GSFF26 Index of All Films

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Gaucha

Daira Ronzoni

United Kingdom, 2026

Gaucha follows a wandering queer mestiza on a journey through shifting landscapes and mythic temporalities, confronting susto, ancestral memory, and discovering a land of earthly rituals.

 Spanish, English, Aymara
 13 min 30 secs

The Gift

El regalo

Lara Izagirre Garizurieta

Spain, 2025

Desirée, Samara and Aurora commute to the center of Bilbao to buy a gift. Things go south when the store clerks accuse them of stealing.

 Basque, Spanish
 14 min 1 secs

The Glass Booth

Jenny Brady

Ireland, Belgium, 2025

Vignettes set in both extreme and familiar environments highlight the often-hidden work of interpreters and the delicate, intersubjective nature of this role.

 English, Arabic, French
 31 min 58 secs

God is shy

Dieu est timide

Jocelyn CHARLES

France, 2025

During a train ride, Ariel and Paul pass the time sketching their deepest fears. Their game takes an unexpected turn when Gilda, a mysterious passenger, intrudes on their exchange.

 French
 15 min 50 secs

Golden Island

Kota Emas

Arief Budiman

Indonesia, Singapore, 2026

Two videographers, one from Papua and the other from Java, create a film that contrasts Papua’s idyllic landscapes with the realities of Javanese and military control.

 Bahasa Indonesia
 22 min 29 secs

Gowk

Ryan Pollock

United Kingdom, 2025

A young boy inadvertently begins to open a secret family wound when he attempts to visit his mother in hospital against his father’s will.

 English
 15 min 0 secs

Grado and the Next Big Star

Todd McFadyen

United Kingdom, 2025

After a life changing transformation, Kayden, a student at the Glasgow School of Wrestling, must step into the ring with one of Scotland’s most famous wrestlers.

 English
 16 min 14 secs

Green Grey Black Brown

Yuyan Wang

China, France, South Korea, 2024

Petroleum, in both refined and unrefined forms, opens up a portal to the gory logics of petro-capitalism and global extraction practices, revealing the flawed rationale behind techno-solutionist visions of the future.

 No dialogue
 11 min 59 secs

Guttin' Quines

Duncan Forbes

United Kingdom, 2025

Newlywed Jeannie struggles to adjust to her new life in a Scottish fishing town, until her mother-in-law, Maggie, insists she join the women gutting fish at the harbour, drawing her into a new community.

 English
 11 min 59 secs

Hail Medea

Sophio Medoidze

United Kingdom, Georgia, France, 2024

What can caves in Southern Georgia tell us about the mythic figure Medea? A fragmentary journey through the Caucasus and popular depictions of the goddess.

 English, Georgian
 7 min 28 secs

Home Tour

Laura Dauvin

France, 2025

A young woman offers a tour of her home, re-enacting her daily routine and how sexual violence overwhelms it.

 French
 16 min 37 secs

HOMUNCULUS

Bonheur Suprême

France, Italy, 2025

Through encounters in the fantasy videogame Skyrim, a filmmaker, playing as a golden-skinned elf, exposes the racist myths and stereotypes that impose a sexualised and violent identity upon 'Arabs'.

 French
 17 min 44 secs

Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English Version)

Walid Raad

United States, 2001

An experimental documentary about the abduction and detention of Westerners in Lebanon by "islamic militants" in the 80s and 90s, and how the events were reported.

 English
 16 min 40 secs

Hot Favourites

David Arthur

United Kingdom, 2026

A son uncovers his father’s secret gambling life through a stash of old betting slips and paperwork. This discovery reveals years of horse bets and hidden wins and losses that contrast sharply with their modest family life.

 English
 18 min 32 secs

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Hyena

Altay Ulan Yang

China, United States, 2025

In an isolated castle, students prepare for a life-changing examination. As anticipation builds to a fever pitch, a storm strikes. Trapped within crumbling walls, their academic sanctuary becomes a prison, and minds begin to break.

 Mandarin Chinese
 21 min 0 secs

I'm not sure

Ich bin nicht sicher

Luisa Zürcher

Switzerland, 2025

A filmmaker reflects on her emotional stay in hospital, with its long underground corridors, tubes, and small talk.

 Swiss German
 10 min 13 secs

Juggernaut

Art Collective Neozoon

Germany, 2025

Fragments of 1950s documentaries, which show our nascent culture of hyper-individualism and productivity, contextualise a kinetic montage of online narcissism.

 English
 9 min

just above the tear duct on each side

Éiméar McClay, Cáit McClay

Ireland, United Kingdom, 2025

A critical look at the evolution of Irish psychiatric institutions across the 20th century through archival documents of the defunct St. Conal’s Psychiatric Hospital in Letterkenny.

 English
 19 min 30 secs

Klonter

Levi Stoops

Belgium, 2025

Frankie believes he is about to die alone. On his way to the stars, he accidentally becomes a planet, inhabited by creatures that look like him. 

 Flemish
 English
 14 min 20 secs

L'mina

Randa Maroufi

France, Italy, Morocco, Qatar, 2025

In Jerada, a mining town in Morocco, coal extraction continues informally to this day despite being discontinued in 2001.

 Arabic
 26 min 0 secs

The Laptop is Purring on My Lap and I Am Lonely Like a Cat

La notebook ronroneando en mi regazo y yo sola como un gato

Ariela Bergman

The Netherlands, Argentina, 2026

A woman sings to her laptop, lonely and reassured by its vibrations. As we journey between the machine and its owner, hybrid video-animations visualise our intimate relationship with tech.

 Spanish
 3 min

The Last Ferry Boat

Chris Leslie

United Kingdom, 2025

Every day, Skipper Alistair pilots his small ferry back and forth between Yoker and Renfrew, preserving one of the River Clyde’s last historic crossings. As a new pedestrian bridge opens nearby his ferry crossing is threatened but another river route is deemed impossible.

 English
 4 min 30 secs

The Last Snow

La Dernière Neige

Rodolphe Bouquet-Populus

France, 2025

In a ski resort where the snow is vanishing, Isabelle and Guillaume find themselves stuck on a chairlift.

 French
 19 min 35 secs

Le Tour de Canada

John Hollands

Canada, 2025

Two rival cyclists face off in a grueling and surreal cross-Canada cycling race, Le Tour De Canada!

 English
 5 min 48 secs

Leda Was a Swan

Marianna Simnett

Germany, 2025

Reimagining Leda and the Swan – an erotic fresco unearthed at the Pompeii archaeological site in 2018 – an ancient violent myth is unravelled as an embodied story of pleasure.

 No dialogue
 5 min 5 secs

Lennox-Friedkin Tape #004

Matt Benson

United Kingdom, 2025

In the 1980s, a scientist documented the trial of his new invention: a device that reveals what you see when you die. This is the footage.

 English
 18 min 55 secs

Leymusoom Garden: New Sun

Heesoo Kwon

United States, 2024

3D-scanned models of the filmmaker's grandparents’ land in Gongju-si, South Korea, visualise an exploration into Korean shamanistic perspectives.

 No dialogue
 14 min 21 secs

Lloyd Wong, Unfinished

Lesley Loksi Chan

Canada, 2025

Filmmaker Lesley Loksi Chan edits the unfinished tapes of Chinese-Canadian artist Lloyd Wong, about his living with HIV, thirty years after the artist's death. 

 English
 29 min 36 secs

Love & Revenge

غرام وانتقام

Anhar Salem

France, Saudi Arabia, 2022

In Saudi Arabia, a teenage girl tries to escape her reality using an Instagram filter after returning home late.

 Arabic, English
 31 min 12 secs

Lovers' Wind

Ryan Ferko, Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour

Iran, Canada, 2024

In 1970, French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse was killed when his helicopter crashed into the newly built Karaj Dam in Iran. Nearly 40 years later, Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko rewind Lamorrise’s recovered aerial footage to confront the reality on the ground.

 Persian (Farsi)
 36 min 13 secs

Loynes

Dorian Jespers

Belgium, France, North Macedonia, United Kingdom, 2025

A Kafkaesque courtroom drama set in 19th-century Liverpool, recounting the trial of a corpse with neither name nor past. Dozens have gathered for the absurd ceremony — and perhaps to deliver justice.

 English, French
 25 min 3 secs