samizdat 2023 programme

Festival at a glance

12-16 September (CCA Glasgow, in person)

12 September - 5 October (Klassiki, online)

There was 13 in-person screenings at CCA Glasgow, featuring a total of 10 feature films, 11 shorts, and 9 short animations. Out of 10 features, 4 were retrospectives and 6 were UK premieres.
Our partner, the streaming platform Klassiki, hosted Samizdat’s online programme comprising 5 features, 5 shorts, and several interviews and discussions.
5 short films submitted to the festival competed for the Samizdat Audience Award based on audience ratings collected at in-person screenings. Assel Aushakimova’s Comrade Policeman won the Samizdat 2023 Best Short Film award.
Samizdat had two special events in 2023: a showcase of a collection of Eastern European and Central Asian surrealist animation (14.09) and a screening of Soviet Armenian early film House on the Volcano (1928) (13.09) with an original new score mixed live by its composer Juliet Merchant.

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Brochures

Download the festival brochure here: digital file, text-only Word document. Free paper brochures from the CCA could be collected several weeks before the festival.

tickets

Tickets for Samizdat could be purchased here from 23 August 2023 or at the CCA box office. Online events were accessible through the streaming platform Klassiki. Tickets for main events (except headliners) were priced on a pay-what-you-can sliding scale.

accessibility

Learn about our accessibility measures, including financial support for attendees, pricing, Closed Captions, content and access notes, venue accessibility, and more, here.