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, Bill Douglas Award 6: Each their own frontiers, 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 Ghost Rainforest (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: John Davies)
Follows a group of five indigenous leaders and activists from the Amazon, making an emotionally charged and once in a lifetime journey to a little known and desperately rare temperate rainforest habitat on the West Coast of Scotland.
Of Walking On Thin Ice (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Benjamin Wigley)
Can one footprint imprint on our collective consciousness and create change? A walk; a pilgrimage, an odyssey…for the planet.
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