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Glasgow Short Film Festival 2024

View other Glasgow Short Film Festival Films by strand: Bill Douglas Award 1: Suspended Futures, Bill Douglas Award 2: Where we find ourselves, Bill Douglas Award 3: Between every imagined present, Bill Douglas Award 4: In your image its future is made, Bill Douglas Award 5: Because it became impossible to breathe, Bill Douglas Award 6: Mediated through the body, Bill Douglas Unseen Super 8, Cine Mujer 1: The personal is political, Cine Mujer 2: It’s not by choice, Festival Favourites 1, For Shorts & Giggles, Følkløric 1: Sticks and Stones, Følkløric 2: What a Shame She Went Mad, GMAC Animation, Jyoti Mistry: We Come In Peace, They Said, Scottish Competition 1: Fitting out, standing in, Scottish Competition 2: Tales we need, tales we are, Scottish Competition 3: Resist and reclaim, Towards Liberation 1: Restricted Citizens, Towards Liberation 2: All wars are fought twice, Visible Cinema, Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize

Galb'Echaouf (Country: Morocco; Year: 2021; Director: Abdessamad El Montassir)
While investigating on an event that profoundly changed the landscape of the Sahara, the artist was faced with the silence of previous generations who remain haunted by a history that they are unable to tell.
How To Reverse A Spell: The Promise Of An Archive (Country: Morocco; Year: 2022; Director: Yasmine Benabdallah)
A speculative triptych that traverses the disappearance and erasure of the Moroccan public archives and their colonial displacement.
In Praise Of Slowness (Country: UK, Italy; Year: 2023; Director: Hicham Gardaf)
Due to economic and technological forces reshaping the city of Tangier, the profession of bleach vendor is disappearing. The film explores modes of resistance against the relentless pace of capitalism.
The Last Paradise (Les Derniers Paradis) (Country: Morocco, France; Year: 2019; Director: Sido Lansari)
This is the almost-true story of Sami. In Casablanca, he dreams about dancing and Egyptian divas in the hairdressing salon where he works. One day he meets Daniel, who helps him discover Paris in the midst of a gay revolution.
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