Film Series: Of Love & Law
In February, we mark World Day of Social Justice with the screening of Of Love & Law, a documentary by Hikaru Toda. The screening will take place on Wednesday, 19 … Continue reading
Four Parts of a Folding Screen: Directors’ Note
Four Parts of a Folding Screen is part of the GRAMNet/BEMIS Film Series 2019/2020. The screening takes place on 22 January 2020, from 6pm at CCA Glasgow followed by a … Continue reading
Film Series: Four Parts of a Folding Screen
Welcome to 2020, to a new year of challenges, struggles and victories! In January, we commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day with another powerful, experimental documentary in the presence of the filmmakers: … Continue reading
Film Series: Compulsory Figures
This December is a busy month: UK elections, the winter holidays as well as International Migrants Day. We believe this day is a very important occasion to appreciate and celebrate … Continue reading
Film Series: Destierros
It’s November – it’s International Day for Tolerance! We celebrate and raise awareness for the importance of tolerance, understanding and kindness amidst conflict and extremism. Our pick for this occasion … Continue reading
Film Series Launch: Hamada
The GRAMNet/BEMIS Film Series is back with a brand new programme of films that explores themes of migration, labour and memory. Join us for the opening event with the screening … Continue reading
Looking Back, Thinking Ahead: The GRAMNet/BEMIS Film Series
The 2018/19 GRAMNet/BEMIS Film Series was a journey of (self)discovery through a variety of film themes and forms that broadly reacted to and interrogated current political and social issues around … Continue reading
The Refugee Festival as a Pilgrimage
This post is written by Hyab Yohannes, PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow and GRAMNet intern for Refugee Festival Scotland 2019. Check out the GRAMNet programme of events for Refugee … Continue reading
The Art of Displacement: Understanding Refugees’ Connection to Place Through the Works They Create
This guest blog post is written by Elizabeth Hampson, an MSc Comparative Public Policy student from the University of Edinburgh. She is currently a visiting researcher at the African Centre for … Continue reading
Ready-made Tribute to Victims Cannot Replace Deep-seated Exchange of Looks
Article written by Elsa Gomis. One might set the beginning of the so-called migrant ‘crisis’ in the Mediterranean to October 3, 2013 when a boat carrying more than 360 people … Continue reading →