As a new decade is upon us, our friends and fellow champions of short film at The Skinny look back on the last ten years of Scottish talent. Trawling through their favourite shorts of the 2010s, they’ve put together this selection of standouts across fiction, animation and documentary. Come along for some of Scotland’s finest, including Alia Ghafar’s Salt and Sauce and Will Anderson & Ainslie Henderson’s BAFTA-winning Monkey Love Experiments.
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GSFF 2020 Online
The Skinny: Best of the Decade is available to view online for the duration of the festival from 20.00 on Monday 17 August.
Monkey Love Experiments
Inspired by love, a misguided monkey believes he is destined for the moon.
Exchange & Mart
A remote Scottish boarding school is home to Reg, a lonely and yearning teenage girl.
The Golden Bird
When a boy goes in search of a mysterious golden bird, he soon discovers that, in his world, things are not as they seem.
Pulse
Two strangers share a brief, yet profound exchange that evokes understanding and recognition.
Spectators
An observational animation that inverts the expected focus of a football match.
Salt & Sauce
Stuck in a post-high-school limbo, Tammy works long days in the family chip shop while deciding what to do with her life next. She soon realises that she can't keep avoiding her future.
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Julie wants her brother Duncan to help her create new family memories.
Tumult
A tribe of Norse warriors traipse across a barren land after battle. Suddenly an unexpected army descends upon them.
Rubber Guillotine
An angsty 17 year old girl sucker punches her parent’s hopes for her future by aspiring to donate her skeleton to gelatine.