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Shorts of the Year 2024
As the year comes to a close, we asked our team to each pick a short film that stayed with them this year. There was certainly no shortage of favourites all-round, but running through the eventual results (presented in no particular order) were themes that speak to the past 12 months: themes of perseverance, in…
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GSFF Presents: Shorts in Support
This autumn and winter, enhance your programme with a selection of our gorgeous shorts. A supporting short film is a great way introduce exciting upcoming Scottish and international filmmakers to a wider audience, broaden your programme and generate a dialogue between short and feature. We’re offering Scottish cinemas and film societies a slate of seven shorts from their…
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Introducing our submissions partner The Ark
GSFF is thrilled to be partnering with London-based post-production house The Ark on our 2025 call for entries. Anyone who submits their short to GSFF is entitled to claim a 20% discount on DCP creation for their film at The Ark’s facilities. DCP is the industry standard digital exhibition format, ensuring your film will screen…
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What ties us to our humanity? A review of Guy Woods’ Mouth
Mouth, screening in (and eventually winning) the Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize competition was my personal highlight of Glasgow Short Film Festival. While I enjoyed all the entries in the competition, Guy Woods’ film really stood out to me. The plot follows a recently deceased man named Robert (Rob Turner) who is met by a casual…
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Stories of Resilience, Community and Creative Expression: Attending the 17th Glasgow Short Film Festival
The Glasgow Short Film Festival once again highlighted the Scottish cinematic landscape with its diverse and thought-provoking programme, showcasing a wide range of short films from both local and international filmmakers. Throughout the weekend, I was impressed by the meticulous curation, engaging thematic explorations, and vibrant community atmosphere that defined the Festival. A film that…
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I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry: the impact of film programming on audiences
Nina Gantz’s short film Wander to Wonder won the International Audience Award at the Glasgow Short Film Festival 2024. This leaves no doubt that the 14 minute short deeply impacted its viewers. But in what way? Wander to Wonder is a puppet stop-motion animation from the Netherlands, written by Daan Bakker, Stienette Bosklopper, Simon Cartwright,…
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Introducing the GSFF24 Young Writers
Devised and coordinated by our Film Hub Scotland New Producer Frieda Ford, Glasgow Short Film Festival was thrilled to launch the inaugural Young Writers Project at this year’s edition of the festival. The project was designed to help industry newcomers develop writing skills and gain film festival knowledge. The young writers, Eleanor Beadle, Findlay Fraser,…
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The teetering fate of young Highlanders: a reflection on Hannah Hunter’s Their Accounts
Eerily sparse but far from still. Hauntingly silent, save the rustle of the sea. The far-flung Ardnamurchan landscape whistles through archived footage and nifty animations in Hannah Hunter’s Their Accounts. You might half anticipate the unease of the seemingly vacant scenes to be punctured by the frustrated Thatcher-era words of The Specials – “This town,…
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The earth below and the stories it holds: landscape and history in Følkløric: Sticks & Stones
Growing up in the Highlands I was never far from my heritage. Burial mounds, standing stones and ancient battlefields litter the surrounding area. In the Highlands there is a constant sense of what came before. Go down any country road and you’ll find dilapidated croft houses, scars of the clearances. These reminders of our past…
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Announcing the GSFF24 Award Winners
And How Miserable is the Home of Evil by Saleh Kashefi and Friends on the Outside by Annabel Moodie take jury prizes. The 17th annual celebration of short film finished last night with the awards ceremony, following a packed five day programme of events across the city. Glasgow Film Festival 2024 finished its 17th edition…
