GSFF25 Index of All Films
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14 in February
Victoria Singh-Thompson
Australia, 2023
A hard-of-hearing 13-year-old student’s reality closes in the more she spends time with her teacher.
English 9 min 45 secs
400 Cassettes
Thelyia Petraki
Greece, 2024
One day after school, a song from the past reminds two friends that nothing really lasts forever.
Greek English 14 min 8 secs
A Move
خونه
Elahe Esmaili
Iran, 2024
Elahe returns to her hometown in Mashhad, Iran, to help her parents move to a new place after 40 years. Influenced by the Woman-Life-Freedom movement, she’s also hoping for a bigger move beyond just a new apartment.
Persian (Farsi) English 26 min 58 secs
A Round of Applause for Death
Stephen Irwin
United Kingdom, 2024
Death takes centre stage and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable in a series of murderous dreams.
English 5 min 0 secs
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A Small Garden by the Window
Jonghoon LEE
South Korea, 2024
An architect picks ripe cherry tomatoes from a small garden for his work-lunch. Flowing from the tomatoes is an eco-energy born from small acts of environmental stewardship. This energy helps the architect as he fights the climate crisis.
No dialogue 4 min 35 secs
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Adrift
Charlie Grove
United Kingdom, 2023
A young man struggling with alcoholism moves through a strange seaside town, making trades with the locals for wine. In a bid to be cured, he pleads before a church minister, who agrees to save him.
English 8 min 1 secs
Aferrado
Esteban Azuela
Mexico, 2024
In the violent streets of Mexico City, Joel leads a double life fixing car engines by day and getting his hands dirty by night. Now, he must repair the toughest machine of all: his own shattered existence.
Spanish English 18 min 0 secs
Aliens in Beirut
Raghed Charabaty
Canada, 2024
In the fateful summer of the 2020 Beirut Port Explosion, a Lebanese immigrant returns home in search of roots, only to fall in love with a stranger by the sea.
English 16 min 51 secs
An Island of Forgetful Folks
Joseph Cameron
United Kingdom, 2024
A nameless man lives alone on what he calls ‘an island of forgetful people.’ The man himself has no memory but keeps a catalogue of diaries documenting his past, through which he is able to construct some semblance of self.
English 13 min 54 secs
An Orange From Jaffa
Mohammed Almughanni
Palestine, 2024
Mohammed, a young Palestinian from Gaza, is desperately looking for a taxi to take him through an Israeli checkpoint while in the West Bank. The driver, Farouk, discovers that Mohammed has already failed to cross the checkpoint. Trouble begins.
Arabic, English, Hebrew English 27 min
And Still, It Remains
Arwa Aburawa, Turab Shah
United Kingdom, 2023
In Mertoutek, a village nestled in the Hoggar Mountains of Algeria’s Southern Sahara, the Escamaran community provide their understanding of what it means to endure toxic colonialism and its environmental legacies.
Arabic English 28 min 0 secs
April Mud
Putik Abril
TJ Collanto
Philippines, 2024
Cora returns to her hometown with a film crew to shoot a military drama. Realising too late the disruption this causes, she and her team do their best to mitigate problems before the last shot of the evening.
Tagalog English 19 min 10 secs
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Arabic Mantra
Kelompok Penerbang Roh
Tunggul Banjaransari
Indonesia, 2024
After her biological son takes his own life, a mother leaves her new family in Arabia to return to Gunungkidul.
Indonesian English 22 min
Baby
Eubha Akilade
United Kingdom, 2024
A young woman attempts to hide her miscarriage from her boyfriend while trying to come to terms with her grief. A single shot film that slowly reveals the portrait of a dysfunctional relationship.
English 19 min 30 secs
Baby on Board. The Dark Web Catbot
Dog and Rabbit
United Kingdom, 2024
Kevin Catbot, a deranged Scot, guards the dark web. Inventor Professor Robert asks for advice on promoting his Baby on Board safety car. Kevin suggests a deepfake singer-songwriter promo video for just 20 pence.
English 6 min 24 secs
Bamssi
Mourad Ben Amor
Tunisia, Belgium, 2024
Footage of the animals they share a home with creates a dialogue between cousins Mourad and Fairuz, who live an ocean away from each other.
Arabic English 26 min
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Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy
Khozy Rizal
Indonesia, 2023
A husband and wife spend their days entertaining other people’s children. Between meddling relatives, self-doubt and an explosive confrontation, they uncover why they have not been blessed with a child of their own.
Indonesian English 15 min 0 secs
Becquerel
Riar Rizaldi
Indonesia, 2021
In an alternative future, when nuclear technology has reached the point of generating an artificial sun for endless energy resources, a lazy philosopher wanders in search of a place to sleep.
Indonesian English 19 min 8 secs
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Blue Poetry
Puisi Biru
Muhammad Heri Padli
Indonesia, 2023
A fisherman experiences a strange phenomenon that causes him to realise something is off with his daily meal.
Indonesian English 18 min 29 secs
Body of Water
Atiha Charlotte Burn
United Kingdom, 2024
Two Cornish girls, Elowen and Carmen, seek refuge from family tensions and personal struggles in their secret sunrise swims, where their bond begins to deepen.
British Sign Language, English English 15 min 7 secs
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Bridge of Signs
Мост от Ръце
Georgi Genchev
Bulgaria, 2024
While carrying out university research about the Deaf community, Sava falls in love with one of the participants, Gaby, confronting the barriers of communication to discover what truly connects people.
Bulgarian English 29 min 59 secs
Butterfly
Leptir
Suncana Brkulj
Croatia, Denmark, 2024
A community of garden creatures all contribute to the flow of life, using water from a fountain. When a butterfly gets stuck in the fountain, they’re faced with an unfamiliar situation.
No dialogue 8 min 7 secs
By the Light of the Fire
Luke Keogh
United Kingdom, 2024
A campfire horror story from Ancient Rome.
English 4 min 50 secs
Cakes!
Johnny Herbin
United Kingdom, 2024
A grieving woman follows a singing cake into a magical world inside her oven.
English 2 min 20 secs
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Can You Hear Me?
Czy Ty mnie słyszysz?
Anastazja Naumenko
Poland, 2024
When Nastia tries to teach her mom how to use internet services, different perceptions of technology unearth intergenerational conflicts and long-forgotten family threads.
Russian English 15 min 0 secs
Catlands
Macek med vrati
Ana Cigon
Slovenia, Croatia, 2024
In the union of distinct feline territories known as Catlands, the delicate social order is disrupted by trespassers. The residents devise a plan to restore it, but it is not without collateral damage.
No dialogue 9 min 44 secs
Code of Conduct
Jagoda Tłok
United Kingdom, 2024
When cleaning supplies go missing from the office store room, the loyalty of a rule-abiding receptionist is tested.
English 12 min 31 secs
Croak Show
Suresh Eriyat
India, 2024
As night falls, a marsh comes alive with a concert of nocturnal creatures, attended by the wetland’s denizens. All is well until an ardent fan can no longer contain their excitement.
Hindi English 4 min 12 secs
Detours While Speaking of Monsters
Deniz Şimşek
Germany, 2024
A 4000-year-old aquatic monster resists falling into oblivion. Its myth dates back to the ancestors of Armenians and Kurds around Lake Van, a region that witnessed the ethnic cleansing of both peoples.
Turkish English 18 min 24 secs
Displaced
Felix Round, Rowland Smith
United Kingdom, 2024
It’s been years since Leonor’s colleagues started suspiciously disappearing from Weber Technologies Inc. Finally, she decides to investigate. Armed with only a VHS camera and her close friend Oliver by her side, she discovers the nightmarish truth behind it all.
English 17 min 34 secs
Dyketactics
Barbara Hammer
United States, 1974
An experimental film about lesbian couples. Probably the first film about lesbian love made by a lesbian.
None 4 min 0 secs
Eyes and Horns
Chaerin Im
Germany, South Korea, 2021
A Minotaur goes through a violent struggle between being male and female, with their relationship with one another intertwined. An exploration of masculinity told entirely through animated cyanotype prints.
None 6 min 18 secs
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Few Can See
Frank Sweeney
Ireland, 2024
In the late 1980s, as violence continues in the north of Ireland, censorship is increasingly being enforced on television. In response, broadcasters enter into a blackout strike, occupying several stations and transmitting a programme bringing censored voices back onto the airwaves.
English 42 min 35 secs
Fifteen
Kıș Kirazı
Defne Özden
United Kingdom, 2024
Turkish 18 min 0 secs
Filante
Marion Jamault
France, 2024
Every night, Paulette makes a wish on a shooting star: to find her missing pet rat. When the rat doesn’t return, she tries to understand what’s wrong with her star.
None 8 min 49 secs
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Fire in the Sea
Fuego en el Mar
Sebastián Zanzottera
Argentina, 2022
Archive photographs and letters unearth the relationship between Argentinian state policy and the death of a young father, dismissed from a state-owned gas company.
None English 15 min 3 secs
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Fish, Please!
Pelabuhan Berkabut
Haris Yuliyanto
Indonesia, 2024
When a down-on-his-luck soon-to-be father steals fish to feed his wife and save her pregnancy, his actions expose him to a mysterious gas that transforms him into a fish.
Javanese English 19 min 48 secs
Fitted
Diane Devlin
United Kingdom, 2024
English 11 min 13 secs
Flatastic
Alice Saey
France, 2024
Pushed to their limit, the Manta Rays rise up against Man to take control of the Earth: it is the dawning of a new, flatastic era.
No dialogue 16 min 49 secs
FlyHole
Malic Amalya
United States, 2018
A housefly turns into a man in order to cruise gay bars. A dual-projection slideshow of collaged text and images from the adult magazine Manscape, who published the original short story in 1985.
None English 5 min 52 secs
Food
Jídlo
Jan Švankmajer
Czech Republic, 1992
After eating breakfast, a man is transformed into an elaborate dumb-waiter-style breakfast dispenser – and the same fate befalls the man who obtains breakfast from him.
None 17 min 0 secs
Fossilis
Riar Rizaldi
Indonesia, 2023
In search of the truth about the past, a paleo-media-ontologist living in the far future seeks to recontextualise a mountain of electronic waste buried in a tropical landscape.
Indonesian English 12 min 56 secs
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Freak
Claire Barnett
United States, 2024
On the eve of her 26th birthday, Lainey is confronted with a question that tests the boundaries of her relationship: What is your deepest, darkest fantasy?
English 13 min 36 secs