Your tip sheet for navigating this yearâs online Glasgow Film Festival.
22 February 2021
Minari (2020)
Last yearâs Glasgow Film Festival was one of the final film festivals in the world to proceed as planned as an in-person event, concluding just 3 days before the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic. In the 11 months since, British film festivals have shifted to largely online models, with some physical cinema arrangements depending on their timing in relation to eased restrictions.Â
GFF 2021 â taking place from 24 February to 7 March â was planned to be a locally physical and nationally digital hybrid in the spirit of last Octoberâs London Film Festival. In light of current lockdown measures that hasnât been possible, yet Glasgowâs now fully online programme remains an exciting prospect. The selection may be much smaller in quantity compared with a traditional edition, but the quality in the curation
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twice, as COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on the UK film exhibition scene. While the 2020 festival took place during the pandemic, it was mostly curated beforehand, meaning GSFF will be able to address our changed world more directly in its lineup this year.
“We have been able to let our programme respond to both the virtual context as well as the wider conversations and collective needs that have come into focus over this pandemic,” says Sanne Jehoul, GSFF s co-director. “That has led to a programme which offers audiences more flexibility and complementary elements, such as our podcast episodes which provide additional context for and engagement wit
GLASGOW Film Festival (GFF) will this year feature Welcome To, a programme of films and events, with a focus on black Scottish films, filmmakers and history, from March 4 to 6. Programmed by Tomiwa Folorunso and Natasha Ruwona, the programme focuses on and attempts to collate some of the many contributions made by black people in Scotland, as well as bringing to the forefront the presences of those who have and do walk the land. Welcome To will screen six films, a mix of shorts and feature-lengths, divided into two main focuses. The first, Welcome To: A Focus On Black Women Filmmakers, will showcase Adura Onashile’s 2020 short, Expensive Shit, which follows a Nigerian toilet attendant desperate for survival forced to manipulate unsuspecting women for men watching from behind a two-way mirror in a Glasgow club.
Mexican femicide short drama
The Road Is A Red Thread has won the top prize at 16 Days 16 Films, the short film competition aimed at raising awareness of gender-based violence.
The short, directed by
Mexico’s Melissa Elizondo Moreno, centres on femicide – the murder of women because they are women – and draws attention to the thousands who ‘disappear’ each year in Mexico.
The award, announced on Wednesday in London via a streamed online event, includes a cash prize of £2,000 ($2,700) and the opportunity for Moreno to create a new public service announcement for UK Says No More, a national campaign focused on raising awareness and preventing domestic abuse and sexual violence in the UK.