GSFF 2019 Competition Selection Announced


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Swatted | Ismael Joffroy Chandoutis | France | 2018 | 21 min | UK Premiere

Drawn from over 1700 submissions, Glasgow Short Film Festival is delighted to announce the line-up for the 2019 Scottish Short Film Award sponsored by Blazing Griffin, and for the 2019 Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film. 26 countries are represented in 54 films. Combined, the selection includes four World Premieres, two International Premieres, one European Premiere, 21 UK Premieres and 11 Scottish Premieres.

The full festival programme will be announced on Wednesday 6 February.

Scottish Short Film Award, sponsored by Blazing Griffin

4:3 | Ross Hogg | 2019 | 5 min | World Premiere Bouba & Kiki | Jack Goessens | 2019 | 11 min | World Premiere  Cleaning in Progress | Grant Holden | 2018 | 7 min  Collision Index | Duncan Marquiss | 2017 | 15 min | Scottish Premiere  Concrete & Flowers | James Price | 2018 | 9 min  Crannog | Isa Rao | 2018 | 15 min  Dogma | Francesco Rufini | 2018 | 11 min  In the Fall | Tom Gentle | 2018 | 16 min  Just Agree Then | Duncan Cowles, Ross Hogg | 2018 | 9 min | UK Premiere  Laundromat | Madeleine Sayers | 2018 | 6 min  Mum’s Cards | Luke Fowler | 2018 | 9 min | UK Premiere  My Loneliness Is Killing Me | Tim Courtney | 2018 | 17 min  SHED | Harvey Gardner | 2018 | 14 min  Short Changed | Zoe Hutber | 2018 | 5 min  SLAP | Simone Smith | 2018 | 14 min  Slingshot | Robin Haig | 2018 | 15 min | World Premiere Song for Granny | Holger Mohaupt | 2018 | 4 min | UK Premiere Those Who Are Most Happy | Rory Gibson | 2018 | 18 min | World Premiere Ululation | Carina Haouchine | 2018 | 12 min  We Are All Here | Hannah Currie | 2018 | 23 min  You Know it but it Don’t Know You | Tako Taal | 2017 | 7 min

Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film

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 | Miro Drobný | Slovakia | 2018 | 25 min | UK Premiere 
III | Marta Pajek | Poland | 2018 | 12 min | Scottish Premiere
A is for Artist | Ayo Akingbade | UK | 2018 | 5 min | Scottish Premiere
Bigger Than Life | Adnan Softić | Germany | 2018 | 30 min | UK Premiere
Caucasus (Kaukazas) | Laurynas Bareisa | Lithuania | 2018 | 14 min | UK Premiere
Do It Again | Curtis Miller | USA | 2018 | 9 min | European Premiere
Doppelgänger | Michaela Taschek | Austria | 2018 | 20 min | UK Premiere
Edgecombe | Crystal Kayiza | USA | 2018 | 15 min | International Premiere
Everything is far away (Totul e foarte departe) | Emanuel Parvu | Romania | 2018 | 15 min | UK premiere
The Fall (La Chute) | Boris Labbé | France | 2018 | 15 min | Scottish Premiere
Fest | Nikita Diakur | Germany | 2018 | 3 min
The Flood Is Coming | Gabriel Böhmer | UK | 2018 | 9 min
Flora (꽃) | Chaerin Im | USA | 2018 | 4 min | UK Premiere
The Houses We Were (Le case che eravamo) | Arianna Lodeserto | Italy | 2018 | 18 min | UK Premiere
I don´t see myself being old (No me imagino siendo vieja) | Martina Juncadella | Argentina | 2018 | 13 min | UK Premiere
I Signed the Petition | Mahdi Fleifel | UK, Germany, Switzerland | 2018 | 11 min | Scottish Premiere
The Imminent Immanent (Baga’t Diri Tuhay Ta’t Pamahungpahung) | Carlo Francisco Manatad | Philippines, Singapore, Italy | 2018 | 15 min | Scottish Premiere
Jour de Fête | John Smith | UK | 2017 | 1 min | Scottish premiere
Jujuba (愛讃讃) | Shun Ikezoe | Japan | 2018 | 8 min | International Premiere
Liminality & Communitas | Laura Rantanen | Finland | 2018 | 10 min | UK Premiere
Operation Jane Walk | Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel | Austria | 2018 | 16 min | Scottish Premiere
Our Song to War (Nuestro Canto A La Guerra) | Juanita Onzaga | Belgium | 2018 | 14 min | UK Premiere
Russa | João Salaviza, Ricardo Alves Jr. | Portugal, Brazil | 2018 | 20 min | UK Premiere
Self Destructive Boys | André Santos, Marco Leão | Portugal | 2018 | 27 min | UK Premiere 
Slaughter | Saman Hosseinpuor, Ako Zandkarimi | Iran | 2019 | 13 min | UK Premiere
Swatted | Ismael Joffroy Chandoutis | France | 2018 | 21 min | UK Premiere
Those Progressive Meats | Minoru Karasube | Japan | 2017 | 4 min | Scottish Premiere
Three Stories Inside a Rental Van | Lewis Attey | Australia | 15 min | UK Premiere
Tungrus | Rishi Chandna | India | 2018 | 13 min | Scottish Premiere
Vassileia (Βασιλεία) | Anastasia Kratidi | Greece | 2018 | 14 min | UK Premiere
Video Home System | Sharlene Bamboat | Canada | 2018 | 19 min | UK Premiere
Vox Lipoma (Fettknölen) | Jane Magnusson, Liv Strömquist | Sweden | 2018 | 11 min | Scottish Premiere
Whole (Брак) | Slava Doytcheva | Bulgaria | 2018 | 21 min | UK Premiere