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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
View previous years coverage of the Glasgow Short Film Festival festival:
GSFF Latest Reviews
A bird called Memory has lost its way back home. Lua, a trans woman, searches for Memory in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, but the city can be a hostile place.
A Hitchcockian psychodrama about an introverted man who pursues a woman with whom he becomes obsessed.
An elderly woman is admitted to an asylum and all her possessions are removed by the council.
A young woman runs to catch the last post with her weekly pools coupon, whilst imagining a more glamorous life for herself.
Trouble brews when a woman is late home for her birthday dinner.
Freshly released inmates contemplate their new-found freedom as they wait at the bus station near the jail.
New laws against witchcraft trouble three fishwives from North Berwick in 1590.
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