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Glasgow Short Film Festival 2025

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Aferrado (Country: Mexico; Year: 2024; Director: Esteban Azuela)
In the violent streets of Mexico City, Joel leads a double life fixing car engines by day and getting his hands dirty by night. Now, he must repair the toughest machine of all: his own shattered existence.
The Bird (Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Jules Ramage)
In prison, slam poet Gauche documented daily life inside. Six months later, she performs the poems on-camera. They tell of institutional control over bodies, sexuality, the violence of imposed medical treatments and sorority as a means of survival.
Freak (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Claire Barnett)
On the eve of her 26th birthday, Lainey is confronted with a question that tests the boundaries of her relationship: What is your deepest, darkest fantasy?
The Inescapable Desire Of Roots (Country: Singapore; Year: 2024; Director: Li Shuen Lam, Mark Chua)
A man with hair growing wildly over his body is taken by a mania of ecstasy and anguish. Overwhelmed by the explosive jubilance of its sprouting, the hair becomes a means of discipline and punishment against him.
Metamorphosis' Chantings Or That Time When I Incarnated As Porpoise (Cantos da Metamorfose Ou Aquela Vez Em Que Eu Encarnei Como Boto) (Country: Portugal; Year: 2024; Director: Ainá Xisto)
When their work is interrupted by an emergency surgery, a filmmaker explores their relationship with their physical body, and the idea of reincarnation.
The Sunset Special 2 (Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Nicolas Gebba)
Two families meet on an exclusive luxury cruise. As artificial facades dissolve, psychedelic dreamworlds unfold and reality is unveiled.
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