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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 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, Visible Cinema, Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize

53 (Country: Portugal; Year: 2023; Director: Sofia Borges)
A conversation between a traditional healer and a man killed in Fernão Dias, based on the testimonies of the last survivors and the families of victims of the massacre conducted by the Portuguese colonial police forces in São Tomé e Príncipe in 1953.
Dipped In Black (Marungka Tjalatjunu) (Country: Australia; Year: 2023; Director: Derik Lynch, Matthew Thorne)
Yankunytjatjara man Derik Lynch takes a road trip from the oppression of white city life in Adelaide, back home to his remote Anangu community, to seek spiritual healing and to perform on sacred Inma ground.
Suddenly TV (Country: Sudan, Qatar; Year: 2022; Director: Roopa Gogineni)
At a besieged protest in Khartoum, a group of young Sudanese create an imaginary television station to meet fellow revolutionaries. What begins as play becomes an urgent conjuring of a new Sudan.
Voice Of The Land (Fala Da Terra) (Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca)
Amazonian activists of an agrarian reform movement create a theatre piece as a tool for educating its younger members about the forces of oppression they fight on behalf of all of us during this climate emergency.
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