GSFF25 Index of All Films
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Memories of an Unborn Sun
Mrejen Marcel
Algeria, 2024
A metaphysical query around light as memory, blending archives from French nuclear tests in the Sahara, footage of an artificial sun and verses from Tuareg poet Hawad. Amidst capitalist expansion, how to remember those made invisible?
Chinese English 22 min 19 secs
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Metamorphosis’ Chantings Or That Time When I Incarnated As Porpoise
Cantos da Metamorfose Ou Aquela Vez Em Que Eu Encarnei Como Boto
Ainá Xisto
Portugal, 2024
When their work is interrupted by an emergency surgery, a filmmaker explores their relationship with their physical body, and the idea of reincarnation.
Portuguese English 11 min 31 secs
Midnight at Mickey’s
Vin Wolff
United Kingdom, 2024
At a seedy late night diner, two ruffians sit in a booth. They stare at each other, sweat drops down their forehead, they grit their teeth and their eyes twitch… as they attempt to conquer their fear of ordering.
English 4 min 31 secs
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milk
Miranda Stern
United Kingdom, 2024
Utilising an experimental, multimedia approach, the filmmaker grapples with the loss of her mother at an early age and how it has shaped her own identity and trauma.
English 26 min 51 secs
Mirage – Eigenstate
Riar Rizaldi
United Kingdom, Indonesia, 2024
Analogous investigations into the nature of reality position Western science as just one methodology among many in a constellation of pluralistic worldviews.
Indonesian English 30 min 2 secs
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Missed Connections
Jack Gray
United States, 2023
On an online forum, ‘Missed Connections,’ people from cities across the United States seek to reconnect with someone they shared a passing moment with.
English 5 min 3 secs
Neonatal Unit
Riar Rizaldi
Germany, Indonesia, 2021
In the future, the Indonesian archipelago has been re-militarised. A member of the Operation of Sovereignty for Gestational and Surrogate Mothers narrates a lost video signal to the past.
Indonesian English 11 min 40 secs
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Notes From Gog Magog
Riar Rizaldi
Indonesia, 2022
An exploration of the interconnection between ghost stories, tech company culture in South Korea, and the economy of logistics in Indonesia told through the notes for an unmade techno-horror movie about an employee assistance programme in Seoul and a port in Jakarta.
Indonesian, Korean, English English 19 min 32 secs
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On The Way
Rrugës
Samir Karahoda
Kosovo, 2024
Father and son travel to the airport to pick up a gift sent by the boy’s godfather. Amid bureaucratic hurdles, with little hope for real change in their country, they find comfort and strength in their shared optimism for the future.
Albanian English 15 min 0 secs
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Orgy Every Other Day
Samuel Döring
Germany, United States, 2024
Bodies of diverse genders come together in a part-spicy, part-thoughtful dive into New York’s queer underground sex party scene.
English 13 min 19 secs
Our Songs Were Ready for All Wars to Come
Noor Abed
Palestine, 2021
A performance by two women, accompanied by a song with lyrics composed of different folk tales, addresses the possible connection between folklore and alternative social and representational models in Palestine.
Arabic English 19 min 54 secs
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Out Of Office
Kialy Tihngang
United Kingdom, 2025
Silenced by misogynoir, monotony and pinstripes, Office Girl finds herself in a corporate netherworld led by a suspiciously slick boss with a sinister secret.
English 18 min 25 secs
Paradiso, XXXI, 108
Kamal Aljafari
Palestine, 2022
“Nothing can be heard anymore; the roar of our plane absorbs every other sound. We are heading straight to the world’s biggest display of soundproof fireworks, and soon we will drop our bombs.”
Hebrew English 18 min 39 secs
Paternal Advice
Lisa Clarkson
United Kingdom, 2024
Glasgow, 1994. A Scottish working class man is forced to teach his estranged son a Scottish working class lesson, ahead of the child starting school. Based on a short story by Janice Galloway.
English 10 min 31 secs
Percebes
Laura Gonçalves, Alexandra Ramires
Portugal, 2024
Following the life cycle of a percebes, a type of shellfish, the journey from formation to dish provides an understanding of the Algarve region and those who live there.
Portuguese English 11 min 30 secs
Perfected Grammar
Andrea Suwito
Indonesia, 2024
A Mother’s turbulent relationship with her homeland is unearthed when she begins to teach her Hungarian-speaking daughter her native language, Indonesian.
Hungarian, Indonesian English 10 min 52 secs
Plume
Emily Weaver
United Kingdom, 2024
An army with nothing left to fight for clings to their worship of a peacock through difficult times in this multimedia exploration of ritual and human folly, told through the lens of imagined folklore.
None 4 min 4 secs
Poly Baggage
Poly Baggage
Emma Ramsay
United Kingdom, 2024
After being dumped, Polly decides to cut out her own heart (literally). Now it falls on her best friend Yasmin to convince her to withstand the pain of her heartbreak and reverse the procedure.
13 min 29 secs
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Pumpkin Guts
Bryan M. Ferguson
United Kingdom, 2024
In 1987, a woman discovers a strange object on her doorstep, accompanied by a chilling instruction. As she grapples with the terrible task it demands, she is drawn into a nightmarish ordeal that threatens her sanity and soul.
English 13 min 26 secs
Pyroclasts Are Eloquent Storytellers
Riar Rizaldi
Indonesia, 2022
The unfolding of a volcanic eruption forecast examines the practice of prophecy performed by people who live around one of the most active stratovolcano in the world: Mount Merapi.
Indonesian, Javanese English 21 min 32 secs
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Quebrante
Janaina Wagner
Brazil, 2024
Retired school teacher Ms Erismar, known locally as The Cave Woman, traverses the ruins and phantasmagorias of Ruropolis, Brazil’s first ever town built upon the Trans-amazonian BR-230 Highway.
Portuguese English 23 min 3 secs
Razeh-del
راز دل
Maryam Tafakory
Iran, 2024
In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.
Persian (Farsi) English 27 min 47 secs
Roll Down The Window
Lipa Hussain
United Kingdom, 2024
The filmmaker interrogates a neurological condition she has experienced since childhood and the parallels it represents with her own religious and racial struggles.
English 10 min 7 secs