Document Human Rights Film Festival

Document 2018 has come to an end! We want to thank everyone who has helped make this edition happen: our funders and partners, our amazing staff and volunteers, our special guests and audiences, and everyone else who has supported us.
Before our closing film last night, we also announced the Document 2018 Jury Award, which went to REVENIR by filmmakers Kumut Imesh and David Fidele. A huge congratulations to them!
... Our international jury said the following about their choice: "We want to commend the film Revenir and especially Kumut Imesh for his extraordinarily brave, honest and interrogative approach to his journey, past and present. At a time when we may feel our media is saturated with horrific tales of displaced people's ordeals and public debate seems obsessed only with these people's legitimacy, this film, and specifically Kumut's manner and intuitive filmmaking ability, provided a fresh and much needed point of view on these events. His inherent ability to connect the human experience of others created the same connection for the audience. We wish the filmmakers every success in the future."
You can find out more about the film here: http://revenirfilm.com/
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Join us for a celebratory beer before our final film of Document 2018 tonight! 🍺 We’ll toast another successful Festival from 7.15pm and announce our Jury Prize winner before The Sun Quartet - a wild visual protest poem from Mexico - screens at 7.45pm. All welcome!

Coming up at 3.15pm - a sharp shorts programme exploring the ethics of the film gaze from Glasgow Short Film Festival 👀

‪’An outstanding example of how film-making can make a difference’‬ - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 review for A Woman Captured, the feature screening as part of our Critical Forum event on modern slavery today. Screenings start at 12.30pm, with a panel discussion on the issues raised at 3pm.

It’s the final day of Document 2018! There’s still lots to see and discuss today, from a deep look into modern slavery on screen to a series of visually stunning, thought-provoking screenings. Check out the programme and join us at Scottish Youth Theatre.

A powerful personal road-trip retracing the filmmaker’s own journey from the Ivory Coast to France along one of the world’s most dangerous migratory routes, Revenir screens tomorrow evening, in partnership with Glasgow Refugee Asylum & Migration Network (GRAMNet).

Great books about documentary film from around the world on sale today at Document thanks to Edinburgh University Press ! 🎥 📚

These beaut Document x dardishi publications are now available from our Guest Desk at Scottish Youth Theatre! 🔥🔥🔥 work from Palestinian womxn, all proceeds to Dardishi Festival 2019 🎉

Beautifully shot on Super 16mm film, artist Ben Russell’s Good Luck is one of our opening screenings today - join us on a deep dive into the global mining industry and its impact on the workers who seek to make a life within it, from Serbia to Suriname. Tickets available on the door.

Tomorrow afternoon we celebrate the 'mother of Egyptian documentary' and pioneer of Arab cinema Ateyyat El Abnoud with a screening of three of her phenomenal shorts plus discussion from noon and an illustrated talk about her approach to making films which represent the voices of working class Egyptians, especially women, from 1.30pm.

Join artist Louis Henderson for this LUX Scotland masterclass from 5pm today. He’ll be discussing recent work Oevertures, made between France and Haiti, developed through collective processes of writing and improvisation, and designed to find ways anti-colonial methods of filmmaking.

Two of this afternoon's films consider the acts of politics and grace bound up in remembering, with quite different focuses. Silence is a Falling Body (1.45pm), presented with Scottish Queer International Film Festival, is a profound love letter to the filmmaker's late father, rediscovered through his own film recordings, while Spell Reel | Document Film Festival unveils a lost vision for a decolonised Guinea-Bissau. Tickets available for both on the door.

It's almost time! Document 2018 gets underway this morning with a screening of Island at 11am. Director Steven Eastwood joins us via Skype for a post-screening discussion of his haunting, tender meditation on death. Tickets (£0-£8, Pay What You Can) available on the door from 10.30am. Thanks to Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland, Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care, and Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief.

Get 25% off your food bill with our excellent accommodation partner Brunswick Merchant City Hotel during Document 2018! Collect your tickets and show them before ordering to receive your discount. https://www.brunswickhotel.co.uk/food-dri nk/

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Sara Fattahi is unable to travel to Glasgow and her Scottish Documentary Institute Masterclass has been cancelled - we apologise for any inconvenience and hope to reschedule the event in the near future. Sara will take part in an extended conversation with Noe Mendelle of the Scottish Documentary Institute plus a Skype Q&A following her film Chaos, screening as scheduled on Saturday evening at 7.45pm - tickets and details at the link below.

Confirmed line-up for Sunday's Critical Forum | Stories of modern-day slavery and trafficking - take part in a free post-screening discussion on issues around slavery, including how to recognise it and how to respond to representations in the media.

New publication produced with dardishi available at Document this weekend, with words and images from Palestinian women on the idea of a Palestinian archive, especially from a feminist perspective, as part of our celebration of the pioneering women of Arab cinema. All proceeds going to Dardishi Festival 2019! More details: http://www.documentfilmfestival.org/…/d ocument-x-dardishi-…/

Presented in partnership with Scottish Queer International Film Festival, catch Augustina Comedi's moving meditation on family, sexuality and memory, on Friday. Details: Silence is a Falling Body | Document Film Festival, Trailer 👇

What drives a teenage boy to commit seemingly random murders? Rather than the usual media circus, could we look at crimes like this differently and see another story?