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Glasgow Short Film Festival 2017

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Batrachian's Ballad (Country: Portugal; Year: 2016; Director: Leonor Teles)
Like the gypsies, the frogs, made of china, don't go unnoticed to a careful observer. "Batrachian's Ballad" comes about in a context of ambiguity. A film that immerses itself in the reality of Portuguese everyday life, as a form of fabling about a xenophobic behaviour.
Clan (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2016; Director: Stefanie Kolk)
A tight-knit group of people live and work at a derelict farm. No one knows the woman in a black raincoat who has been wandering around their land all day. At first, they don't worry about her. But the closer she gets, the more she starts to get in their way.
Import (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2016; Director: Ena Sendijarevic; Writer: Ena Sendijarevic; Stars: Annelies Appelhof, Ali Ben Horsting, Aya Crnic, Alena Dzebo, Esma Hrusto, Sjeng Kessels, Mario Knezovic, Felix Jan Kuipers, Timme Moorrees, Annemarie Prins, Wessel Spieker, Hiske van der Linden)
A young Bosnian refugee family ends up in a small village in the Netherlands. Absurd situations arise as they are trying to make this new world their home.
A Man Returned (Country: UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Lebanon; Year: 2016; Director: Mahdi Fleifel; Writer: Mahdi Fleifel; Stars: Reda Al-Saleh)
Story of a man preparing for marriage after being sent back to a refugee camp after being deported from Greece.
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