GSFF24 Index of All Films
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Gaelic In The Chest
Parker Dawes
United Kingdom, 2022
Dè fon ghrèin thachair an sin?! This film blurb just turned into Gaelic right before my very eyes! How odd. Come to think of it… What chaos there’d be, if every English word in the world turned to Gaelic!
English EN DS 2 min
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Galb’Echaouf
Abdessamad El Montassir
Morocco, 2021
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.
Hassanya 18 min 43 secs
Ghostmarkets
Jules Ramage
France, 2022
Ten male prisoners set about creating a network of monetary production. This process reveals the prior existence of an invisible infrastructure based on the exchange of services, honour debts and the performance of masculinity, determining the structure of the prison hierarchy.
French 6 min 50 secs
Govanhill
Felipe Bustos Sierra
United Kingdom, 2024
An intuitive portrait of Govanhill in Glasgow’s Southside, exploring the secret recipes and whispered art of a neighbourhood conceived to be just a passing place.
English 37 min
Gracemary
Bill Douglas
United Kingdom, 1966
A young woman runs to catch the last post with her weekly pools coupon, whilst imagining a more glamorous life for herself.
None 4 min 16 secs
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Growin’ Pains
Sammson Orr
United Kingdom, 2023
During a family argument, a teenager flees to the garden to find relief from the noise and conflict inside, but the argument follows them and cannot be escaped.
None 5 min 48 secs
Have You Seen the Beast?
Will Hewitt, Austen McCowan
United Kingdom, 2024
A cold case rumour-mentary about sightings of an alien big cat in the rural Welsh countryside, told through eyewitness telephone accounts.
English 6 min 58 secs
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Hen Do
Alia Ghafar
United Kingdom, 2023
En-route to her hen weekend, bride-to-be Faye kills the vibe with a bombshell confession.
English 1 min 50 secs
Honeymoon
Alkis Papastathopoulos
Greece, France, Cyprus, 2023
Fay is leaving Greece for good. Sandra accompanies her to the bus station. As they are travelling by bus across the country, a transphobic attack leaves them stranded on a highway in the middle of nowhere.
Greek 24 min 0 secs
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Hooba!
Hoeba
Sem Assink
Netherlands Antilles, 2022
3000 BC. A small group are fighting hunger and the elements. Their endless ineptitude, combined with their impulsiveness, leads to the creation of the mysterious standing stone buildings of The Netherlands.
None 2 min 15 secs
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How to reverse a spell: the promise of an archive
Yasmine Benabdallah
Morocco, 2022
A speculative triptych that traverses the disappearance and erasure of the Moroccan public archives and their colonial displacement.
Arabic 9 min 40 secs
Huntsville Station
Chris Filippone, Jamie Meltzer
United States, 2020
Every weekday, inmates are released from Huntsville State Penitentiary in Texas, taking in their first moments of freedom with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block.
English, Spanish None 13 min 59 secs
Hydebank
Ross McClean
United Kingdom, 2019
Hydebank Wood houses 104 male offenders. Ryan has formed an unlikely bond with the prison’s flock of sheep. Through their interactions, Ryan attempts to come to terms with the brutal act that led him here.
English 16 min 21 secs
I Loved to See You
Amei Te Ver
Ricardo García
Brazil, 2023
A deaf boy falls in love with a blind girl. Now, he must find a way to communicate as he discovers the world that surrounds her.
Portuguese 19 min 2 secs
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I promise you paradise
Morad Mostafa
Egypt, 2023
Following a violent incident, Eissa, a 17 year old African migrant in Egypt, is on a quest against time to save his loved ones, whatever it takes.
Arabic 25 min 0 secs
I Signed the Petition
Mahdi Fleifel
United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, 2018
Immediately after a Palestinian man signs an online petition, he is thrown into a panic-inducing spiral of self-doubt.
English 10 min 31 secs
In My Network
Dans mon réseau
Randa Maroufi
France, 2021
A camera shifts from space to space, settling on the profiles of YouTubers, Instagrammers and influencers, exploiting their images as if they were the only possibility of a professional future.
French English 16 min 15 secs
In Praise of Slowness
Hicham Gardaf
United Kingdom, Italy, 2023
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.
Arabic, English 17 min 0 secs
In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain
Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind
Palestine, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar, 2015
A narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain – suggested to belong to a fictional civilisation. Once unearthed, this tableware will prove the existence of this counterfeit people, and support future claims to their vanishing lands.
Arabic 29 min
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It’s Not by Choice
No es por gusto
Maricarmen de Lara, María Eugenia Tamés
Mexico, 1981
Several female sex workers share their daily experiences and the ways in which they are harassed by the police. The film includes statements by officials of the prison known as La vaquita, where these women are imprisoned.
Spanish English 51 min
Kinderfilm
Adrian Jonas Haim, Michael Stumpf, Robin Klengel
Austria, 2023
It’s an ordinary day in Grand Theft Auto V. And yet, the car-crowded streets are marked by a grave absence. Searching for clues, Edgar explores the uncanniness of his normality and rediscovers a beautiful yet nightmarish world.
None 11 min 35 secs
Kitchen Madness
Fiona Stewart
United Kingdom, 2023
A long night in the kitchen for a passionate chef. Orders prove to be too much to manage and his composure starts to slip…
No dialogue 2 min 46 secs
Kitchen Sink Fantasy
Heath Virgoe, Heath Virgoe
United Kingdom, 2022
A fantasy rom-com that follows a gender-swapping Gen-Z narcissist on a quest to pay rent on time.
English 14 min 50 secs
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Like a Sick Yellow
Norika Sefa
Kosovo, 2024
Immersion in Nora’s memory, where realities merge, the bad and beautiful become intertwined until it’s all mingled and something else is formed. A tragedy foretold.
Albanian 23 min 15 secs
Like Twenty Impossibles
كأننا عشرون مستحيل
Annemarie Jacir
Palestine, 2003
When a Palestinian film crew decides to avert a closed checkpoint by taking a remote side road, the political landscape unravels, and the passengers are slowly taken apart by the mundane brutality of military occupation.
Arabic 17 min
Listen To the Beat of Our Images
Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Audrey Jean-Baptiste
France, 2021
The building of the Kourou Space Centre in French Guyana, seen through the eyes of the Guyanese population. An off-screen look at this space adventure.
French 16 min
Living With It
Holly Summerson
United Kingdom, 2023
Perfectionist Lee must adapt to the imperfect reality of living with an illness – brought to life as a chaotic supernatural flatmate.
English English 6 min 55 secs
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Lone Star Tick
Ewan McIntosh
United Kingdom, 2023
A young couple infiltrate a carbon capture facility near Inverness as part of an eco-resistance action, as the spectre of climate crisis haunts the dissolution of their relationship.
English 8 min 18 secs
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Look At Me
Benedetta Zanetti
United Kingdom, 2023
Raised in a family of classical musicians, Lucie, a young woman with hearing loss, encounters twosign language users and has to face the other side of her identity.
British Sign Language, English 9 min 0 secs
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Lost Brain
Isabelle Favez
Switzerland, 2022
Every time Louise the crocodile sneezes, she loses part of her brain, until she cannot perform simple tasks. She must find a way to rediscover the world before she fades away completely.
None 6 min 30 secs
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Louis I: King of the Sheep
Louis Ier, roi des moutons
Markus Wulf
Germany, 2022
One windy day, Louis the sheep finds a paper crown and becomes Louis I, King of the Sheep. He addresses his people, initiates festivities and decides who gets to do what. Things go their royal ways. At least until the next gust of wind.
French 9 min 0 secs
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Loving In Between
Jyoti Mistry
Sweden, Austria, 2023
Between birth and death is the power to love and live. Political rules, religious orders, social norms and cultural taboos control who we love and how we love. But the erotic has the power to emancipate.
English 18 min 0 secs