Glasgow Short Film Festival 2018

View other Glasgow Short Film Festival Films by strand: Blueprint: Scottish Independent Shorts, Death And Killing In Southeast Asia, Don Hertzfeldt: World of Tomorrow 1 & 2, International Competition 1: Paint Your Own Reality, International Competition 2: Freedom of Choice, International Competition 3: Dream of a Glorious Return, International Competition 4: Parched Land, International Competition 5: Treading Water, International Competition 6: Where You Look From, Kevin Jerome Everson 3, Ladies of the Night, NFTS Scotland presents Eva Riley, Round Midnight 1: Sex, Round Midnight 2: Violence, Scottish Competition 1: Take My Hand, Scottish Competition 2: The Point is to Change It, Scottish Competition 3: Foreign to the World, Ten Years of Film G

Ablaze (Country: Thailand, Singapore; Year: 2016; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
A moving painting, brushed with black shadows on white. In a dark forest, a man blocks a woman's vision as a mysterious blaze burns bright.
The Anthem (Country: Thailand, United Kingdom; Year: 2006; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The Anthem presents a ‘cinema anthem’, a custom which blesses each cinema screening in honour of the King.
Cactus River (Country: Thailand, United States; Year: 2012; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
A diary of Weerasethakul's visit to Nach and her husband in the United States.
Emerald (Morakot) (Country: Thailand, Japan; Year: 2007; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Emerald (Morakot) is a derelict and defunct hotel in the heart of Bangkok that opened in an economic boom.
Empire (Country: Thailand, Austria; Year: 2010; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Has the diver been looking for something? Has someone else found it?
Footprints (Country: Thailand, Mexico; Year: 2014; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Weerasethakul’s contribution to an omnibus production exploring analogies between football and everyday life.
Haunted Houses (Country: Thailand; Year: 2001; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
An examination of media addiction in the Thai cultural landscape, scripted directly from two episodes of popular television show Tong Prakaisad.
A Letter To Uncle Boonmee (Country: Thailand; Year: 2009; Director: Apichatpong Weerasathakul)
A return visit to the site of a political massacre.
Luminous People (Country: Thailand, Portugal; Year: 2007; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
A group travels in a boat along Mekong River. It stretches along the Thai-Laos border which links the dead and the living.
Mekong Hotel (Country: Thailand, UK; Year: 2012; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Writer: Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Stars: Jenjira Pongpas, Maiyatam Techapam, Sakda Kaewbuadee)
A film director's study of a vampiric mother and daughter veers between fact and fiction.
Malee And The Boy (Country: Thailand; Year: 1999; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
A day in Bangkok spent by an eleven-year-old boy gathering sound-bites of the city.
Mobile Men (Country: Thailand; Year: 2008; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Two young men in a pickup truck are filming each other. Little by little, they film their full figures.
Monsoon (Country: Thailand; Year: 2011; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
A video response to the earthquake and the tsunami which hit the Tohoku region of Japan on 11 March, 2011.
My Mother's Garden (Country: Thailand, France; Year: 2007; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
An impression of a Jewelry collection by Victoire de Castellane. Also a tribute to Weerasethakul's mother's garden, with its wild orchids' roots, bugs and other organisms.
M Hotel (Country: Thailand, Hong Kong; Year: 2011; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Two film crew members, visiting Hong Kong for the first time, spend the afternoon in their hotel room taking portraits of one another.
Nimit (Country: Thailand; Year: 2007; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Asked to make a film about the King, Weerasethakul decided instead to make a film about his life.
La Punta (Country: Thailand; Year: 2013; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Part of Future Reloaded, a collective movie tribute to the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival, 2013
Thirdworld (Country: Thailand, US; Year: 1997; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
A depiction of the landscape of Panyi island, both realistically and metaphorically.
This And A Million More Lights (Country: Thailand; Year: 2003; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Hometown and foreign land, past and present, reality and memory are interlinked with each other through a series of Hometown and foreign land, past and present, reality and memory are interlinked with each other through a series of superimposed images.
Vampire (Country: Thailand, France; Year: 2008; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Somewhere along the border of Thailand and Burma lives a creature called Nok Phii (Ghost Bird) that feeds on the blood of other animals.
Vapour (Country: Thailand, South Korea, China; Year: 2015; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Clouds descend onto a village and engulf it for a day. They touch the roof tiles, the beds, the chairs, the carpets, the grass, and the bodies.
Worldly Desires (Country: Thailand, South Korea; Year: 2005; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
An experimental piece. A couple escape their family to look for a spiritual tree in the jungle, where there is a song at night.
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