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Glasgow Short Film Festival

15 March – 19 March 2017

The Glasgow Short Film Festival is celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2017. We're still adding details, so please bear with us!

The festival runs from 15 to 19 March.

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  • Where Are We Now
    Review preview for Where Are We Now

    The honesty and simplicity of this picture were then indicative of talent.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Documentary about the relationship between a daughter and trans-parent as they embark on the road to transition.
  • Have Heart
    Review preview for Have Heart

    A treat to watch.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A looping GIF has an existential crisis.
  • Kaiju Bunraku
    Review preview for Kaiju Bunraku

    A delight of hybrid vigour.

    Andrew Robertson · 5 out of 5
    Here's a day in the life of a husband and wife living in a world of giant monsters.
  • Borderline
    Review preview for Borderline

    Here, the physical intensity of dance does a lot of the heavy lifting, showing the turbulence of life with this condition, the strength required to manage it, and the strain that creates.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Lynn Shaw is a dancer from Aberdeen. Charismatic, but sometimes chaotic. After a long history of turbulent life events she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
  • An Ecstatic Experience
    Review preview for An Ecstatic Experience

    Light, almost ethereal, despite the weight of its subject matter.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    A meditative invocation on transcendence as a means of restoration.
  • Tuesday
    Review preview for Tuesday

    This is something still and small and sad, a short that does what the best shorts do, use every moment of the space that it's afforded to create something on screen that convinces and transports.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Every Tuesday, sixteen-year-old Allie stays with her dad and is insistent that this week will be no exception, but when she arrives at his flat after school she must face that a world has been irretrievably lost.
  • Maria
    Review preview for Maria

    There are smaller details of movement and interaction that illuminate as clearly as the brightness and noise of Habac's film.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    When the whole family confronts her 14-year-old daughter of a suspected pregnancy, a 50-year-old woman gives birth to her 22nd child.
  • Green Screen Gringo
    Review preview for Green Screen Gringo

    Cinema at its most inventively audacious.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Behind a green screen, a foreigner finds his way in an enchanting - and yet turbulent - Brazil. Where the streets are a stage for politics, art and affection, a gringo can only watch.
  • Ten Meter Tower
    Review preview for Ten Meter Tower

    This is minimalism in filmmaking to good effect.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A 10m diving tower. People who have never been up there before have to choose whether to jump or climb down. The situation itself highlights a dilemma: to weigh the instinctive fear of taking the step out against the humiliation of having to climb down.
  • Flow Country
    Review preview for Flow Country

    Shot on monochrome 16mm, the land itself is evoked by compelling sound work, by artifacts of processing and the shooting itself.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Flow Country takes the viewer on an apocalyptic journey through a contested site in the far north of Scotland.

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