June 2014 Screenings in The Glad Cafe

We have a busy June ahead-check out our upcoming screenings in The Glad Cafe

Wed 4 June
Bullhead/ Rundskop (124mins, Cert 15, 2012
8pm (doors 7.30pm)
£6/£5 conc -on the door only, no advance sales  

A steroid-fueled cattle farmer finds that his decision to do business with the Belgian cattle-hormone mafia could have potentially deadly consequences in this brooding Belgian crime drama that was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2012 Academy Awards.

Flemish actor Matthias Schoenaerts spent two years transforming his slender body into a bulky and brooding figure which Variety called " a career defining, powerfully physical lead performance. " 

Also starring Matthias Schoenaerts from Rust and Bone. 

Michael R. Roskam’s debut feature Bullhead is a harrowing tale of revenge, redemption and fate. Watch the trailer http://vimeo.com/36443234

Indiewire: "stunning in its originality"

The Guardian describes Bullhead as 'rustic noir' & 'Belgian gangster gothic' 
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/31/bullhead-review
http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2013/feb/01/bullhead-video-review


The film will be preceded by a short film called 'Lekker' directed by Sam Batnik about the Dutch language.

Thurs 5 June -re scheduled Cinemap screening
Southsider shorts (N/C contains some adult content, approx 60mins)
8pm (doors 7.30pm)
FREE

Join us for the re-scheduled Cinemap screening of a diverse range of short films made by Southside filmmakers.

Expect superheroes, local heroes, music fans, pets, strained family relationships and experimental shorts. Q&A with Southside filmmakers following the screening (TBC). 

Full film info here: http://southsidefilmfestival2012.blogspot.co.uk/p/southside-filmmaker-screening-east.html

Tues 17 June 
Refugee Week Scotland: 
Migration Stories-short films from Scotland, Brazil & Spain
8pm (doors 7.30pm)
£6/£5 conc/free to asylum seekers and refugees -on the door only, no advance sales




Southside Film Festival & Document International Human Rights Film Festival present three shorts that explore what life is like for immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland, Brazil and Spain.

•  Bird Man of Red Road (Chris Leslie, 2013, Scotland, 6 mins)

Chris Leslie will be in attendance for a post film Q &A

•  Diarios de Frontera (Irene Gutierrez Tores, 2013, Spain, 25mins)

• Open Arms Closed Doors (Fernada Polacow & Johana Borges, 2013, Brazil, 25mins)

Cinemap 23-25 May 2014

Cinemap: mapping the Southside through film: 23-25 May 2014

After three successful years of running a film festival in May Southside Film Festival is doing something different in May 2014. 

Cinemap is inspired by the ALBERT DRIVE project in Pollokshields in 2013 which asked the question 'Who is my Neighbour?' Throughout the year ALBERT DRIVE explored different ways to bring people together in the Pollokshields community and some of the resulting films from this project are screening as part of Cinemap. 

Cinemap also includes films that explore the idea of neighbourhood, local and community and work by Southside filmmakers that is not necessarily about those themes, the only connection is that the filmmakers are based locally. We hope you enjoy the resulting diversity of new film work.

Cinemap is not only about bringing people together to watch films though -you can discover  new Southside spaces, learn more about the films through the filmmaker Q&As and post film discussions and have fun at all of the associated events. You never know you may even meet your neighbour!  

All screenings/events are free.

Cinemap programme:

Friday 23 May

Saturday 24 May

Sunday 25 May

Cinemap is a partnership project lead by Southside Film Festival with the ALBERT DRIVE project, Art Village, The Glad Cafe, Govanhill Baths, New Victoria Gardens, East Pollokshields Quad, Tramway and filmmakers Abigail Howkins and Basharat Khan. .

Cinemap: mapping the Southside through film 23-25 May 2014

After three successful years of running a film festival in May Southside Film Festival has decided to do something different in May 2014!

Southside Film Festival presents Cinemap, a screening event over the weekend of 23-25 May, 2014 in various Southside locations.

Cinemap is inspired by last year's ALBERT DRIVE project that asked the people of Pollokshields to meet their neighbours through a series of artistic commissions exploring the central question 'who is my neighbour'? 

Cinemap will screen a number of ALBERT DRIVE films including work by Basharat Khan and Abigail Howkins which explore the theme of neighbour but also highlight the importance of local, of community and of bringing people together. 

• Cinemap is looking for more films that explore the wider Southside community and the themes of COMMUNITY and LOCAL. We are looking for films that have imaginative approaches to these themes. 
• We are also looking for new work made in Southside Glasgow and/or made by Southside filmmakers that has not screened at previous Southside Film Festivals. 
• We are also inviting filmmakers to submit site specific work that responds to and relate to the Cinemap screening spaces- Shawlands Arcade, The Glad Cafe, Govanhill Baths, New Victoria Gardens and East Pollokshields Quad and The Tramway. What would you screen in a shopping centre, a cafe, a swimming pool, an allotment, a green space in a tenement back court and a multi arts venue? 

How to Submit: download a submission form and return to southsidefilmfest@gmail.com along with film

Submission Deadline: (9am, Monday 14 April, 2014)
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 9AM TUES 22 APRIL, 2014

Cinemap is a partnership project lead by Southside Film Festival with the ALBERT DRIVE project, Art Village, The Glad Cafe, Govanhill Baths, New Victoria Gardens, East Pollokshields Quad, The Tramway and filmmakers Abigail Howkins and Basharat Khan.

Cinemap: mapping the Southside through film: 23-25 May 2014

N.B. We are also looking for new volunteers to help with the Cinemap project. If you are interested please email southsidefilmfest@gmail.com with your CV and availability and tell us how you would like to get involved.  Deadline to apply for volunteering is also 9am, Monday 14 April, 2014.

We're Back: FILM CLUB Spring 2014 is GO!

With January (finally) drawing to a close, we hope you've all just about recovered from the festive period and are getting ready to get properly tore in 2014.

There's no denying that awards season is now in full swing - with Oscar worthy performances flying around all over the shop (whats your bets for 2014?) . However, in the midst of all the movie mayhem, we at the Southside Film Festival have been busy bees planning this season's Film Club selection for screening at The Glad Cafe. After much deliberation & debate, we hope you'll agree that we've came up with a cracker of programme for Spring 2014. 

So, without further ado - we are very pleased announce this season's line up in full:

With a pretty eclectic mix of movies on the go - we're sure we've got something for everyone so keep your eyes peeled for further updates, special features & general fun stuff in the near future. 

Tickets will be on sale soon, and as ever, will be available online at Tickets Scotland, in person at The Glad Cafe or on the door on the night of the screening. 

Cityscapes & Heartbreaks

With December finally upon us, we hope you're all starting to feel festive here in the Southside. We're sure there's plenty a Christmassy movie nights up your sleeve in the coming weeks but we'd like to kick-start all of that for you with our December Film Club screening of In Bruges - Tues 3rd Dec at The Glad Cafe (8pm - doors 7:30pm - Tickets £6/5 conc,)

Hit men Ray & Ken have very different takes on the beautifully preserved Flemish city, but as the two swan around sampling the biers & battling the locals one thing becomes clear - where Brendan Gleeson is super likeable & Colin Farrell pretty as can be, its the city of Bruges itself that's the real star of the show!

That got me thinking, what other films are there where the location becomes a character in itself? Films that couldn't (or at least shouldn't) ever be set anywhere else in the world? Films that when you watch, you end up with a serious case of the wanderlust & find yourself booking mini break before the end credits roll.......

Here's my top picks

Lost In Translation

I love Scarlett. I LOVE Bill. I love My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus & Mary Chain & I love the whole Coppola clan. But the thing I love most about Lost In Translation? Tokyo! The dazzling cityscapes framed through Charlotte's lonely hotel room window, that sense of awe & wonder you get from Bob's taxi journey, the Karaoke scenes. For all the chemistry & quick witted banter - Tokyo is the main character here and never has a film made me want to travel to city more than this one. 

Dont Look Now

OK, so Donald Sutherland & Julie Christie grieving the tragic death of their little daughter on the canals of Venice doesn't particularly intrigue me towards the city. Gone are the romantic notions of gondolas in the moonlight, replaced with chilling paranoia, alienation, grief & guilt......and a wee bit of the occult. The imagery created by the water of the weaving canals is so intense, its impossible to imagine the emotional trauma of this film translating to any other setting. Oh, that water.....I've got the chills!

Mulholland Drive

A Lynchian nightmare of epic proportions, and another on the list that doesn't particularly endear me towards the city in question but all out encapsulates the seedy essence of  L.A. The grotesque underbelly of the City of Angels on full display in a fragmented, hallucinatory & nightmarish illusion of a film - "a mournful love poem to all those who have been chewed up & spit out by the Hollywood machine" - Keith Ulhich/Time Out

Manhattan

"He adored New York City. He idolised it all out of proportion

No, make that he romantiscied it all out of proportion.

To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black & white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin" - Woody Allen, Manhattan

Woody Allen, the quintessential New Yorker - you could really pick any of his earlier films here to showcase the Big Apple in all its glory, but its Manhattan that truly is his all out love letter to his home town. Enough said!

What would be your picks here? Amelie's quirky Paris? Scorcese's hard hitting Boston in The Departed, Love Actually's Christmas-time in London? Let us know in the comments below.

Speaking of wonderful cities, all of us at The Southside Film Festival would like to express our heartfelt sympathies to the families & friends of those who tragically lost their lives in Glasgow this weekend at The Clutha Vaults Pub. There have been so many wonderful displays of kindness & compassion by the Glasgow people over the last few days, which just goes to show what an amazing city we really have.  

To express our condolences, we would like to advise that we will be donating all box office profits from our screening of In Bruges to an appropriate fund for the families of the bereaved and the pub rebuilding fund once announced. We'll also have donation tins there if people want to donate and will let you know where it all goes. xxx