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The most important short film event in Scotland, this year's festival features a focus on Moroccan filmmaker Randa Maroufi; a portmanteau film portrait of Govanhill; and a thematic strand in defiance of oppression. We're adding details just now, so please bear with us.
The festival runs from 20 to 24 March.
View Films by Strand:
- Beyond The Seventh Gate: Contemporary Moroccan artists’ moving image
- Bill Douglas Award 1: Suspended Futures
- Bill Douglas Award 2: Where we find ourselves
- Bill Douglas Award 3: Between every imagined present
- Bill Douglas Award 4: In your image its future is made
- Bill Douglas Award 5: Because it became impossible to breathe
- Bill Douglas Award 6: Mediated through the body
- Bill Douglas Unseen Super 8
- Cine Mujer 1: The personal is political
- Cine Mujer 2: It’s not by choice
- Festival Favourites 1
- For Shorts & Giggles
- Følkløric 1: Sticks and Stones
- Følkløric 2: What a Shame She Went Mad
- GMAC Animation
- Jyoti Mistry: We Come In Peace, They Said
- Scottish Competition 1: Fitting out, standing in
- Scottish Competition 2: Tales we need, tales we are
- Scottish Competition 3: Resist and reclaim
- Towards Liberation 1: Restricted Citizens
- Towards Liberation 2: All wars are fought twice
- Visible Cinema
- Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize
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