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, 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 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

1815 (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Neil Boyle)
During the 1815 Highland Clearances, a stubborn tenant farmer and a Waterloo veteran strike up a reluctant and uneasy bond as they relentlessly search the highlands, glimpsing the human costs of the Clearances as they go.
Bellsmyre Caledonia (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Jack Guariento)
A consideration of the way in which the time opened up by lockdown presented an opportunity for expanded critical thought.
The Cities I Live In (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Rabie Mustapha)
Newly settled in Belfast, a filmmaker tells his infant twins about his life journey. They see him leaving one violent place for another, longing for places that he will never see again, and hoping they will not carry his curse. Troubled cities travel as fragmented memories in this short film about a man searching for stillness.
Clean (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Miranda Stern)
A short and personal female centred documentary about addiction, and long-term recovery from it. This film weaves together observational and lyrical elements to take us into the challenging, deeply personal, and relatively unknown world of recovery – along with the processes of care that follow in the years after a period of active addiction.
Floored (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Fin Bain)
Matthew is a young man riddled with guilt who has taken to working for an events team looking after overdosed ravers. Here he crosses paths with Kieran, a chaotic and highly intoxicated festival-goer in whom he can’t help but see himself.
One Shot (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Zam Salim)
Shot in one unbroken take, an actor must do multiple versions of the same action until he finds dark perfection.
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