Glasgow Short Film Festival 2025

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400 Cassettes (Country: Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Thelyia Petrak)
One day after school, a song from the past reminds two friends that nothing really lasts forever.
Can You Hear Me? (Czy Ty Mnie Słyszysz?) (Country: Poland; Year: 2024; Director: Anastazja Naumenko)
When Nastia tries to teach her mom how to use internet services, different perceptions of technology unearth intergenerational conflicts and long-forgotten family threads.
Happy New Year (Country: China; Year: 2024; Director: Weipeng Huang)
A family of four in Changsha, China gather for dinner on New Year’s Eve to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
Razeh-del (Country: Iran; Year: 2024; Director: Maryam Tafakory)
In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran's first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.
UNDR (Country: Germany, Palestine; Year: 2024; Director: Kamal Aljafari)
Repurposed archival footage of Occupied Palestine challenges the legitimacy of the land’s mainstream portrayal as deserted and still. Children play and farmers work as dynamite ruptures the earth.
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