GSFF25 Index of All Films

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Gas and Electricity

Daniel Kelly

United Kingdom, 2024

Lewis, a High Street salesman, has his world turned upside down when his ex-girlfriend returns home early from studying abroad.

 English 13 min 14 secs

Gender Reveal

Mo Matton

Canada, 2024

A dedicated people pleaser winds up at their boss’s gender reveal party with their two partners. The trans throuple soon realizes that they are dealing with more than they were prepared for, as the event descends into chaos.

 English 13 min 5 secs

Gilbert

Alex Salu, Arturo Lacal, Jordi Jiménez

Spain, 2024

Gilbert and Sullivan inhabit a small archipelago in the middle of the ocean where Sullivan plays the trumpet and Gilbert delivers packages. One day, Gilbert decides to keep a package intended for Sullivan, changing the course of their friendship forever.

 No dialogue 12 min 47 secs

Gold Ground

Elvey Anna Stedman

United Kingdom, 2024

A stop-motion collage of cut-outs, field recordings and poetry. Reappropriating the symbols and devices of Renaissance and Byzantine paintings, the film portrays a dissociative, reflective and urban lived experience.

 English 4 min 8 secs

Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites

Chao Somnop Chet

Chheangkea

Cambodia, France, United States, 2025

Upon hearing about her favorite grandson’s impending engagement to a woman, Grandma Nai ventures out of her tomb to stop the arrangement and help her grandson stand up for himself.

 Khmer English 19 min 0 secs

Happy New Year

Weipeng Huang

China, 2024

A family of four in Changsha, China gather for dinner on New Year’s Eve to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

 Chinese English 10 min 48 secs

Heavy

Eve Grant

United Kingdom, 2024

A teenage girl seeks help from her clueless father after getting her first period at school. A trip to the local supermarket to buy sanitary products forces a difficult and awkward conversation between them. 

 English 5 min 33 secs

Hello Summer

Ahoj leto

Veronika Zacharová, Martin Smatana

Slovakia, 2024

Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. But what if the hotel isn’t as stellar as promised, your room has a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels elsewhere?

 No dialogue 10 min 45 secs

Heroic Dose

Dugan Gundelfinger

United States, 2024

One man’s psychedelic-induced mystical journey exploring the ego mind, “reality” and the cosmic joke of the human experience…

 English 13 min 36 secs

Hole in the Stone

Holly Márie Parnell

United Kingdom, 2025

Suspended between the rhythms of the past and an uncertain future, independent farmers in Ireland navigate a path that is increasingly difficult to sustain.

 English 23 min

Home Movies Gaza

Basma Alsharif

Palestine, France, 2013

An introduction to the Gaza Strip as a microcosm for the failure of civilization. In an attempt to describe the everyday of a place that struggles for the most basic of human rights, this video claims a perspective from within the domestic spaces of a territory that is complicated, derelict, and altogether impossible to separate from its political identity.

 Arabic English 24 min 7 secs

Hoofs on skates

Ignas Meilūnas

Lithuania, 2024

Two friends are ice-skating on a frozen lake when a strange and unfamiliar world cracks open underneath them. Now they must learn how to deal with the other kind, without letting their fears and preconceptions rule.

 None 12 min 24 secs

Hot Young Geek Seeks Blood-Sucking Freak

Heath Virgoe

United Kingdom, 2024

Fighting off a vampire is hard. Coming out is harder. In the midst of pre-party dress-up, Max finds himself the online target of an angry vampire bent on drinking his blood. Typical Halloween.

 English 12 min 19 secs

Hurikán

Jan Saska

Czech Republic, 2024

In a wild Prague district, Hurikán rushes out to save his favourite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he has a crush on.

 Czech 13 min 7 secs

I Don’t Want To Be Just A Memory

Sarnt Utamachote

Germany, 2024

After the loss of their friends to substance abuse, members of the queer community in Berlin come together to share honest stories about the club scene.

 English 20 min 0 secs

In The Room

Paul Barrie

United Kingdom, 2024

After a successful first audition, actor Cait’s call-back is upended by her scene partner: a man she hoped never again to encounter, with whom she shared a traumatic night many years ago.

 English 13 min 40 secs

Inside, The Valley Sings

Nathan Fagan

Ireland, 2024

Three individuals in prisons across the United States experience the tedium, loneliness and psychological despair of long-term solitary confinement. Over time, they begin to escape into elaborate fantasy worlds.

 English 14 min 59 secs

Itching Spider

Louis Martin

United Kingdom, 2023

Two industrial workers face a terrifying crisis while trapped in a claustrophobic submersible.

 English 4 min 42 secs

Josefine

Antonia Bain

United Kingdom, 2024

When Josefine cracks a bleak desert open with one piercing note, her birth shakes up the existence of a curious shoal-sprite who is enchanted by her voice. Inspired by a Franz Kafka short story.

 English 14 min 20 secs

Jungle of Desire

Wong Ping

Hong Kong, 2015

Starved for sexual satisfaction, a housewife turns to sex work. While she works from home, her impotent husband hides in the cupboard. When a police officer blackmails her into regular freebies, the husband watches while inventing vengeful, sexual fantasies involving the man.

 Chinese English 6 min 50 secs

Kasiterit

Riar Rizaldi

Indonesia, 2019

On Bangka Island, Indonesia, Riar Rizaldi traces the materiality of tin from the mine to the museum, from the tension between communities, politics, and mining, to the geophysics that shapes the daily life of human and nonhuman life on the island.

 Indonesian English 18 min 22 secs

Larung

Riar Rizaldi

Singapore, 2024

Three fishermen perform a sea burial in a recreation of the practices carried out when seamen in Indonesia lose their lives at sea.

  5 min 11 secs

Le récit d’A

Le Récit d’A

Esther Valiquette

Canada, 1990

Animated, medical and autobiographical fragments are montaged together for a personal reflection on the AIDS crisis, ways of seeing, and perseverance.

 French, English English 19 min 50 secs

Long Distance

Michael Frei

Switzerland, 2024

A fly escapes a jar and takes flight, going on an adventure around the world to meet an old friend.

 None 2 min 0 secs