Glasgow Short Film Festival 2024

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2720 (Country: Portugal, Switzerland; Year: 2023; Director: Basil da Cunha)
After a police raid in a poor Lisbon neighbourhood, a 7-year-old girl searches for her missing older brother. At the same time, a newly released ex-convict tries to start anew, free from a life of crime.
A Bird Called Memory (Pássaro Memória) (Country: Brazil, UK; Year: 2023; Director: Leonardo Martinelli; Stars: Ayla Gabriela)
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.
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays (La Herida Luminosa) (Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Christian Avilés)
Driven by their desire for light and warmth, British teenagers take a trip to the Balearic Islands. They must absorb the sun and store it in their bodies to take it back to their cloud-covered kingdom.
The Despair Of Monkeys (La Desesperacion De Los Monos) (Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Julian Garcia Long)
In Patagonia, the thousand-year-old Araucaria trees have almost been replaced by pine forests. Near my new home in Brussels, Araucarias adorn front yards. How have they become a petty bourgeois fad here?
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