Sunday 8 March 2026, 12pm–6pm
The Deep End: 21 Nithsdale Street G41 2PZ
Spend the day with us exploring powerful films by women filmmakers from various parts of the world. We’ll watch, talk and connect—finding the threads that link our experiences to the stories on screen. Come for the films, stay for the conversations and the sense of community.
FILM LIST: TICKET A
Gxrls Make Glasgow: From Fragments to Festival
Gxrls Make Glasgow: From Fragments to Festival reflects on the importance of visibility and access for women, trans, and gender-diverse artists, foregrounding care, trust, and empowerment. More than a programme of events, SPLINTR emerges as a community rooted in shared experience and meaningful creative connection. It reflects on the importance of visibility and access for women, trans, and gender-diverse artists, foregrounding care, trust, and empowerment. More than a programme of events, SPLINTR emerges as a temporary community rooted in shared experience, inclusive programming, and meaningful creative connection.
Ella Field is an emerging filmmaker based in Glasgow. Passionate about telling stories that reflect and inspire good in the world, she has developed her practice across the arts, charity, and environmental sectors, honing her self-taught craft through hands-on, real-world projects. Her work is defined by subject-led narratives and a distinct visual voice, grounded in authenticity and purpose. With the premiere of her first short documentary - a long-held ambition - Ella now steps fully into filmmaking, committed to purposeful, impact-driven storytelling.
Commissioned by Flos Collective CIC, a Glasgow-based arts organisation championing women, trans and gender-diverse artists through inclusive, artist-led programming. In 2025, they delivered SPLINTR Festival, a four-day celebration of creativity that brought together emerging and established artists from Scotland and beyond.
- Duration: 13 mins 27 secs
- Language: English
- Age ratings: 12A
- Content warning: Flashing lights
فرنگ / Farang
فرنگ / Farang (2024) is a moving image that traces a semi-fictional journey across Iran. Using original family footage shot on trips to the country in the early 1990s, the project combines a personal British-Iranian archive with source materials concerning 19th and early 20th-century British presence in the region, reflecting on the interplay between familial histories and their wider socio-political frameworks.
Mina Heydari-Waite is a British-Iranian artist based in Glasgow. Working across moving image, installation, sound and text, her practice is grounded in research-led, collaborative and materially attentive methods. Across community and gallery contexts, I draw together workshops, archival research, material exploration, familial histories and cross-disciplinary dialogue to foreground pluralised, embodied and relational ways of knowing. Her work examines infrastructures of power, memory and transmission, treating affect not as interior sentiment, but as a point of departure through which histories register, collectivities form, and liberatory social modes might be imagined.
- Duration: 30 mins
- Camera: James Waite, Daniel Hughes
- Edit: Mina Heydari-Waite & Daniel Hughes
- Voices: Emma Hignett, Fatimeh Arabshahi
- Sound mix: William Aikman
- Script: Mina Heydari-Waite & Thomas Querns
- Title card design: Hanna Karrabi
- Caption consultation: Collective Text, Ace Mahbaz
- Caption translation: Hamzeh Halakouei, Sannaz Rasouli
- Thanks to OFFLINE, Hamideh Heydari, Anahita Razmi, Molly M. Whawell, Mitchell Library Principle Librarian Dawn Vallance and Onyeka Igwe
- The development of the work is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
Laila
In a coastal village destined to become the new capital of Indonesia, Laila, a junior high school student, escapes in her boat. She is determined not to return to the land until her marriage plan is called off.
Wucha Wulan Dari completed her undergraduate studies in Film and Television at the Indonesian Institutes of the Arts Yogyakarta and her master’s degree in Cultural Studies [Anthropology] at Gadjah Mada University. Through filmmaking and research, she advocates for issues concerning the role and rights of girls and young women. She was selected for the See Me, Hear Me programme funded by DFAT’s Austrailian Awards Fellowship in Australia, and her documentary Muslimahwon Best Film in the Youth & Collaboration Category at the ReelOzine Film Festival 2028.
- Duration: 17 mins
- Language: Bahasa, Melayu
- Subtitles: English
- Director: Wucha Wulan Dari
- Producer: Siska Raharja
Samidoun: The steadfast women of Palestine
Samidoun: The Steadfast Women of Palestine is a powerful short documentary that amplifies the voices of Palestinian women, whose resilience, defiance, and dignity shine through as they navigate life under occupation and patriarchy.
The film was commissioned by the Nobel Women’s Initiative and made by Mariam Shahin, Maysara Films.
Mariam Shahin is a Palestinian journalist, filmmaker, and author known for her in-depth reporting on the Middle East. She has worked with major media outlets like Al Jazeera, BBC, and Democracy Now!, amplifying voices affected by conflict and occupation. As a documentary filmmaker, she has produced films on resistance and human rights and authored Palestine: A Guide and is co-author of the 2025 book "Daybreak in Gaza".
- Duration: 30 minutes
- Language: Arabic (Subtitled)
- Age ratings: suitable for +18
- Content Warning: Mention of sexual assault, threats, rape, violence, weapons, war, physical abuse
FILM LIST: TICKET B
Planet Abundance I (Glasgow)
Planet Abundance II (Dundee)
Feminist Economics Football
Planet Abundance I (Glasgow) is a documentary film of Planet Abundance workshop hosted by Elaine Gallagher and Ailie Rutherford at Category Is Books, Glasgow 2022 Filmed by Emma Bowen for Feminist Exchange Network.
Planet Abundance II (Dundee) is a documentary film of Planet Abundance workshop hosted by Saoirse Amira Anis, Dundee 2022 Filmed by Emma Bowen for Feminist Exchange Network
Feminist Economics Football - A Cooperative Game (Glasgow) is created by Ailie Rutherford and filmed by Emma Bowen for Feminist Exchange Network.
Feminist Exchange Network is a South Glasgow-based collective of women and marginalised genders using social and activist art to explore how feminist economics relate to people’s lived experiences.
Emma Bowen is a creative practitioner based in Scotland. She makes DIY short form observational documentaries and experimental films with artists and musicians. Emma works empathetically and with a person-centred approach. Recent screenings include; Hens on Film - Leith Late, Glasgow Zine Fest, LUX - London, Oodaaq Festival - France, SQIFF Opening Night Shorts and Grrl Haus cinema screenings in USA and Germany.
- Duration: 11:39 (in total)
- Language: English
- Age ratings: suitable for all ages
Tapestries of Light, Life, and Community In Guatemala
Six brave Guatemalan women—indigenous weavers, artists, public defenders, and grandmother midwives—share their stories of activism and hope as they fight for justice, cultural heritage, and democracy during a time of historic political transformation.
Directed by Paula Recinos
The film was commissioned by Nobel Women’s Initiative, in collaboration with Just Associates (JASS), and with support from Global Affairs Canada.
- Duration: 22 min 37 sec
- Language: Spanish
- Subtitles: English
Behind the Healing Herbs
Murjiati was a breadwinner of her own family, which was consisted of 4 members. She made and sold traditional herbal tonic (jamu). Her only daughter, Rizky, was willing to be a nurse. She was studying in a university. Murjiati spent much money to enrol Rizky’s study. Yet, she did not solely rely on construction-worker husband who did not have stable salary. Instead of making and selling traditional herbal tonic, she joined to a community consisted of herbal tonic makers called Seruni Putih. She became the chairperson of the community and initiated several programs, in her neighbourhood: Kiringan, Bantul, Yogyakarta. There, around eighty percent (80%) of the women supported their families by making and selling traditional herbal tonic. The movie depicts how Murjiati and the other women of Kiringan worked in their own domestic area and organized the community through traditional herbal tonic.
- Director: Wucha Wulan Dari
- Producer: Nastitya D
- Partners: Semaya Studio, Elora Productions, and BLOOM PROGRAM
Voices: Memories On A Plate: Season 2
Beyond subsistence, food serves as a medium to understand our world. Through examining personal histories, Director Ng Yiqin and her team celebrate how food brings people together, uncovering what makes every bite even heartier.
- Director: Ng Yiqin
- Producers: Ng Yiqin, Koh Min Yi, Lilian Rogers, Mave Ong, Amira Karim
- Camera & Technical
- Team: Khairuhakim Bin Mohamad Bashir, Chia Meng Chee, Calvin Phua, Mohammad Noor Hakiki Bin Mohd Kamal Noordin
- Organisation: Optical Films Pte Ltd, Viddsee Pte Ltd, Info-communications Media Development Authority