Westside Short Film Festival – Three big nights of small cinema.
The third edition of the Westside Short Film Festival was held from the 6th to the 8th July at Gnien il-Gardjola, bastion ravelin in Valletta. Starting out as a waking dream inside the head of a resident on Carmelita Street, located on the west side of Valletta, this three day event became a prestigious festival bringing together filmmakers, film festival organisers and works of renowned directors and animators from the distant landscapes of Argentina and Singapore, as well as from the more familiar territories of Tunisia and Israel. Westside Film Festival also presented a unique opportunity for local filmmakers to screen their films for a public audience.
For the first time ever, we wanted to have guests from another short film festival, so as an experiment we invited experimental group of a Copenhagen short film fest called Cosmic Zoom. They were represented by two wonderful gents: Kasper Rasmussen and Jensen Kristiansen. To enrich this collaboration, they brought a suitcase with them. In there, there was a short film by Lejf  Marcussen, that is to this day considered to be a masterpiece.