Change of Date and Venue for Document 2018
This year’s Festival date and venue have changed: Document Film Festival will now take place from Friday 30 November to Sunday 2 December at the Scottish Youth Theatre in Glasgow’s Merchant City.
We previously announced that the Festival would take place at the CCA in October as usual – however ongoing uncertainty about the venue’s reopening following the lengthy enforced closure caused by the Glasgow School of Art fire in June has made it impossible to proceed with that plan.
We’re delighted to have the support of the Scottish Youth Theatre, who will open their doors to us for a full weekend and allow the majority of our programme to go ahead as planned. It’s an open, friendly and inclusive arts venue in the city centre with impressive and adaptable facilities that will enable the festival to retain its scope and atmosphere. We’re also thankful to our friends at CCA for their support in the past few challenging months and look forward to working with them again in future, and to Creative Scotland and Screen Scotland for their patience and support as we sought a viable solution..
For our 16th edition, we’re hosting three days of film screenings, discussions, lectures and events on human rights issues from around the globe, and on documentary filmmaking as an artform and social practice. As well as striking contemporary features, this year’s festival has a particular focus on archives and archive film, including a strand dedicated to Palestinian identity and the radical women who pioneered New Arab Cinema, the politics and poetics of landscape on film, and a screening and masterclass with renowned artist filmmaker Louis Henderson.
The full programme will be announced in early November. We can’t wait for you to join us and help warm our new home for Document 2018.