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: 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 2

Andy Auld: Ardeer To America (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Aidan Lynn)
How does a Scottish footballer go from fighting at the Battle of the Somme, to Ardeer Thistle, to playing for the US at the 1930 FIFA World Cup?
If I Touch You Then You Touch Me (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Frieda Ford)
Reflecting on the interconnectivity of queer knowledge and embodied communication, the film explores the spider web as a host, an extension of the spider body, and a responsive communication device. The filmmaker looks at the flashing moments in which sunlight activates the spider web, giving us glimpses of connection and therefore, communications.
Practice (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Jack Heydon)
A man tries to pluck up the courage to get into the dating game, but his nerves get the better of him.
Short Staffed (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: David McCarrison)
Charlie enters a record shop for a job interview. She is greeted first by the owner and later by another employee, who warns her of the owner. Later as she is being interviewed, her true intentions in applying for the job are slowly revealed.
Viewings (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Oliver Rogers)
A couple in their early twenties decide to finally take that big step and move in together. With the help of a rather arrogant estate agent, they embark on an odyssey around Glasgow in an attempt to find the perfect first home. However, one bad viewing after another tests the two's compatibility .
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