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, Camino To Cop26, Family Shorts, For Shorts And Giggles, Galas, GSFF23 Faves: Bots Bods Bodies, GSFF23 Faves: Find Your Way, 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

Deconstruction (Country: India; Year: 2022; Director: Parashar Naik)
A deconstruction of of an incident that took place in India, in 2015, in Madhya Pradesh state, presenting an absurd manifestation of a deep-rooted social stratification.
Estuary (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Kyllachy)
A sensory journey of elements, light and illusions captured along the lochs, rivers and coastlines of Scotland.
Forest Song (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Karel Doing)
After throwing off the yoke of slavery in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Saramaccan Maroons have established a network of independent communities that ignore the border between Suriname and French Guyana. They have combined their African heritage with local knowledge, cleverly adapting to the complex conditions offered by the tropical rainforest.
The King Is Not My Cousin (Country: France, Guadeloupe; Year: 2022; Director: Annabelle Aventurin)
In 2017 Elzea Foule Aventurin, the author of the book Sunny Karukera, Stranded Guadeloupe (1980), engaged in a series of interviews with her granddaughter, filmmaker Annabelle Aventurin. Together they trace—not without malice—a family history, sailing from one side of the black Atlantic to the other.
NE Corridor (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Joshua Gen Solondz)
Sliced up fragments, zipping and framing as the print struggles to make it through the frame, a woman stands and turns, a sculpture appears, a lawnmower mows, shredding and falling apart.
True Places (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Gloria Chung)
Exploring places which exist at the border(s) of memory and physical terrain.
The Wind Carries Us Home (Country: Mongolia, US; Year: 2022; Director: Udval Altangerel)
Through rituals of birth and death, the filmmaker and her family reconnect with their ancestral land in the Gobi Desert.
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