GSFF25 Index of All Films
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Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza
Mustafa Abu Ali
Palestine, 1973
A rare film by the legendary filmmaker Mustafa Abu Ali, one of the founders of the Palestine Film Unit, the first filmic arm of the Palestinian revolution. Shot by a French news team, the footage was edited by Mustafa in Lebanon to produce one of the earliest films on the occupied territory in Gaza.
Arabic English 10 min 59 secs
Seeking
Ciara Flint
United Kingdom, 2024
Following the sudden death of her husband, grief turns a widow to the spirit world and psychic mediumship.
English 19 min 29 secs
She and Her Good Vibrations
Olivia Griselda, Sarah Cheok
Indonesia, Singapore, 2023
A stressed-out middle-aged woman discovers the wonders of a vibrator, but soon becomes addicted to solo pleasure sessions and loses touch with reality.
None 10 min 48 secs
Shrapnel
Holly Barbour
United Kingdom, 2024
English 14 min 58 secs
Skinflicker
Helena Gouveia Monteiro
Ireland, 2024
Hand-processed Super-8 footage of close-up bodies is digitally shuffled at random for a digital reinterpretation of the flicker film form. Rapid-fire, black-and-white stills of skin are accompanied by a percussion soundtrack played on the Irish bodhrán, itself made from animal hide.
None 5 min 3 secs
Songs For Dying
Korakrit Arunanondchai
Thailand, 2021
Archival records of the uprising on Jeju, South Korea’s largest island, and student protests in Thailand are interwoven with footage from the artists’s grandfather’s funeral, in an exploration of the experience of accepting death and the perception of history.
Thai English 30 min 18 secs
Stomach Bug
Matty Crawford
United Kingdom, 2024
A single father’s disturbing and mysterious illness begins to unravel as he struggles to cope with empty nest syndrome, leading to a grotesque finale.
English 15 min 8 secs
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Street Light
Le Reste n’a pas d’importance
Romain Dumont
France, 2024
During a documentary shoot, Cheun, a beloved traffic warden, clashes with a local inspector. On Rue Clignancourt, his resignation dims the street lights. In the darkness, a filmmaker must rediscover his humanity, while Cheun must continue to invent his cinema.
French English 15 min 58 secs
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Swan Songs
David Arthur
United Kingdom, 2025
In the ruins of a forgotten park, an estranged father and daughter reunite over the music of Bach, Mozart and Handel but they must also face the devastating truth that has torn them apart.
English 12 min 37 secs
Tellurian Drama
Riar Rizaldi
Indonesia, 2020
An eclectic essay film on the vital role of mountain in history, colonial ruins as an apparatus for geoengineering technology, and the invisible power of indigenous ancestral.
Indonesian English 26 min 25 secs
The Air We Breathe
Lucas Chih Peng Kao
United Kingdom, 2024
Activist-turned-cleaner, Eliza, works at an air compound where oxygen is sold like electricity. Driven by the trauma of her past, she has to decide if she is to take the ultimate revenge on those that destroyed her life.
English 13 min 57 secs
The Bird
Jules Ramage
France, 2023
In prison, slam poet Gauche documented daily life inside. Six months later, she performs the poems on-camera. They tell of institutional control over bodies, sexuality, the violence of imposed medical treatments and sorority as a means of survival.
French English 11 min 39 secs
The Burden
Min Börda
Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Sweden, 2017
At a marketplace near a large freeway, various market traders (who happen to be animals) stave off boredom and existential ennui with cheerful musical numbers.
Swedish English 14 min 10 secs
The Carp and the Child
La Carpe et l’enfant
Arnaud Demuynck, Morgane Simon
France, 2024
A child goes carp fishing, bringing his mischievous little dog with him. After they encounter a frog and a duck, chaos ensues, and he realises catching a fish is more difficult than he imagined.
No dialogue 6 min 53 secs
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The Disco – A Portrait of Simon Eilbeck
Alex Hetherington
United Kingdom, 2025
A sound and image portrait of Queer d/Deaf DJ Simon Eilbeck formed from 16mm film and location sound recordings encountering members of the Queer, Trans, alternative and non-binary communities who gather at his monthly disco ‘Hot Mess’ in Glasgow, Scotland.
English 46 min 1 secs
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The Eating of an Orange
May Kindred-Boothby
United Kingdom, 2024
In a large manor house, identical figures eat and move in unison. But everything changes for one woman when she receives an orange from an unknown figure. The mysterious object is about to transport her into another realm.
English 7 min 29 secs
The Fall of Communism As Seen in Gay Pornography
William E. Jones
United States, 1998
A montage of video excerpts from early 90s adult films forms an unlikely portrait of Eastern Europe in socio-economic flux.
English, Russian English 19 min 22 secs
The First Film
Piyush Thakur
India, 2023
In a small town in 1960’s India, where cinema is forbidden for women, a 14-year-old embarks on a quest to watch her first film.
Hindi English 24 min 59 secs
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Theo Panagopoulos
United Kingdom, 2024
When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the footage.
None English 17 min 1 secs
The Hot Spot
Stuart Elliott
United Kingdom, 2024
Lorna is on a mission to get her Dad’s memorial bench moved from its current location: a hot spot for doggers.
English 5 min 47 secs
The Inescapable Desire of Roots
根欲
Li Shuen Lam, Mark Chua
Singapore, 2024
A man with hair growing wildly over his body is taken by a mania of ecstasy and anguish. Overwhelmed by the explosive jubilance of its sprouting, the hair becomes a means of discipline and punishment against him.
Mandarin Chinese English 5 min 39 secs
The Land Where Ghosts Could Speak
Tianhui Wu
United Kingdom, 2024
Through sleep talking, the filmmaker attempts to uncover secrets of her past, hidden deep in her subconscious. Exploring trauma both on a personal level and an intergenerational one, she grapples with the conflict between the individual and the state.
Chinese English 14 min 3 secs
The Meaning of Life
Don Hertzfeldt
United States, 2005
Don Hertzfeldt’s classic 2005 animated short follows the evolution of life on Earth over the course of a few billion years.
English 12 min
The Motherfucker’s Birthday
Saif Alsaegh
United States, 2024
Saddam dances, Bush dances, so what’s left for the Iraqi people except to join in? When everyone begins to dance, the horror endured by people living under powerful political leaders is brought to light.
English 6 min 48 secs
The Night Tunnel
Le Tunnel de la nuit
Annechien Strouven
Belgium, 2024
After digging a tunnel on the beach, two kids from different sides of the world find each other. Together, they dig their way to the North Pole, where they discover a magical route back home.
No dialogue 8 min 58 secs
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The Nobody
Razan Madhoon
United Kingdom, 2024
UK Airport Immigration Officer Sarah begins to question her role and institution when an unidentified passenger, whom Sarah believes to be an illegal immigrant, dies on an arrival flight from Egypt.
English 10 min 56 secs
The Poison Cat
Tian Guan
China, 2024
In southwest China, hunter Tai connects the eerie cries in the forest and the strange occurrences in the village with his wife’s unusual behavior. His age-old way of life is crumbling, as prophesied in the legend of The Poison Cat.
Chinese English 17 min 46 secs
The Secret Garden
Nour Ouayda
Lebanon, 2023
When the inhabitants of a city wake one morning to find that never-before-seen trees, plants, and flowers have erupted throughout the streets, Camelia and Nahla decide to investigate their origins.
Arabic English 27 min
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The Source Is a Hole
Angelo Madsen
United States, 2017
An attempt to remove a lodged tampon, and a barrage of tangential encounters, shape a filmmaker’s reflection on transgender mourning.
English 25 min 30 secs
The Sunset Special 2
Nicolas Gebbe
Germany, 2024
Two families meet on an exclusive luxury cruise. As artificial facades dissolve, psychedelic dreamworlds unfold and reality is unveiled.
English 18 min 52 secs
The Test
Benjamin Sutton
United Kingdom, 2024
A man gets more than he bargained for from a routine eye test.
English 3 min 29 secs
The Watergaw
Lewis Cranston
United Kingdom, 2024
Through his attempts to initiate the sale of his ancestral land in the Scottish Borders, a man finds himself confronted by both his own past and that of the mystical landscape surrounding him.
English 16 min 7 secs
The Weird Relationship
Yejin NAM
South Korea, 2024
A child tries to befriend some cats, but discovers it is harder than he thought. After being bitten, the child cries, forming a sea from her tears in which she meets a variety of interesting creatures.
None 3 min 30 secs
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Their Eyes
Nicolas Gourault
France, 2025
Online micro-workers from the Global South are paid to teach the AI of self-driving cars to navigate the streets of the Global North. Their fantasies for collective action are shown through a combination of their testimonies and screen recordings.
English, Spanish English 22 min 36 secs
This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own
تطاردني ذكرى ليست لي
Panos Aprahamian
Lebanon, Germany, Qatar, 2021
Along the shorelines of Beirut and Lebanon’s Karantina district, the ways in which economic growth and environmental decay are interlinked and entrenched in social and ecological injustice are brought to light.
Arabic English 30 min 21 secs
This Werewolf Complex
Heather E Andrews
United Kingdom, 2024
An intimate discussion on the different forms of aura experienced, told through the voices of individuals who experience seizures in focused parts of the brain, resulting in sensory, physical and emotional disturbances.
English 15 min 21 secs
To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion
Valentin Noujaïm
France, 2023
Claire, a businesswoman promoting a new skyscraper office in Paris’s La Defense, faces increasing scrutiny and isolation. The cold, grey offices amplify her loneliness, driving vivid dreams of setting the tower ablaze.
French English 14 min 29 secs
To Keep the Mountain at Bay
Gelare Khoshgozaran
United States, Georgia, 2023
Poetry readings in Sausalito, California, explore exile as a space of collective difference and transnational solidarity in an homage to Lebanese-American poet Etel Adnan.
English 9 min 30 secs
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Towards the Sun, Far from the Center
Al sol, lejos del centro
Luciana Merino, Pascal Viveros
Chile, 2024
Two women in love search for their rightful place in Santiago, Chile, where the shimmering summer heat distorts spaces into surfaces and houses into textures.
Spanish English 16 min 40 secs
Triptych
Sophia Ray
United Kingdom, 2024
A provocative artist plans to destroy a Bosch masterpiece, claiming it’s performance art. However, she discovers that the artwork conceals a dark secret from her past, portending a horrific reckoning from which she must fight to escape.
Bulgarian, English, Serbian English 14 min 29 secs
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Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)
Suneil Sanzgiri
United States, 2024
A woman’s dreams become haunted by the Adamastor—a titan from Portuguese mythology who sought to destroy Vasco da Gama’s ship and prevent him from ever reaching India.
English 35 min 43 secs
UNDR
Kamal Aljafari
Germany, Palestine, 2024
Repurposed archival footage of Occupied Palestine challenges the legitimacy of the land’s mainstream portrayal as deserted and still. Children play and farmers work as dynamite ruptures the earth.
None 14 min 44 secs
Vox Humana
Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Philippines, 2024
When a man is found in the woods following an earthquake, a zoologist, a sound recordist and a news team grapple with the truth that he may be the cause of the natural disasters devastating the town.
Tagalog 22 min 11 secs
We Beg to Differ
Ruairi Bradley
Ireland, United Kingdom, 2024
In the underground world of diffing, an amateur motorsport akin to drifting, a community in Ireland finds solace in their passion as they navigate personal struggles and challenges both on and off the road.
English 12 min 38 secs
What Remains
Belit Sağ
The Netherlands, 2018
Cizre, a primarily Kurdish town in Turkey on the Syrian border, becomes the setting for an exploration of Kurdish mourning practices through found footage and the artist’s own images.
Kurdish English 7 min 5 secs
Workers’ Wings
Krahët e Punëtorëve
Ilir Hasanaj
Kosovo, 2024
After suffering industrial accidents, three manual labourers from Kosova silently convey their experience through their gazes.
Albanian English 18 min 30 secs
Your voice came out through my throat
Chikako Yamashiro
Japan, 2009
Stories from survivors of the Battle of Okinawa frame an exploration of inherited trauma, and the difficulty of transferring memory across generational lines.
Japanese English 7 min 29 secs