Glasgow Short Film Festival 2025

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Butterfly (Leptir) (Country: Croatia, Denmark; Year: 2024; Director: Suncana Brkulj)
A community of garden creatures all contribute to the flow of life, using water from a fountain. When a butterfly gets stuck in the fountain, they’re faced with an unfamiliar situation.
Percebes (Country: France, Portugal; Year: 2024; Director: Laura Gonçalves, Alexandra Ramires; Writer: Laura Gonçalves, Regina Guimarães, Alexandra Ramires)
The story of culinary treasure the goose barnacle and its influence on life in the Algarve.
Their Eyes (Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Nicolas Gourault)
Online micro-workers from the Global South are paid to teach the AI of self-driving cars to navigate the streets of the Global North. Their fantasies for collective action are shown through a combination of their testimonies and screen recordings.
To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion (Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Valentin Noujaïm; Writer: Valentin Noujaïm; Stars: Kayije Kagame)
Claire, a businesswoman promoting a new skyscraper office in Paris’s La Defense, faces increasing scrutiny and isolation. The cold, grey offices amplify her loneliness, driving vivid dreams of setting the tower ablaze.
Workers' Wings (Krahët e Punëtorëve) (Country: Kosovo; Year: 2024; Director: Ilir Hasanaj; Writer: Ilir Hasanaj)
After suffering industrial accidents, three manual labourers from Kosova silently convey their experience through their gazes.
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