GSFF24 Index of All Films
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20 Handshakes For Peace
Mahdi Fleifel
Palestine, Germany, 2014
A historic moment, repeated twenty times.
English 4 min 49 secs
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Basil da Cunha
Portugal, Switzerland, 2023
After a police raid in a poor Lisbon neighbourhood, a 7-year-old girl searches for her missing older brother. At the same time, a newly released ex-convict tries to start anew, free from a life of crime.
Portuguese 24 min 50 secs
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Sofia Borges
Portugal, 2023
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.
Forro Creole-Sãotomense, Portuguese 15 min 5 secs
A Bear Named Wojtek
Iain Gardner
United Kingdom, 2023
Displaced by the Second World War, a troop of Polish soldiers form an inseparable bond with an orphaned bear they name Wojtek.
English, Polish 28 min 0 secs
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A Bird Called Memory
Pássaro Memória
Leonardo Martinelli
Brazil, United Kingdom, 2023
A bird called Memory has lost its way back home. Lua, a trans woman, searches for Memory in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, but the city can be a hostile place.
Portuguese 15 min 0 secs
A Border Between Us
Riad Arfin
United Kingdom, 2023
A couple from two different countries struggle to find a place to call home. One of them will always have to make sacrifices for them to be together. What does it cost to make it work?
English, Other 13 min 39 secs
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A Kind of Testament
Un genre de testament
Stephen Vuillemin
France, 2023
A young woman comes across animations on the internet that have clearly been created from her private selfies. An unknown female with the same name confesses to identity theft. But why?
English 16 min 24 secs
All Gucci My Broski
Harry Plowden
United Kingdom, 2023
Jonny wants to be a good person. Jonny wants a lot of things.
English 13 min 34 secs
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And How Miserable is the Home of Evil
Saleh Kashefi
Switzerland, 2023
The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei takes refuge in a mosque, surrounded by his followers. Meanwhile, the protests outside become increasingly furious and violent.
Persian (Farsi) 7 min 21 secs
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And if you are a woman
¿Y si eres mujer?
Guadalupe Sánchez Sosa
Mexico, 1977
An analysis of the role education plays in the way gender roles are conceived.
Spanish English 7 min
And Me, I’m Dancing Too
Mohammad Valizadegan
Czech Republic, 2023
Saba is in love with dancing. She wants to project freedom with her body. But this expression of freedom is forbidden in the religious state in which she lives.
Persian (Farsi) 20 min 0 secs
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Ardent Other
Le Mal des Ardents
Alice Brygo
France, 2022
A stunned crowd faces a fire: fear needs to be conjured, fire must be turned into a sign.
French 16 min 13 secs
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Atomic Chicken
Thibault Ermeneux, Lucie Lyfoung, Solène Polet, Capucine Prat, Morgane Siriex, Anna Uglova
France, 2023
A chicken coop at the foot of a nuclear power plant sees its daily life turned upside down by a series of strange mutations.
None 5 min 4 secs
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Bab Sebta
Randa Maroufi
France, 2019
Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan soil, is the scene of trafficking in manufactured goods, sold at a discount. Thousands of people work there every day.
Spanish English 19 min 0 secs
Ball
Fridtjof Stensæth Josefsen, Morten Borgestad
Norway, 2023
An episode from Easy Peasy, a series about the struggles of the little man. Sadly, easy peasy isn’t always lemon squeezy.
Norwegian 2 min 42 secs
Barbès
Randa Maroufi
France, Belgium, 2019
A group of young women occupies a public space. They take on the same gestures as those of the men in such places: they play cards or watch a football match without minding the passage of time.
None 6 min
Bear
Kate Hammer
United Kingdom, 2023
Jude, a neurodivergent mess, desperately needs a job, but a giant, sentient teddy bear won’t stop getting in her way.
English 11 min 0 secs
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Beautiful Men
Nicolas Keppens
France, Belgium, The Netherlands, 2023
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
Dutch 18 min 35 secs
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Big Moves
Sarah Grant
United Kingdom, 2023
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.
English 13 min 35 secs
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Blackwool
Eubha Akilade
United Kingdom, 2023
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.
English English 15 min 0 secs
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Blinded by Centuries
ให้แสงอาบกายให้กาลวายสิ้น
Parinda Mai
Thailand, 2023
Navigating the evolution of consciousness in a speculative landscape. An auto-fictional retelling of Phra Ros Meri (Twelve Sisters), the Buddhist folktale rooted in Southeast Asia.
English, Thai 13 min 57 secs
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Blood is Thicker
Ruth Paxton
United Kingdom, 2011
A dark wee fairy story about runaway lovers, shot on location at Gosford Estate with a Sony DV Camcorder.
English 5 min
Bristles
Quentin Haberham
The Netherlands, 2021
When the most beautiful brush in the jar suddenly dries out, he does everything he can to save his handsome bristles in order to paint again.
None 2 min 15 secs
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Buzz
Bryn Chainey, Andrew Brand
United Kingdom, 2022
On a prairie millions of miles from home, a grumpy space farmer is having trouble with one of her hive. A robot bee called Buzz keeps going rogue.
None 9 min 48 secs
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Camiknickers Henequin
Kate Russell
United Kingdom, 2023
An exercise in playful creativity and relinquishing control, inspired by prompt words selected through a game of Chatterbox.
None 4 min 9 secs
Care
Jagoda Tlok
United Kingdom, 2023
Two care workers from different backgrounds face the challenges of the private British care system and rebel in a way they can afford.
English 13 min 38 secs
Cause of Death
Jyoti Mistry
South Africa, Austria, 2020
Women’s bodies are always at risk. An autopsy report describes the physical impact on the body that results in death but hides the structural and recurrent violence on women’s bodies that leads to femicide.
English 19 min 5 secs
Chasing the Sun: El Shatt
Dohvatiti sunce: El Shatt
Ana Bilankov
Croatia, 2023
El Shatt was the largest refugee camp in the Sinai desert in Egypt during the Second World War. This transtemporal filmic journey reconstructs a fragmented memory of unknown history about migration in the Mediterranean.
Croatian, English 19 min 30 secs
Chef Gustav
Luke Frangeskou
United Kingdom, 2023
A proud chef is cooking a fancy meal and is forced to fight a mischievous cat who will stop at nothing to steal the food he is cooking.
3 min
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Childish
Emily Munro
United Kingdom, 2024
The child in film is bounded by the frame and by the adult gaze. Can children in this situation find autonomy? How does the child through time resist oppression, violence and control?
English 15 min 5 secs
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Chomp It!
Mark Chua, Li Shuen Lam
Singapore, 2023
Two crocodilian men go to a swimming pool to cool off. One of them is seemingly of a different and special kind; the other is unable to control his desire.
English 11 min 35 secs
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Cobblers’ Lot
Peter Strickland
United Kingdom, 2017
Loosely based on a traditional Hungarian fairy tale, this contribution to the omnibus film The Field Guide to Evil is an abstract retelling of a folktale about two shoemaker brothers battling for the hand of a beautiful princess.
English 12 min 36 secs
COP26FILM
Luke Fowler
United Kingdom, 2023
Shot in Glasgow during the 26th UN Climate Change Conference in 2021. A record of security systems, cordons, and the omnipresence of police helicopters, and of mass protests, the raiding of a squat containing environmental activists, and the voices of grassroots collectives from the Global South.
English, Spanish 6 min 45 secs
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Cracked Screen: A Snapchat Story
Trim Lamba
United Kingdom, 2016
The self-broadcasted life of a young woman in London before, during and after a life-shattering experience.
English 7 min 44 secs
Cross My Heart and Hope To Die
Sam Manacsa
Philippines, 2023
Mila is overdue payment from her employers. A potential love interest becomes a source of comfort through his constant phone calls. But the promise of hope may also lead to tragedy and sad love songs.
Filipino, English 18 min 1 secs
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Daydreaming so vividly about our Spanish holidays
La herida luminosa
Christian Avilés
Spain, 2022
Driven by their desire for light and warmth, British teenagers take a trip to the Balearic Islands. They must absorb the sun and store it in their bodies to take it back to their cloud-covered kingdom.
English, Spanish 23 min 34 secs
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Dede Is Dead
Deniska umřela
Philippe Kastner
Czech Republic, 2023
Death of a beloved pet is a difficult thing to deal with, and even though we try to prepare for it, it always seems to come too soon. But just because Dede is dead doesn’t mean that she is completely gone.
None 8 min 24 secs
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Dipped in Black
Marungka Tjalatjunu
Derik Lynch, Matthew Thorne
Australia, 2023
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.
English 24 min 40 secs
Dreams like paper boats
Des rêves en bateaux papiers
Samuel Suffren
Haiti, 2024
Edouard and his daughter live with a cassette received from his wife in the United States, a long time ago. After years of absence, what can we expect from a distant love?
Haitian 19 min 14 secs
Echo
Ross McClean
United Kingdom, Ireland, 2023
An operation ten years ago left Allister with damaged vocal cords and an obstacle to communication. His unusual solution reminds us that community thrives in surprising places.
English 12 min 47 secs
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Elefsina Notre Amour
Mahdi Fleifel
Greece, 2023
Deserted landscapes, ancient ruins and abandoned shipwrecks at sea. Elefsina’s archeological sites don’t come close to being as hauntingly beautiful as these dead ships, the neglected refugees of Elefsina. For how did they end up there, anyway?
None 8 min 59 secs
Ever Since, I Have Been Flying
O Gün Bu Gündür, Uçuyorum
Aylin Gökmen
Switzerland, 2023
A 60-year-old man who grew up in a nomadic tribe in the mountains of southeast Turkey recalls moments from his youth.
Kurdish, Turkish 18 min 27 secs
Fever
Bill Douglas
United Kingdom, 1967
Displaying the cinematic influence of Bunuel and Cocteau, and inspired by a short story by French writer JMG Le Clézio, Bill’s most experimental short depicts a psychiatric patient who travels to Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park, to warn anyone who will listen about the impending nuclear holocaust.
None 8 min 51 secs
Film About
Cameron Nicoll
United Kingdom, 2023
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.
English 16 min 56 secs
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Final Show
Sista showen
Freddy Wallin
Sweden, 2023
Livestreamed, humiliated and laughed at. Finally, they have had enough.
None 14 min 50 secs
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Flowers, So Many Flowers
Kiek Žiedų
Monika Navickaite
Lithuania, United Kingdom, 2023
A young Lithuanian woman returns home from Scotland, to her grandmother and a distant mother. She soon learns she will have to face several challenges while grappling with the impending loss of a loved one.
Lithuanian 16 min 18 secs
for here am I sitting in a tin can far above the world
Gala Hernández López
France, 2023
A woman dreams of a future economic crisis affecting the cryptocurrency market. Thousands are cryogenized waiting for better times. Are they suspended or are they falling into the void?
English 19 min 6 secs
Forming
Eve McConnachie, Chloe Rosser
United Kingdom, 2022
The experience of living with a neurological condition and what people don’t see; the minute struggles and frustration inherent when the body will not obey the mind.
None 5 min 19 secs
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Freedom is a Word
Liberdade É Uma Palavra
Stephanie Ricci
Brazil, 2019
Vespasiano is home to a penitentiary for pregnant women and mothers with young children. We see fragments of their daily lives: evangelical services, conversations, confessions, vanity, fear, punishment, memory and the constant struggle for the experience of motherhood.
Portuguese 14 min
Friends on the Outside
Annabel Moodie
United Kingdom, 2023
Jamie is an incarcerated man who finds joy and comfort inside by foraging for weeds and caring for birds. A glimpse at how nature can take care of us and offer moments of connection in the spaces of the state’s neglect.
English 9 min 35 secs