Glasgow Short Film Festival 2023

View other Glasgow Short Film Festival Films by strand: Bill Douglas Award 2: What we leave lingering, Bill Douglas Award 3: We will not act accordingly, Bill Douglas Award 4: Absurdity of labour, pt. 2, Bill Douglas Award 5: History teaches, but has no pupils, Bill Douglas Award 6: Each their own frontiers, Camino To Cop26, Family Shorts, For Shorts And Giggles, Galas, GSFF23 Faves: Bots Bods Bodies, GSFF23 Faves: Find Your Way, Islands That Come And Go, Lebanese Focus: And Then God Created Man, Lebanese Focus: Trapped, Right Of Way, Rise of the Empathy Machines, Scared Shortless, Scottish Competition 1: (Un)Tethered, Scottish Competition 2: Dig Deep, Scottish Competition 3: From Earth, Scottish Competition 4: Navigations, Spatial Hunger: Everything I Saw, Spatial Hunger: In The Unseen, Visible Cinema, Wagner & de Burca: Performing Labour, Wagner & de Burca: Space Reclaimed, Welcome to the Multiverse, Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize 1, Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize 2

2nd Person (Country: Portugal; Year: 2022; Director: Rita Barbosa)
An old water pipe causes a ceiling leak. On this ceiling, toxic Polyporales mushrooms grow. Sitting on the toilet, the lady of the house looks up and observes the magical and mysterious fungus, which is not an animal, nor a plant. The mushroom is the future, she thinks.
Haulout (Year: 2022; Director: Maxim Arbugaev, Evgenia Arbugaeva; Stars: Maxim Chakilev)
Documenting a marine biologist as he observes walruses in Siberia.
Juice (Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Mona Keil)
A bunch of round succulent and moist creatures smear each other contentedly with an oozy juice. They share their world with pesky little bugs, but one day, they squash them all. In response the creatures start to run dry.
Watch The Fire Or Burn Inside It (Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Jonathan Vinel, Caroline Poggi)
In Corsica, a woman chooses to heal the Earth by burning it.
White Ant (Country: India, UK; Year: 2023; Director: Shalini Adnani)
A middle aged businessman, is called back to his now abandoned childhood home, where he is confronted with a colony of termites eating the house from the inside out.
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