Glasgow Short Film Festival 2023

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Burry Man (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Simon P Biggs)
When a Pictish farm is besieged by an endless winter, an adolescent girl must defy her father and his traditions to venture out beyond their family glen in search of a mysterious evergreen figure, the Burry Man, who has the power to bring springtime to the land.
Don't Blow It Up (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2022; Director: Alžbeta Mačáková Mišejková)
Two little girls are playing with a ball, but after a petty quarrel, they get angry with each other and take offence. Their umbrage makes them inflate like balloons. They fly all the way up to the clouds and get stuck up there, with no idea how to get down and save their kitten stuck in the tree.
Hello Stranger (Country: Germany; Year: 2021; Director: Julia Ocker)
An astronaut lands on an unknown planet where everything is foreign.
Ice Merchants (Country: Portugal, UK, France; Year: 2022; Director: João Gonzalez; Writer: João Gonzalez)
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.
Laika & Nemo (Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Jan Gadermann)
Nemo looks different. Nobody else wears a diving suit and such a huge helmet. But then he meets Laika, an astronaut.
Luce And The Rock (Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France; Year: 2022; Director: Britt Raes)
Luce lives a happy life in a peaceful little village, together with Mom and the Villagers. Every day is the same, and that’s the way everyone likes it. The only thing that scares Luce is the dark – but luckily her little light- sticks keep her safe! One day a giant Rock Creature disturbs the quiet life in the village. He destroys all the houses including Luce’s! Luce is angry and determined to take the Rock Creature back to his home. But the Rock might have more in common with Luce than she first thought.
Making An Entrance (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Susan Crowe)
A sentient, dimension-hopping door is on a quest to find a peaceful corner of the universe.
Meta (Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Antje Heyn)
An animated film that takes up topics such as change, transience, cycles, connection, and interaction in a playful and experimental way. The aim is to show that everything consists of many parts and that in the end we are all connected with each other.
The Turnip (Country: Estonia; Year: 2022; Director: Piret Sigus, Silja Saarepuu)
A story is based on the Slavic folktale, which has been told for ages from the peasants' point of view. Instead the film presents this over-exploited story from an underground angle - showing what really happened while peasants were engaged in the cultivation of vegetables.
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