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View other Glasgow Short Film Festival Films by strand: Bill Douglas Award 1: Bids for Connection, Bill Douglas Award 2: Flesh of My Flesh, Bill Douglas Award 3: The Traces We Leave, Bill Douglas Award 4: Clocking On, Bill Douglas Award 5: Crackdown Aesthetics, Bill Douglas Award 6: Ground Loops, Eco-spectrality: Residual Fabulations, Eco-spectrality: Tentacular Frequencies, EFA Shorts 1, EFA Shorts 2, Family Shorts 2, For Shorts And Giggles, Galas, Scared Shortless, Scottish Competition 1: Tiny Changes, Scottish Competition 3: A Different Sphere, Scottish Competition 4: Step Up, Techno-Fix: By Extension, Techno-Fix: Obscured Connections, The End, You've Been Telt: Scottish Film Stories, Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize 1, Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize 2

Born In Damascus Born In Damascus
Born In Damascus and The Bayview
The Bayview (Country: UK; Year: 2021; Director: Daniel Cook)
A glimpse into the world of a family who have turned the previously derelict hotel into a place of respite for international fishermen when they come to land.
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Born In Damascus (Country: UK; Year: 2021; Director: Laura Wadha)
After ten years apart, a Scottish filmmaker tries to reconnect with her closest cousin after their paths were separated by war.
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Field Notes On Love (Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Sam Firth; Writer: Lauren Graham, Jennifer E Smith; Stars: Jordan Fisher, Dove Cameron)
Essay about a filmmaker in a relationship with a woodland ecologist.
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Kin (Country: UK; Year: 2021; Director: Ruby Cedar)
The fractured relationship between a mother and daughter in crisis.
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Life Of Riley (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Shaun Hughes; Writer: Shaun Hughes; Stars: Conor McCarron, James Price, Joma West)
A headstrong homeless man must take responsibility for his own actions after his dog is hurt.
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Too Rough Too Rough
Too Rough and Kin
Too Rough (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Sean Lìonadh; Writer: Sean Lìonadh; Stars: Neshla Caplan, Joshua Griffin, Jane McCarry, Ruaridh Mollica, Kevin O'Loughlin, Oliver Wright)
What can happen when the families we’re born into and the families we make for ourselves collide.
Full Review See: Interview with Sean Lionadh about Too Rough
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