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 1: (Un)Tethered, Scottish Competition 2: Dig Deep, Scottish Competition 3: From Earth, Scottish Competition 4: Navigations, 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

All My Scars Vanish In The Wind (Country: Colombia; Year: 2022; Director: Carlos Velandia, Angélica Restrepo)
Among intrusive and sought-after memories, a woman hears a disconcerting call from the depths of her being: a cryptic cry for help, becoming intelligible as it guides her to the original wound, to her inner child, becoming her own protector.
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.
Corrupted (Country: Chile; Year: 2022; Director: Juan Cifuentes Mera)
After losing her memory to electroshock therapy, Andrea tries to reconstruct her past as she searches for her former self.
Model Childhood (Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Tim Mercier)
An autobiographical, partly animated, documentary about a filmmaker striving for a better future as a survivor of childhood sexual trauma.
Night (Country: Palestine, Germany, Qatar; Year: 2021; Director: Ahmad Saleh)
Night must trick a mother of a missing child into sleeping to save her soul.
The Spiral (Country: Argentina; Year: 2022; Director: María Silvia Esteve)
A WhatsApp audio begins, and with it, a downward spiral unfolds.
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