Glasgow Short Film Festival 2023

View other Glasgow Short Film Festival Films by strand: Bill Douglas Award 1: Soon what remains?, Bill Douglas Award 2: What we leave lingering, 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

By Flávio (Country: Portugal, France; Year: 2022; Director: Pedro Cabeleira)
Wannabe digital influencer Marcia lands a date with famous rapper Da Reel Chullz, but when she realises that no one can watch her son, Flávio, she finds a solution: take him with her.
Flores Del Otro Patio (Country: Colombia; Year: 2022; Director: Jorge Cadena)
Masked activists embellished in sequins, glitter and jewels join forces to protest against a coal mining company and its failures to protect the environment and citizens.
Menagerie (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Jack Gray)
Day after day, inhabitants of the Menagerie play out their daily lives like clockwork. A study of the daily motions and mundane tasks of contemporary city life featuring hundreds of looping animated characters.
Nazarbazi (Country: Iran, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Maryam Tafakory)
A film about love and desire in Iranian cinema where depictions of intimacy and touch between women and men are prohibited.
Persona (Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Moon Sujin)
A naked woman, her back to us, scrubs a bodysuit in a basin before putting it on and going out to see her friends.
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