Glasgow Short Film Festival are delighted to announce our revised 2020 programme. This special online-only event – our 12th and a half edition – does not include the full programme we intended to present back in March. Instead we are placing our competition selections – the six programmes of the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film and one of our strongest ever Scottish Short Film Competition lineups – under the spotlight. Each programme includes exclusive filmmaker interviews, bringing context to our cross-section of the most vibrant new cinema from Scotland and across the world. The online festival will also include a focus on Thai filmmaker Sorayos Prapapan, thematic programmes Black Spatial Imaginaries and Urban Palimpsests, the early shorts of Japanese auteur Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, and so much more.
We are supplementing the programme with discussion events and a specially-curated opening programme showcasing the UK premiere of In the Company of Insects, a brand-new film by one of our favourite filmmakers, Duncan Cowles. We are collaborating with Short Waves Festival in Poland on two industry panels and a spotlight on animator Tomasz Popakul, whose unique visions of alienation seem particularly well suited to our times.
This online edition provides the perfect opportunity for viewers unfamiliar with short film to get to grips with the format. The Skinny’s Best of the Decade programme is a great primer of contemporary Scottish filmmaking, whilst our selection of award-winning European Film Academy titles brings critically acclaimed titles from across Europe to UK audiences. Meanwhile our comedy and horror programmes should satisfy your hunger for late-night thrills, and our ever-popular family animation programme will be accompanied by an exclusive online animation workshop by Kate Burton.