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These films were shown in number of short showcases (indicated after the film in italics)
- Image is Memory
- Bridging the Gap
- Film is Resistance!
- Satellites
- Scotland - Acceptance
- Scotland - Generations
- Time Passes Me
- Youth Shorts: Exploring Boundaries
- Youth Shorts: New Visions - This showcase was a contest for filmmakers, aged 14 to 25, with films announced on the day
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Boys Night and Nefta Football Club
Afronte
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2017; Director: Bruno Victor, Marcus Azevedo)
Film is Resistance!
A stirring portrait of Victor Hugo, the activist whose self-organised community brings together Afrofuturist thinking, radical identity politics and anti-colonialist activism to create a place of visibility and positivity for queer people of colour in Brazil.
Ajo
(Country: Kosovo; Year: 2018; Director: More Raca)
Constellations
In order to escape from an arranged marriage, spirited teen Zana formulates an ingenious escape plan.
Alien Culture
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2018; Director: Iesh Thapar; Writer: Iesh Thapar; Stars: Matt Bhar, Neil D'Souza, Reiss Kershi, Elijah Khan, Sagar Radia, Aled ap Steffan, Matt Bhar, Neil D'Souza, Reiss Kershi, Elijah Khan, Sagar Radia, Aled ap Steffan)
Satellites
West London, 1979: Two brothers of British-Asian identity navigate the complex challenges brought to the fore by the racial tensions rife within society.
Altsasu (Kaixo Txiki)
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Eoin Wilson)
Bridging The Gap
In the Basque town of Altsasu, a mother copes with the Spanish state’s controversial and lengthy imprisonment of her son and six other young people.
...And So We Start Again
(Country: Japan, US; Year: 2019; Director: Ei Toshinari, Duy Nguyen; Stars: Motonori Toshinari, Mihoko Toshinari, Derek Miao, Marie Miao, Chloe Ao Miao, Tom Thom)
Image is Memory
Sound and image overlap to delirious effect in this dreamlike meditation upon the transience of memory, and the slow drift of passing time.
Anna At The Cemetery
(Country: US, Canada; Year: 2019; Director: Eduardo Lucatero)
Youth Shorts: Exploring Boundaries
Why is Anna so obsessed with cemeteries?
August Sun (Sol De Agosto)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2018; Director: Franco Volpi; Writer: Franco Volpi; Stars: Miguel Di Lemme, Silvina Sabater, Miguel Di Lemme, Silvina Sabater)
Time Passes Me
Javier finds himself in his hometown of Buenos Aires. Following his father's death, he helps his ailing mother, who suffers from a bipolar disorder, in settling a legal dispute with her medical insurance.
Belonging
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Rory Bentley; Writer: Rory Bentley; Stars: Oliver Bodur, Julia Cranney, Aliya Ali, Joanna Wake)
Scotland - Acceptance
A young boy questions his new environment and cultural identity following a family tragedy.
Beside The Water, 1999-2004
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Finn Paul)
Film is Resistance!
An intensely powerful celebration of queer bodies and lives, and a rousing process of communal archiving that reclaims the stories and narratives of trans people that have been erased historically.
Beyond the North Winds: A Post Nuclear Reverie
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Natalie Cubides-Brady)
Satellites
Hybrid documentary about the search for a man who mysteriously disappeared while investigating a Scottish nuclear reactor.
Bin Day
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Becky Manson)
Time Passes Me
An intimate portrayal of an old man that follows his daily routine.
A Black Hole Is A Black Hole In The Ground
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Sophia Feuer, Tyler Macri)
Image is Memory
An intimate immersion into the sensorial landscapes of a disparate cohort of youngsters, whose playful explorations offer a portal into their strange, ephemeral realities.
Blood
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Christos Kardana; Stars: Sonny Hardy, Trevor White, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Katie Brayben)
Youth Shorts: Exploring Boundaries
A teenage boxing prodigy, torn between his feelings and fierce family loyalties, has a panic attack minutes before his big fight.
Boys Night
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: James Price; Writer: James Price; Stars: Kyle Gordon, Cameron Jack, Kirsty Strain, Felicity Allen, Alan Mackenzie, Helen Curry, Melvin Jack, Jordan O'Hara, Conor McCarron, Kyle Gordon, Cameron Jack, Kirsty Strain, Felicity Allen, Alan Mackenzie, Helen Curry)
Twelve-year-old Reese must brave the mean and marvellous streets of North East Glasgow to bring his drunken father safely home.
Scotland - Generations
By A Hair
(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Yvonnick Muller, Lauriane Escaffre; Stars: Gregory Gadebois, Madeleine Baudot, Brigitte Mauger)
Youth Shorts: Exploring Boundaries
In three days, Elodie is sitting an exam to get her beauty therapy diploma. Her father, Christophe, a butcher, would like more help from his daughter in the butcher shop. For now, Elodie has another problem: she must find a model – a model with hair – to pass her exam.
Catman's Greenock
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: James K Beaton, Leo Bruges; Writer: James K Beaton, Leo Bruges, Shaun Shalom)
Satellites
In Greenock, on the west coast of Scotland, a curious creature leads us on a journey through the underside of a post-industrial town fallen on hard times.
Chopin
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2018; Director: Tris Vonna-Michel)
Radical Archives
Experimental consideration of sound poet Henri Chopin.
Dark Road
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Rory Gibson; Writer: Rory Gibson)
Scotland - Acceptance
In a confined community, two young men are drawn towards one another through their shared grief.
Duck Daze
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Alison Piper; Writer: Julia Taudevin; Stars: Daniela Nardini, Dolina MacLennan, Tam Dean Burn, Anna Hepburn, Lauren Malcolm)
Johnina gets revenge on her childhood abuser and the community that enabled him, with the help of a duck.
Scotland - Acceptance
Edge Of Red
(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Callie Mae Nichole Lyons; Writer: Callie Mae Nichole Lyons; Stars: Callie Mae Nichole Lyons, Simon Kigwana, Aniyah Harbin, Loraine Lyons, Jordan Wells, Charles Lyons, Nathaniel X. Smith, Orlando King, Javian King, Doris White, Robert Green, Jerald Vann, Quentin Porter, Jeff Hillman, Shameka Davis)
Haunting The Image
A non-linear short that follows a six-year-old as she tries to make sense of her identity and connection to spirituality.
Educated
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Tom Nicoll; Writer: Tom Nicoll; Stars: Silvie Furneaux, Stephen McMillan, Jamie Michie, Silvie Furneaux, Stephen McMillan, Jamie Michie)
Scotland - Acceptance
After a strange encounter with his seemingly benign teacher, an isolated school boy must decide how to negotiate this contentious and intriguing relationship.
The Egg And The Thieving Pie
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Lola Blanche Higgins; Writer: Lola Blanche Higgins; Stars: Ian Cairns, Noma Dumezweni, Ralph Ineson, Gemma Jones, Anna Maxwell Martin)
Scotland - Acceptance
A community police officer investigating a theft encounters some surreal animalistic exchanges.
Enceindre
(Country: UK, Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Luke Fowler)
Radical Archives
A study in of two 16th century fortified cities: Berwick, England and Pamplona in Navarre, Spain.
Farmland
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Niamh McKeown; Writer: Niamh McKeown; Stars: Isobella Hubbard, Sarah Miele, Eilidh Fisher, Lewis Gribben, Alex Morrison)
Scotland - Generations
Sibling rivalry takes a deadly turn after the reading of a father's will.
Fucked Like A Star
(Country: US, Haiti; Year: 2018; Director: Stefani Saintonge)
Film is Resistance!
A meditation upon female-centred labour activities and the frequently unseen or undervalued nature of such toils. Set to the potent words of Toni Morrison, Saintonge implores us to look beneath the surface and to celebrate the narratives hidden therein.
The Grab
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Deva Palmier; Writer: Mandy Lee; Stars: Shaniaz Hama Ali, Amrou Al-Kadhi, Adam Lannon, Melissa Jean Woodside, Marcus Hutton)
Satellites
In a relationship between a couple enacted in cyberspace, one partner becomes subject to ever more coercive demands.
Hydebank
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Ross McClean)
Bridging the Gap
Situated in South Belfast, Hydebank Wood houses 94 young male offenders. Ryan is currently serving a 10-year sentence and has formed an unlikely bond with a flock of sheep currently living inside the prison walls.
I Am TX
(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Ryan Darbonne; Writer: Ryan Darbonne; Stars: Audrey Campbell, Jonathan Horstmann, Greg Williams, Audrey Campbell, Jonathan Horstmann, Greg Williams)
Constellations
A lively night on the road with a punk trio of colour. They just want to play music, but constant curveballs are generated by the casual racism they encounter from their supposedly ‘woke’ peers.
I Remember Ashes (Vzpominam Na Popel)
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2019; Director: Graham Phillips Turner; Writer: Scott Sweitzer, Graham Phillips Turner; Stars: Gabriel Kibardin, Lucie Bohata)
Constellations
A mischievous duo run amok in the Czech countryside.
The Jarariju Sisters (Soeurs Jarariju)
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2019; Director: Jorge Cadena; Writer: Li Aparicio, Jorge Cadena; Stars: Rosa Jarariyu, Viviana Uriana Jarariyu, Yandris Uriana Jarariyu, Wilson Sapuana, Rosa Jarariyu, Viviana Uriana Jarariyu, Yandris Uriana Jarariyu, Wilson Sapuana)
Haunting The Image
In a polluted landscape, two teenage sisters plan to run away.
Jealous Alan
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Martin Clark; Writer: Martin Clark; Stars: Ryan Hunter, Jack Stewart, Elysia Welch, Ryan Hunter, Jack Stewart, Elysia Welch)
Scotland - Generations
Alan, Stuart and Angela are inseparable teenage misfits. When Alan discovers Stuart and Angela are secretly going out, he deviously foils their budding union.
Jupiter
(Country: Germany; Year: 2019; Director: Benjamin Pfohl; Stars: Greta Bohacek, Cosima Shaw, Kai Ivo Baulitz)
Youth Shorts: Exploring Boundaries
As a comet threatens Earth, a shy teenage girl has to make a decision. Should she pursue her own path on Earth or follow her parents, members of a cosmic cult, in undergoing a fatal procedure that will lead to a higher existence on Jupiter?
KG
(Country: Greece; Year: 2018; Director: Cynthia Madansky)
Film is Resistance!
A performative inhabitation of the empty, scarred streets of Athens, harnessing radical political energies both contemporary and historical. Accompanied by the remarkable improvisations of musician Zeena Parkins.
Lefty/Righty
(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Max Walker-Silverman; Writer: Max Walker-Silverman; Stars: Charlotte Delpit Hacke, Marty Grace Dennis, Sam Engbring, Greg Hope, Hagen Kearney, Harry Kearney, Lewis Pullman)
Constellations
A divorced rancher makes a last visit to his ailing father’s bedside, accompanied by his estranged six-year-old daughter.
Let's Roll
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Chris Thomas; Writer: Allan MacLeod; Stars: Jethro Aukin, Joe Birch-Scanlan, Amy Bowden, Joel James Davison, Cameron Fraser, Nish Nathwani, Zara Ramm, David Seymour)
Scotland - Acceptance
A teenager defies her mother by training in secret for a town’s dangerous tradition to try and live up to her brother’s past successes.
The Line
(Year: 2018; Director: Melisa Resch; Writer: Melisa Resch; Stars: Bex Taylor Klaus, Hayley Law, Jason Stuart, Toy Lei, Siya)
Constellations
Drama highlighting the crucial importance of women’s agency over their own bodies and the power of community organisation.
Lucky Star
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Russell Davidson; Writer: Russell Davidson; Stars: Amy Manson, Gerard Miller, Adam Mitchell, Sheila Grier, Cal Macaninch)
Scotland - Generations
1980s Glasgow: As his family disintegrates around him, the only thing on eight-year-old Jonjo’s mind is getting his prized He Man figure for Christmas.
Monument
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Tom Chick; Stars: Peter Jewell, Denna Cartamkhoob, Bruno Cartamkhoob Chick)
Image is Memory
A tapestry of beautifully observed images and fragments of sound. Everyday moments are presented as both delicate and precious, and a parallel is drawn between the wonder at the advent of early cinema and the birth of a child.
Moth
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Ewa Luczkow)
Time Passes Me
Moth follows eight-year-old Mabil as she escapes the troubles of her family through her vivid daydreams and imaginary moth friend.
My Name Is Anik
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Bircan Birol)
Bridging the Gap
How many stories can one language hold? A Kurdish grandmother and her granddaughter set off on a journey to reclaim their once-banned mother tongue.
Nefertiti
(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Valerie Schenkman; Writer: Valerie Schenkman; Stars: Maria Huyghue, Eric Wright, Nefertiti Matos)
Constellations
The experiences of Nefertiti, a young sight-impaired woman, as she navigates the challenges of both the physical and emotional world around her.
Nefta Football Club
(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Yves Piat; Stars: Eltayef Dhaoui, Mohamed Ali Ayari, Lyes Salem, Hichem Mesbah)
In the south of Tunisia, two football-fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border of Algeria. Strangely, the animal wears headphones over its ears.
Youth Shorts: Exploring Boundaries
Never Actually Lost
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Rowan Ings)
Scotland - Generations
An experimental archive film, exploring how we forget and how we remember. Suffering from dementia, Audrey attempts to recount stories behind her rich archival library of home video, shot in and around Glasgow.
One, Yellow, You Will Marry A Handsome Fellow
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Ted Fisher; Writer: Ted Fisher; Stars: Katrine Haagh Thuesen, Lucas Ray, Mango Sheridan, Tomas Sheridan, Jennifer Williams, Katrine Haagh Thuesen, Lucas Ray, Mango Sheridan, Tomas Sheridan, Jennifer Williams)
Time Passes Me
What if you could pull your long-forgotten memories from the hazy past and hold them again in your hands? Three adults are asked to play a childhood game and remember their early dreams and desires. As they step into the past, they look again at their hopes for the future.
Pirate Boys
(Country: Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Pol Merchan; Stars: Del LaGrace Volcano, Eric Llaveria, Henri Steeg)
Film is Resistance!
The queer traces within the writing of Kathy Acker provide a framework through which to revel in the subversive and empowering act of gender experimentation.
A Portrait Of The Artist Angus Fairhurst
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Saam Farahmand; Writer: Daniel Kanaber; Stars: Ferdinand Kingsley, David Whitney, Graham Vanas, Joseph Capp, Olivia Morgan, Jack Daw)
Satellites
Artist Fairhurst’s Dada provocations aggregated in the piece ‘Gallery Connections’ in which he mischievously connected telephone calls between the major galleries of London, rendering them the helpless target of his surreal joke.
Red Film
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Sara Cwynar)
Radical Archives
Critiques the pressures on women to conform and consume.
Rooftop Refugee
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Alexandra Brodski; Writer: Alexandra Brodski, Rebecca Martin; Stars: Ammar Haj Ahmad, Cameron Campbell, Neil D'Souza, Emma Davies, Brooke Haynes, Tylan Hernandez, Lorraine Hilton, Dino Kelly, Vince Leigh, Nick Malinowski, Anya McKenna-Bruce, Mimi Ndiweni, Madeleine O'Sullivan, Emmanuel Owusu-Boachie, Omar Tibi)
Time Passes Me
A comedy that follows Martha as she attends her daughter Kylie's annual summer performance. The event is thrown into chaos by Mehdi, a young Syrian refugee boy who is threatening to jump from the school rooftop.
The Sea Runs Thru My Veins
(Country: Germany, France, Greece, Portugal; Year: 2018; Director: Zara Zandieh; Stars: Llanquiray Valioska Painemal Morales, Sabuha Salam, Amir Zandieh, Neomi Ilan)
Film is Resistance!
The concept of personal happiness is explored through the oral testimonies of four individuals, whose journeys navigate and intersect migrant, political and queer narratives.
Second Generation
(Country: Canada; Year: 2019; Director: Miryam Charles; Stars: Thuy Hang Duong, Eliza Bonnel)
Image is Memory
The structural power of language and the continued reverberations of colonialism are inferred through a series of typewritten letters between parted lovers.
Short Round-Up
(Country: Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Nobu Adilman; Writer: Nobu Adilman; Stars: Nobu Adilman)
Constellations
In 1983, Adilman auditioned to play the role of Indiana Jones’ intrepid sidekick in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Not having made the grade, Nobu now searches for all the other youngsters who auditioned.
Souvenir
(Country: Germany, Netherlands; Year: 2019; Director: Miriam Gossing, Lina Sieckmann)
Haunting The Image
Documentary featuring interviews with seamen's widows.
The Spirit Keepers Of Makuta'ay
(Country: Canada; Year: 2019; Director: Lin Yen-Chao; Writer: Lin Yen-Chao)
Haunting The Image
Travels through villages on the east coast of Taiwan, where nature, colonisation and population migration merge to create a unique spiritual landscape.
Stalker
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Christopher Andrews; Stars: Sean McGinley, Martin McCann, Ewan Mitchell, Brid Brennan)
Scotland - Generations
In the remote forests of the Scottish Highlands, an ageing stalker sets his wits and grit against a young poacher, who is taking the heads of his best stags.
Temple Of Truth
(Country: US, Germany, Italy; Year: 2018; Director: Giuseppe Boccassini)
Radical Archives
Collage of repurposed archive material drawn from the Chicago Film Archives.
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Hannah Currie)
Bridging The Gap
Can Lindsay's love for husband Paul sustain her through the trauma of his brain injury, which leaves him in a perpetual loop of joke telling?
Toli Toli
(Country: Guadeloupe; Year: 2018; Director: Minia Biabiany)
Haunting The Image
Evocation of a forgotten past told through a song that was part of a children's game on an island of Guadeloupe.
Vertical Shapes In A Horizontal Landscape
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Mark Jenkin)
Image is Memory
Vignettes from a Super 8 road trip to Derek Jarman’s cottage in Dungeness. The resonant elements uncovered in the landscape offered in celebration of Jarman’s fiercely independent creative vision.
Vivir Bailando
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Inma de Reyes)
Bridging the Gap
When Cari (79) became a widow, she lost both the love of her life and her dancing companion. But she is a phenomenal woman who bounces back with wit, make-up and music. On meeting Vicente (80) she gets a second chance at teenage love, even if it means living in isolation.
Wax And Feathers
(Country: UK, Cyprus; Year: 2018; Director: Marios Lizides)
Satellites; Time Passes Me
The filmmaker searches for a tangible sense of his father in fragments of memories and dreams.
Winter Bees
(Country: Austria, Japan; Year: 2018; Director: Josephine Ahnelt)
Image is Memory
Cinema as self-reflection. A disorientating year spent in a faraway place is charted, reflected upon and elucidated through the process of image-making.
Yulia & Juliet
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2018; Director: Zara Dwinger; Stars: Sara Luna Zoric, Dylan Jongejans, Dionne Verwey, Agnes Montecinos Muñoz)
Youth Shorts: Exploring Boundaries
Yulia and Juliet, both 16, are locked up in a closed juvenile detention centre. Despite their circumstances, they feel like they can take on anything together. They’re in love. Nothing can hurt them when they’re together.
Zero
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: The brothers Lynch; Stars: Bella Ramsey, Nigel O’Niell, Danny Shooter, James Oliver Wheatley)
Youth Shorts: Exploring Boundaries
After a mysterious electromagnetic pulse renders the world’s technology useless, a young girl finds herself isolated and alone with only her father’s strict set of rules to keep her alive.
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