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Glasgow Short Film Festival · 2021

Glasgow Short Film Festival 2021

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Programme

8 films

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Ancestral Houses

A personal essay film, which was shot over five years and explores the abandoned houses of the filmmaker’s hometown and the stories contained within.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Simon Aeppli)

Apartment Tour With Mary Florence Brown

Mary is an art director from Northern Ireland who now lives in Hollywood, LA. Here she takes us on a tour of her apartment.

(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Julia Fiona Brown)

Chapter And Verse...

A plain clothed police woman was injured when the rear window of the blue sedan was smashed in. This piece of film was confiscated, speeded up, slowed down and used in evidence.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Alex Monteith)

Eden

Eden, in Northern Ireland, shares few of the qualities of its namesake. It exists around the perimeter fence of one of Ireland's largest power stations.

(Country: UK; Year: 2002; Director: Simon Aeppli)

Legacy

A journey into the collective gut of cats and Northern Ireland, exploring the lasting impact of violence and the domestication of trauma. It suggests that we all carry the virus.

(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Michael Barwise)

Strength In The Hope Hunt

An intimate practice piece from Oona Doherty in the lead up to Hard to be Soft – A Belfast Prayer, The Guardian’s number one dance show of 2019.

(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Oona Doherty)

tessies

A film shot in Tessie Dorman’s shebeen in east Tyrone, a place of exile for thinker and escapist since before living memory, since redeveloped, legally licenced, now closed down.

(Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2001; Director: Seamus Harahan)

Trouble

A personal account of an estranged father set against the Northern Ireland conflict.

(Country: US, UK; Year: 2019; Director: Mariah Garnett; Stars: Robyn Reihill, Mariah Garnett)