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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 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, 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

The Empty Sphere (Country: Federated States of Micronesia; Year: 2022; Director: Stephanie Roland)
An experimental documentary portraying a space object and its fall into the darkness of a space cemetery. A woman scientist reveals her attachment to this object and the absence of images documenting this mysterious place.
Mulika (Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo; Year: 2022; Director: Maisha Maene)
An afronaut emerges from the wreckage of a spaceship in the volcanic crater of Mount Nyiragongo. As he descends into the city below, encountering the people of present-day Goma, he begins to understand what he must do to change the future for his people.
Neighbour Abdi (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2022; Director: Douwe Dijkstra)
Somali-born Abdi is furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour and filmmaker Douwe.
Vision Of Paradise (Country: Brazil, US, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Leonardo Pirondi)
The story of a voyage of the Brazilian Military in search of an imaginary island with the same name as their country, the legendary Hy-Brazil.
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