantum mechanics.

It’s a tale as old as time: boy meets girl, girl is not as interested as boy hoped. So boy builds spaceship and travels through multi-dimensional reality to find the one universe where they can be together.

Director: Simone De Liberato

Director: Michael Robertson

BOLERO Italy // 2016 // 4m The coin is held fast, but is it heads or tails? As long as the fist remains closed, you are a winner – and a loser. Director: Ivan D’Antonio

TOM’S BREAKFAST UK // 2016 // 1m This is one of those days when Tom’s morning routine doesn’t go to plan – far from it, in fact. The only question is, can he be philosophical about it? Director: Ben Garfield

THE GUARDIAN India // 2016 // 4m A quantum love triangle, where uncertainty is the only winner. Director: Chetan V.Kotabage

NOVAE France // 2016 // 3m What happens when a massive star reaches the end of its life? Something that goes way beyond the spectacular, according to this cosmic poem about the infinite beauty of a black hole’s birth. Director: Thomas Vanz

TRIANGULATION Ukraine // 2016 // 1m Can the secret of life be found in the smallest world, where life forms and insentient substances are indistinguishable? Director: Volodymyr Vlasenko

WHITECAP USA // 2016 // 4m Dr. David Long has discovered how to turn matter into waveforms. So why shouldn’t he experiment with his own existence? Director: Bernard Ong

quantumlah.org

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CEÒL’S CRAIC PRESENTS BRISEADH NA CLOICHE

Friday 17 March (21.00) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+

AWAY WITH THE LAND UK // 2016 // 13m A lyrical meditation, which immerses the viewer in the life of a crofter on the Isle of Harris and the culture that envelops him. While highlighting the beauty and atmosphere of the landscape he farms, the film explores the conflicts embedded within the tradition, and the imminent depletion of his practices. Director: Joya Berrow Producer: Lucy Jane, Joya Berrow Cinematography: Lucy Jane Editor: Tom Jeffrey Sound: Gibran Farrah, Ed Dyer Director’s filmography: First film Contact: imagjberrow@gmail.com

THE BREAKING OF THE STONE BRISEADH NA CLOICHE UK // 2017 // 20m John Murray’s landmark Gaelic short story, reinterpreted for stage and screen by playwright Iain Macrae and director Duncan MacDonald. Macrae and Mairi Morrison convey the progression of a post-war romance to its harrowing conclusion with a dynamic blend of drama, dance and mime while percussionist Alex Neilson provides an inventive, interactive soundtrack. Director: Duncan Macdonald Producer: Fiona McGrady Screenplay: Iain Macrae Cinematography: Jerry Kelly Music: Alex Neilson Director’s filmography (selected): Aitealan – Anne Lorne Gillies (2016), The Other Brian Wilson (2015), I’ll Be Lookin’ For You – Robbie Shepherd (2014), Cridhe na cuise – Capercaille (2013), Celtic Chicago (2012) Contact: ishbelmmurray@gmail.com

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REEL TO RATTLING REEL

Saturday 18 March (14.00) Kelvin Hall // 1h30m

An afternoon of readings, archive film and rural cinema memories. Newly-commissioned short works by Alison Miller, Aonghas MacNeacail, Christie Williamson and Kevin MacNeil will be performed by their authors alongside an illustrated talk on creative responses to cinema memories. Gutter Magazine and Freight Books will launch a cinema memories writing competition.

MOBILE CINEMA

This programme is delivered as part of the Major Minor Cinema: Highlands and Islands Film Guild 1946â&#x20AC;&#x201C;71, a joint AHRC-funded project between the Universities of Glasgow and Stirling, looking at the impact of cinema on the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. This will be the first academic and historical study of what has been an overlooked period in the history of British cinema and culture. hifilmguild.gla.ac.uk

UK // 1951 // 14m Join the mobile cinema van belonging to the Highland & Islands Film Guild as it makes its way along country roads to village halls in Kilmefort, Taynuilt, Dalmally and Kilchrenan. Contact: movingimage@nls.uk

Free entry, tickets available in advance via GSFF website.

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SHORT MATTERS! – EUROPEAN SHORT FILM ACADEMY SHORT FILM TOUR

SHORT MATTERS 1 Friday 17 March (17.00) CCA Cinema // 1h40m // N/C 15+

THE WALL

AMALIMBO

LE MUR

Sweden, Estonia // 2016 // 15m VENICE SHORT FILM NOMINEE

Belgium // 2015 // 8m GHENT SHORT FILM NOMINEE Hong Kong. A multitude of concrete skyscrapers without personality. Inside, cramped studios where the anonymous live. Until the day when bachelor Chung decides to hang up a picture… Director: Samuel Lampaert Producer: Nicolas George Screenplay: Samuel Lampaert Cinematography: Bernard Vervoort Editing: Nicolas Bier Music: Pierre Gillet Sound: Aline Gavrois Director's filmography: 30 Minutes Par Jour (2013), Voodoo (2009), Derriere la tete (2007), On ne peut pas tout prévoir (2004), Ho! Camarades (2002) Contact: olivier@originefilms.fr

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Five year old Tipuana finds herself in limbo when she tries to pass to the other side in her desperate desire to see her recently deceased father. Director: Juan Pablo Libossart Producer: Johanna Lind Screenplay: Juan Pablo Libossart Editing: Juan Pablo Libossart Music: Åsa Carlson, Anders Kjellberg Sound: Gustaf Berger, Lars Wignell Animation: Roland Seer, Denis Chapon, Miguel Mealla Black Director's filmography: First film Contact: johanna@fasad.se

HOME

I’M NOT FROM HERE

90 DEGREES NORTH

Kosovo, UK // 2016 // 20m VILA DO CONDE SHORT FILM NOMINEE

YO NO SOY DE AQUÍ

90 GRAD NORD

Chile, Denmark, Lithuania // 2015 // 26m KRAKOW SHORT FILM NOMINEE

Germany // 2015 // 21m CORK SHORT FILM NOMINEE

Thousands of men, women and children struggle to get into Europe as a comfortable English family sets out on what appears to be a holiday. Director: Daniel Mulloy Producer: Afolabi Kuti, Shpat Deda, Chris Watling, Scott O’Donnell, Tim Nash Screenplay: Daniel Mulloy Cinematography: Victor Seguin, Paul Mackay Editing: Philip Currie Sound: Jon Clarke Animation: Carl Phillips Director's filmography: Atis (2015), Baby (2010), Son (2007), Dad (2006), Antonio’s Breakfast (2005), Sister (2004) Contact: afolabi@thebroedmachine.com

Josebe, an 88-year-old Basque native, struggles to remember that she is living in a nursing home in Chile. After seventy years living in the country, she still remembers her homeland. Director: Giedrė Žickytė, Maite Alberdi Producer: Patricio Gajardo, Maite Alberdi, Giedrė Žickytė Screenplay: Giedrė Žickytė Cinematography: Pablo Valdés Editing: Juan Eduardo Murillo Director's filmography (Alberdi): Tea Time (2014), The Lifeguard (2011), The Hairdressers (2007 Director’s filmography (Žickytė): Master and Tatyana (2014), How We Played the Revolution (2011), Baras (2009) Contact: pato.r.gajardo@gmail.com

It’s a fact: good Germans wait at red traffic lights. But what do you do when the green man simply won’t appear? A humorous, fantastical parable offering an extreme take on the notion of following the rules of a civil society. Director: Detsky Graffam Producer: Marianne Graffam Screenplay: Detsky Graffam Cinematography: Hanno Moritz Kunow Editing: Karl Peglau Music: Mathieu Karsenti Sound: Charlotte Lewis Director's filmography: Ministry of Guilt (2015), Down Under (2008), Slither (2008), How I Learned to Love Richard Gere (2007), Peace of Mind (2006), The Hostess (2000), Me, Myself and I (1999), Tabletalk (1999) Contact: stine@shortfilm.com

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SHORT MATTERS 2 Saturday 18 March (17.00) CCA Cinema // 1h40m // N/C 15+

A MAN RETURNED UK, Lebanon, Denmark, The Netherlands // 2015 // 30m BERLIN SHORT FILM NOMINEE Reda’s dreams of escaping the Palestinian refugee camp ended in failure after three years trapped in Greece. He returned with a heroin addiction and to a life torn apart by internal strife and the encroachment of war from Syria. Director: Mahdi Fleifel Producer: Patrick Campbell Editing: Michael Aaglund Sound: Dario Swade Director's filmography: Men In The Sun (2016), Xenos (2013), Visit Palestine (2012), A World Not Ours (2012), Four Weeks (2009), Arafat & I (2008), The Writer (2007), Harrisons Monday’s Arms (2006), Hamoudi & Emil (2004), Shadi In The Beautiful Well (2003) Contact: patrick@nakbafilmworks.com

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THE FULLNESS OF TIME (ROMANCE) L’IMMENSE RETOUR (ROMANCE) Belgium, France // 2016 // 14m LOCARNO SHORT FILM NOMINEE Seated on the edge of the gaping rift, she waited so long, too long for the mountain to give back her lover, prisoner of the ice. Director: Manon Coubia Producer: Nicolas Rincon Gille Screenplay: Manon Coubia Cinematography: Nicolas Rincon Gille Editing: Manon Coubia Sound: Aline Huber Director's filmography: Bleu Cerise (2012), Sonate Blanche (2007) Contact: mail@cbadoc.be

SMALL TALK Norway // 2015 // 21m TAMPERE SHORT FILM NOMINEE Welcome to the Dvergsnes family! We follow the Dvergsnes family from Kristiansand, Norway, through three events that took place during the autumn and winter of 2014. Director: Even Hafnor, Lisa Brooke Hansen Producer: Jon Michael Puntervold Screenplay: Even Hafnor Cinematography: Steivan Hasler Editing: Erik Andersson Sound: Marius Ytterdal Director's filmography: Money Back, Please (2013), From This Day Forward (2012), Thomas F (2012), Det Norske Språk (2011) Contact: stine@shortfilm.com

EDMOND

THE GOODBYE

UK // 2015 // 9m UPPSALA SHORT FILM NOMINEE

EL ADIÃ&#x201C;S

A man embarks on a journey through his past. His desire to be close to those around him reaches cannibalistic extremes. Director: Nina Gantz Producer: Emilie Jouffroy Screenplay: Nina Gantz Cinematography: Ian Forbes Editing: Nina Rac Music: Terence Dunn Sound: Rob Turner Animation: Adam Watts, Nina Gantz, Terri Matthews Director's filmography: Cartwright (2016), Pedaalridder (2016), Babyluik (2016), Employee of the Month (2014), Devastated By Love (2012), Zaliger (2010), Buren (2009), Steunen (2009), Gluren (2008) Contact: ninagantz1@gmail.com

Spain // 2015 // 15m VALLADOLID SHORT FILM NOMINEE Rosana, a Bolivian maid, has worked for Angela, the elder matriarch of the Vidal family for the last ten years. On the day of the funeral of her beloved Angela, Rosana is not allowed to grieve with the rest of the family. Director: Clara Roquet Producer: Sergi Moreno, Tono Folguera Screenplay: Clara Roquet Cinematography: Gris Jordana Editing: Mounia Akl Music: Paul Tyan Sound: Diego Casares Director's filmography: The Good Girls (2016) Contact: pablo@marvinwayne.com

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SHORT MATTERS 3 Sunday 19 March (15.30) CCA Cinema // 1h40m // N/C 15+

WE ALL LOVE THE SEASHORE

SHOOTING STAR

TOUT LE MONDE AIME LE BORD DE LA MER

Bulgaria, Italy // 2015 // 28m DRAMA SHORT FILM NOMINEE

Spain // 2016 // 17m ROTTERDAM SHORT FILM NOMINEE

Lilly is a divorced mother of two – Martin and little Alexandra. One cold winter evening Martin picks Alexandra up from kindergarten. In the dark streets they become a part of a tragic accident. Lilly and her kids have to make tough decisions, the consequences of which will change their lives for ever.

A group of men waits at the edge of a coastal woodland for the journey to Europe. A film is made with the men playing themselves. The landscape changes and where they are is no longer their motherland. There are no beautiful beaches, the water is not transparent, not clear. Legends from the colonial past collide with the present time, memory survives. Director: Keina Espiñeira Producer: Lourdes Perez Screenplay: Keina Espiñeira, Samuel Delgado Cinematography: Jose Alayón Editing: Samuel Delgado Sound: Raul Espiñeira

ПАДАЩА ЗВЕЗДА

Director: Lyubo Yonchev Producer: Lyubo Yonchev, Lyubo Kirov, Carola Jessica De Lucia Screenplay: Lyubo Yonchev, Yassen Genadiev Cinematography: Damian Dimitrov Editing: Lyubo Kirov Music: Alexander Kostov Sound: Dimitar Rusev

Director's filmography: First film

Director's filmography: The Last Attempt (2014), Cain (2014), Dangerously Close (2013), They Are Waiting (2009)

Contact: lourdes@elviaje.es

Contact: info@crystal-frame.com

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9 DAYS – FROM MY WINDOW IN ALEPPO The Netherlands, Syria // 2015 // 13m BRISTOL SHORT FILM NOMINEE One morning in August 2012, renowned Syrian photographer Issa Touma saw young men lugging sandbags into his street. It turned out to be the start of the Syrian uprising in the city of Aleppo. Touma grabbed his camera and spent nine days holed up in his apartment, recording what was happening outside. Director: Thomas Vroege, Floor van der Meulen, Issa Touma Producer: Jos de Putter Screenplay: Issa Touma Cinematography: Issa Touma Editing: Thomas Vroege, Floor van der Meulen Sound: Tom Jansen Director's filmography (van der Meulen): In Vrijheid (2016), Storming Paradise (2014), You & I (2012) Director's filmography (Vroege): So Help Me God (2015), The Son & The Stranger (2014) Contact: info@someshorts.com

LIMBO

IN THE DISTANCE

France, Greece // 2016 // 30m SARAJEVO SHORT FILM NOMINEE

Germany // 2015 // 7m CLERMONT-FERRAND SHORT FILM NOMINEE

The leopard shall lie down with the goat. The wolves shall live with the lambs. And the young boy will lead them. 12+1 kids and the carcass of a whale washed ashore…

It’s calm and peaceful above the clouds. But chaos lurks in the distance and each night, it draws closer.

Director: Konstantina Kotzamani Producer: Ron Dyens, Maria Drandaki Screenplay: Konstantina Kotzamani Cinematography: Yorgos Karvelas Editing: Yannis Chalkiadakis Music: Lawrence English Sound: Alexandros Sidiropoulos

Director: Florian Grolig Sound: Tobias Boehm, Christian Wittmoser Animation: Julian Vavrovsky Director's filmography: Ms. Found In A Bottle (2010), Weiss (2007), 17 (2005) Contact: stine@shortfilm.com

Director's filmography: Yellow Fieber (2015), Washingtonia (2014), Morning Prayers (2013), Arundel (2012), Zodiac (2012), Pigs (2011) Contact: distribution@sacrebleuprod.com

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OSKA BRIGHT FILM FESTIVAL AND SCOTTISH QUEER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PRESENT: MATTHEW AND MATTHEW

Saturday 18 March (15.00) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+

“Hey Matthew, I hear you’re a gay filmmaker?” “Yes Matthew, I am. And you’re a queer/femme filmmaker – maybe we should have a chat sometime?” Learning disabled artist-filmmakers Matthew Hellett (Brighton) and Matthew Kennedy (Glasgow) share their experiences of how identity shapes their work, and screen some of their films alongside those of other queer, disabled artists. Matthew Hellett is a Carousel artist. Carousel supports learning disabled artists to manage, produce and promote their creative work. This includes the international short film festival Oska Bright (November 2017), several musical artists and Creative Minds, the national conversation about the place of learning disability arts in culture and society. Carousel is funded by Arts Council England (as a National Portfolio Organisation), Brighton and Hove City Council and a range of trusts and foundations. It is a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity. carousel.org.uk

SPARKLE UK // 2006 // 3m Matthew transforms into a glamorous alternative persona, the drag queen Mrs. Sparkle. Winner of Best Short Documentary at the Picture This Film Festival in Canada. Director: Simon Wilkinson, Matthew Hellett

Oska Bright Film Festival is funded by the British Film Institute.

MRS SPARKLE UK // 2009 // 4m Walking to the shops one night, Matthew passes a doorway and is beckoned inside by a hand. He enters the doorway; the person who beckoned him in is nowhere to be seen but there is a lit stage. Matthew steps up on the stage and everything changes. But is it real, or is it a dream? Director: Simon Wilkinson, Matthew Hellett

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WHAT IS FEMME ANYWAY?

MAKE UP TUTORIAL

VERSIONS

Sweden // 2012 // 10m

UK // 2015 // 2m

UK // 2013 // 3m

An experimental make up tutorial featuring music, poetry, and YouTube aesthetics by crip femme artist and theorist Christine Bylund.

A film about individual identities and family ties, using stop-motion and collage techniques.

A short film in which the filmmaker questions the possibilities of what femme identity could mean to them. Director: Matthew Kennedy Cinematography: Andrew Kennedy

Director: Christine Bylund

JUST ME

FAGGOTGIRL GETS BUSY IN THE BATHROOM

UK // 2013 // 3m A short autobiography in which the director explores gender identity, disability and other themes through his own narrative. Director: Matthew Kennedy Cinematography: Andrew Kennedy

Director: Matthew Kennedy Music: Teaadora

USA // 2016 // 4m Butch dyke super-hero Faggotgirl tours the bathrooms of Philadelphia’s Gayborhood (since the whole country’s got bathrooms on the brain). She finds that only two of nine are wheelchair accessible. Director: Krissy Mahan

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VISIBLE CINEMA: SIGN OF THE TIMES

HONEYMOON

THE KISS

LOST COMMUNITY

UK // 2016 // 10m

UK // 2015 // 8m

UK // 2014 // 7m

Lucy and Johanna are a deaf couple on their honeymoon. They arrive at a B&B where they are greeted by a sullen landlady. A seemingly insignificant disagreement turns into a hurtful argument, as the noise of the weir dominates the background.

When a hearing couple on a first date start talking to a deaf couple in a cafe, they realise that some things can only be said with a kiss.

The members of Bristol’s Centre for Deaf People discuss the closure of the club building and reveal their memories of using the Deaf Club from a young age.

Director: Ronit Meranda Producer: David Ellington Screenplay: Ronit Meranda Cinematography: Louie Blystad-Collins Sound: Tim Bamber Director's filmography: First film Contact: morning@ronitmeranda.com

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Director: Charlie Swinbourne Cinematography: Ted Evans, Stephen Collins Sound: Alan O’Duffy Director's filmography: Found (2015), Four Deaf Yorkshiremen go to Blackpool (2014), Four Deaf Yorkshiremen (2008) Contact: c.swinbourne@gmail.com

Director: David Ellington Music: James Banks Contact: info@vs1.org

Sunday 19 March (13.30) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+

OKA

SILENT LAUGHS

UK // 2015 // 10m

UK // 2016 // 11m

When a little green alien called Oka loses his way, he crashes his spaceship on Earth. A young deaf woman called Hazel watches the spaceship crash not far from where she lives.

A deaf stand-up comedian performing in sign language fights for her dream to bring deaf culture to mainstream audiences in a playful way.

Director: Paul Miller Director's filmography: Nervith the Dragon (2017), John Smith (2015), Rebecca’s Wish Stars (2015), Boris Bolt (2013), Rory Gets Fit (2011), Hansel and Gretel (2011), The Lad of the Rings (2010), Humpty Dumpty (2009), Rory’s Teeth (2007) Contact: rorystudio.com/contact

Director: Natalia Kouneli Producer: Grant Keir Cinematography: Raffaele Mosca Editing: Natalia Kouneli Music: David McAulay Sound: David McAulay Director's filmography: From Green Line to Green Lanes (2012) Contact: eve@scottishdocinstitute.com

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FAMILY SHORTS AND SHORT STUFF

FAMILY SHORTS Sunday 19 March (11.30) CCA Theatre // 1h15m // N/C 4+

OCTOPUS

ALIKE

KRAKE

Spain // 2015 // 8m

Germany // 2015 // 4m

In a busy world, Copi is a father who tries to teach the right way to his son, Paste. But... what is the correct path?

The octopus wants to bake a yummy peach cake. But one of her tentacles has (baking) plans of its own. Director: Julia Ocker Producer: Thomas Meyer-Hermann Sound: Christian Heck Director's filmography: Wolf (2015), Crocodile (2015), Zebra (2013), Kellerkind (2012) Contact: studio@filmbilder.de

Director: Rafa Cano Méndez, Daniel Martínez Lara Producer: Nicholás Matji, Daniel Martínez Lara Screenplay: Rafa Cano Méndez, Daniel Martínez Lara Cinematography: Daniel Martínez Lara Music: Óscar Araujo Sound: Aleix Vila Canela Animation: Abel Tébar, Alan Carabantes, Albert Papaseit, Esteban Errando, Nacho Garranzo, Pedro Florido, Rafa Cano Méndez Director's filmography: Daniel Martínez Lara: W.C. (2001); Rafa Cano Méndez: Tachaaan! (2009) Contact: marta@agenciafreak.com

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THE RED HERRING

FIRST SNOW

ZOO STORY

PIPOPINGVIINI

PRVNÍ SNÍH

CO SE STALO V ZOO

Finland // 2015 // 7m

Czech Republic // 2015 // 14m

Czech Republic // 2015 // 4m

One sunny day in the Antarctic, a little fisher-penguin catches fish for his friends. Into this happy scene arrives a charming salesman. Dazzled by his confidence and his fish-shaped tie, the penguins follow him away, leaving the fisher-penguin alone…

A fairy tale about a curious little hedgehog who gets lost in snowy woods and heads out on a dangerous adventure to find his den.

A curious girl is at the zoo with her mum. What plan will she devise when she meets a lonely gorilla and mum is busy with business calls?

Director: Lenka Ivančíková Producer: Jirí Merunka, Milon Terč, Dita Knotová Cinematography: Nina Ščamborová, Jakub Lojda, Petr Holeček Sound: Radka Kocourková, Karel Jaroš Animation: Jaroslav Čížek, Tomáš Pavliček, Kristián Popivčák

Director: Veronika Zacharová Producer: Lukáš Gregor Screenplay: Veronika Zacharová Animation: Veronika Zacharová

Director: Leevi Lemmetty Producer: Tamsin Lyons, Hannele Lemmetty Screenplay: Leevi Lemmetty Editor: Miikka Leskinen Sound: Christopher Wilson Music: Mark Thomas Animation: Andreas Rohde, Paul Torris Director’s filmography: Harry & Bip (2016), Stevie Trapeazy (2014), Kill Your Idols (2012), The Last Job (2012), Papa’s Boy (2011)

Director's filmography: The Bearytales (2015) Contact: gregor@fmk.utb.cz

Director's filmography: What Goes Around (2014), The Great Grey (2009), Initiation of a City Dweller (2009), The Dance of the Absurd (2007) Contact: ivancikova@hotmail.com

Contact: tamsin@ink-and-light.com

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FAMILY SHORTS (continued)

THE MARATHON DIARY

BAT TIME

THE CRYPTOZOOLOGIST

MARATONDAGBOKEN

Germany // 2015 // 4m

Spain // 2015 // 8m

Norway // 2015 // 8m

When night falls on the farm, a little bat wakes up from a long nap and is ready to play with his animal friends. The only problem is that all of his friends are fast asleep.

Bernard, a veteran cryptozoologist who has spent all his life searching for strange animals, now has the chance to hunt one of his greatest challenges, the Mosquifant.

Director: Elena Walf Producer: Thomas Meyer-Hermann Music: Nicolai Krepart Sound: Christian Heck

Director: Vicente Mallols Producer: Paloma Mora Screenplay: Fernando Cortizo Cinematography: Celia Benavent Animation: Carla Pereira, David Caballer, Iván Sarrión

A girl called Always Last embarks on an adventurous marathon through the ice cold and mythic landscapes of Lapland. But she soon discovers that the run is not going be a straight line between start and finish. Director: Hanne Berkaak Producer: Tonje Skar Reiersen, Lisa Fearnley Screenplay: Hanne Berkaak Editing: Ulf Tønder Flittig Music: Jo Schumann Sound: Jo Schumann Animation: Adam Boklund, Josefine Hannibal, Narissa Schander, Ole Christian Løken Director's filmography: Kewani Kfle (2016) Contact: amb@nfi.no

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Director's filmography: Some Thing (2015) Contact: studio@filmbilder.de

Director's filmography: First film Contact: palomamora@gmail.com

SHORT STUFF Thursday 16 March (11.45) CCA Theatre // 1h15 // N/C 12+

I AM NOT A MOUSE

PERCHED

UK // 2015 // 3m

UK // 2016 // 11m

Every time Lucy is called ‘Mouse’ by her Mum, she turns into a real mouse! What is Lucy going to do?

Hamish Fint, a crotchety old man used to a life of seclusion inside his precariously balanced submarine, struggles to maintain equilibrium when an unwelcome visiting seagull rocks his world.

Director: Evgenia Golubeva Music: Tom Angell Sound: Tom Angell Director's filmography: Dolly’s Doodle “Raspberry Muddle” (2012), Story of 5 Euro (2010), Watermelon (2009), Hold Me Clothes (2009), Marco (2008), Animal (2006) Contact: jane.golubeva@gmail.com

Director: Liam Harris Producer: Elina Litvinova Screenplay: Nathaniel Price, Eoin Doran Cinematography: Daniel Atherton Editing: Sian Clarke Music: Victor Hugo Fumagalli Sound: Payam Hosseinian Animation: Liam Harris

SHORT STUFF: PARENT & BABY SCREENING Short Stuff returns for an hour and a bit of highlights from across the GSFF17 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 sleepdeprived parents. No extreme content or sudden loud noises, and the lights will remain on low to allow easy movement during the screening.

Director's filmography: Torn (2014), The Boxcart (2013), Fourth Assessment Report (2012) Contact: liamharris309@gmail.com

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SUPERLUX SESSIONS

ALIENATION AND VR – ABANDONING REALITY TO CLAIM THE FUTURE Thursday 16 March (14.00) CCA Clubroom // 2h This reading group will provide an introduction to ‘homebrew’ Virtual Reality (VR) methods and will consider how a DIY VR scene might be created. Through group readings of the xenofeminist manifesto by the Laboria Cuboniks collective (2015) and Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto (1984), artists Dennis and Debbie Club (D&D) will consider the possibilities of a critical artistic VR practice that can branch into the cultural and political. D&D work digitally with open-source software, creating CGI animations, video installations and VR apps. Their latest VR work premieres at this year’s festival and showcases their first glimpses into the virtual, a work that began with an offer to build new VR environments for artists Stephanie Mann and Beagles & Ramsay. D&D aim to extend the possibilities of this new technology beyond ‘their own alienation’ and reclaim VR from the corporate world and consider how to repurpose it as a tool for artistic practice. D&D understand that “by rejecting nature, the virtual has yet the chance to open up access to a different reality, a common alien domain. VR is a new artistic medium with the potential to brand creeping normality as the anxiety inducing agent of boredom and stagnation that we rarely dare to admit that it is.” During the reading group participants will also have the opportunity to experience one of D&D’s new VR environments.

DEBORAH STRATMAN: TACTICAL AUDIO AND A PASSIVELY AMPLIFIED RAMBLE Saturday 18 March (14.00) CCA UWS Seminar Room (meet in foyer) // 3h Artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman leads a masterclass and walk about the politicised relationship between audio and public space, exploring how sound can disturb, camouflage, animate and construct environments. We will take a look at historic precedents of sonic surveillance, subterfuge and control, followed by a DIY construction session, where we’ll outfit ourselves with passive amplifiers and set forth on an aural stroll. Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Much of her work points to the relationships between physical environments and human struggles for power and control that play out on the land. Recent projects have addressed freedom, expansionism, surveillance, sonic warfare, public speech, ghosts, sinkholes, levitation, propagation, orthoptera, raptors, comets and faith. She has exhibited internationally at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou; Hammer Museum; Mercer Union; Witte de With; the Whitney Biennial and festivals including Sundance, Viennale, CPH/DOX, Oberhausen, Ann Arbor, Full Frame, Rotterdam and Berlinale. Stratman is the recipient of Fulbright, Guggenheim and USA Collins fellowships, a Creative Capital grant and an Alpert Award. She lives in Chicago where she teaches at the University of Illinois.

Both sessions presented by LUX Scotland as part of the programme for SUPERLUX, LUX Scotland’s membership scheme. membership.luxscotland.org.uk Sessions are open to SUPERLUX members and free of charge, ticketed via Eventbrite.

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GUNHILD ENGER MASTERCLASS

IS THERE LIFE ONLINE? PENELOPE BARTLETT

Friday 17 March (11.00) CCA Clubroom // 1h15

Friday 17 March (13.00) CCA Clubroom // 1h15

You have to be an exhibitionist to be a filmmaker. Obviously you’re willing to sacrifice a hell of a lot to get your view on society and life shown on the big screen. There’s an element of selfishness there… It is interesting how the big questions of life are hidden in so many small details. What we are all about is sometimes very easy to see in the small arguments that we make. It doesn’t need to be a big thing, but it can say a lot about someone. That’s something that short film does. — Gunhild Enger, Go Short Film Festival 2015

GSFF co-founder Penelope Bartlett has worked extensively in short film exhibition, curation and production in the USA since leaving Glasgow in 2009. She is currently a programmer for The Criterion Channel on FilmStruck, a digital streaming service that launched in November 2016. She served as Director of Programming for the 2016 Palm Springs Shortfest, as well as at Chicago and Tribeca Film Festivals. She also writes and curates for the website shortoftheweek.com.

Gunhild Enger has been making short films in the UK, Sweden and her native Norway for more than a decade. She brings an honesty and humour to her key recurring theme – the failure of communication – whilst her practice continues to evolve as she pushes herself to find new means of cinematic expression. Join GSFF Director Matt Lloyd for an in depth conversation with Gunhild about her approach to direction in both fiction and documentary. Free entry to all passholders

Penelope will discuss the current landscape for short film post-festival run. She will talk about new opportunities for online self-distribution, how to get noticed by the likes of Vimeo and Short of the Week, or picked up by boutique streaming services such as Criterion or MUBI. She will also share her top tips from the international festival circuit... expect some hot gossip on where to kill to get your film shown and where to avoid. Free entry to all passholders

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GSFF PRODUCTION ATTIC SHORT FILM PITCH Friday 17 March (12.45) CCA Theatre // 2h GSFF promotes short film that is fresh, original and sincere in its vision. We believe short film is an opportunity to experiment with form and narrative, unfettered by commercial constraints. We celebrate heroic failures – those films with creative ambitions that sometimes outrun their technical abilities. To this end, we are launching the first GSFF Short Film Pitch, in partnership with Production Attic. Production Attic is a creative video production company based in Glasgow with clients across the UK. Production Attic was founded in 2011 to make awesome, cinematic films. Over the years they've collected a lot of great filmmaking equipment, which they want to see used as much as possible. GSFF and Production Attic invite submissions of short film treatments. The filmmakers behind the most exciting five treatments will be invited to pitch their projects in an open session, to a panel of filmmakers and industry experts. The panel will offer full and frank feedback. They will select one project to receive seven consecutive days’ free hire of equipment courtesy of Production Attic, plus £400 in cash courtesy of Glasgow Short Film Festival.

PANELLISTS INCLUDE: Ciara Barry Producer and company director at Barry Crerar Ltd. Recipient of BFI Vision Awards 2016. Previously worked with Mallinson Television Productions,Brocken Spectre, DigiCult and STV Commercial. Has worked with Rachel Maclean, Henry Coombes and Scott Graham. Matthew Cowan Production Attic's Creative Director, oversees the creative output of Production Attic, directing and shooting many of their corporate work and short films. Has produced many films with the equipment Production Attic are providing. Nic Crum Producer at Blazing Griffin. First feature film Anna and the Apocalypse has just finished principal photography. Also produced the micro budget feature All the Ordinary Angels, as well as numerous short films including the award winning Hole. Massimiliano Nardulli Short film programmer and advisor for several festivals including Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland), Festival Européen du Film Court de Brest(France), Arcipelago, Festival Internazionale di cinema e nuove immagini (Rome, Italy), Piemonte Movie (Torino, Italy) Lakino - Latin American Short Film Festival Berlin (Germany). Free entry to all passholders

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FILM GOIRID: MAKING SHORTS IN GAELIC

SCREEN ACADEMY SCOTLAND PRESENTS: GIRLS ON FILM!

Friday 17 March (14.45) CCA Clubroom // 1h15m

Friday 17 March (16.30) CCA Clubroom // 1h15m

There are sixty thousand Gaelic speakers in Scotland, and the recent surge in interest in Gaelic medium education in Glasgow and Edinburgh suggests this can only increase. Gaelic speakers have a dedicated TV channel, but with the exception of the entry level Film G competition, there is currently little support for cinematic filmmaking in Gaelic. Join Patsi MacKenzie, Sorbier Productions, Margaret Cameron, MG Alba, and Claudia Yusef, Scottish Film Talent Network, as they discuss the prospects for Gaelic filmmakers, and hear from Jason Ryle of imagineNATIVE Film Festival on the parallels with indigenous film communities around the world.

Women directors have their highest representation at GSFF this year. 26 of the 52 films in competition were directed or co-directed by women. Why is this still unusual? Come join our panel of talented directors, all showcasing their films in competition at GSFF this year. What motivates them creatively, where do they get their inspiration and how they are contributing to our cultural landscape?

Free entry to all passholders

Robin Haig, director, Hula (Scottish Competition 1)

Chair: Karen Kelly, Directors UK Participants: Sam Firth, director, Creeling (Scottish Competition 1)

Kelly Holmes, director, Family Portrait (Scottish Competition 2) Stefanie Kolk, director, Clan (International Competition 1) Free entry to all passholders

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ALL4 BRIEFING

SCALARAMA: I WANT TO BE A CINEMA

Friday 17 March (15.15) CCA Theatre // 1h

Sunday 19 March (13.00) CCA Theatre // 2h

All 4 is the on demand channel from Channel 4. With an increasing commitment to new and original programming, All 4 is aiming to become a destination-of-choice in its own right, no longer just a catch-up service. All 4’s original commissions are aimed primarily – but not exclusively – at a 16–24 British audience. The commissioners look for gutsy, entertaining, compelling pieces that talk to, and have something to say about, contemporary youth culture. Meet some of the Commissioning team behind All 4 and ask them some questions about their brief.

Scalarama is the UK’s biggest alternative film season, celebrating cinema every September. Come along to this special session to find out more about the season's opportunities and how to put on a screening as part of the Glasgow regional group.

Free entry to all passholders

The event will feature an introduction to Scalarama, an overview of last year’s Glasgow events and discussion about this year’s season. Open to all and all are welcome – individuals, exhibitors, filmmakers, programmers, artists, musicians – expert or absolute beginner. If you're interested in screening a film, putting on an event or just helping out, come along. Free entry, no ticket required

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MEET THE FILMMAKERS

Sunday 19 March (17.15) CCA Clubroom // 2h All Scottish and International competition screenings will include brief Q&As with the filmmakers attending. However, once all the competition programmes have screened, but before the winners are announced, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your chance to participate in an informal discussion session with some of the filmmakers attending the festival, led by Festival Director Matt Lloyd. Free entry, no ticket required

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INDEX BY TITLE 425 Calories

Control Master, The

489 Years

Creeling 18

Hunchback, The

500,000 Years

Cryptozoologist, The

I Am Not A Mouse

9 Days – From My Window In Aleppo

Distances Between, The

90 Degrees North

Accordion, The

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CZ06 59

Hula 19 33 107

I Was Five When I Became A Woman

Distribution 37

I, Philip

Duality 3

I'm Not From Here

Afronauts 46

Ears, Nose and Throat

Illinois Parables, The

Agreement, The

Eat My Shit

Import 26

Alexithymia

Ecstatic Experience, An

Impossible Figures and Other Stories II

In The Distance

Alike 104

Edmond 97

Amalimbo 94

European Showerbath, The

Amateurist, The

Exercise in Discipline: Peel, An

Ampersand 91

fabulous wonder.land

Approaching Reality

Ashes to Ashes

Faggotgirl Gets Busy in the Bathroom

Inbox 61 Indefinite 89 Inside 85

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Invaders 86

Jam! 85

Ashnaise 87

Family Portrait

Away With The Land

Fantasy 85

Jazz and Poetry

First Person Shooter

Jazz Is Our Religion

Joy of Everyday Life, The

Back-to-Work 58 Bargain 58

First Snow

Bat Time

Five Angels

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34 105 65

Just Me

101

Bathtub, The

Flora and Mark

Kadambari 28

Batrachian’s Ballad

Flow Country

Kaiju Bunraku

Kaleidogasm 3

Killer Recipe

Blizzard 81 Blocus 138 – Innu Resistance

Bloodland 69 Bloody Barbara Body Memory

85 87

Bolero 91 Borderline 22 Borders 75 Breaking of the Stone, The

Brief History of Princess X, A

Bruar 80 Bubblegum 33 Choreomania 43 Circuit, The

Clan 26 Clitoris, The Committee, The

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Fucking Bunnies Fullness Of Time (Romance), The

Kiss, The Kitchen Soap

102

Gabey and Mike: A Jewish Summer Camp Love Story

Knife/Tape/Rope 87

Gates of Life

Las Palmas

Glazin' 76

Last Equinox, The

Goodbye, The

Green Screen Gringo

Last Leatherman of the Vale of Cashmere, The

Greylag 21

Last Request

Guardian, The

Last Supper, The

Hacked Circuit

Lawes of the Marches, The

Have Heart

Life Cycles

Home (1998)

Limbo 99

Home (2016)

Lion and the Unicorn, The

Honeymoon 102

Long Live the Emperor

How to Abandon Ship

Lost Community

63 35 102

LOVE 32

Premature 61

Time and the Wave

Make Up Tutorial

Private Parts

Together â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Parallel Universe

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Man 21

Pudge 86

Tom's Breakfast

Man Returned, A

Pussy 74

Tonsure, La

Pussy Have The Power

TPJ 85

27, 96

Man Who Kept Hearing His Name Getting Called Out, The

Real Life Exp.

Triangulation 91

Manufactured Britishness

Real Thing, The

Tuesday 20

Marathon Diary, The

106

Record/Record 23

Turtle Terminator, The

Maria 30

Red Herring, The

V Day

MeTube2 August Sings Carmina Burana 79

Reindeer Caught In The Headlights

Mia' 72

Waiting For Happiness

Renaming of PKOLS, The

Microwave, The

Wall, The

Repercussions 70

Mobile Cinema

Wapawekka 72

Rolls and Shutters

105

Versions 101

Molar 88

We All Love The Seashore

Rubber Guillotine

77, 87

Mrs Sparkle

Saddest Boy in the World, The

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation

41, 84

What is Femme Anyway?

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My Deadly, Beautiful City

100 29

Needle 45

Samedi Cinema

What Tears Us Apart

Niagara 71

Self Help Dance

Where We Are Now

No One Is Thirsty

Shooting Star

Whitecap 91

Northleach Horror, The

Silent Laughs

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Nosey 19

Simpler Life, A

Not Even Nothing Can Be Free Of Ghosts Note on Multitude

Who Are We?

Whose Flag Is It?

Sirmilik 71 37

Wrong End of the Stick, The

Slip 87

Small Talk

You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowksi

50 84

Novae 91

SNARE 70

You Ruined It

Octopus 104

Some Will Forget

Your Art Is Shit

Oh What a Wonderful Feeling

Sparkle 100

Oka 103

Stand Up

Onni 43

Steve Hates Fish

Orchid Head

Still Life On Face

Passion 60

Strip, The

Peanut Butter

Subtotal 59

86 105

Peel 45

Such is Life

Perched 107

Symphony No 42

Perfect Darkness

Take Your Partners

Perfect Place, The

Ten Metre Tower

Things Don't Fit

Planemo 35

ZOO Story

Plumber, The

This River

Portrait of Ga, A

Three Dimensions of Time

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INDEX BY DIRECTOR Gabriel Abrantes

Dennis & Debbie Club

Ibro Hasanović

Maite Alberdi

Mamadou Dia

Matthew Hellett

Will Anderson

Douwe Dijkstra

Ian Hendry

Germán Andrés López

Tim Divall

Rose Hendry

Hanna Arvela

Mattis Dovier

Nick Higgins

Richard Ashrowan

Robert Duncan

Ross Hogg

Lysander Ashton

Marius Ektvedt

Kelly Holmes

Shawn Bannon

David Ellington

102

Hu Wei

Gregor Barclay

Stuart Elliott

Fred Huergo

Beagles & Ramsay

Samuel Ellison

Matt Hulse

Hanne Berkaak

33, 75

80, 81, 83

Tim Ellrich

Ben Hunter

Darren Emerson

Lenka Ivančíková

Violeta Blasco Caño

Gunhild Enger

Frances Bodomo

Keina Espiñeira

Lisa Jackson

Maja Borg

Kevin Jerome Everson

François Jaros

Matteo Borgardt

Bryan M. Ferguson

Kristoffer Borgli

Victoria Fiore

Lisa Brooke Hansen

Sam Firth

Aaron Brown

Mahdi Fleifel

Joya Berrow

Réka Bucsi Christine Bylund

106

67 100

32, 42

77, 87

Robert Jack

John Jeremy

Bhasmang Joshi

Miranda July

27, 96

Baris Karamuco

Méryl Fortunat-Rossi

Matthew Kennedy

101 37

Nina Gantz

Rainer Kohlberger

David Cairns

Ben Garfield

Stefanie Kolk

Terril Calder

Ja'Tovia Gary

Daniel Koren

Renata Gąsiorowska

Chetan V. Kotabage

Anahita Ghazvinizadeh

Konstantina Kotzamani

Natalia Kouneli

Jane Campion Rafa Cano Méndez

101

32, 58, 59, 60, 61

21 105

104

Dylan Carter

Anna Ginsburg

Eduardo Casanova

Evgenia Golubeva

Graeme Cassels

Lindsay Goodall

Chih-Peng Lucas Kao

Jasper Coppes

Manon Coubia

103

Zacharias Kunuk

Jason Kupfer

Danis Goulet

Hayoun Kwon

Detsky Graffam

Samuel Lampaert

Peter Greenaway

Michael Langan

Duncan Cowles

Ruth Grimberg

CJ Lazaretti

Kristina Cranfeld

Florian Grolig

Réal Junior Leblanc

Ivan D'Antonio

Jaime Habac Jr.

Gyuri Cloe Lee

Ely Dagher

Even Hafnor

Leevi Lemmetty

Axel Danielson

Robin Haig

Matt Lenski

Katie Davies

Steye Hallema

Lucas Leyva

29, 76

Steven Davies

Bracken Hanuse Corlett

Juan Pablo Libossart

Simone De Liberato

Liam Harris

Ingejan Ligthart Schenk

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105

Sanna Liljander

Joseph Pierce

Hannes Vartiainen

Greg Loser

Veljko Popovic

Pekka Veikkolainen

Duncan Macdonald

William Raban

Katherena Vermette

Rachel Maclean

Lucie Rachel

Volodymyr Vlasenko

Erika MacPherson

Beagles & Ramsay

Thomas Vroege

Aude Léa Rapin

Elena Walf

Keir Reed

Adam Welch

Ben Rivers

Charlotte Wells

Krissy Mahan Lori Malépart-Traversy Vicente Mallols

101 75 106

106

Stephanie Mann

Michael Robertson

Chadwick Whitehead

Stephanie Markowitz

Siri Rodnes

Simon Wilkinson

Clara Roquet

Aimie Willemse

Angélica Sánchez Martínez

Stina Wirfelt

El Popo Sangre

Run Wrake

Jack Scott

Lyubo Yonchev

Daniel Martínez Lara Terri Matthews Jillian Mayer

104 78 29, 76

78 100

David McCarrison

Paul McGinnness

Ena Sendijarevic

Veronika Zacharová

Robin McKay

Xavier Seron

Pierre Zandrowicz

Morag McKinnon

Erin Shea

Claudia Zegarra P.

Chelsea McMullan

Lovisa Sirén

Giedrė Žickytė

Chai Siris

Pim Zwier

Laura-Jane McRae Ronit Meranda Grace Mi Paul Miller

102 85 103

John Smith Rory Alexander Stewart

Karen Stokkendal Poulsen

Deborah Stratman

Elizabeth Mizon

Amanda Strong

Daniel Moshel

Charlie Swinbourne

Daniel Mulloy

Maryam Tafakory

Carlotta Napolitano

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Ms Naughty

Margaret Tait

Maaike Neuville

Leonor Teles

Shelley Niro

Jenni Toivoniemi

72 102

26 32, 61

Teemu Niukkanen

Cecilia Torquato

Johannes Nyholm

Issa Touma

Bernard Ong

104

Jamie Travis

41, 84

Phillip Van

85, 87

Marie-Pier Ottawa

Maximilien van Aertryck

Marta Pajek

Floor van der Meulen

Jafar Panahi

Louis van Gasteren

Jamille van Wijngaarden

Thomas Vanz

Ryan Pasi Louis Paxton

80, 82 43

32, 64

Alexis Mitchell

Julia Ocker

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