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Glasgow Short Film Festival 2024

View other Glasgow Short Film Festival Films by strand: Beyond The Seventh Gate: Contemporary Moroccan artists’ moving image, 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 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

Big Moves (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Sarah Grant)
Dancing as a plus size woman through the lens of pop culture. A radical and joyful reimagining of cinematic dance scenes with the bodies that traditionally get pushed to the back taking up space front and centre.
Blackwool (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Eubha Akilade)
On her first day at a high school in rural Scotland, a London teenager is targeted for her Afro hair by a cocksure class bully and must harness her inner power.
A Border Between Us (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Riad Arfin)
When a Bangladeshi man moves across the world to be with his partner in the UK, they discover the unforeseen costs of following your heart.
Film About (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Cameron Nicoll)
A filmmaker dives into his inner self (or rather, his phone notes) to revive abandoned film ideas that had been casualties to fear and self-doubt.
Living With It (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Holly Summerson; Writer: Holly Summerson)
Perfectionist Lee must adapt to the imperfect reality of living with an illness – brought to life as a chaotic supernatural flatmate: Bug.
Miss Temperance (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Jeremy McClain)
In Glasgow's alt-queer party scene, a drag artist navigates the night of their return to the stage after being one year sober.
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