Glasgow Short Film Festival 2017

View other Glasgow Short Film Festival Films by strand: Family Shorts, International Competition 1: Tribal Instincts, International Competition 3: Mother's Love, International Competition 4: The Limits Of Control, International Competition 5: Team Player, International Competition 6: Double Vision, Quantum Shorts, Reflections on Sovereignty 1: Citizens Of Nowhere, Round Midnight, Scottish Competition 1: Anything For You, Scottish Competition 2: The Parent Trap, Scottish Competition 3: Privilege, Tenth Anniversary Shorts

My Deadly, Beautiful City My Deadly, Beautiful City
My Deadly, Beautiful City and 489 Years
489 Years (Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Hayun Kwon)
A soldier's memories play over this animated tale of Korea's demilitarised zone.
An Ecstatic Experience (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Ja'Tovia Gary; Writer: Ja'Tovia Gary), Official Site
A meditative invocation on transcendence as a means of restoration.
Ears, Nose And Throat (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Kevin Jerome Everson; Stars: Shadeena Brooks, Eric Mansfield, Heather Honeycutt)
A woman unburdens herself about a horrific event she witnessed.
Kadambari (Country: India; Year: 2016; Director: Bhasmang Joshi; Writer: Bhasmang Joshi; Stars: Nilesh Das, Aarti Prajapati)
Kadambari drifts into her unconscious, lingering as a stranger to her latent anxieties that remain laced with the numbness of a riots-stricken homeland.
Kaiju Bunraku (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Jillian Mayer, Lucas Leyva; Writer: Lucas Leyva )
Here's a day in the life of a husband and wife living in a world of giant monsters.
Kadambari Kadambari
Kadambari and Some Will Forget
My Deadly, Beautiful City (The Hidden City) (Country: Russia, UK, US; Year: 2016; Director: Victoria Fiore)
The arctic mining city of Norilsk is one of the most polluted in the world - but many residents are still proud to call it home.
Some Will Forget (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Ruth Grimberg)
As a coal mine in an English village faces closure the real cost of industrial decline for a father and his sons is revealed.
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