Glasgow Short Film Festival 2024

View other Glasgow Short Film Festival 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 3: Resist and reclaim , Towards Liberation 1: Restricted Citizens , Towards Liberation 2: All wars are fought twice , Visible Cinema , Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize

Bear (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Kate Hammer)
Jude, a neurodivergent mess, desperately needs a job, but a giant, sentient teddy bear won’t stop getting in her way.
A Bear Named Wojtek (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Iain Gardner)
Displaced by the Second World War, a troop of Polish soldiers form an inseparable bond with an orphaned bear they name Wojtek.
Forming (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Eve McConnachie, Chloe Rosser)
The experience of living with a neurological condition and what people don’t see; the minute struggles and frustration inherent when the body will not obey the mind.
Have You Seen The Beast? (Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Will Hewitt, Austen McCowan)
A cold case rumour-mentary about sightings of an alien big cat in the rural Welsh countryside, told through eyewitness telephone accounts.
Kitchen Sink Fantasy (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Heath Virgoe)
A fantasy romcom which follows a gender-swapping Gen-Z narcissist on a quest to pay rent on time.
You Land (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Debora Maité)
In the remote Scottish countryside, a downtrodden woman finds herself drawn into influencer culture whilst in search of respite from the humdrum of rural living and the weight of her care-giving duties.
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