GRAMNet Film Series 2013/14
We are excited to annouce the dates for the fourth annual GRAMNet Film Series!
The 2013/14 series is again organised in partnership between GRAMNet, BEMIS Scotland and The Iona Community. We would also like to acknowledge the kind support of The Equality and Diversity Unit in making the series possible.
Screenings are accompanied by forums and Q&A for everyone to share views and thoughts in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. The audience is warmly invited to congregate in the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) Café following each screening to continue our informal discussions.
Please see below for screening dates.
Download the full GRAMNet Film Series Brochure 2013/14.
Hard copies of the brochure are available at the screenings, or you can email gramadmin@glasgow.ac.uk
Screenings are free of charge and open to all. Doors open at 5.30pm for 6.00pm start.
Should you wish to reserve a ticket for any of the screenings, please contact the CCA.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Summary | Observance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Jan |
Hitler's Children USA, Germany, Israel (2011) |
Elwira Grossman | Hitler’s Children is a film about the descendants of the most powerful figures in the Nazi regime: men and women who were left a legacy that permanently associates them with one of the greatest crimes in history. What is it like for them to have grown up with a name that immediately raises images of murder and genocide? They discuss the delicate balance they have reached as they negotiate between the natural admiration that children have toward their parents and their innate revulsion of their parents’ crimes. | Holocaust Memorial Day |
| 12 Feb |
Here We Stay Scotland (2012) and Portraits From Cameroon Scotland (2012) |
Suzi Simpson and Jan Nimmo |
Here We Stay is a powerful and insightful documentary, created by refugee participants mentored by Urbancroft Films, provides a unique opportunity to hear the reflections of those seeking refuge in Glasgow today and celebrates the rich and diverse life stories of refugees and local residents in Glasgow, captured through theatre and music production Here We Stay performed at the Citizens Theatre in November 2012. Portraits From Cameroon is series of short banana workers' testimonies from the plantations of Cameroon, Central Africa, filmed and edited by Scottish artist, Jan Nimmo. These portraits offer an insight into the working and home lives of the people who work to produce cheap bananas for the European market. |
World Day of Social Justice |
| 12 Mar |
Normal UK (2012) |
TBC | Normal is an artistic documentary that brings the real life stories of male, female and transgender migrants working in the sex industry to the screen. Drawing on original interviews with people working in the sex industry in Albania, Italy and the UK, documentary director and anthropologist Nicola Mai reveals their unheard voices. | International Women's Day |
| 14 May | Nowhere Home Norway, Sweden (2012) | TBC | Nowhere Home is an intimate and moving film about teenagers in an extreme life situation who fight to keep their hope for a dignified life alive. They flee their country with their lives at risk. They cross borders on foot, they’re smuggled in trucks, containers and small boats. They arrive in Norway alone, without parents or close caregivers. Khalid, the film’s poet, movingly puts his and the other boys’ situations into words while they’re in Salhus Reception centre outside Bergen, counting down to their 18th birthdays. Khalid receives his final response from UNE on his actual birthday. | International Day for Families |
| 18 June | Hamedullah: The Road Home UK (2012) and Future Memory in Red Road UK (2013) | TBC |
Hamedullah: The Road Home is the story of Hamedullah Hassany, a young teen who fled here from Afghanistan and lived safely and happily in Canterbury (with his friends Zaker, Momin and Nasim). Then police and Border Agency officials broke into the house in the middle of the night, threatened the boys and snatched Hamedullah’s best friend Zaker. In May 2013, a unique public event celebrated the end of the Red Road flats, a colourful part of Glasgow’s history. The afternoon included live music, artworks, film screenings and a performance by a choir which played out from speakers located within 10/20/30 Petershill Court. The building ‘sang’ a final farewell and echoed with ex-residents talking about their lives there – from hope and community to decant and demolition. |
Refugee Week |
Past 2013/14 screenings:
| Date | Title | Speaker | Summary | Observance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Oct | Le Havre France, Finland (2011) | Carrie Newman |
In this warmhearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoeshiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville and Marcel Carné, Le Havre is a charming, deadpan delight. |
Black History Month |
| 20 Nov |
5 Broken Cameras France, Israel, Palestine (2011) |
Ibrahim Khadra, University of Strathclyde |
An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later turned into a galvanizing cinematic experience by co-directors Guy Davidi and Burnat. |
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People |
| 11 Dec | The Africa-China Connection Netherlands (2013) | Pieter van der Houwen, Director |
The Africa-China Connection follows a group of Nigerian immigrants in the Chinese metropolis Guangzhou. This community is at the vanguard of an important trend that will determine the economic and political development in the first half of the 21st century: the flow of migrants from low-wage countries is shifting from the old continent Europe to the new economies in Asia. While Europe is slowly becoming a fortress and rapidly aging, African migrants are going east. According to experts this will have disastrous consequences for the European economy. The film portrays the everyday lives of these ‘new fortune-seekers’ in China and analyses the significance of this development. |
International Migrants Day |