Glasgow Short Film Festival 2023

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Aphonia (Country: Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Marta Z Nowak)
The daily routine of a boarding school for Deaf children is disturbed by the arrival of a new student. He cannot sign, he does not speak and feels alienated. A Deaf girl helps him find his way into the new world. Their special friendship will soon be put to the test.
Hand In Hand (Country: New Zealand; Year: 2022; Director: Shelley Waddams)
It's the Seventies, and at a hearing school where sign language is banned, two Deaf girls risk it all to experience true friendship.
The Riley Sisters (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Julia Jackman)
Izzy and Jess find themselves alone when their brother Steve is arrested. Steve insists he’s innocent, and asks his sisters to find the friend who betrayed him.
Romeo And Juliet (Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Adriana Somacal)
During Verona's Carnival, we follow the love of young Romeo and Juliet in a complex reality of hate and exploitation of violence wrought by the media.
Tarneit (Country: Australia; Year: 2021; Director: John Sheedy)
Tyrone lives with his distressed mother and her boyfriend Pommy, a lowlife who despises immigrants and homosexuals. Tyrone’s best friend Clinton, a refugee, lives with his overworked mother and older brother Shaker, who also has firm ideas about race and sex. Despite these obstacles, Tyrone and Clinton are deeply bonded.
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