Glasgow Short Film Festival 2025

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Aliens In Beirut (Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Raghed Charabaty)
In the fateful summer of the 2020 Beirut Port Explosion, a Lebanese immigrant returns home in search of roots, only to fall in love with a stranger by the sea.
I Don't Want To Be Just A Memory (Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Sarnt Utamachote)
After the loss of their friends to substance abuse, members of the queer community in Berlin come together to share honest stories about the club scene.
Le Récit d'A (Country: Canada; Year: 1990; Director: Esther Valiquette)
Animated, medical and autobiographical fragments are montaged together for a personal reflection on the AIDS crisis, ways of seeing, and perseverance.
The Source Is A Hole (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Angelo Madsen)
An attempt to remove a lodged tampon, and a barrage of tangential encounters, shape a filmmaker’s reflection on transgender mourning.
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