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FUNNYMAN Greg Hemphill will show he’s Still Game for a laugh at other’s work at this year’s Glasgow Short Film Festival (GSFF).

The city actor will be introducing Short Com, a night of independent comedy shorts on Saturday, March 14 as part the five-day celebration of the art form.

But it’s not just humour on the bill. GSFF today unveiled its most ambitious programme to date as it was announced it will take place out-with the Glasgow Film Festival for the first time.

Highlights include several Scottish premieres, experimental film, discussions on the genre, a focus on Ukrainian voices and the city of Glasgow itself.

Hotly-tipped by event organisers, Let Glasgow Flourish is a programme of shorts marking 30 years since the release of Clyde Film, a radical filmographic history of Glasgow’s failed regeneration created by unemployed young people in Cranhill and told via music and images.

The festival will screen Clyde Film itself, together with archive documentary, community and artist-made films.

March will also see the first Scottish showing of A Wall Is A Screen.

Described as “guerrilla mobile screenings”, the free event is part guided city tour, part short film night which takes over neglected spaces, familiar buildings and commercial facades for ten minutes of short film before moving on to the next location.

GSFF director Matt Lloyd says “Glasgow Short Film Festival is coming into its own by striking out into March and adding an extra day to the programme.

“We’re already thrilled by the response to our two key events Vertical Cinema and Strange Electricity, but we’re just as proud of all the new events announced today. From Daniel Wolfe’s extraordinary music videos to Jennifer Reeder’s feminist rethink of the teen movie, from timely considerations of Ukrainian filmmaking and Glasgow’s regeneration to a cinematic walking tour and a celebration of the beautiful game, this year’s festival is a sprawling all-consuming behemoth.

The full programme can be downloaded from www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff and tickets for all events are on sale now, available online or via the Glasgow Film Theatre and CCA Box Offices.

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