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Get Angry: Ceasefire + Other Shorts (Various, 2023–2025)

Wednesday 1 October 2025
20:00 21:40

The Pyramid at Anderston (Lower Hall) 759 Argyle Street Glasgow, Scotland, G3 8DS United Kingdom (map)

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Wheelchair accessible* | English and descriptive subtitles | Pay-what-you-can tickets (£2–12)

If the ticket or other costs, such as childcare or transport, make this screening unaffordable, please see details of our Audience Access Fund.

From Artsakh to Ukraine, Bosnia to Palestine, this collection of shorts traces the fractures of home, memory, and language across landscapes marked by displacement, military occupation, and genocidal violence. Joyful memories collide with images of destruction in We Lived Slowly in Times of Peace: based on a Poland-based Armenian poet Tatev Chakhian’s poem Retrospective, this experimental documentary juxtaposes home videos from the Prelinger Archive alongside a scene capturing explosions in the Republic of Artsakh in 2020. Lives are suspended in a state of not-so-temporary refuge 30 years on from Srebrenica in Ceasefire: in this documentary, Hazira and other displaced survivors wonder what ‘home’ comes next. Alongside an interrogation of belonging is the untranslatable weight of certain words: Smoke of the Fire builds around the play between ‘zangar’ (get angry) and ‘o zangão’ (the drone bee), weaving together Portuguese language classes and personal videos and archival images from Kyiv, while we learn of ‘Qaher’ as so much more than a direct translation of ‘anger’ in the short from a Poland-based Palestinian director where a Canadian-Palestinian man sets off on a journey to visit his sister and her newborn. As we question the meaning of ‘peace’, the screening concludes with a stark indictment of bystander silence and complicity — The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent asking what it means to bear witness, and what it costs not to.

Content notes: explosions, violence, Islamophobia, discussion of trauma and genocide, war, occupation, displacement, armed threat

Access notes: archival footage of varying quality, sound of air sirens, flickering visuals

Curated by Dylan Beck

* Please note, The Lower Hall at the Pyramid at Anderston is wheelchair accessible through a ramp at a side entrance. There are 9 steps between the level where it is located and the rest of the venue, meaning that to make way to the accessible toilet or other parts of the building, wheelchair users will need to re-enter via the main entrance. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

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