INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS

Tickets for the International FIlm Awards can be booked online until 1.30pm on Friday 3 May. After this time, there may still be availability on the door. If seeking to get a ticket on the door, please visit the SMHAF desk at the CCA from 6.15pm. The ceremony starts promptly at 6.30pm.

Join us for our annual awards ceremony at the CCA, as we honour the very best submissions to our International Film Competition. It’s your chance to get a first look at the award-winning titles that will be screening throughout the weekend and join us in welcoming talented filmmakers, including Oscar-winning director Orlando von Einsidel, Iain Cunningham, and Hannah Currie, from Scotland, the UK and across the globe.

Hosted by leading critic Alistair Harkness and followed by an open reception at the CCA's Saramgo Cafe Bar.

SMHAF 2019 Award Winners

ANIMATION
Herman Brown is Feeling Down
Dan Castro, UK
Anxiety noisily interrupts a simple life in this colourful musical animation, created using digital and traditional techniques.
Sat 4 May, 10.30am | Family Shorts
Mon 6 May, 5.30pm | Scottish Connections

EXPERIMENTAL
On Exile, fragments in search of meaning
Jose Carlos Texeira, USA
Attentiveness to structure and form creates space for individual voices, as ten people share their stories about living with depression.
Sun 5 May, 4.15pm | Radical Voices

PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Model Childhood
Tim Mercier, UK
An autobiographical, partly animated, documentary about a filmmaker striving for a better future as a survivor of childhood sexual trauma.
Sat 4 May, 3.45pm | Documentary Shorts

ANTI-STIGMA
Evelyn
Orlando Von Einsiedel, UK
Twelve years after the suicide of his younger brother, a director and his family walk the length of the UK in an attempt to come to terms with their grief.
Sat 4 May, 6pm | Book Tickets

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Irene’s Ghost
Iain Cunningham, UK
A son unravels his family’s silence to find out what happened to his mother, who died when he was three but lives on in his imagination.
Sat 4 May, 1.15pm | Book Tickets

SHORT DOCUMENTARY
We Are All Here
Hannah Currie, UK
A hip-hop community comes together to talk about their issues and challenge stigma after the suicide of a much-loved rapper.
Sun 5 May, 6.15pm | Screening with The Song and the Sorrow

VOICES OF EXPERIENCE
Asylum
Jefta Varwijk and Jaap Van Heusden, Netherlands
Poetic and revealing documentary in which a man recounts his experiences with psychosis as he prepares to leave a psychiatric hospital.
Sat 4 May, 3.45pm | Documentary Shorts

COMMUNITY
An Open Door
Aoise Tutty Jackson, Ireland
A vibrant documentary set in a pioneering community space, which comes alive through music, performance and shared experiences.
Sun 5 May, 2pm | Community Counts

MID-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
The Song and the Sorrow
Millefiore Clarkes, Canada
A folk singer prepares to pay tribute to her legendary father, who took his own life after a long-term struggle with depression.
Sun 5 May, 6.15pm | Screening with We Are All Here

SHORT DRAMA
I Love You
Victoria Thompson, Australia
Improvised drama filmed with a real life couple, exploring the impact that mental instability can have on a relationship.
Sat 4 May, 8.30pm | Dramatic Shorts