Year of Stories
Film details
| Film Title | Year of Stories |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 74mins |
| Year | 2021 |
| Country | Scotland |
| Director | Various |
| Showings |
To mark Scotland’s Year of Stories, Glasgow Short Film Festival presents a selection of new award-winning films telling diverse stories in fiction, documentary and animation. From the surprisingly international setting of a Macduff boarding house to the claustrophobia of a dysfunctional family home, via a bathroom, a beauty salon and a Skype conversation between estranged cousins, these five films collectively present a vision of Scotland and Scottish identity that reaches way beyond its traditional cultural and geographical boundaries.
The Bayview
Director: Daniel Cook
On the northeast coast of Scotland, an extraordinary family have turned the previously-derelict Bayview hotel into an unofficial respite for international fishermen. Susie Seui (aka Mamma Susie) provides a home away from home for the foreign crews who are the lifeblood of Macduff’s fishing fleet.
Susie is crucial to this diaspora community who face life-threatening conditions every day and who are constantly tossed between the sea, land and home. This documentary is an intimate glimpse into her home and the transient identities of those who pass through it.
Silvering
Director: Eilidh Nicoll
Taking place entirely in a bathroom, Silvering sees a ritualistic evening of ‘self-care’ spiral into claustrophobic self-scrutiny when a woman discovers a grey hair. Drawing on horror tropes and intersecting the analogue and digital by using skin-like paper textures alongside naïve illustrations, Silvering explores the mundanities, absurdities and potential horrors of ageing and the anxieties surrounding it.
Groom
Director: Leyla Coll-O’Reilly
Hannah is a withdrawn and awkward teenager who has been asked to leave school for not participating. Her mother has set her up with a trial shift at a beauty salon. Hannah must navigate the hypersexualised beauty salon and controlling boss in order to turn her life around.
Born in Damascus
Director: Laura Wadha
After ten years apart, a Scottish filmmaker tries to reconnect with her closest cousin. Once so similar, their paths were separated by war. As they piece together memories of Syria, they begin to wonder – “What happened to our family?”
Too Rough
Director: Sean Lìonadh
After a night of intoxication, a hungover and hysterical Nick wakes up next to his boyfriend Charlie and must conceal him from his own homophobic and dysfunctional family.
“Writing and directing this short film gave me the exciting opportunity to describe and face the world I was born and raised into. This short film is based on my family, on my life, on my pain. I hope that people could empathize and learn something from it.”
Sean Lìonadh
Too Rough recently won the BAFTA Scotland Short Film Award and Best British Short at the British Independent Film Awards.
